Uh, well, I'm finding it both awfully, terribly intimidating and really, really awesome. There's all sorts of people at the gym and it's not filled with super-cut, fitness-model types, but everyone's crazy STRONG. It's AWESOME - and yet it's kind of like, 'hoshit these people could crush my skull if they wanted to' sort of thing. It's like... these are the sort of people I would want to be around in the zombie apocalypse, because they can run, jump, swing, pull and smash things like nobody's business.
I like that it's the sort of fitness that works in progression - my class is mostly hyper-strong boxers, but we've got a fifty y/o mother of two and with adjustments, she does the exact same workout the rest of us do, and it's fantastic. I like that the trainers focus heavily on form, and if something's getting too heavy or you can't do a particular exercise, they switch you to an easier progression (ex. going to knee pushups b/c of weak triceps) instead of having you continue on with bad form - but this might be a quirk of these particular trainers and not from Crossfit in general, I don't know. I like that the workouts are different every time, so that you're not focusing on the same muscle groups over and over again.
It's hard, though - including warm-up, technique and the actual 'workout', it's two hours every session and everything is done for time, so not only do your muscles want to die, you wheeze like a leaky pump (though that may just be me).
It's fun, though, and I'm definitely getting stronger, when I'm not crumpled on the floor weeping from DOMS.
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I like that it's the sort of fitness that works in progression - my class is mostly hyper-strong boxers, but we've got a fifty y/o mother of two and with adjustments, she does the exact same workout the rest of us do, and it's fantastic. I like that the trainers focus heavily on form, and if something's getting too heavy or you can't do a particular exercise, they switch you to an easier progression (ex. going to knee pushups b/c of weak triceps) instead of having you continue on with bad form - but this might be a quirk of these particular trainers and not from Crossfit in general, I don't know. I like that the workouts are different every time, so that you're not focusing on the same muscle groups over and over again.
It's hard, though - including warm-up, technique and the actual 'workout', it's two hours every session and everything is done for time, so not only do your muscles want to die, you wheeze like a leaky pump (though that may just be me).
It's fun, though, and I'm definitely getting stronger, when I'm not crumpled on the floor weeping from DOMS.