![]() On JI showed up in Waxahachie, parked my car and sat there. That every exercise could be modified to any level of fitness, so I bit the bullet and signed up. ![]() In a response that brought tears to my eyes she assured me that everyone could do it. I didn’t want to be the laughing stock or hold up everyone else. I finally worked up the courage to email Brittney and ask her if she thought there was any way I would be able to do the CFW bootcamp or was I too overweight and out of shape. I knew it wouldn’t last until January, diets never do for me. A lot of what I found were suggestions of starting a diet and walking to build up stamina and lose weight before staring, so that’s what I did, and I hoped that by January 2013 I would have lost enough weight to be allowed to join CrossFit. Let’s be honest, CrossFit has a tag line of “Forging Elite Fitness” and there is nothing elite about someone over 100 pounds overweight. I remember finding a video of a girl that had lost 100 pounds CrossFitting and I was amazed, but I thought she was an anomaly and I was really impressed that her coach let her join. So I googled things like “obese and crossfit”, “lose 100 pounds and crossfit” and “crossfit and weight loss”. ![]() I was still curious though because it seemed like the type of program I would like. It seemed like so much more fun than just running or lifting weights, there seemed to be an atmosphere to it, everyone seemed to be friends! After looking at the workouts I knewthere was no way I could do them, pull ups, pushups, running, hand stands, and don’t even get me started on all the abbreviations! It was like reading another language. Paleo I understood, but CrossFit?!?! It was so far out of my league, however, I was intrigued. Britt made it look like so much fun!! So, I started researching what CrossFit and what Paleo were. I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep up and I didn’t want to be singled out or feel like a failure. I never did any form of group exercise because I was too embarrassed and ashamed. Diets are easy to start, they just aren’t easy to stick with, especially when life throws you a curve ball, which happens all the time. I’ve been overweight most of my life and dieted off and on forever. She began mentioning this bootcamp she was coaching and I was intrigued. A facebook friend of mine and CrossFit coach, Brittney Harper, was constantly posting about CrossFit. I can’t pin point a moment I decided I wanted to change, nothing specific happened, I just didn’t want to live that way anymore. That was the day I started Paleo, one month before I started a bootcamp CrossFit Waxahachie did that summer.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |