(It has been done however-see Susan Lacke’s vegetarian paleo experiment on No Meat Athlete to learn more.) I can’t survive on nuts and veggies only! DietĬrossFit gyms follow the Paleo diet, which if you’ve never heard of it includes mainly meat, nuts and veggies-any form of grains are frowned upon, and more extreme Paleo followers won’t even touch dairy, some fruit, and alcohol.Īs a vegetarian (I’ve been one since I was six years old), this leaves me with pretty much nothing to eat. I don’t mind being sore, but I didn’t want to be so sore that I couldn’t do any other workouts or activities the rest of the week. but in the end, it just wasn’t worth it to me. Obviously, I could have pushed a little less hard and given myself a break more often… but that’s not how I do things.Īnd yes, I could have taken some extreme recovery measures… ice baths, weekly massages, etc. So sore that sometimes I could barely move for days afterwards. So sore I didnt have the energy or desire to do all the other active things I wanted to do. You could certainly say it’s because I’m a girl that I didn’t like it, but I’ve talked to others who have had the same reaction: I just got too damn sore from it.

The main difference between my workouts and the Crossfit workouts is the Olympic style weightlifting they do in their workouts-including lots of heavy squats, shoulder presses, jerks, snatches, deadlifts and cleans. If you’re not familiar with the workouts, CrossFit combines movements such as sprinting, jumping, rowing, bodyweight exercises, and climbing rope to make some short, intense, ass-kicking workouts, not altogether that different than the ones we do here on 12 Minute Athlete. And the coach (as they’re called in CrossFit) was inspiring and just, well, awesome.īut when I moved to San Francisco, I decided to give it up. There were both men and women, and no one expected me to work less hard because I was a chick. When I was living in Brooklyn, I went to the most amazing CrossFit gym, CrossFit Virtuosity, and had the time of my life. In fact, I did CrossFit for nearly a year before I decided to give it up. I think it’s one of the coolest, most challenging workouts around today.

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