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Originally Posted by Gemme
It's not stupid at all, but I would strongly caution you to build up your strength before doing Crossfit. It's crazy mad for even very fit people. While I'm sure they could adapt some of the movements, I would approach it with caution.
Pull up some Crossfit routines online and do as much as you can at home. If you do that for a few workouts and feel confident and strong enough to move to a box and don't mind someone hollering at you, then do so. I would never hold anyone back from bettering themselves, but I would offer that bit of caution given what you've said about your strength level at this time.
I tend to be a balls to wall kind of girl and sometimes (read: almost always) do too much too soon and it can be counterproductive because I have to wait to heal my torn and stretched muscles and tendons and can create a sense of defeat before I've really begun. Obviously, you and I are different but that's my experience and what I have to say about that.
My .02.
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Yes I'm quoting this post AGAIN, because when the Gemme is right, she's right.
The last couple of days I've been playing catch up on yard work since I was out of it for basically a month. I have lawn guy, but the flower beds and gardens kinda went to hell.
Stuff grows fast here. So the last two days were weeding and that was a lesson in how weak I really got. It amounts to a bunch of air squats and whatever I'm doing to get the jurassic, two foot tall hummers out is really working my upper back and lats. It's good, because it's just sore muscles and there's plenty more to go around, but I am in no way ready for lessons yet. I'd just hurt myself. So, there are very good instructional videos for the basic crossfit moves and I will be practicing them in the yard for the next week or so first, even if I have to re-learn things later.
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