Any crossfit lovers in here?

I have been training CrossFit for 2.5 years now and train approximately 4-5 time per week. It's really hard to imagine training any other way now!

Training for 9 months now. Best results ever. Lost 5 inches in my waist 23 pounds and not to mention all of the gains!

oliwia_00 wrote: »

true, results are amazing! I haven't lost as much pound as you yet, but I lost lots of inches in my waist and thighs and I haven't lost that much weight couse I'm turning my fat into muscles now, but I absolutely see the results

Fat doesn't turn into muscles

singingflutelady wrote: »

You have to eat at a surplus and strength training using progressive overload to gain muscle. Also body recomp (losing fat and gaining muscle at the same time) is very very slow. A woman who eats perfectly with a surplus, lifts heavy and works hard might gain half a pound of muscle in a month.

Not to mention that you're not going to gain any appreciable amount of muscle doing crossfit for two months eating at maintenance. It's just not going to happen.

I've recently integrated crossfit into my program along side my cycling and rowing. It's definitely helping.

I'm finding Crossfit very fun and rewarding - challenging and easy to see how you progress over time with performance on benchmarks and lift PRs. There is a Crossfit Love group on MFP that you can join!

I started crossfit about 5 months ago and love it. Great community and excellent workouts. Gaining muscle and also losing some fat while doing crossfit has definitely been a bonus.

Just started back last month. Crossfit is the only program that I have stuck with and have seen great results. I tried to trick myself into joining a regular gym (more cost effective) and DVD's at home (Insanity & BodyShred). I didn't stick with either of them because I got bored very quickly. I love the sense of personal training and community as well as the varied program.

Just started back after a year and a half off. I wasn't injured, just having personal issues and the jerk off I was seeing at the time was discouraging me from it because him being in the army made him think he had superior fitness expertise. I really missed the lifts.

crazyravr wrote: »

I thought about it but all the cross gyms here are soooooooooooo expensive. I mean come on.... now I pay $20/m for my 24h gym. The cheapest crossfit gym I could find is $130/m it just doesnt make sense.

All of these places are probably handing out free sessions right around this time. Plus I'm sure you'd be able to walk in to most places and I doubt they'd kick you out.

I've been doing CrossFit for a bit over 3 months. The owner if the gym I go to has been trying to get me to try it out for the past 2 years, but I had always told him I prefer my 5-6 day splits in the gym. I finally decided to give it a shot because I was getting bored doing the same old same old. I'll be honest, cost probably kept me away a bit. I really didn't want another gym/fitness expense. I'm kicking myself now. I LOVE it. In 3 months my conditioning is so far beyond what it was before. I'm just starting to really Push myself too. It's not that I wasn't pushing myself before. WODs were more often more painful than less, but my goal was to get better at them so I could do them faster or happy when I could get through one and look back and say, killed it. Now, after reading a few books on CrossFit (highly highly recommend Learning to Breathe Fire which I'm not yet done with) my take is differnt. I'm not trying to make each WOD as painful as possible - in a good way. I want to get through it (Rx or Rx+) but I want it to be as hard as possible now, to get the benefit of having pushed past 90-95% effort to the full 100%. I'm getting excited just typing a out it. Can't wait until tomorrow morning.

Anyways, I CrossFit Mon-Fri at 6am normally. More often than not I also throw in a Saturday workout (they tend to be Partner WODs and are a blast). This past Saturday I took off because we killed Deadlifts the week before twice and needed a rest. Sunday there is no CrossFit, so there is no CrossFit on Sunday. It's my full rest day, unless I do some type of active rest (easy jogging, etc.).

Anyone interested in being Friends, I love adding CrossFit friends, and generally all the ones I have share their WODs each day and results. It's fun to compare how much we were able to get through each day and how well we did.

And I'm sorry, the reason CrossFitters love talking about CrossFit is because it's frickin awesome and unless you've done it (most haters have not) you just can't get it, you're on the outside. Oh, and I'll never go back to working out splits and separate body parts in a gym again. Not happening. I truly believe CrossFit = Fountain of Youth.

I love CROSSFIT and I'm a mom too Way to go!

I wouldn't say I am a 'lover' of CF by any means (I've read the CFL1 training guide), but I've found a few of the WODs to be really useful/appropriate for conditioning work and which also has a great crossover to the sport I'm engaged in.

Also started Crossfit about 2 months ago.

I had tried it before, at different gyms in town, and had horrible experiences. I was very much NOT into the culture. However; I recently heard of a new Crossfit gym in town, and they had a completely different approach to new members. I gave it a try and I am SO thankful I did. I love it. LOVE! I really, really wish it wasn't so expensive. I can only afford twice a week, but I would really like to go at least 3-4 times if I could. I just can't afford that level of membership at this point. Despite that, I have noticed a change in my body already. The community is great. So supportive and motivating! I feel like I am part of a team, and it doesn't matter that I can't do a real push-up by myself yet. They just want me to be successful in whatever my goals happen to be.