CrossFit HSV
A really long time ago, I decided to join CrossFit. I had a million reasons why joining never worked out... until now. So, I joined CrossFit Huntsville's September 101 Course, and I've been asked to journal about it.
I'll start with Class One:
I'm typically a really outgoing person. I tell people I make friends in elevators because I have no problem meeting new people or talking to people I don't know. Day One of this experience and I accidentally got there early and sat in my car with my hands shaking because I was so intimidated; SO not me. I'd been through a CrossFit Class with some good friends, but that had been in Mobile, and from what I'd heard about CFH, they were seriously hardcore. I wasn't wrong about them being hardcore, but I underestimated myself. Turns out I can actually do the squats we learned on the first day. :) It's good to know I can get a "Great job, Katherine!" on a squat with a PVC pipe. I'll give it to that pipe though, my legs were a tad sore after I was finished with it.
My first upper body workout with my former trainer, Nate, ended with my being unable to straighten my arms for several days after. I wasn't all that surprised when the tendons were so inflamed after this first WOD (Workout of the Day) I was back to not being able to straighten my arms. 7 minute AMRAP (As Many Rounds As Possible) 7 Air Squats, 7 Ring Rows, 7 Sit Ups. Let's just say I'd rather do sit ups all day.
Class Two:
Unfortunately, I missed the real "second class" because I was out of town, but it consisted of all the presses. Holding that bar under my chin like that is going to take some getting used to, but I get it. I'm really lucky to have a brother that has been lifting for as long as I can remember. I clearly picked up some things along the way.
Class Three:
I also had to make up class three since I was out of town. This class was mostly dead lifts. Again with the PVC Pipe... at first. The three girls in the make up class attempted to use the 15lb bars. That didn't last. Tracey made the guys and the girls use the 35lb bars. Yay. Let me preface this next part by saying I'm pretty strong, but this class was really hard for me because I was so sick. Just the bar and I was sweating. Anyway, Tracey had us add 10lbs to each side of the bar and then after a few reps of that we added 35lbs to each side of the bar. Again, it was a little hard to walk for the next couple days.
Class Four:
Was all about nutrition. My first thought before Jake even started speaking was "I wonder if they push Paleo here." After telling everyone that food categories break down into Protein, Fat and Carbs (and expressing his love for oreos), he told us how cutting any of the three groups from your diet is a bad idea. A diet which I'd like to note to everyone is everything you put in your mouth.. not just something you eat for a few days or weeks.. it's what you eat every day for your entire life. Anyway, half way through the conversation we learned CrossFit Huntsville is starting a 30 day Paleo Challenge on October 1st. We all have to have our body fat analysis done prior. I've thought about starting this challenge before, and when my work kept feeding me for free, my motivation went out the window. I have a hard time saying no to pizza. I'm going to do it this time. Really. :)
Class Five:
In this class someone asked how long it'd take for us to not suck. The response was, "I still suck. You get better at things and then you start trying to achieve a whole new level of suck." I already knew it, but it's so true. We revisited the grammar school toy, the jump rope, and learned the double under... I can't do double unders, but I can consistently jump rope for several minutes. I've never used a fast wire rope, but I liked it and will probably be investing in one. Kettle bell swings I can do, no biggie there. They recommend women start with the 12s, but we started light to learn, so I hung out with an 8 for the night even though it was too light. We also spent our first moments on the pull up bar in this class. I was excited just to get on the thing by jumping, but I soon realized I could do the kipping part of the kip swing.. I just couldn't get the hop over the bar. My grip isn't strong enough yet and I need to work on my timing. I'll get it eventually. The WOD was 10 minutes AMRAP 14 Double Unders (or 28 Single Unders), 7 American Kettle Bell Swings, 7 Pull Ups (or 7 Ring Rows). I'm going to go ahead and say I'll be sore tomorrow.
Class Six:
I have to make up when I get back from the Alabama v. Arkansas game.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Think...Text.
So, I've recently noticed that my handy dandy Blackberry's scroll is extremely sensitive, and I tend to text message the wrong person frequently. I would just like to say I'm sorry. =)
Oh, and I've also realized that communication through text messages is almost ridiculous though terribly convenient. As they say, girls aren't supposed to call boys, and sometimes you just don't want or aren't able to talk on the phone, so text messaging is more acceptable and convenient. That being said, sarcasm, flirting, and a plethora of other emotions and attitudes are exceptionally hard to accurately convey through the 160 characters allowed in a single text message. Therefore, reading what you text out loud might be a good idea if the person you're texting doesn't know you, how you talk or how you text very well.
