I Have Thoughts

Another good day. I slept like a rock after all the activity yesterday...a full morning of grocery shopping and a hard workout at the gym. My legs had that full heavy feeling you get after they've received a good amount of stress.

Cappy was looking at me longingly all morning, so reluctantly I bundled her in the car to go to the dog park. I limited it to a slow trudge around the perimeter, enough for her to burn off her energy and enough for me to stretch the leg muscles. I came home to put a beef stew in the crockpot, make a batch of pumpkin muffins and watch the Bears trounce the Vikings (8-3, booyah!).

So...I titled this post "I Have Thoughts". What thoughts? Crossfit thoughts. WHAT?!! Yes, I've been rolling this around in my head for a while, that maybe I should explore what Crossfit has to offer. I've been hesitant to say the least because I've heard some not so good things about it but I've also seen lots of fans on the paleo sites. I'm thinking it would be beneficial because there are movements I would never do because I wouldn't learn them on my own for fear of injury. Things like the snatch, cleans and pull-ups. Even deadlifts...I think one of the reasons I injured my back was not really knowing if I was doing them completely correctly. Crossfit would be beneficial because I would be able to learn these things with the help of a coach who is right there correcting me. My fear is that I wouldn't be able to keep up with the competiveness or advanced workouts that younger, fitter people can do.

There's a Crossfit gym about 10 minutes from my house and they have classes at 5:30 am which would be perfect. And a mobility class on Saturday. They require a two-week, 6 class intro before letting people take the open classes. I'm thinking perhaps I could do that intro class so I can figure out if it's something that would work for me and learn some of the moves in the process. I'm talking to Rog about it tomorrow to get his opinion on maybe taking an intro class in February. It would definitely be a challenge and hopefully I'd be up for it.