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CrossFit: I Realized Today I’m On My Own

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

I’ve found that when you come to rely too much on other people, things tend not to get done.

This has been the case for my ring muscle ups. I’ve been relying on my coach to get me there. Now, I realize I have to get myself there, or it will never happen.

Thus, with the new year, I’m going to put together a new plan to get me there by May 1st. I have to have a concrete goal with a concrete date, or it will never happen. We’ll see how this one goes.

However, I will conquer those rings one way or another!

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CrossFit: The Relentless Pursuit of Excellence

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

Someone at my CrossFit gym recently said that there’s something wonderful about doing something so awful (referring to the CrossFit WOD of 12 Days of Christmas) together.

I agree; yet, there’s something even more wonderful about doing something so awful alone.

Struggling to Make it to The Gym

Most people struggle just to make it to a group fitness class, but once they are there, they participate with the others and push due to the competitive nature of humans.

You don’t have any of that when it’s you working out by yourself, alone. It’s you against yourself, and it’s 100% mental.

Yesterday, I did the 12 Days of Christmas CrossFit workout by myself at 5 am. I didn’t really want to do it. I had myself convinced I was too sore from Orange Theory on Saturday to do it. Yet, I reluctantly dragged myself to the CrossFit gym and went.

I was all alone. I did heavier weight than prescribed for the workout. And I finished, moving through one rep at a time. I always got bogged down in the five 95 pound thrusters, but did them all.

Half-way through this horrible CrossFit workout, I was wondering why I was doing it; this phrase popped in my mind: the relentless pursuit of excellence.

There’s something in me that wants to be the best, to do my best, and to beat others — even if they aren’t there. I beat them in my mind; I do what I think I can’t do. And, therefore, I win.

This is everything in life for me. I want to be the best at work (which I produce more consistently every month than another write at my job). I want to be the best at CrossFit. I want to be a better parent, wife, and pet owner. I want to be better, period.

Relentlessly pursuing excellence will get me there. Guaranteed.

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CrossFit Goals for 2020

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

It’s important to set goals if you ever want to achieve anything in life. Otherwise, what are you truly aiming for?

In CrossFit for 2020, I have many goals:

  • Cycle pull ups so I have a chance at winning again in CrossFit competitions. This means for me butterflies since my butterfly form is actually quite good, while my kipping form sucks.
  • Get stronger (is a goal every year)
  • Get my ring muscle up finally
  • Nail down handstand walks
  • Increase my deadlift max
  • Try to get my snatch back
  • Get better at dead hang moves
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My 2019 CrossFit Accomplishments

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

The end of the year affords you opportunities to take stock of what you’ve accomplished over the entire year in all aspects of your life, including in CrossFit. For me, I was injured in some way most of the year, so overall, it sucked. However, there were a few highlights.

CROSSFIT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • PR’ed my thruster at 125 pounds (if you know me, you know thrusters are one of my favorite moves in CrossFit)
  • Can do handstand walks better
  • 95 pounds on the bar for anything overhead no longer scares me
  • Got my pistols pretty good
  • Can still beat people when I actually try
  • PR’ed DT
  • PR’ed Annie
  • Still managed to keep moving despite all of my injuries
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Merry Christmas!

by crossfitmomm, posted in Life Lessons and Advice

Merry Christmas One and All!

Enjoy the day with your family!

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What CrossFit Cost Me This Year…

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

Every year, it has become a tradition of mine to list out how much I spent on CrossFit. This is more out of curiosity than anything else because to me health, wellness, and fitness have no price.

THE REAL COST OF CROSSFIT

  • GHD machine from Rogue Fitness: $695.00
  • CrossFit Competitions: approximately $1000 (this includes those for my daughter as well)
  • CrossFit clothes: $500 (clothes for my kids as well)
  • CrossFit Membership: $370 (for me and my daughter)
  • Orange Theory Membership: $725 (took half the year off due to injury)
  • Two 15 pound plates: $75
  • Massage: $530
  • Muscle Activation: $500 for package deal
  • Chiropractor: $200
  • Urgent Care for injuries: $200
  • Nutrition package: $450
  • Private CrossFit Lessons: $400

Sum total in 2019 is: $5645. This actually is not bad compared to last year when I outfitted almost my entire home gym. I just bought a GHD machine this year, which completes it for the most part.

CrossFit is my passion and makes me happy in this world. Truthfully, I don’t care how much it costs me. It’s totally worth every cent for what it gives me in terms of self-confidence, health, and a feeling of accomplishment in this world.

