I met Cindy yesterday...and she made me cry.

Yesterday I met Cindy. Crossfit names a lot of their workouts after girls and this was my first real WOD (workout of the day). We've been doing my assessment to record where I am at and E has been showing me correct form in all of the different workouts.

The Cindy workout consisted of:

• 5 pullups (or 10 jumping pullups for me since I've never been able to do one...yet)
• 10 pushups (again, girl pushups for me since I'm a weakling)
• 15 air squats

And you have to do as many rounds as you can in twenty minutes. The beauty of crossfit is that I can get more of a workout in 20 minutes than someone can who spends two hours at the gym. This blog explains it below:

Striving for efficiency

The second hurdle, “not having enough time”, is overcome by applying a basic law of physics to the workout system.

Power = Work done over Time

Power = Amount of weight moved a given distance divided by Time.  The less time involved the better. That means doing 100 pushups in 5 minutes is a better workout than doing it in 30 minutes. Some people have it programmed in their head that spending less than 30 minutes in a gym is not a good work out. They spend a good deal of time resting, waiting for equipment, talking, or wondering if they should do another set. You will never catch someone rushing from workout to workout in a regular gym.

Aside from interval training which is also an element of Crossfit, time is the enemy and workouts are designed to be as fast and intense as possible. You wouldn’t think it possible to get the best workout of your life in 10 minutes but it happens all the time.

By minute 11 I was really struggling mentally more than anything. I actually started crying mid-pull up. I've never had to push myself like this before. I'm the type of person that LOVES my comfort zone and will do whatever I can to stay in it. If that means avoiding situations that will take me out of it than I'll do what it takes. I pushed through the tears and by minute 15 I was back in the game. By the end of 20 minutes I was exhausted but I was so proud of myself for making it to the end. Every ounce in my body wanted to quit but I didn't.

I kept telling myself over and over again "This exhaustion and pain is temporary," and the beautiful thing about it was it was true! Shortly after the workout I felt great. That was only 20 minutes of giving my all for the entirety of the day. Granted, there are more workouts that can be longer but I look forward to seeing the results.

You would've never caught me doing a pull up prior to this haha.
By the way...that isn't sweat on my shorts, it's the design.

See? :) 

I read a quote the other day that said something like "If you look pretty after your workouts, you must be doing something wrong." My face is bright red, covered in sweat and the makeup I forgot to take off was running all over so I must've done something right! 

Get some! My little cross fitter :)