C is for crazy... No silly for Crossfit

We all find something we love to do, a hobby, a passion. That something carries a different name for each person. Some even call it an obsession. Whatever you want to call you dream, passion, hobby, then call it that! Live it, breathe it, sleep it, eat it! Right? Well, for some... That want to be the best! For those who don't settle for less. I remember after having Stephen I kept a lot of the weight I gained. My size was a 14 and on Me that wasn't the prettiest! I went for a year never trying to get the weight off. I settled. I tried to justify it by saying oh I have had a baby. Yea, what a lame excuse! I lost down to a 10 during the divorce, which wasn't healthy either! March of 2011, the opportunity was given for me to be able to go to the gym. We started and I saw changes. But it wasnt until August 2011 when I started Crossfit. Now, for those of you that are familiar with Crossift, I did not go to a box ( a Crossfit gym)at first. I was going on my lunch break to a local gym and working with what they had to Crossift the best way possible. I fell in love with Crossfit. I would you tube how to do things and we loaded up one weekend and drove to watch a competition. I wanted more of it but how? Well... June 2012 my wonderful lunchtime trainer and friend Stephanie opened Circle City Crossfit with a few others. Since then things for me have changed. I am up at 4 AM four to five days a week headed to the box for a WOD. Eating habits are changing ( those seem to be the toughest). I stay sore just about all the time. When I finally feel like my body has managed to feel normal again I am sore again. Which sore is a good feeling! No pain no gain! Oh, and yes I can finally start to see some abs! Yay!!! Oh, thats crazy! Well that's not the craziest! The craziest thing is our warm up is your normal routine workout! The craziest is ripping your hands on the pull up bar but jumping back up to try again. The craziest is lifting weight that you " normally" wouldn't even dare attempt to lift. I had all the reason in the world to walk away my first week at Circle City. I couldn't jump rope and still can't. That is my absolute weakest point of my physical capabilities. Well, besides the fact i cant swim. That's ok.. Laugh all you want... One day I will better than just jump roping... I will be doing double unders maybe even triple unders! And, be able to swim. Ha.. But you know what stands out more than who finished first or who maxed out at the heaviest weight... The encouragement, the cheers, the don't give ups. This isn't just in our Crossift Box this is Crossfit! Watch the Crossfit games on you tube... Those fittest on Earth athletes finished and instead of walking away found someone and pushed them, cheered them, encouraged them to finish the WOD! Never quit, never give up! I never finish first in our WODs. Does that make me mad? Nope! Because I know that I am putting my best foot forward. Like, a week or so ago... I had to finish a WOD by running 200 or 400 meters. I can't remember but what I do remember is sweet Nancy who had finished her WOD ran with me, pushed me, encouraged me all the way through the run and back to the finish line. She isn't the only one in the box that is such a great cheerleader but everyone cheers on everyone. I see changes in not only myself but everyone I work out with. As Steph would say " that's just the beauty of it!" So yea, call me crazy at the fact I Crossfit...