An Experiment in Scotch

So I’ve been doing Cross­fit for 2 weeks now and I can safely say that while my body hates it, my mind loves it. It’s bru­tally hard phys­i­cally at times and it really empha­sizes a breadth of train­ing ver­sus spe­cial­iza­tion. I’m look­ing for­ward to each day’s work­out in a way I haven’t in quite awhile. I’m already feel­ing much stronger though this weekend’s two work­outs have basi­cally destroyed every mus­cle in my body.

Yesterday’s work­out in par­tic­u­lar was chal­leng­ing. 10 sets start­ing with 10 reps in set 1, 9 reps in set 2 and so on down to 1 rep in the last set of dead­lift, clean and bench press and you try to do it as quickly as pos­si­ble. As pre­scribed, it’s sup­posed to be done with 1 1/2 your body weight in dead­lift, your body weight in bench and 3/4ths body weight in clean. I’m not nearly at those lev­els but by scal­ing down the weight, I man­aged to make it through with­out dying.

Over­all, I like that the work­outs take about 30 min­utes tops and that they focus so much on strength, speed and ath­leti­cism. I’m look­ing for­ward to mak­ing it part of my reg­u­lar routine.