An Experiment in Scotch

I ran across Cross­fit Train­ing last week after see­ing a link on Instapun­dit and I started to look into what it was about. The vari­ety of exer­cises, the empha­sis on free weights and inten­sity of the train­ing all appealed to me so I thought I’d give it a try. This morn­ing marked my first work­out using the Cross­fit exer­cises and I picked a doozy to start on. “Murph” is the name of today’s WOD and it’s a killer.

Given that this was my first work­out, I knew I wasn’t going to be any­where near the totals but I gave it the old col­lege try. I did both miles sand­wich­ing 6 sets of 3 pullups, 10 pushups and 15 squats. I made a crit­i­cal error and chose to do the squats with just the bar and that’s not a par­tic­u­larly good idea. I ended up fin­ish­ing in about 35 min­utes. It was pretty bru­tal but it felt good.

Over­all, I like the empha­sis on being an ath­lete that Cross­fit stresses ver­sus just being able to run a lot or just being able to lift a lot. On top of that, the inten­sity really appeals to me because they push exer­cises that sur­pass what is nor­mally rec­om­mended. I’m look­ing for­ward to stick­ing with the pro­gram and see­ing how the results turn out in a cou­ple of months.