Paleo Day 13, Crossfit 2nd Workout, March 29, 2012

Second workout. I learned how to do a back squat, a shoulder press and something else, a shoulder press with a jump, a jump press?, not sure of the name.
I did my WOD in 11.24 minutes. I am spent. I gave everything I had. It would have been faster but I had to stop a few times to breathe. On the rowing machine my stomach crunches up and squishes my lungs making it hard to catch my breath. All in all a good workout. My workout of the day (WOD) was 3RFT (repeat workout 3x for best time). The workout was 10 air squats, 7 shoulder presses at 20lbs and 250 M of rowing. 

I was so sore, I didn't move the rest of the day. In fact I took a nap (Spring Break, woo hoo!) after today's workout and after Tuesday's workout. So sore both days, but especially today. Oh my goodness, I could not move. But it felt good, you know what I mean? 

I have got to learn to keep my mouth shut for the first 30 minutes or so after working out. I think I enter some type of exercise induced euphoria. I finish working out, I am sucking air trying to breath, as soon as I am able to catch my breath, I go over to the bench where my water bottle is, slake my thirst and sit there for a minute breathing hard, then I think, "man, I feel really good, I want to feel like this all the time", so I ask Dave, "when can I come in 5 times a week, you know, Monday - Friday?". Now Dave had the decency not to laugh in my face, instead he calmly explained that because Crossfit is such an intense workout, no one works out 5 days in a row. Disappointed I told him that I like coming in, I feel like a lump the rest of the time. He suggested I go for a walk on my off days or perhaps even setting a small goal for myself, like doing the dishes standing up instead of sitting down. I thank him, tell him that is a great idea and head home. Well by the time I get home I can barely get out of the car. Dishes? nope, can't move my arms. I go lay down. While laying down I wonder what in the heck I was thinking to blurt out I want to do this 5 times a week. I will be lucky to move tomorrow.

Something similar happened after the first workout, only I didn't blurt it out right then, I waited till we began our second workout. I told Dave, "you know, on that first workout I was spent at the end of each exercise, but at the end of the workout I still felt really good, like I had more to give". Dave just smiled. Then he told me that the first workout was easy, just easing me into it. Today it would be harder. Going through the workout 3 times, I thought it was going to kill me. I even made sure Dave was CPR certified.