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Hi guys

Confession.... I've been creeping your thread all day at work.
i'm so interested in this now and i just looked up the closest crossfit gym. Its literally a 5 minute walk from my house and they have a free intro session every sat at 12. But one month of unlimited training is $225!!!! Holy cow!.

I thought the $125-150 you guys were saying you paid was expensive but worth it. But $225 a month!?! Is that just because its Canada?

I live in downtown Toronto and the gym is called the academy of lions. I already eat primal (not paleo) and work out farily often (mostly yoga). I've lost about 35 pounds since getting serious about losing in November. This seems like the next logical step. I'd love to feel like a part of a primal community and adapt the physical fitness that goes with it.

Funny note. My roomates walked by this warehouse with crazy looking people pushing heavy objects and sprinting and hanging from bars. They joked together that that was where i went everynight after work cuz in their minds im serious into fitness ( i actually go to the YMCA up the road) When they showed me the place and told me about their joke, calling my name out and looking through the fence for me i thought they were nuts. THIS is the place i now wish i could afford to attend lol.

You guys are all nuts in the best way! Keep being awesome and getting stronger.

Hi guys

Confession.... I've been creeping your thread all day at work.
i'm so interested in this now and i just looked up the closest crossfit gym. Its literally a 5 minute walk from my house and they have a free intro session every sat at 12. But one month of unlimited training is $225!!!! Holy cow!.

I thought the $125-150 you guys were saying you paid was expensive but worth it. But $225 a month!?! Is that just because its Canada?

I live in downtown Toronto and the gym is called the academy of lions. I already eat primal (not paleo) and work out farily often (mostly yoga). I've lost about 35 pounds since getting serious about losing in November. This seems like the next logical step. I'd love to feel like a part of a primal community and adapt the physical fitness that goes with it.

Funny note. My roomates walked by this warehouse with crazy looking people pushing heavy objects and sprinting and hanging from bars. They joked together that that was where i went everynight after work cuz in their minds im serious into fitness ( i actually go to the YMCA up the road) When they showed me the place and told me about their joke, calling my name out and looking through the fence for me i thought they were nuts. THIS is the place i now wish i could afford to attend lol.

You guys are all nuts in the best way! Keep being awesome and getting stronger.

Welcome! And oooh yeah... $225 is ridonk. But you probably don't need to start at unlimited classes anyway. When I started, I went 1x a week for a month and then gradually, over the course of a few months, got addicted. Even now, I only go 4x a week.

It is so much fun and I hope you can find some way to join in. If you can do crossfit, you can do anything.

Hi guys

Confession.... I've been creeping your thread all day at work.
i'm so interested in this now and i just looked up the closest crossfit gym. Its literally a 5 minute walk from my house and they have a free intro session every sat at 12. But one month of unlimited training is $225!!!! Holy cow!.

I thought the $125-150 you guys were saying you paid was expensive but worth it. But $225 a month!?! Is that just because its Canada?

I live in downtown Toronto and the gym is called the academy of lions. I already eat primal (not paleo) and work out farily often (mostly yoga). I've lost about 35 pounds since getting serious about losing in November. This seems like the next logical step. I'd love to feel like a part of a primal community and adapt the physical fitness that goes with it.

Funny note. My roomates walked by this warehouse with crazy looking people pushing heavy objects and sprinting and hanging from bars. They joked together that that was where i went everynight after work cuz in their minds im serious into fitness ( i actually go to the YMCA up the road) When they showed me the place and told me about their joke, calling my name out and looking through the fence for me i thought they were nuts. THIS is the place i now wish i could afford to attend lol.

You guys are all nuts in the best way! Keep being awesome and getting stronger.

Wow $225, that's crazy!!! I can justify me paying $135 per month because I workout 6 days a week which mean I pay about 5 dollars per session. To me that's cheap since I'm basically getting a personal trainer each day I workout for 5 dollars. It would be very difficult to justify $225, I would honestly give it up if it was that high. We have an option at our gym that allows us to visit 2-3 times a week for $30 per month. Do they have similar options? You can also do the workouts on your own (at least the WODS that are mainly body weight exercises). Also, is that the only CrossFit gym near you?

The pullups were rough, as I knew they would be. I did mine for the first time with a band. (I used the green one.) I hate pullups, but I did them all. My left arm is really sore today. The right is a little sore, but not too bad. I also have a nice bruise across the back of my neck.

Okay, my left arm still is hurting. Not a good sign. Straightening it out hurts, as does bending it all the way. In between those extremes, though, it feels okay.

After a Pull-up/burpee fest I could not straighten my arms for 3-4 days. They also were extremely swollen. I got worried and called my trainer. He suggested icing the swollen/sore areas and it worked. Anytime I am sore inside of my arm at the elbow bend after pull-ups, I ice now and it does the trick.

bump!