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“Organized” Muscle

by crossfitmomm, posted in Life Lessons and Advice

My daughter won a free massage for winning first place in our recent 5k. She gave it to me, which, of course, I’ll use!

I’ve been looking for a new massage person for a while now, after having left Massage Envy, which is just too far to drive now.

I calledColorado in Motionand made an appointment. I didn’t really know about the place, which turned out to be an occupational and physical therapy center.

So, I got my first medical massage. And I learned a lot.

Apparently, my muscle is very “organized,” meaning you can see the actual individual muscles. My arms are defined, and I’m very flexible, which I thought I was not.  I had a great massage and plan on going back for my next one!

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Two PR’s in One Week!!

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit Workouts

There comes a point in CrossFit where you stop setting personal records (PRs) frequently because your fitness is at a high level. When you first begin working out, you develop strength very quickly because your body is not used to it. It can seem like every workout, in fact, is a PR.

However, this diminishes, and then PRs are few and far between.

Last Monday, I PR’ed Annie, which is double unders and sit-ups. Today, I PR’ed CrossFit Open workout 17.5, which was double unders and thrusters.

I didn’t think I would PR either one when I did them, but I did. This is because I’m stronger on thrusters than before, and I’m at a peak, as they say, right now in fitness, after having been blah for most of 2019 with injuries.

Today was a good day, indeed.

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The Key to Longevity in CrossFit

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit

After four years of doing CrossFit, I’ve learned a lot of things, including what I can’t do and what I can do, as well as what I shouldn’t do.

The main key to longevity at CrossFit is doing what you can do, and that’s it.

This means if you are injured and one move exacerbates your injury, don’t do it! Even it it’s programmed in a CrossFit WOD or a CrossFit competition. You’re allowed to scale.

Scaling in CrossFit

Furthermore, it’s okay to do your own thing. You know what you need to work on, so just because a move is programmed doesn’t mean you have to do it. Too many of us are followers at times.

Even at a CrossFit competition.

At my last CrossFit competition, chest to bar pull ups were programmed from a dead hang. I can’t do 21 chest to bar pull ups from a dead hang, so I told the judge I was just going to do pull ups. She told me, “Well, I can’t let you move on until you do them.”

I looked at her and said, “That’s okay. I’ll move on without you then.”

And that’s what I did. And she moved on with me. What else was she going to do? Stand there by herself? I was in last place. It didn’t matter.

My point is do what you feel you can do in that moment on that day and who cares what everyone else is doing. If you push yourself to do moves you can’t do or that you are too tired to do, you will only injure yourself and thus will stall your CrossFit workouts.

And if you’re not careful, that vicious cycle can continue, leaving you frustrated and apt to quit CrossFit.

Listen to your body. It’s your workout. Your needs. And on one else’s.

CrossFit Spirit Animal

by crossfitmomm, posted in CrossFit Competitions

Today I was called a spirit animal in CrossFit.

This is the second time I’ve heard this in recent months.

It’s strange because I’ve often felt like I don’t belong anywhere I go. Mainly because I don’t make the effort. For the most part, I don’t care what others think of me. I don’t make an effort to be friends with others. Frankly, I do my own thing.

Like today. I did my own WOD — changed it to what I needed it to be. Perhaps this is why I was called a spirit animal.

Yet, I feel like this attitude hurts me — especially when it comes to CrossFit competitions. I’ve never been asked to be someone else’s partner. This sucks. I’ve probably done a dozen CrossFit competitions with people I don’t know. Some of the other CrossFit competitions I have started to drag my daughter along to be my partner.

Even the current CrossFit box I’m a member of won’t ask me to do a CrossFit competition. And when I try to find partners, I feel like I beg and plead, or I’m flat out turned down and told to “fuck off.” Usually, this doesn’t bother me, but the last time I got turned down, I have to admit it hurt.

Let’s face it, all CrossFit competitions are dopey. They are just a bunch of workouts thrown together that you do — which truly don’t matter. What matters is who you do them with.

The last CrossFit competition I got turned down when I asked was by a friend of mine. I’ve asked him several times to do a CrossFit competition with me. He has said no each time. Usually, I let it go. But this time, I’m finding it incredibly difficult to do so.

I asked him why, and all I got was a lame excuse. I think he thinks that I suck. Fair enough. But just tell me that. Yes, I was hurt (and truth be told, I still am), but I still want to do a CrossFit competition with him — one day.

I don’t know why I’m wasting my time lamenting. Nothing will change (does it ever?), so what’s the point?