Six Weeks of CrossFit at Fifty

It’s been around six weeks since I started CrossFit, and it’s been… great. I look forward to my M/W/F midday workouts like I’ve never looked forward to movement in my life. It’s not a heat-seeking missile feeling – like the anxious anticipation leading up to the first glass of wine at the end of the…… Continue reading Six Weeks of CrossFit at Fifty

Prepping for my first Memorial Day WOD

As of today, Memorial Day 2024, I’ve completed four CrossFit 1:1 onboarding sessions, participated in three group CrossFit classes (with modified moves) at my local “box” (AKA, CrossFit gym), and sort-of completed three WODs (workouts of the day) while traveling for work and my uncle’s funeral on Martha’s Vineyard. I also did a hot yoga…… Continue reading Prepping for my first Memorial Day WOD

Sore After CrossFit Session #3, One More to Go!

I went to my third CrossFit personal training session yesterday. There are only four onboarding personal training sessions, then I’ll be kicked out of the nest. I think I’m expected to join the classes which are filled with flocks of insanely fit, competitive and passionate CrossFit cult members. Unless I decide to continue to pay…… Continue reading Sore After CrossFit Session #3, One More to Go!

I’m Fifty and I Just Started CrossFit

On Monday April 29th 2024 I went to my very first personal training session to introduce me to CrossFit, and I decided to chronicle my experience here because I googled “starting cross-fit at 50” and “anti-diet CrossFit” all I could find were before-and-after videos all centered on shrinking body size, or CrossFit marketing materials about…… Continue reading I’m Fifty and I Just Started CrossFit