It's been about 4 weeks since I started paleo and about 3 weeks since I walked in the door of Crossfit Milk District and plopped down a month's membership to get started. My first class was 2 weeks ago on 11/21 and I've been pretty steady since then, doing about 4-5 workouts a week (along with my ones at home). I'm loving it. There are a lot of things I'm noticing:
1) I'm definitely leaner and stronger;
2) I'm learning better form and technique, leaning new things and improving and fixing old, unneeded habits (and the technical stuff that Coach Joe goes over and over and readdresses is just what I need!);
3) I'm less twingy, injured, and unmotivated, as well as sore in the "wrong" way;
4) CF philosophy is really amazing. The way CF people vary in backgrounds and age, not to mention the way they interact and embrace their workout, applies (sort of like yogis feel about their yoga practice) to just about everything in life. It's not competitive, but more about bringing your authentic self in (sometimes you have to figure out along the way who that is). It is positive and life-affirming. How it differs from my yoga friends is that I'm not trying to empty out, but really FILL UP.
I FILL UP on the stuff that makes me happy and feel good about myself without discussion, without silence, without solitude, without sensory deprivation. Some workouts are harder mentally to do this with, but others are birth, life, death, and rebirth--miraculous. I mean, truly, miraculous.
I'm just eating it up. Every workout I am nervously, timidly, excitedly participatory, assessing, enjoying, and celebrating. It's amazing!!!
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