Ouch, ouch, ouch...am I supposed to be able to move after this?::

So I went last Thursday to crossfit and was barely able to finish it.  I was practically in tears from frustration.  Not sure if it was all the lactic acid build up in my muscles or the fact that I was trying to do burpees with an extra 40 lbs on me, but I was about ready to quit right there.  Other folks there told me to not get discouraged and I tried to keep that in mind as I went home and proceeded to sit hunched over my laptop for hours working.  I slept for about an hour and then went to work for the whole day.  I was sore, tired, grumpy and made others grumpy too.  Ahhh....spreading the joy.

I did however get up Saturday morning and go to the gym (LA Fitness) and do a benchmark workout for about an hour.  I was NOT at the prescribed weight for any of the exercises, but I did 3 rounds in an hour.  Not the prescribed rounds, but hey we had stuff to get done that day.

I took Sunday off, but signed up for classes last night, tonight and Thursday night.  Last night I struggled with chin ups, tonight I struggled with mountain climbers and Thursday I'll struggle with something else, but there are other things I don't struggle with.  Like tonight I shoulder pressed 70lbs, more than once!  I know there are things I have to work on on my own like double unders, wall squats and strengthening my wrists, but like someone said earlier - I was there!  Showing up is half the battle.  Once you're there, you might as well do the workouts right?

Right now, my shoulder aches, my knee and my hip ache and I'll wake up in the morning to 2 Aleve and some aches and pains, but my shoulders are getting definition, doing certain motions are getting easier and I can see a difference in my posture.  I mean just the amount of sweat I am putting out after a workout means I'm doing something!

So I'm off to shower and the bed.  With luck, some of this weight will start falling off so I have less to lug up in the air for chin ups or toes to the bar.  Baby steps, right?

Here are the workouts I did for the last four visits to a gym:

Thursday:
After a warm up which for the life of me I cannot remember:
AMRAP in 10 minutes (should have been 5)
4 overhead squats (I used a 10lb weight)
6 Ring Dips or box dips
8 Burpees

I got about 5 rounds in

Saturday:
WU:  4 sets of 10 reps each of Sampson lunges, OH squats, situps and dips
WO:  5 RFT (rounds for time) of 800 m run, 30 kettleball swings (started with 15lbs, moved down to 8), 30 pull ups - I moved to a reverse row after the first round. I made 3 rounds in an hour.

Monday:
WU: 4 sets of 8-10 reps of reverse lunges with bar - I had 35# but could probably have done more, and chinups - as many as possible but at least 5 per set, I used 2 bands for this one.
WO:  3RFT of 8 front squats (35#) and 400m run.  I finished in 10:56

Tuesday:
WU:  8 sets: 5,3,3,2,2,1,1,1 Shoulder presses - I did 55# from the floor for the 8 sets and then did a couple more at 65# and 70# from the rack.
WO:  4 RFT - 150 Mountain Climbers (MC) - I will be getting the hang of double unders so I only have 50 of DU's to do instead - 15 Wall Balls (WB) (I used 6# ball) and 10 toes to bar (T2B) - this I could get at least to waist level.  I finished in 18:44 I think.

Tomorrow is a rest day.  THANK GOD!

FxF

Annie