First off, I am sorry that I have been "off the radar" so to say for a couple of days. I have a whole slew of excuses (trust me, I'm the queen of excuses....), but none of them should have kept me from working out. But again, I will use anything as an excuse so that's why I haven't been working out for the past 4 days. I do have to say that I seriously injured my quad muscles and I am just barely starting to walk without a limp. It did feel good though knowing that I was starting to awaken those long, lost muscles of mine that have never seen the light of day! lol! Anyways, I was reading on the crossfit website and a couple of things really stuck out for me....I really want to do this, but I am feeling overwhelmed by how hard and uncoordinated I am so reading this really helped.
"If many or most of the exercises are relatively or completely unknown to you, then we recommend that you begin learning the movements for a month or two until you can either perform our common exercises or have substitutions worked out for those movements under development. This is a great place to begin for anyone with little or no experience with serious weightlifting or gymnastics." (THIS IS ME!! LOL)
"You would be well advised to take on the WOD carefully, cautiously, and work first towards completing the workouts comfortably and consistently before "throwing" yourself at them 100%. The best results have come for those who've "gone through the motions" of the WOD by reducing recommended loads, reps, and sets while not endeavoring towards impressive times for a month before turning up the heat. We counsel you to establish consistency with the WOD before maximizing intensity."
I know this is kind of what we talked about last week when you said to just do what I can. I want to work on just doing the exercises properly even if I can't do a "full" workout. I am going to be researching online to see if I can find an easier "beginner" workout. So please don't think I am giving up. Quite the opposite in fact....having this blog and YOU to answer to and to motivate me has really given me hope that I can actually do this and for once in my life actually get results and have the body and life I have always dreamed of. Thank you Sidra. Really. Thanks. :)
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