Happy New Year!
For the past 3 years, my track group has ventured out during the cold winter months on something we refer to as Women's Adventure Night (WAN). We have done lots of cool things such as cross country skiing (total adventure for me!), speed skating at the Roseville oval, bra-fitting, and cardio tennis just to name a few. Anybody can plan it and everybody has great ideas. For this month, Jen and I scheduled Crossfit. Now this isn't really an adventure for Jen and I at this point, but we wanted to share our new hobby with anyone that wanted to participate!
The willing crew....hanging: Jen, me, Cathy, Merilee. Seated/standing: Shawn, Julie H., Valerie, Andrea, Sara, Julie K. and Courtney.The first thing we went through was the warm-up. Crossfit is very strict about form and range of motion, so if this is of interest to you, going to the gym with a trainer is very beneficial. The big hit for some was learning the kipping pull-up. I may or may have not shared this with you but my resolution for 2008 was to be able to do 1 pull-up. I succeeded in doing 3 in a row on New Year's Eve of 2008! Yippee!
The workout itself was a team effort. We were paired up (we had an odd number so we had one team of 3) and had to do as many reps as a team as we could for 4 different exercises. We had 6 minutes at each station with 1 minute rest in between.
The sets:
Wallballs (14 lb Med ball)
Medball sit-ups (14 lb Med ball)
Med ball cleans (12 lb Med ball)
Med ball toss (10 lb Med ball)
During the wallballs and med ball cleans, only one partner could be doing the work at a time while the other partner was given a certain number of burpees to complete. See pics below!
The 4 women seated are two pairs doing med ball sit-ups. I am in the purple shirt doing the med ball cleans while Jen is recovering from her burpees. Way in back Julie with the green tee is doing wallballs while her partner Cathy is doing burpees.
Our threesome is doing med ball sit-ups while Cathy & Julie in the back are launching the med ball back and forth as many times as they can in 6 minutes!
Courtney & Jen doing wall balls. The med ball under their bottom is there so they know how far to go down!
Michael, our trainer was fabulous and took all of these pictures! When we finished Michael added up each teams reps for all 4 exercises to determine a winner. Let's just say that while we have quite the competitive bunch, I am not sure anyone really looked at that. We were happy to be done, everyone did their best and that was all that mattered. Checkout the Crossfit Minnesota's website at http://revdefenseandfitness.com/wordpress. Crossfit is a super fun way to get your strength training in and I think all participants would agree that it was a fun, challenging way to get it done!
Just thought you might want to see my sweaty pits one more time.....actually, what a bunch of fit bitches!!!
12 comments:
Aw you guys look awesome! I'm so glad you are loving crossfit. It really is a great bang for your workout buck!
SWEET!! That looks like a blast! I was going to point out the sweaty pits in the first photo, but you beat me to it!
I've seen kipping pull-ups done (in a video), but I still haven't come up with the fortitude to try it myself. They look like HELL!
Nice workout ladies!!
thanks Darcy for the recap and for you nad jen for organizing the night. fun social fitness is alway up my alley! not feeling to bad today... maybe tomorrow will be different :)
I didn't realize you gals know my college teammate, Andrea. Has she told you what a total stud runner she was in college?
I won't say the sweaty pits are sexy, but you just got done with a killer workout, so it's understandable - and very cool.
Thanks for planning it Darcy, it was a lot of fun. I'm still in awe over those "kips" you and Jen can do. Total studs.
Oh, would have so loved to have been there, even if only to watch, rather than barfing all day. Oh well. Next time. Always next time. Meanwhile, I'll file that workout to do on my own someday... and you all do look hot. I mean hot and HOT!
Sorry I missed it!!
I had a great time at Crossfit last week and hope to do it again!
Next month WAN i hope to make!!
You girls look great!!
Had a great time at Crossfit with you studs! You guys all did AWESOME! Now..who wants to go again??
OK I just watched a history channel show while riding on my bike trainer Wednesday. It was about Medieval torture devices....was it filmed on location at your gym????
love the idea of working out with such a great group of women! great workout and with all this crossfit buzz... I think I'll have to check it out soon!
I have to get back on this list, Darcy. I'm gearing up for summer and ready to run again!
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