New Blog or This Blog?

Panama Garage Games 4.14.12

 It's no secret that health and fitness play a large role in my family's daily life. And I'd like to start blogging a little bit about our daily endeavours with our CF regimen.

For those of you who may not recognize the abbreviation, CF stands for CrossFit. CrossFit, Inc. describes its strength and conditioning program as “constantly varied, high intensity, functional movement," with the stated goal of improving fitness. 

CrossFit is not just a "type of exercise", but I have been coming to realize IF you want it to, it is a way of life. Now, there are many different levels of CF. My husband and I jumped up our regime to 5x/week last March and immediately I saw a difference between 3x/week. As a lifestyle choice, we decided to perform our workouts Monday through Friday and leave our weekends to "rest" or for  moderate exercise (go for a light jog, etc.). This schedule really fit our family and social schedule.   

As we have just hit our year 1 mark of beginning CF: research, my husband's certification, group workouts, etc. it makes me reflect on the past year physically and mentally.

We have just signed up for our 2nd CF competition and will be competing at the beginning of January. Even though I have been competing my whole life, I was usually good at it or had the confidence I would come out on top. However, I am already nervous about this competition. Yes, I have come a long way, but still have so far to go. CF exposes my mental weaknesses and my physical weakness of good form, holding weight above my head, and taking the Olympic weight lifting moves to the next level.

I just can't decided whether or not I want to do it here or on a separate blog. I am thinking I may do a separate blog if my husband wanted to join in on his thoughts.......