CrossFit – First CrossFit Workout?
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The CrossFit Journal — (
The workout was simple: three rounds for time of a 400-meter run, 21 kettlebell swings at 1.5 pood and 12 pull-ups. In other words, Helen.
« Thought I’d be pretty good at it, » Karl Steadman of CrossFit 3Dsays when describing his first CrossFit workout.
But after the initial round, he was « in a world of hurt. »
« If I look back on it, I cringe now, » Steadman adds.
Meanwhile, Jami Tikkanen of CrossFit Thames in England tested out CrossFit with a workout calling for four rounds for time of a 400-meter run and 50 squats. He was doing martial arts at the time, training 10 hours a week and doing 100 squats as part of his warm-up. When he saw the workout, he remembers thinking, « This is going to be a good day. »
But after the second round, Tikkanen started to slow down and take breaks.
« Turns out that that fitness (I had been doing) did not translate to real life, » he explains.
Still, despite years of CrossFit, Steadman says workouts remain grueling.
« It never gets easy, » he says. « You just get faster. »
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Video by Ross Coughlan.