8/18 Barbara!
Yowser...
5 rounds, 3 min rest in between rounds
20 Pull-ups (med grey/thin blue bands)
30 Push-ups modified
40 sit-ups
50 air squats
5:55, 6:19, 6:56, 6:52, 6:36/ Total time = 44:51, my individual times may be off by a few sec.

Everyone in the class are WAY smaller than me weight wise and I killed them. I love when that happens! Sorry for gloating. Also, this week I feel really good. I think I am getting normal sleep since kicking my naughty cat out of the bedroom and outside, the grains I ingested over vacation may have finally left my system, and my diet has been pretty good this week... I love feeling this way!

Today is a well deserved rest day. Tomorrow I am taking part in the Portland Oyster Urban Adventure Race. It is like a mini-Amazing Race around the city of Portland, we will be biking, running, and solving clues. Should be super fun and lots of action!

WOD 8/19
EMOTM 20
* 5 thrusters (30lbs)
* 4 situps
* 3 pullups

Warmdown
1 mile run

My legs were so sore from earlier this week still (Wednesday WOD and O-lifting and back squats yesterday) that I was really having trouble with my thrusters. I had to scale those down after a few rounds to 4 instead of 5 because I just wasn't keeping up and I was only having a couple of seconds of rest at the end of the minute.

I also don't run, so I rowed 1750m instead. (It was supposed to be 2000m, but I thought everyone was back from their run so I stopped. It turned out that there were still 2 people that got back after I stopped, but it was enough for me anyway.)

Surprisingly, my legs are feeling better today than they have in days. I have made a decision that this fall when the gym schedule settles back to normal I'm going to switch from bootcamp MW O-lift Th CrossFit F to bootcamp M CrossFit TuF and O-lift on Th. That'll give me only two days in a row instead of three. My legs just can't handle weeks where it's three days in a row of hard leg work at this point. I'll miss being with my bootcamp people 2 days a week, but it's just going to be better for me.

8/22 WOD: Bear Complex

5 rounds NOT for time of:
Clean
Front squat
Push press
Back squat
Push press
7 times though is one round

Weights: 33-43-53-63-73#

OD: 200m runs with 35# KB, then 30 swings (3 times)

Warmup
:45/:15 x2
* laps
* mountain climbers
* pushups
* lunges

Workout
AMRAP 8min
* 3 burpees
* 6 triceps dips
* 9 leg lifts

AMRAP 8min
* 3 rows
* 6 box jumps
* 9 American kettlebell swings

Warmdown
:30/:10 x5 (I think)
* flutter kicks
* kettlebell situps

Yesterday:

5 Rounds:
5 Deadlifts (275/185)
10 Burpees

Time: 7:16 rx'd

My buddy Carla and I were the only women in the gym to do rx weight. So happy that I can lift that. Just need to get confident in the negative part of the lift at heavy weights so I can move faster.

Today:

4 mile hilly run 36:30

CrossFit:

"Tabata Something Else"
8 rds ea. 20 sec on/10 sec off

Pullups
Pushups
Situps
Squats

Score: 347

Followed by

3X1 mile 90 sec rest - 7:53, 8:34, 8:35

yah....7 miles today = TIRED

Today was one of the hardest ones ever, made up by a fellow gym goer. It was done with a partner.

4 rounds of

Take turns with partner, one does 21 snatches while the other does medicine ball squats (14#) in the same time it takes to do the snatches
Then 50 situps passing the medicine ball (14#) to each other
Then run/walk 300m pushing that stupid prowler (together with partner) that has an additional 50# added on it.
Then you start over and the other person does snatches (so you do 42 snatches total per person and how ever many medicine ball squats).

OMG. I literally thought I would going to quit this one, I haven't quit one in the middle of the workout since the very beginning.

32:45

bump-made contact with Tallahassee Xfit and plan to begin after weekend runs

How many times a week did you go when you first started?

I too am looking at membership costs and don't mind spending the extra money to have a personal trainer but didn't know if the first month I should just get the 5 visit punch card or just spend the $135 for unlimited.

(Options are $65 for 5 visits, $100 for 10 visits, $115 for 3x's a week, or $135 unlimited)
Eventually I will pay for the $135 b/c I can see myself doing this for a long time and the staff and location is perfect for me.

When I first started, I started with 2 nights a week of CrossFit inspired boot camp (we do a lot of CrossFit workouts but without as much equipment) and then I added another night of CrossFit. I've since also added Olympic weightlifting.

Have you done a class yet to know that you'll like it? If personally I'd go for either the 10 visit or the 3x a week. But that's just me.