Just Saying.
Oh, and I've also realized that communication through text messages is almost ridiculous though terribly convenient. As they say, girls aren't supposed to call boys, and sometimes you just don't want or aren't able to talk on the phone, so text messaging is more acceptable and convenient. That being said, sarcasm, flirting, and a plethora of other emotions and attitudes are exceptionally hard to accurately convey through the 160 characters allowed in a single text message. Therefore, reading what you text out loud might be a good idea if the person you're texting doesn't know you, how you talk or how you text very well.
Just Saying.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
The Double Negative
So, my friend Emily and I have this theory on relationship choices. We call it the Double Negative, as in don't date/marry one. The original thought was if you're going to marry someone unattractive to the majority of the population, then make sure they are one of the greatest people on the planet. IE: Caring, smart, friendly, good all around. Because if they possess all of the other characteristics, then it may be acceptable for their number on the attractive scale to be lower.
So, really the question is why do the most attractive in every way people date/marry Double Negatives?
So, really the question is why do the most attractive in every way people date/marry Double Negatives?
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Orginal Post from Facebook that started it all...
So, I don't write a weekly blog, though now that I think about it, I surely have enough material in my insane life that I could, but I do frequently observe things that I often wonder if others see the humor, idiocy or general hypocrisy of the events, comments, actions, etc. Therefore, I'd like to share a few things I've noticed, and I'll be sure to update. Even if no one ever reads this, I can't wait to giggle every time I read some of these! I am in no way trying to be rude, mean or degrading by any of the following comments, and I'm not trying to piss anyone off. Sometimes people just need to be reminded or made aware.
Topic One: Grammar Faus Pas
Seriously, please don't show your ignorance by misusing words you should have learned in elementary school. I can appreciate how confusing the not-so-general use of commas and other forms of punctuation can be, so I won't really hold that against you. We all make mistakes and have the occasional typo. On that note, there are some things that are not acceptable.
We all know there are many more, but hopefully if you read any of that it has brought the issue to the forefront of your mind and, you are a little more aware.
Topic Two: Facebook
Statuses:
*Note* I'm seriously laughing at the people that just "corrected" this in the day since I posted this note. ;)
Topic Three: Dumb Girls and That Guy I will clarify this later.
Women in general are nurturing creatures, and in general like to believe they can "help" or "fix" people in their lives and relationships. Every woman has "tried to fix it," and every guy at least considers being "that guy" until he meets the right girl. By "that guy," I mean the guy that thinks he can have any girl he wants and frequently cheats or tries to cheat on the woman in his life that (as previously stated) cares so much about him she really thinks she can "fix the relationship." Always has and always will. The moral of the story: don't. If you don't know what I'm talking about, there's a good chance you've done it and don't even realize. Trust me. Your friends know.
Topic Four: Football
I love football. No really, I'm actually one of those girls that understands it and will watch games that have nothing to do with my teams. I would just like to point out that football is just a game. Don't cry about it. Don't be completely obnoxious about it. If your favorite team's players can get penalties for being "a bad sport," why do you think it's ok to be a jerk toward another team/fan?
Topic Five: Thank you.
If someone gives you a gift, thank them. Handwritten notes are still appreciated and proper etiquette, but if you have no intention of writing one, the very least you could do is TELL the person how much you appreciate them thinking of you. Most people work hard for their money, and if they made the gift they likely thought hard about it and spent time on it.
Topic Six: The Double Negative
** Discussion Paused**
Topic One: Grammar Faus Pas
Seriously, please don't show your ignorance by misusing words you should have learned in elementary school. I can appreciate how confusing the not-so-general use of commas and other forms of punctuation can be, so I won't really hold that against you. We all make mistakes and have the occasional typo. On that note, there are some things that are not acceptable.
- TOO: (Adverb) meaning in addition, also. TO: most commonly used as a preposition, rarely used as an adverb (so it's better not to try) and if you say things like "to and fro," which I doubt you do, then that's an idiom. TWO: 2. Enough said.
- AT is a preposition. Please don't end sentences in prepositions. "Where are you?" doesn't require an "at" at the end.
- THEY'RE: Contraction of they are. The end. THEIR: is a possessive pronoun as in "their school." Oh, and this is one case where the "I" is not before the "E." THERE: mostly an adverb, but if you want specifics visit http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/there . Basically it's everything that's not possessive or "they are."
