I am constantly reminding others that you need to push your body and try new things in order to achieve the fitness levels and weight loss that you want. All to often people get stuck in their routines, never change what they are doing, and never push themselves that little bit more, and wonder why they are no longer getting results. Even as a trainer, I am always looking to make my workouts harder so that I never get to the point where it is easy. However, even I at times have fallen into the trap of only doing what I am comfortable with.
Late last year a friend of mine opened a Crossfit gym in Deakin. Crossfit is relatively new to Canberra and something that I knew little about. I attended the Crossfit 2600 open day and suddenly found that this is the type of exercise that I love and I knew would take my fitness and strength to a whole new level. So began my Crossfit journey.
Crossfit works all aspects of fitness including, cardiovascular and respiratory endurance, strength, flexibilty, power, speed, and agility, to name a few. The workouts are short but intense, and everyone is pushed to perform across all the aspects not just their individual strengths. If you want to read some more about crossfit then the following website is the best one to go to www.crossfit.com.
I am amazed at the changes to my fitness and strength in the 4 months I have been doing crossfit. I am now training hard to take part in the Crossfit sectionals that will be held from the middle of March for a period of 6 weeks. This is all part of the lead-up to the Crossfit Games. This year is all about the experience for me.
I am looking at undertaking a Crossfit course at some stage this year so that I can utilise the principles in the training of my clients. All of the crossfit exercises can be scaled to individuals based on skill level, strength, fitness, age, etc. So something for everyone to look forward to!!!!!
