Hi everyone,
It’s Thursday, almost Friday, so practically as good as the weekend. Let’s start day drinking…. no wait, I still have to work today, and tomorrow…BUMMER!
But thanks to Amanda Thursdays are nor longer tedious and boring as we now use them for Thinking out Loud. And that’s exactly what I am going to do now!
I’ve already mentioned my 1:1 on-ramp training with my new trainer Jaz in yesterday’s post. Today I am going to tell you a bit more about the training. Focus of the session was to learn all the basic moves and exercises I need to know in order to participate in any WOD. Of course there’s so much more to learn but at least I know what I have to keep in mind during the exercises. Basic moves with the own body weight didn’t cause me any trouble. Besides pull-ups. I am crap at pull-ups! Then we moved on to basic moves with kettlebells and barbells. This is brand-new to me as I never really got into working with free weights. I almost always used the machines before. Okay but I learned to deadlift and clean and then we moved onto press-ups. I never felt that badass in my life. Loved it! Call me beast!
When this looked okay I got to Squat. I squat deep enough but apparently my upper body bends too deep during the squat. This was hard to fight against as I always squatted that (obviously wrong) way. But miraculously when I had a barbell on my shoulders I managed to stay straight enough. Then I tried a barbell overhead squat. I discovered muscles (or at least places where I should have muscles) I’ve never known before. Today I still can’t lift my bag from the floor properly and I needed to massage some soothing ointment onto my upper arms. Of course I am going to the 5pm WOD nevertheless. Can’t wait! Love it! I am already totally gaga about the whole cross fit thing 🙂
I’ve mentioned before that we bought a new couch and wardrobe from IKEA. We were smart enough to get the stuff delivered as our car is certainly too small to bring only one of the things home. So we scheduled the delivery for my home office day. The time slot was between 7 am and 2 pm. I was already a little huffy that they couldn’t narrow down the delivery time any further but of course there was no other choice. Let’s say it went 10 am, 11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm and no one showed up. When the clock hit 3 pm I called the service line. I needed to talk to a stupid automatic service for 8 minutes until I was put on hold to speak to a real person. After 12 more minutes – I had already proceeded from #26 to #14 in the waiting loop – the delivery guy called me on my mobile and told me he was due 20 minutes. So past 3:45 pm the stuff was here. Maybe this was the redeeming time we first saved buying the stuff at IKEA! I was a little grumpy but that vanished when I saw the new couch! Love it!!!
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