The main difference between my workouts and the Crossfit workouts is the Olympic style weightlifting they do in their workouts-including lots of heavy squats, shoulder presses, jerks, snatches, deadlifts and cleans. If you’re not familiar with the workouts, CrossFit combines movements such as sprinting, jumping, rowing, bodyweight exercises, and climbing rope to make some short, intense, ass-kicking workouts, not altogether that different than the ones we do here on 12 Minute Athlete. And the coach (as they’re called in CrossFit) was inspiring and just, well, awesome.īut when I moved to San Francisco, I decided to give it up. There were both men and women, and no one expected me to work less hard because I was a chick. When I was living in Brooklyn, I went to the most amazing CrossFit gym, CrossFit Virtuosity, and had the time of my life. In fact, I did CrossFit for nearly a year before I decided to give it up. I think it’s one of the coolest, most challenging workouts around today.
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