This one is great! The owner and head coach is a woman, so that's always inspiring. It's a way more strength-focused gym as well. In fact, they hold specialty classes like Powerlifting, Gymnastics, and Olympic Lifting each week and those are the times that are best for my schedule.
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| Seney National Wildlife Preserve in Michigan |
As much as I'm absolutely not built for it, I think my favorite so far is power lifting. I think I'd enjoy the Olympic lifts more if my wrist wasn't so fucked though, cleans are way fun.
But powerlifting as a sport is just the back squat, deadlift, and bench press. In class, we do a lot of other stuff too, of course, but we do at least two of those lifts each day. I love lifting classes, it's way less time pressure and way less cardio.
The gymnastics class is great! It's crossfit focused gymnanstics so it's not as cool as I imagined it could have been. So far it's been a LOT of core, which I think is perfect for me. Having a workout every week that is dedicated to probably the most important muscle groups for me (due to my back injury and having a very bouncy horse) is great!
The actual crossfit classes are fun too, I like the programming way better than my last gym even though it's VERY apparent that I'm weak, probably from 1) taking time off, 2) rapid weight loss due to mono, I put it back on but when you lose weight that fast, it's not good for you, and 3) poor programming since I left my favorite gym in January. So I'm just taking my time getting back to it. If I'd ever stop being busy, I'd be able to go 4x/week and actually get back in shape, for now 2x/week has been my norm, which is frustrating but it's fine.
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| Over last weekend, Peony, Andy, and I ate this |
Obviously with travelling so much and just barely getting back into it after time off, I've hit absolutely no PRs this month, again. Hopefully I'll be back to it in August/September and will see some progress.
Is that mango sticky rice? =)
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