160330 - CrossFit | Wednesdays with Hannah P.

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The CrossFit Effect

Have you noticed that when you CrossFit or exercise regularly, the rest of your life improves? No seriously! I’m sure it’s not just me. When I am active, my body just wants clean fuel of healthy foods. When I am active, I want to get enough rest and I sleep better at night. It’s a continuous cycle of healthy. When I sleep better at night, I feel refreshed in the morning to wake up and hit the box again! When I eat healthy foods, I feel vibrant and full of energy without those blood sugar crashes that come from too many refined carbs.

When I start my day with CrossFit, by the time I start working I have already achieved something for the day by doing something healthy for myself. I have started the day on a high note with movement. (Not to discredit afternoon and evening work outs, as everyone functions on a different optimal schedule.) 

I feel more alert as the day goes on, and motivated to tackle all of the tasks on my to do list. I feel more focused and present with my work or whatever I am up to that day. Honestly, CrossFit is the hardest part of my day. If I can do that, I can certainly do the rest of the things I have to do that day.

CrossFit also gives my brain a rest. When you are working that hard, there’s no space or energy to worry about anything else other than getting through the WOD to the best of your ability. All you can focus on is this moment. We CrossFitters know that if we can take on each moment on its own, each rep of each exercise as a unique challenge, and succeed on workouts that we otherwise would never have thought possible, then we can certainly succeed in the mundane.

How about you? Besides getting stronger, faster, and just generally more able to take on anything physical in life, have you seen non-fitness benefits from CrossFit?

-Hannah P.

EMOM 15:
3 ground to overheads 115/75
6 lateral burpees
If you miss the minute, rest until the next round