Autumn Marathon

One year of CrossFit “Practice”

Last Wednesday marked one year since the day I walked into NEPA CrossFit for my introductory WOD. I wrote down what we did -

• 10 squats, 10 pushups, 10 situps, 10 supermen x 8 rounds

It actually doesn’t sound like much, but I remember being very sore the next day. CrossFit has definitely made its mark on my life: have lost weight, gotten stronger, disrupted my running training, changed my eating and sleeping habits. At one level, it is just an exercise program, but at another it is a practice just as exacting as Yoga or a martial art.  If you’re doing it right, and for 99% of us that means at a gym with professional trainers, doing it well is all about exercising the movements correctly and to maximum effect.  ”The name of the game,” one coach said to a group as we prepared to do the simple deadlift, “is precision.”