My First Time

My friend Tai over at CrossFit Montgomery County had a good post that made the affiliate page on the main site today. He talks about his first CrossFit workout. I can still remember mine and how bad it sucked. I had found the CrossFit website and was really intrigued by what they did. I spent a couple of weeks spending several hours a day on the site watching videos and reading articles. I was really into what they were doing but I have to admit I was a bit skeptical at first. CrossFit was claiming they could get you in the best shape of your life with these short workouts that last around 10-20 mins.

I was just getting back into working out after a serve case of vertigo kept me from working out for 6 months. I was doing some of the CrossFit exercises but never a full WOD. So one day back in February of 2008, roughly about two years ago now, I decided I was going to give one of the WOD's a try. At the time I was working for my friends at Breakway Fitness, who now own CrossFit Breakway. I decided I was going to do what ever the main site WOD was for that day. Just my luck, her name was Fran. I was unaware at the time but she had a reputation for making grown men cry. I looked at the comments and results posted to the main site, and based on some of the better times for males around my age and weight I was figuring this would take less than 5 mins. At the time I didn't know how to do a kipping pull-up and I had never done a thruster. Fran kicked my ass. I finished around 15-16 mins and was totally destroyed. I wanted to cry, puke, etc. It was the hardest workout I had ever done. I literally went home and went to sleep for several hours, I was completely destroyed. I remember thinking that there was no possible way people could do that under 5 mins.

A couple of days later I happened to see the famous video of Greg A and Annie S (a couple of original fire breathers from Santa Cruz) doing Fran. They both finished under 3 mins and I was stunned. Now I realized how out of shape I was and that I needed to start CrossFitting right away. It's changed my life and I've been hooked ever since.
What was your first CrossFit workout? How did it make you feel? What were your thoughts about it after? Post to comments.


Megan, Tracie and Betina doing DB Thrusters.

Workout of the Day
8 min AMRAP of:
4 HSPU
8 KB Swings
12 Sit-Ups

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