- People say "Congrats" because the word is spelled: C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S.
We all know there are many more, but hopefully if you read any of that it has brought the issue to the forefront of your mind and, you are a little more aware.
Topic Two: Facebook
Statuses:
- In all seriousness, no one cares what you made your husband/self for breakfast, lunch or dinner EVERY day, but if you have a great recipe or dinner was really awesome, and you feel the need to share THAT, then by all means, be our guest.
- I get that we all have bad days, but if your status is always negative, you might want to evaluate your life and really decide if what you're doing is worth all of the negativity and stress in your life.
- Many experts suggest you leave this item completely off your profile, but let's be real here... if you're single and interested in dating, then leaving this off is possibly misleading and confusing. Just saying.
- HOWEVER... if you put "In a Relationship" on Facebook and the person you're supposed to be "in a relationship" with has an account and doesn't link his/her relationship status to yours and remains "Single" or without a status at all, this should also tell you something. Wake up.
*Note* I'm seriously laughing at the people that just "corrected" this in the day since I posted this note. ;)
Topic Three: Dumb Girls and That Guy I will clarify this later.
Women in general are nurturing creatures, and in general like to believe they can "help" or "fix" people in their lives and relationships. Every woman has "tried to fix it," and every guy at least considers being "that guy" until he meets the right girl. By "that guy," I mean the guy that thinks he can have any girl he wants and frequently cheats or tries to cheat on the woman in his life that (as previously stated) cares so much about him she really thinks she can "fix the relationship." Always has and always will. The moral of the story: don't. If you don't know what I'm talking about, there's a good chance you've done it and don't even realize. Trust me. Your friends know.
Topic Four: Football
I love football. No really, I'm actually one of those girls that understands it and will watch games that have nothing to do with my teams. I would just like to point out that football is just a game. Don't cry about it. Don't be completely obnoxious about it. If your favorite team's players can get penalties for being "a bad sport," why do you think it's ok to be a jerk toward another team/fan?
Topic Five: Thank you.
If someone gives you a gift, thank them. Handwritten notes are still appreciated and proper etiquette, but if you have no intention of writing one, the very least you could do is TELL the person how much you appreciate them thinking of you. Most people work hard for their money, and if they made the gift they likely thought hard about it and spent time on it.
Topic Six: The Double Negative
** Discussion Paused**
My journey to here...
A few weeks ago I entertained the idea of writing a blog and wrote a "note" on Facebook. If it weren't for a few close friends, I wouldn't be starting one now. I love to write. Always have, and I've been told I have a way with words, and one day I'll write a book. The hold up on the book has always been I have never been able to decide what I wanted to write about first because I want whatever I write to change someone's life... even if it's just one person's. So, I'm just going to start here until I get to a point in my life where I know how to inspire that person with enough words to fill a book.
In high school I wrote a newspaper column with one of my best friends basically calling people out on things we found to be unacceptable. Maybe it was a little bitchy, but it was always true, and that's how we rolled. As I wrote my first "blog" entry on Facebook, I thought about that column and smiled. We wrote about whatever came to mind and shared our opinions on topics ranging from girls that wore clothes that were way too tight to school rules. If I knew where I put those articles, I'd repost them here because I promise they were witty, pithy and totally worth the read even though they were written by 17 year olds. We were very wise for our age if I may say so myself.
I started this blog with the hope of sharing what I have to offer, and hopefully some of it will turn out to be entertaining, too. I have no idea what I'll end up writing about here because I tend to loosely associate as I'm sure if you read past this you're bound to see. I plan to dedicate this blog to things I love, people that have changed my life whether they knew it or not, great books, the adventure of life and the things that inspire me. I hope you'll read on, and I'm more than open to suggestions, comments and requests. It's also likely that a lot of this will be written during late hours when I can't sleep, so if you see grammatical mistakes, I welcome the corrections because I am a grammar Nazi, and I would be heartbroken if I were to make the same mistakes I abhor without realizing because I was too exhausted to catch my mistakes.
