HAd my first intro at St Johns Crossfit

After just discovering Crossfit the other day (thanx to my husband pointing it out to me).  I googled it and found 4 crossfit gyms in my area.  I use to enjoy the gym environment many years ago, but got bored of the idea of going to the gym to pump weight.  Crossfit sounds like a better alternative, and the environment seems more group friendly and well fun.  

Gee, they are certainly not cheap with the cheapest being around $180NZ a month to $230NZ, you really have to commit to make sure you get the most for your buck.  

I went for my free intro at St Johns today.  After getting lost (thank you very much GPS!) I found it with 5 minutes to spare for my appointment at 9am.  Walking into a studio with the roller door wide open to allow fresh air in, I saw around 30 people chatting away with barbells lying in neat rows along the padded floor to my left.  In front of me were 3 people chatting and I was hoping my blank lost look that I perfected on my face would get someones attention to come up and aske me how they can help.  I got my wish 3minutes later (which is a long time standing around feeling stupid).  Chatting to a nice lady whose name I politely forgot 20seconds after she told me.  I was to wait for Darren to arrive.

We had a good chat where he explained to me the concept of Crossfit & what he was doing.  Then he showed me how to do a proper squat, chestforwrd squat, situp & push up (which I could barely do 3, pathetic I know).  Darren put together a small workout of:

100mtr row

10x squat

7x situp

5x burpees

as many times in 7 mins

No problem I thought waiting for him to set the timer, so easy, I do the spontanious workout & don't think I'm that unfit.  Well......

I did 3 rounds plus 6 squats and was so grateful as he counted down the minutes that I didn't have to do burpees again after the 3rd go.

We chatted breifly about diet in which they follow paelo (google it) and then I left with a promise that he would email me details for a 4 week intro.

I really enjoyed myself and everyone seemed down to earth & very friendly (even though I just had eyelash extensions put in yesterday & looked like THAT girl, who worksout with full makeup, oh well).

I am very keen to try out Crossfit.  I have a free intro at New Market on Tuesday so looking forward to seeing how that goes.