jamie ann

Two days ago, I took an intro class at CrossFit Chicago. Now if you know anything about CrossFit, you know it’s a bit intense. Needless to say, I was pretty freaking scared to walk into the place. Then I walked in and saw a work out in process and almost walked back out.

Then someone basically took me by the hand and said, you are totally in the wrong room and she lead me to a quieter room with only two others and a way less intense vibe. My fellow CrossFit intro-ers and I learned a bit about the gym and what CrossFit is and all that good stuff.

Our coach for the evening, Sara, then ran us through a baseline workout. This consisted of 500 meters on a rowing machine, 40 squats, 30 sit ups, 20 push ups and 10 pull ups. And we had to do it as fast as we could.

I was the only girl (and a very out of shape girl at that) with a group of four pretty in shape guys and I definitely finished last by a couple minutes. Those guys though? They cheered me on and were right there with me until I finished.

My baseline work out time was 8 minutes and 15 seconds. I felt like I was going to die after that – a not even ten minute work out.

The past two days I have been sore as hell. It hurts to sit down, it hurts to go up and down stairs, it hurts to raise my arms. Everything hurts.

But I’m going back, because even though it hurts – I feel fucking awesome.

So during July, you’ll probably find me in the box at CrossFit Chicago working hard at getting fit and strong and sweating my ass off. This post right here will hold me accountable – I’ll check in at the end of the month with my progress.