beth_leonard

My 2nd Degree Black Belt Test is Fri-Saturday Dec. 11-12, 2020 over zoom. The part that family and friends are invited to watch is Saturday 1-3pm. Let me know if you would like a link, and I'll send it. Mostly though, I'm both proud of and embarrassed by my open form. I'm proud of it, because I've spent a long time working on it and there are some tricky parts to it, and I think it looks pretty good in comparison to some of the people I'm testing with, but embarrassed by it because I know which things I could do better: I didn't work as hard as I could have and prioritize my training, but I had to stop recording at some point and call it "done."




--Beth

I'd been exercising really regularly until last week, attending Cross Fit classes 2x/week since October with only a few misses. The only class that works for my schedule is at 6:30am however, and that means Jon has to get the kids ready for school in the mornings I go. When he started working full-time, I stopped going to classes. It looks like I last attended January 27th.

I hadn't realized how much the exercise affected me in a positive way.

I don't enjoy exercising (in this format) but I love feeling in shape and the other emotional benefits of exercise, and Crossfit packs a whole lot of exercise into a small wall-clock time. It's the most efficient exercise I can get for my hour. It has only been 13 days since my last class, but the past week I've really noticed a much higher stress level in myself -- minor annoyances are causing a much higher level of emotional reaction from me than they should. I feel like I'm exploding on the inside all the time, barely keeping myself in check, ready to break out.

I have difficulty prioritizing exercise for exercise sake, especially without a class I'm paying to attend, but I absolutely need to do it. Today's WOD (workout of the day) is something I can do at home, so I think I should just go do it. Right after I start the dishwasher and take the trash back around. And blog. And call my mother. And stuff like that...

--Beth

Edit to add: Did the workout. 19mins 10 seconds. 4 rounds of: 10 pushups, 20 weighted overhead lunges, 30 situps.

I've heard a little about cross fit training from folks on my friends list as well as from my brother, and this April I'm going to give it a try. There's an intro class at Planet Granite in Sunnyvale 7-8am Tuesdays and Thursdays for the month of April and I have signed up. If this is something you'd like to do too, I always love taking classes with friends.

(And if you already do cross fit and have any suggestions for getting started, please do share. I'm a bit intimidated, but I want to learn a form of exercise that gets me a great workout in a short amount of time.)

--Beth