March Crossfit Update

I finally joined a crossfit! Bout time, it had been two full months! My new crossfit has been good. The location and class times are working for me, the coaching has been pretty good, the programming is fine, and the price is right. I signed up for the 3 day per week membership for a few reasons:

1) It is near my work so I can't go there on weekends anyway, this would limit me to 5x/week if I went every weekday, but I usually have a meeting off campus or a work from home day or lessons to teach that would reduce it.

2) It only has 6:30 classes twice a week, I can swing leaving work early once or twice a week to make a 5:30 class but not three days a week (plus friday classes are 4:30, which is quite early, I've only made one of those and it was because it was spring break and I had to work over the weekend anyway)

3) For the last eight months, I was over training before to the point where I couldn't eat enough food to sustain myself, so even though I wasn't necessarily losing weight, I wasn't putting on any either. Working out 5x/week should be causing me to gain muscle. In addition, my body wasn't feeling very good. I get that people can train 2-3x/day, but these are people who have their nutrition dialed in and don't sit at a desk or in a car for 11 hours a day.

4) I wanted to back crossfit off to something that was more fun for me rather than chasing PRs and making myself feel bad about being one of the weaker people in the gym. Like if I work out this much, how am I still not back squatting my body weight? Well, Megan, what does it matter?

So far, my shift in perspective has been great! For example, we did snatches one day and I was kind of hungry and feeling overwhelmed by life. Instead of going for a max, I just used the bar and ended the workout feeling like I had good form the whole time and not caring that I wasn't pushing myself per say.

In March we had a plank challenge and this
was my longest plank, yikes

I really like the coach. I'm a slow to warm person so I knew it'd take me a second, but she's growing on me. She's super enthusiastic, definitely lives and breathes this stuff, and is quite good with correcting form and teaching movements. I also just plain like her as a person. She's not the games judge or the high level power lifting coach I was working with before, but she's good and I like her.

As for PRs this month, just the one on my clean, I got it to 90# and the weight moved so easily, I should have tried to snag that 100# PR, next time!