Today took me to a new Crossfit gym called SF Crossfit in Osborne Park. Once again this gym is a fantastic facility with plenty of space for working out, hanging off bars and rings and running in the local area. The 10am class was super friendly and had a great vibe to it. Tracy (the coach) was very friendly , professional and technique driven but the workout she set upon us for the day was certainly not for the light hearted.
WOD: “Manion”
7 rounds for time of the following:
· 400m run
· 29 back squats @ 42.5kgs (recommended weight)
Time = 32:51
Yet again, wanting to ease myself back into this whole exercise with weights regime and thinking about the copious amounts of back squats I was about to embark upon I dropped the weight to 30kgs.
The 400m run started off easy but as soon as I got back to the gym to start the back squats I knew what the painful part of this exercise was going to be...squats! The first few rounds were, how should I say it, hard but not life stopping. Once I hit about the 4th round I was only doing the squats in sets of 5, 5, 5, 7 and 7. My legs were burning like crazy and let’s not forget my attempts of running the 400 meters in between the sets of squats! I looked more like part of the elderly population who kind of shuffle along rather than gliding freely like a cheetah. Tracy’s workout also left me in a great deal of pain for at least 3-4 days afterwards with quads tender to touch.
Sport is a funny thing, I love and hate the pain of it. One might same I am psychotic for enjoying this pain, but...I know I’m not alone!
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