- Ask your doctor if getting off your ass is right for you
- There's fit, then there's Crossfit
- I Crossfit because I used to look like you
Corps Fitness is the Reading Crossfit affiliate and is only about 15 minutes from my house. The owner is a former Marine who now is confined to a wheelchair as a result of an illness.
My first workout was on a day that the calendar listed as "all abilities". Corps Fitness has a military theme about it that greatly appeals to me. I was super stoked to get started.
Owner Chris introduced me to a group that seemed to be pretty experienced and mostly know each other.
Headed outside, I soon found myself in an intense WARMUP. This wasnt just an all abilities class but the Week 4 COMPETITION WOD. Lunges and running soon had destroyed my quads and on the final run (coming in dead last) I took a step down and found I had absolutely no leg left. I crashed to the macadam in front of everyone - envision a baby killer whale flopping to the ground. Remember, this was the warmup.
The Workout of the Day (WOD) was fun and intense and to be honest it is now a blur. I made it through, with the help of my two female teammates. Leaving the box I drove a few hundred meters before violently puking for 5 minutes. This left me stable enough to make it to a mini market for a quart of Peach Snapple and one of Gatorade.
Work that night was a little rough. Getting in and out of chairs and doing the 5+ miles of walking I do ever shift really, really, sucked. :p
But, I loved knowing I survived and was instantly hooked.
Owner Chris introduced me to a group that seemed to be pretty experienced and mostly know each other.
Headed outside, I soon found myself in an intense WARMUP. This wasnt just an all abilities class but the Week 4 COMPETITION WOD. Lunges and running soon had destroyed my quads and on the final run (coming in dead last) I took a step down and found I had absolutely no leg left. I crashed to the macadam in front of everyone - envision a baby killer whale flopping to the ground. Remember, this was the warmup.
The Workout of the Day (WOD) was fun and intense and to be honest it is now a blur. I made it through, with the help of my two female teammates. Leaving the box I drove a few hundred meters before violently puking for 5 minutes. This left me stable enough to make it to a mini market for a quart of Peach Snapple and one of Gatorade.
Work that night was a little rough. Getting in and out of chairs and doing the 5+ miles of walking I do ever shift really, really, sucked. :p
But, I loved knowing I survived and was instantly hooked.
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