*5/14, Thursday – Finally made it to Crossfit Beginner Class last week! Carol was nice enough to accompany me. Gonna try to get Henry with me next time I go. It is FREE after all! It’s in midtown Manhattan at 26th St and 6th ave. Details are on the website at www.crossfitnyc.com. Before we started I was quite nervous but also excited to learn new stuff. I think this happens everytime I start something new. I got there before Carol so I just changed, put my stuff aside and sat and watched the Crossfit people work out. The stuff they did looked quite challenging and they looked very much into what they were doing. I talked a bit with a guy who got in the same time I did – Sean – who was there for the first time also (as was practically everyone else). There were 13 people total. The teacher was Dan DeFilippi he was both patient and motivating.
He had a few stations set up for us and we lined up to do them one minute each as if circuit training. First station was rowing, second was jumping up on a tall box, third was throwing 10 lb medicine balls up to the ceiling with squat thrusts, fourth was jumping up and pulling up with our arms so our head goes above the bar (like a semi pullup), fifth was doing push ups on rings (difficult with the balance!), sixth station was a workout whose name i keep forgetting where you get down on the ground, throw your feet behind, do a push up from your chest on the ground, then jump up. The first time around was a nice workout but it was crazy going the second time around, especially with the time limit and pushing myself. I could only do half of jumping up the tall box and did the rest on the small one. Dan pushed me to go for the 10 lb ball throwing to the ceiling instead of the 6 lb one and that was tiring as heck. Doing the semi pull up thing was great but painful too as I did it the right way, hanging with my arms stretched first then jumping all the way up and pulling the extra inch up with my arms. By the time I was at the rings, I had no arm strength. I just did push ups on the ground and I couldn’t do the last station for the life of me.
Overall it was an awesome workout. I couldn’t move my arms much and I was sore all over but I would love to do it again!
