Cross Fit

So, my roommate Ali'i had informed me of this gym called Cross Fit. He was telling me how a lot of his co-workers from Tao Beach have been training at this gym. I went to the website just to check out the gym and see what it was about. Honestly, the gym membership sounds too expensive to afford. The monthly membership is $150 or you can pay $20 per class. Now, I was really skeptical about this gym. I really wanted to know if the money was worth the "great workout" my roommate was raving about.

Today, I went to check out the class since today was my one day off from both jobs. I got up at 7am to check out the 8am class. Now you got to know that there are 3 levels of classes at this gym. There's the beginning class (Foundation) that you start off with. After you do 6 Foundation classes you move onto the intermediate class (Cross Fit), then the advance class (Agoge) is a class that you have to be invited to.

The Foundation class start off with holding a pole and locking your arms and lifting it over your head continuing to move the pole behind your back and hit your butt while still holding on to the pole....like so...

Now, you may think it's easy, but let me tell you....it works your shoulder and back muscles like crazy. After that we did squats and "good mornings" with the pole to help us with our form. Then we did a set of pull-ins with gymnastic rings as well as push ups. We did 2 sets of these exercises and went on to our hell workout.

Our instructors gave us (there was only other guy and I) a 10 pound medicine ball. They showed us that they wanted us to throw the ball up and catch it as it's coming down and perform a squat with the 10 pound medicine ball. Now, this part I thought the instructor was joking...when they told us they wanted us to do 150 wallball shots and performing a squat each time we caught it....and they wanted it done in 7 minutes. I really thought I was going to die. My legs & arms were killing me that I rested quite a few times. Surprisingly, I finished the 150 in 7 minutes and 15 seconds. Then the instructors had us do an ab workout for 4 minutes, but it was a hard 4 minute ab workout.

Right now, my legs, arms, shoulders, and back are killing me. It's crazy sore and I know it's only gonna be worse tomorrow. This has to be one of the best workouts I've ever done and I'm committing to working out at this gym. Yes, I may not be able to do often due to my 2 jobs, but I will keep up with it at least once a week. I hope I can get myself in tip top shape with this gym.