OH BOY. You know how I was tired just thinking about my active weekend? Well, I had a good reason to be nervous because I am sore EVERYWHERE.
Saturday morning my training group ran 6 miles. My pace was 11:30/mile which I am completely fine with- especially because I didn't get the BEST sleep the night before. I knew that CP would want to drink at the Guys Night Out event so I agreed to drive him to the bar and pick him up. In his absence, I cleaned for three hours in anticipation of my mother-in-law's visit, baked bread and ruined the custard for the lemongrass ice cream by allowing the milk to boil because I took my eyes off of the pan for a minute (I got the ingredients again on Saturday- the second batch turned out great!).
I was shocked that I hadn't heard from him before midnight. He ended up calling at 12:30 and I picked him up along with two other guys that clearly couldn't drive home. With no bra on. My mouthguard in (took it out as soon as I saw others walking towards the car). My glasses on. Wearing my pajama pants. In other words, HOT.
Needless to say, I was a bit tired (better than the hangover CP had for most of the day) for the run. My legs were tired the rest of the day and I was a bit cranky towards the end of the night but I survived.
Yesterday I headed over to the Cross Fit gym to start the three hour workout. Our warm up consisted of going outside to do butt kickers, leg kicks, lunges and then a sprint back to the gym. It doesn’t sound hard, but we spent a long time on lunges so my legs were pretty tired.
We were then broken up into 4 groups as there were 80 people brave enough to show up for the workout. My first station I had a choice of a rowing machine, jump rope or a ski machine. I decided that because that day was all about trying new things I would try the
ski machine. You held two pulleys in your hand above your head and when the trainer shouted "GO" you would squat down then pull the ropes down and past your thighs. We did 20 second sprints, as fast as possible, and then rested for 10 seconds. We did this 8 times. This wasn't too bad. I paid attention to my form and tried not to slow down too much on the later rounds.
The next round was pushups. Ugh. I can do 20 girl pushups, but after that everything gets tired and my form starts to stink. Once again it was 20 seconds of high intensity, bust out as many pushups as possible, with 10 seconds of rest, 8 times. I did great on the first two rounds. I was pretty sad on the rest of the rounds.
The next round was my favorite. There were three balls placed on a course, one weighing 10 lbs placed closest to the group, another 14 lbs a bit farther out, and the 20 lb medicine ball the farthest away. We were put in teams of 4. The first person ran to the first ball (10 lbs) picked it up and brought it back to our group. The second person got the 14 lb ball and ran it back to our group. The third person ran out to the 20 lb ball and brought it back, handing it to the fourth person who would run the ball out and place it on the designated line. We continued bringing the balls back to the line and then picking them up again for four minutes. I think that I liked this one the most because it was the easiest. I didn't slack off at all...I just think that with three other people you had more rest in between runs.
The last round was squats. Not your average run of the mill squats in a cardio class though. Cross Fit squats are ones where you MUST get your butt below your knees. Otherwise the trainers yell. A lot. Once again it was 20 seconds of as many squats as possible, 10 seconds of rest for 8 rounds. I can do a lot of squats, but I was pretty tired at the end.
From there we did a mile and half run. Thank goodness it wasn't any further because my legs felt like lead! Despite the short distance I had to walk a sizable portion of the run because my legs were SCREAMING in pain.
The run ended at the yoga studio where we packed 80 people in the room. It was hot. Not Bikram hot, but the studio was at least 80 degrees. Along with the body heat of everyone the room got even hotter. We ended up doing power yoga which was HARD. My shoulders and arms were already screaming from the pushups and ski machine, so every time we went into dogward dog I wanted to kill myself. It didn't help that the girl next to me was a hardcore yoga person so I felt silly with my shaking limbs.
Thankfully the hour was over and my three hour workout complete. I went home to lay on the couch, eat some lunch and complain to CP about being tired. I figured I would be sore today, but I didn't count on not being able to bend my right arm (aka do a bicep curl) today. I woke up this morning at 4am to pee and found that I couldn't bend my right arm too far towards my shoulder without immense pain. I don't have the same pain in my left arm so I don't know if I slept on it funny or what....but it is not fun. I'm guessing muscle pain, but it is not in the tricep. Hopefully it goes away soon....
Have you ever tried CrossFit? Was this a normal workout of the day? If you haven't tried CrossFit does this post make you want to try it or run very far away from it?