Man, it’s been a while. Last night while reading Muscle & Fitness, I came across a group called CrossFit. Apparently, it’s this cultish workout group based all around the nation that do functional, rigorous exercises that are supposed to yoke you up. 

Clearly, I know I have some work. I inquired about joining on behalf of two friends of mine, and I will decide later if it’s gonna fit. But to test it out, I tried out one of their sample workouts called “Angie” (all their workouts are named after women for some reason).

Angie consists of the following:

50-40-30-20-10 reps of the following:

-Double unders

-Sit-ups (real ones)

Since I had a bootleg jump rope that kept whipping me painfully, I decided to do singles but jump as high as if I were doing double unders. I tried just doing double the repetition, but that wasn’t as hard. I then adapted the sit-ups to crunches because, well frankly, my stomach muscles just started to cramp up from being so out of shape. That hurt!

Well, I finished my weaksauce (though still difficult, try it yourself…) version of “Angie” in 9 min 30 seconds. I will try this version again in a month to see if I’ve improved. Maybe I’ll even do it the real way.

After that, I felt I still needed to put in some work, so I ended up doing tabatas for pushups and squats. For those who don’t know, tabatas consist of 8 sets of an exercise done at a rapid pace–20 seconds on, 10 seconds rest x 8 sets. It’s WAY harder than it sounds, and your score is measured by your set with the least number of reps. As crappy as it may seem, my worst pushup set was 8 reps (on my knees) and 10 squats. Mind you, I started off with 25 “real pushups” and 15 squats. 

~the flip