We've been doing CrossFit for about 11 months now. There has been little I've enjoyed more over this past year than working out with my family. Mark Mazlakowski and his sister Sandy in Clarksville, TN (http://www.maxfxcrossfit.com/) were our first coaches who really introduced us to the CrossFit concept. Their gym is actually a transformed separate garage located out in the country, but despite its innocent demeanor, vile displays of exercise brutality routinely go on inside that building. I mean that in the best possible way, of course.
What is it that makes CF so fun, you ask? I don't know...I'm demented, I guess. But when you go through a complete workout, with your legs burning and your chest heaving to provide more oxygen to your withered muscles, you feel a sense of ease and accomplishment. Ease because you know the pain is over (at least for now). Accomplishment because you realize you just did something that 90% of the people in our society are scared or unwilling to do. CF makes you meet yourself every time--it tells you who you are and how far you can go.
Plus, I love to watch my wife workout. Hey! Not like that you sickos! I like to see her succeed and push and struggle and win. She is an awesome athlete. I have seen her do some things that would embarrass most women. Sweat, spit, grunt, moan, cry--none of it very pretty, but all of it very real. She is really an amazing and beautiful woman.
We just completed our daily WOD (workout of the day). I lifted 7000lbs. over my head in 10:32 and my wife lifted 5000lbs. in 8:16. See what I mean? Tell me your wife can do that!
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