I went through the Foundations class last week and today I completed my FIRST WOD! Looking forward to continuing with CrossFit to see how my body & mindset change

It's truly amazing. Focus on form and safety FIRST. Look for weaknesses (for me overhead squats exposed my lack of hip flexibility, lack of core strength) and then do a bit extra. The speed and heavier weights will come slowly but surely.

I'd strongly suggest picking an achievable goat (like double unders) and doing an extra 10-15 minutes of work on it after class. I just started this and wish I had been doing it all along. I mention to all the new members I meet too. The sense of accomplishment from crossing that off your list of skills you need to achieve is great.

My latest victory: finishing a Hero WOD (Ship) 4 seconds before the time cap. You'll never see me do burpee box jumps so quickly!

I did burpee box jumps in my cash-out last night. Those are no joke!

As for my recent victory, I hit a new PR on my push jerk; 185 lbs. I hope to get to 200 by the end of the year. :-)

So, my friend P-funk started a burpee challenge the other day. Basically, every day, you do one more burpee than you did yesterday. Burpees that you would be doing otherwise do not count towards your burpee challenge, though. So if you have a WOD that's burpees and box jumps, those don't count. (Wah wah).
Going in, it was my intention to transition into a "two-a-day" type of routine, where I have some bodyweight exercises in the morning (at home) followed by my actual workout in the evening (at the gym). I might still get to that point, but at this point it's actually pushed me into working out every day instead of just five days each week. At the beginning, I forgot to do burpees on rest days, and had to make them all up the next day, so... I just stopped having complete rest days.

I call them active recovery days now. Instead of resting (and not doing anything), now I do challenge burpees and some other skill work (swimming on Thursday, "arms day" on Sunday), plus some extra stretching and foam rolling. I'm quite pleased. I've wanted to get to a point where I was doing something every day, and here I am.

Did a 253# dead lift on Monday. Felt awesome!

So, my friend P-funk started a burpee challenge the other day.

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Thought you might enjoy that. :P


PS. Finally got my 100 pound clean and jerk.

We've been testing our one-reps over the past few weeks at my box and I am so freakin' excited about the strength gains I have made!! My newly tested one-reps thus far are:

Back Squat - 215lbs
Clean - 120lbs
Front Squat - 160lbs

We've been testing one lift each week and I can't wait to see what next week brings!!!

Did a 253# dead lift on Monday. Felt awesome!

Because it is awesome!

I'm new to this group but I have been doing Crossfit for a year and some months now. I'm glad there's a group I can really relate on here. There's no community like the crossfit community!

PR'ed on my front Squat 315lbsx1

P.S. Feel free to add me

^^ At our box, we would call you a 'fire breather' for scaling up a WOD Nice work!

I don't know if this is technically a "victory" but in yesterday's WOD I made a mistake and actually went 10 lbs over the RX weight. Still did well time-wise though. One of my friends said I was subconsciously trying to show off! :glasses:

It's a happy mistake then :P

I don't know if this is technically a "victory" but in yesterday's WOD I made a mistake and actually went 10 lbs over the RX weight. Still did well time-wise though. One of my friends said I was subconsciously trying to show off! :glasses:

Nice!

^improving yourself is all that matters. Keep doing that and the rest takes care of itself.

I've been doing Crossfit for about 6 months. It really works for me because it's different all the time and I can't talk myself out of going since I don't know what I'll be doing when I get there. In the past 2 weeks I've hit some major goals that I'm super proud of.

1. I ran a mile in 17 minutes (I literally used to throw up when I ran a mile)
2. I was able to actually jump on the box for box jumps (a scaled box, but still a box).
3. I found an arm muscle!

I've still got a LONG way to go, but these little victories are what keep me going back!

Great job! Congrats on all three of your victories!

Last Friday I got my 1st kipping pull-up where my chin was above the bar. I've been coming into gym just working on kipping swings (just the movement) and I was like let me try and BAM!! I jumped off the bar and thought, 'Wait did i just see the entire gym and almost down to the floor without a bar in my face.' Then I heard my coach yell 'HELL YEAH!!!! I did my happy dance.

And yesterday, I improved my back squat max by 10lbs. I think it was all b/c of the new lifting shoes I got, but i was excited.

I've been doing Crossfit for about 6 months. It really works for me because it's different all the time and I can't talk myself out of going since I don't know what I'll be doing when I get there. In the past 2 weeks I've hit some major goals that I'm super proud of.

1. I ran a mile in 17 minutes (I literally used to throw up when I ran a mile)
2. I was able to actually jump on the box for box jumps (a scaled box, but still a box).
3. I found an arm muscle!

I've still got a LONG way to go, but these little victories are what keep me going back!

Wait until you get under 10 minutes for a mile. I usually run at about a 12m/m pace but decided to see how fast I could do a mile a few months into Crossfit and was at about 9:30.

Slow and steady wins the race!