Crossfit - Fight Gone Bad - any advice?

I'm giving myself another year before I attempt it.


Kind of annoyed with how expensive it is, but I want to be a ninja!

I don't think there is any place for Crossfit close to where I live, but I am thinking of waiting a year too before giving it a go. From what I've seen of even the beginner's WODs, I'm not near good enough shape to attempt it lol.

I, too, would like to try it. The price is out of my range right now. :sad:

I think I saw ones you didn't need equipment for. Had sprinting, pull ups, and other bodyweight stuff. If I try any of the WODs I was going to attempt those I could go at home without equipment. Or figure out substitutes with the stuff I had.

That's another reason I wound up investing in the TRX this year instead of gym/CrossFit. I don't have a home at the moment, so no "stuff at home" to train on. I can't even reliably access a pull up bar. But I can always find a door, telephone pole, or tree.

But in two years time, I will hopefully be writing about how awesome it is to be a ninja!

Part of the idea is that I'll be able to do crazy stuff on stage, then the next minute sing like nothing happened. If your heart rate takes two minutes to recover into the 90's after light exercise, that's not gonna happen. I want to be able to finish a major role, then feel like doing workout.

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If I lived near a box and this wasn't so silly expensive I'd be an addict.

Enjoy to the max.:drinker:

Not me! Not even if a box was next door and the offered me a free membership. I don't think it's healthy to get addicted to anything that way. It's much better to enjoy many things in moderation than to become addicted to doing one thing. I enjoy different kinds of exercise at different places with different people. That way, you can have more balance in your life.

Yes, we know. Even though you hate Crossfit, yet post on every single Crossfit thread you can find.

We get it. You don't like to challenge yourself in any way. Understand that on this site that puts you far outside the mainstream. Most of us exercise to get healthier and set improvement goals for ourselves that sometime mean pushing ourselves to something near our physical limits.

Now please, for the love, stop posting on every single CF thread about how you don't like. Please.

90s, 60s, 70s. Hit serious wall in round 2. Claustrophobic panic level stuff.

Glad that's over. Can't wait to do it again.

That kind of thing makes absolutely no sense to me. If something makes you feel that bad, why would you want to repeat the experience?

Because pain teaches us something about ourselves that can't be learned any other way. I've never done CF other than the baseline test (that will change next month) but I've left some heavy weight workouts shaking and barely able to move my arms. And couldn't wait to hit it again a few days later.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

I don't think MFP supports the theory that being in pain while exercising is good. That is an extreme viewpoint, and having that kind of attitude is a major cause of exercise related injury.

Just a quick comment on whether or not we should be pushed through pain. Apparently, research shows that muscle pain sets in long before the body is at any risk of damage, so to always stop at the slightest sign of muscle pain is to never achieve what you are already capable of. (Other types of pain, such as joint pain, I'd be more wary of.)

There's pain and then there's *pain*, right? I mean, everybody knows that the first 10 minutes of a run, your body tries everything it can to make you stop. So, you've got to push through that. But, if you still feel fatigued or sore after that, then you need to do something about: stretch, slow down, drink some water, take a rest day.

As you get more experienced, you become more capable of reading yourself and you should be able to push a little harder without getting injured. When you're just starting out, you should err on the side of caution because you haven't learned your signals yet.

Actually, I do some running, and I feel no need to push my body to the point of pain or total exhaustion. If I feel the need to take a break and walk for a while, especially on hills, I do it. To me, running is just one type of exercise I engage in, and while I do enter some 5 k races, it's for the fun of being part of a race, and not to push myself beyond doing what is reasonable and safe for my fitness level.

Shoot. To never know the thrill of doing quarter mile intervals with everything you've got, coming around the bend with your lungs burning and checking your stopwatch to see that you just demolished the top speed you "thought" you could do.

And then discovering that a minute just dropped off your "easy run."

To never push yourself beyond the box you live in: that is a colorless existence.

Actually, I do some running, and I feel no need to push my body to the point of pain or total exhaustion. If I feel the need to take a break and walk for a while, especially on hills, I do it. To me, running is just one type of exercise I engage in, and while I do enter some 5 k races, it's for the fun of being part of a race, and not to push myself beyond doing what is reasonable and safe for my fitness level.

Shoot. To never know the thrill of doing quarter mile intervals with everything you've got, coming around the bend with your lungs burning and checking your stopwatch to see that you just demolished the top speed you "thought" you could do.

And then discovering that a minute just dropped off your "easy run."

To never push yourself beyond the box you live in: that is a colorless existence.

Exactly. And she will NEVER understand this.

It's much better to enjoy many things in moderation than to become addicted to doing one thing. I enjoy different kinds of exercise at different places with different people. That way, you can have more balance in your life.

If you believe this, then maybe re-evaluate your tendency to show up in nearly every single Crossfit thread saying the same things, and apply your love of moderation and balance to your forum posts. I have to say just as a bystander who doesn't do Crossfit and doesn't know the OP, rather than convince me to eschew Crossfit, you've convinced me to simply not take you seriously and just watch for schadenfreude. Not sure that's what you're going for.

Get after it. I love this workout.

Next crossfit workout is the "graduation" from on-ramp, Fight Gone Bad:

Three rounds of:
Wall-ball, 20 pound ball, 10 ft target (Reps)
Sumo deadlift high-pull, 75 pounds (Reps)
Box Jump, 20" box (Reps)
Push-press, 75 pounds (Reps)
Row (Calories)

Any advice for this workout?

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Good luck though...I'm sure you'll kill it :drinker:

This is a great workout and Kudos for wanting to do it again!

I was an elite distance runner for most of my life until a running accident has hindered my training and racing.
I was dabbling in CF but then got more involved. I started out with all body weight exercises to get acclimated. Looked at videos of more complicate or new exercises to learn about them and understand proper form. CF is more concerned about form and proper mobility than completing a WOD at RX. Coaches are there for support, encouragement and guidance. They aren't there for you to go beyond limits that your body isn't prepared for. If you do that, then that was an individual choice.

CrossFit has helped me get through the injury, help alleviate pain from arthritis and help me gain confidence and motivation to continue an active life. I work a full time job, I'm a wife, a mother, have friends and CF on a regular basis and my life is balanced!

Thank you for sharing your experience with us!