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CrossFit As Told By A Couch Potato

I'd still rather be eating Nutella.

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CrossFit As Told By A Couch Potato

I am not one for physical exertion. My biggest workout is running up the stairs from my living room to my bedroom. I go from watching Netflix on my TV to watching Youtube on my laptop. And every hour I take a break and raid my fridge. It's a simple life that used to bring me many pleasures. That's until I went to college and got the notorious "Freshman 15". That combined with my best friend telling me about how much she loved CrossFit, made me get a membership. Let me tell you, my muscles are very mad at me right now. The one thing I've learned during the one week I've been doing CrossFit is that it is something that breaks then rebuilds your mental and physical strength. In one class I go from begging God to relieve me from my misery to feeling as if I am the biggest badass to roam this earth. These are the very many feelings I go through from warm-up to cool down.

1. Looks at the WOD.

2. Starts warm-up.

3. Tries to finish the warm-up.

4. Realizes you haven't even started the actual workout.

5. Starts first set.

6. Finishes triumphantly.

7. Realizes you have three more.

8. Trying to push through the rest of the workout.

9. When the trainer tells you, "Keep pushing, you got this."

10. When you're running the last 800 meters.

11. Finally finished.

12. But you still have a cool down.

13. Waiting until the trainer isn't looking so you can sneak out to avoid the cool down.

14. How you think you look after.

15. How you really look.

16. When you finally get home.

17. When you finally eat and undo all the hard work you put in.

18. When you brag to all your friends about how CrossFit has fundamentally transformed you as a person.

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