![]() ![]() I have nothing against muscular physiques-I love a strong body more than anything and I feel best when I’m as lean and strong as possible. Because while CrossFit builds (in my opinion) a pretty awesome male physique, as a female CrossFitter, I began to quickly hate the way my body started to look. Body compositionĪll right, guys, this is where I’m going to lose you, so feel free to skip this section. Doing CrossFit on a regular basis meant I rarely had time to do the other active things I love – hiking, various sports, and exploring the Bay area outdoors with my dog.Īlso, as a side note, I noticed doing CrossFit would cut into my work time since I’d get so spent during the workouts (I couldn’t help but push myself as hard as possible every single time) I’d have trouble re-focusing for an hour or two after a morning or afternoon class. That’s a lot of time to devote to just exercise. That combined with getting to class early to stretch and warm up and staying after to foam roll meant the time commitment was more like an hour and a half a day, four to six times a week (or however many times I could handle it). TimeĪlthough most CrossFit workouts are fairly short-ranging from 5 to 20 minutes on average-an entire CrossFit class lasts for more like an hour. ![]() I felt it put me at a disadvantage-and also like I had to hide my diet from my fellow CrossFitters. And for good reason: all that meat no doubt helps with recovery and performance, but I just wasn’t willing to change my diet completely for the sport. Some CrossFit gyms are more lax about diet than others, but the ones I’ve been to have all been pretty extreme Paleo. (It has been done however-see Susan Lacke’s vegetarian paleo experiment on No Meat Athlete to learn more.) I can’t survive on nuts and veggies only! DietĬrossFit gyms follow the Paleo diet, which if you’ve never heard of it includes mainly meat, nuts and veggies-any form of grains are frowned upon, and more extreme Paleo followers won’t even touch dairy, some fruit, and alcohol.Īs a vegetarian (I’ve been one since I was six years old), this leaves me with pretty much nothing to eat. I don’t mind being sore, but I didn’t want to be so sore that I couldn’t do any other workouts or activities the rest of the week. ![]() but in the end, it just wasn’t worth it to me. Obviously, I could have pushed a little less hard and given myself a break more often… but that’s not how I do things.Īnd yes, I could have taken some extreme recovery measures… ice baths, weekly massages, etc. So sore that sometimes I could barely move for days afterwards. So sore I didnt have the energy or desire to do all the other active things I wanted to do. You could certainly say it’s because I’m a girl that I didn’t like it, but I’ve talked to others who have had the same reaction: I just got too damn sore from it. The main difference between my workouts and the Crossfit workouts is the Olympic style weightlifting they do in their workouts-including lots of heavy squats, shoulder presses, jerks, snatches, deadlifts and cleans. If you’re not familiar with the workouts, CrossFit combines movements such as sprinting, jumping, rowing, bodyweight exercises, and climbing rope to make some short, intense, ass-kicking workouts, not altogether that different than the ones we do here on 12 Minute Athlete. And the coach (as they’re called in CrossFit) was inspiring and just, well, awesome.īut when I moved to San Francisco, I decided to give it up. There were both men and women, and no one expected me to work less hard because I was a chick. When I was living in Brooklyn, I went to the most amazing CrossFit gym, CrossFit Virtuosity, and had the time of my life. In fact, I did CrossFit for nearly a year before I decided to give it up. ![]() I think it’s one of the coolest, most challenging workouts around today. ![]()
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