One Year of Crossfit

I just recently passed my one year anniversary at Crossfit Recourse, and thought it worthwhile to take a few minutes to share my thoughts on the ongoing adventure.  Amazing how things have changed in one year (142 crossfit workouts). So… to begin, following the onramp...

Crossfit Update — 7 Months In

So I’ve been extremely lacking in updating this blog, but it seems like it’s time you got an update.  The last update was my first real “big league” crossfit workout.  This update comes the morning after I finished my 90th workout. Since last fall, I’ve continued with...

Crossfit Workout #1

So, my first “real” Crossfit workout, having graduated to the big leagues.  It was a pretty busy gym, as there was only one workout for the day at 9 am due to the holiday.  Everybody was very friendly on their way in, introducing themselves and smiling....

Crossfit OnRamp Day 9

Walked into today’s session fairly excited about the “Total” workout, in which we would determine my maximum lifting weights. We started out with a short “dynamic” warm-up, which included a jog back and forth across the gym, high knees...

Crossfit OnRamp Day 8

Crossfit OnRamp Day 8, Wednesday morning, and nothing is terribly sore to start out with.  I’m excited, a workout where I’m coming in “relatively” fresh! The warm-up we began with seemed pretty reasonable.  Three consecutive sets of: 20 jumping...

Crossfit OnRamp Day 7

Monday morning, time for on-ramp workout day 7.  Before I get into that, though, a precursor about the weekend should probably be in order.  If you’ve read my post about Day 6, I was feeling reasonably OK when I left the gym.  And that evening.  But that night...