furo
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I stopped by a crossfit gym last Friday just to see what was there. I'd never read much about Crossfit outside of casual web browsing. My normal gym is one of those LA Boxing style gyms where I do a lot of bag work with a mix of what I'd say are some crossfit elements.
But damn, this baseline assessment kicked ****** hard. The exercises were:
500m row on their rowing machine
40 air-squats (have to touch a 12" medicine ball when you squat down)
30 weird situps with no ankle support
20 burpees
10 pullups
I thought I was in pretty good shape going into this, with experience in all of the above exercises except the rowing machine
Well, that row machine destroyed me. After I got the machine to about 250-300 meters, I could feel most of my muscles starting to fatigue. And after I got up from the row machine, I felt flat-out weak and beaten.
The rest of the exercises I stumbled through to a finishing time of 7:15
I'm guessing I did poorly because I just don't have any experience on the rowing machine, but I was honestly surprised to see how beaten I was after finishing. After finishing, my lungs burned for about 30 minutes, and I could barely walk for the first 10 minutes. And I don't consider myself in poor cardio shape at all; I ran 4.2 miles two days ago at a 7:20/mile pace at 4,500 ft of elevation.
Oh well. Was an interesting experience.
But damn, this baseline assessment kicked ****** hard. The exercises were:
500m row on their rowing machine
40 air-squats (have to touch a 12" medicine ball when you squat down)
30 weird situps with no ankle support
20 burpees
10 pullups
I thought I was in pretty good shape going into this, with experience in all of the above exercises except the rowing machine
Well, that row machine destroyed me. After I got the machine to about 250-300 meters, I could feel most of my muscles starting to fatigue. And after I got up from the row machine, I felt flat-out weak and beaten.
The rest of the exercises I stumbled through to a finishing time of 7:15
I'm guessing I did poorly because I just don't have any experience on the rowing machine, but I was honestly surprised to see how beaten I was after finishing. After finishing, my lungs burned for about 30 minutes, and I could barely walk for the first 10 minutes. And I don't consider myself in poor cardio shape at all; I ran 4.2 miles two days ago at a 7:20/mile pace at 4,500 ft of elevation.
Oh well. Was an interesting experience.