CrossFit: The Story of a Girl Who Died From Too Many Snatches

         THE TIME HAS COME!!!!!

Tonight is the first night of CrossFit! The first time you go to the box, they apparently pair you with a coach one-on-one who will assess your fitness and start teaching you proper technique. I managed to get myself a Groupon for an unlimited month at this place, so I am pretty excited to make the most of it.

I'm nervous though. I'm not what anyone would call 'fit' and with my jaw and lousy legs etc, I sometimes have trouble with high-impact activities. I'll do my best though!

Since I was so nervous about doing this, I asked my gym buddy to go with me for the first free workout. I wish he weren't so fit and adorable. I find myself alternating between looking forward to the workout with him (it is always fun when we go to the gym together, much preferred to working out alone) and wanting to hit him with my car for being an insufferable male. 

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Current Trend in my Fitness

That does it for current events. Now I want to talk about the past few nights. I've noticed that my apartment is looking kinda run-down again and that my body feels sluggish and clumsy. Yesterday at work, everything anyone said upset me and I sat in my cubicle all afternoon wanting to punch a cherub every single time one of my coworkers said something predictable. 

What all of this means is that I'm going into a down cycle again. Being cyclical in nature, these cycles come around rather regularly, and sadly, I usually spend several days to several weeks feeling rather blue. When I start feeling better, that's usually when my home is clean and I am working out and cooking wholesome foods. This time around I need to do myself a favor and try some preventative medicine. 

The Goal (Color Run, July 2012)

Instead of seeing the positive changes in my life once I naturally start feeling better again, I need to be more proactive about the whole thing--that's where this blog and my personal fitness comes into play. I need to somehow make myself keep working out and taking care of myself and putting effort into my schoolwork and my job as a technique to stave off the depressed cycle. 

That's the hardest part. Finding the motivation to get out of bed, get off the floor. It's so easy to just fade away for 12 or 14 hours. So tempting to just drink a bottle of wine instead of do that awful, horrible plyometrics DVD. 

Today's Reason to workout: To burn through my character flaws, so only the good parts of me remain.