My wife and I started Crossfit back in May. Thanks to it being summer and our schedule, we have been eating like complete crap since, so our physical results don’t match how much better we feel.
We have our cruise coming up next week. After the cruise ends we are going to focus on our diet and have even talked about two-a-days at the gym. Football season is going to be a challenge. But as my old wrestling coach used to tell me, "you can't out exercise a poor diet". So we are looking forward to seeing a physical transformation over the next 6 moths.
Oh yeah...so my wife never played sports growing up (home schooled) and has never worked-out....EVER! Matter of fact, she smoked cigarettes from age 17 to 30 (35 today). I was very skeptical about her success and ability to pick up and embrace CrossFit.
Holy crap was I wrong!
(And for any women out there contemplating trying Crossfit because of the physical toll giving birth took on you body, don't; a good coach can prescribe other activities for you to do that will not make you feel as if your insides are going to fall out of your vagina).
While she still has a way to go with her strength, her technique progression has been impressive to say the least. She is already able to do most all of the complex olympic moves that are required in Crossfit. It’s been an incredibly impressive progression; and more importantly, she loves going to the gym and working out, and of course I do as well.
Soooo, one of the pitfalls of Crossfit is the cost, especially when there are two of you going. For both my wife and I, with childcare, it was costing us an astounding $450 a month, and that does not include the introductory class that was required for those new to Crossfit.
Since my wife knows the technique and has shown a real interest in working out, we have decided to make a serious investment in home gym equipment. If we utilize the equipment, it's no brainer decision. Just hoping we don't fall off and lose interest in working out.
We did do a sample month by working out at home. We bought a bar and 160 lbs of weights ($300). We did half our workouts from the house, and they turned out to be great workouts, and we actually ended up preferring to workout from the house over the gym....which we were pleasantly surprised about.
Gym equipment will be here when we get home from cruise, $3,000 worth of gym equipment.
I'll do my best to post our results in this thread. If it doesn't work out the way we like, I'll have some really nice gym equipment to sell for cheap!
Wish us luck, and we'll do the same for you cats!
Here's to living a healthy lifestyle!
and for real....imtotallynottribe....just DanC78 on too much coffee.