I imagine some of the people that read this will know me very well and possibly will have known me for a great deal of my life. Some however may not know me as well or for as long. On that note, here's a little about who I am today and why. My mother told me once "Never accept the unacceptable," and it's been my motto ever since, but that hasn't always been true. A lot of the things I say and how I react to situations tend to be because I've made the mistakes, witnessed them or can logically reason why I think they are mistakes. In high school, I was voted "Most Dependable," and in college I essentially earned the same title. I like being that person. If I say I'm going to do something, I will, and I'm a firm believer in the economic theory of the preference scale. My life has taken me in a lot of different directions. Some of these changing points stand out starkly in my memory while others were such a gradual change I have to struggle through the string of decisions that brought me there to see how point A got me to point Z. I decided as a Sophomore in high school where I was going to college, and I had no reason behind my decision. I just knew it was right. I suicide rushed into Kappa Delta because I knew it was right. That's how a great deal of my decisions have been made. At this point, I have no idea where my life is going, but I'll figure it out and know it's right. I've made a lot of good decisions, and I've hung on to a lot of bad ones for entirely too long.
From this point on in my life though, it's all about my future, but I guess that started when I went out with my friends for my 24th birthday last year, so thanks to the guys that looked out for me, danced with me and made it one of the best nights ever. You have no idea what you did for me.
So, this is who I am today: I'm a college graduate, the Sponsorship Chair of the Huntsville Chapter of the Executive Women's Golf Association, the proud owner of a Hungarian Vizsla that is way too smart for her own good, a Conservative Republican, a wannabe runner, a thankful daughter and a grateful friend. I love Chinese food, the color turquoise, a good book, captivating television shows and movies worth watching 'til the end. I could live on chocolate, would kill for my friends and passionately love every holiday from my birthday to Mardi Gras.
In high school I wrote a newspaper column with one of my best friends basically calling people out on things we found to be unacceptable. Maybe it was a little bitchy, but it was always true, and that's how we rolled. As I wrote my first "blog" entry on Facebook, I thought about that column and smiled. We wrote about whatever came to mind and shared our opinions on topics ranging from girls that wore clothes that were way too tight to school rules. If I knew where I put those articles, I'd repost them here because I promise they were witty, pithy and totally worth the read even though they were written by 17 year olds. We were very wise for our age if I may say so myself.
I started this blog with the hope of sharing what I have to offer, and hopefully some of it will turn out to be entertaining, too. I have no idea what I'll end up writing about here because I tend to loosely associate as I'm sure if you read past this you're bound to see. I plan to dedicate this blog to things I love, people that have changed my life whether they knew it or not, great books, the adventure of life and the things that inspire me. I hope you'll read on, and I'm more than open to suggestions, comments and requests. It's also likely that a lot of this will be written during late hours when I can't sleep, so if you see grammatical mistakes, I welcome the corrections because I am a grammar Nazi, and I would be heartbroken if I were to make the same mistakes I abhor without realizing because I was too exhausted to catch my mistakes.
I imagine some of the people that read this will know me very well and possibly will have known me for a great deal of my life. Some however may not know me as well or for as long. On that note, here's a little about who I am today and why. My mother told me once "Never accept the unacceptable," and it's been my motto ever since, but that hasn't always been true. A lot of the things I say and how I react to situations tend to be because I've made the mistakes, witnessed them or can logically reason why I think they are mistakes. In high school, I was voted "Most Dependable," and in college I essentially earned the same title. I like being that person. If I say I'm going to do something, I will, and I'm a firm believer in the economic theory of the preference scale. My life has taken me in a lot of different directions. Some of these changing points stand out starkly in my memory while others were such a gradual change I have to struggle through the string of decisions that brought me there to see how point A got me to point Z. I decided as a Sophomore in high school where I was going to college, and I had no reason behind my decision. I just knew it was right. I suicide rushed into Kappa Delta because I knew it was right. That's how a great deal of my decisions have been made. At this point, I have no idea where my life is going, but I'll figure it out and know it's right. I've made a lot of good decisions, and I've hung on to a lot of bad ones for entirely too long.
From this point on in my life though, it's all about my future, but I guess that started when I went out with my friends for my 24th birthday last year, so thanks to the guys that looked out for me, danced with me and made it one of the best nights ever. You have no idea what you did for me.
So, this is who I am today: I'm a college graduate, the Sponsorship Chair of the Huntsville Chapter of the Executive Women's Golf Association, the proud owner of a Hungarian Vizsla that is way too smart for her own good, a Conservative Republican, a wannabe runner, a thankful daughter and a grateful friend. I love Chinese food, the color turquoise, a good book, captivating television shows and movies worth watching 'til the end. I could live on chocolate, would kill for my friends and passionately love every holiday from my birthday to Mardi Gras.
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