Crossfit for Beginners – My journey so far

So I have been trying to lose weight for 3 years now, well it will be three years when my son turns three on the 24^th of June. I was 12 stone when I fell pregnant with him and 15.7 stone by the time I gave birth. I had an emergency C-Section and was petrified to train after having him which lasted a good 9 months. When I did finally start training again I was so weak it was just so depressing as I used to be really fit, running 6 days a week at my peak.

I tried lots of different things, I tried running, I tried joining a gym, I tried Freeletics (which was actually very good just wasn’t right for me at the time, I might do an article about that another time). Nothing really kept me interested so I wasn’t really losing any weight I got down to about 15 stone by this time last year but it was hardly anything to be excited about.

Then I watched a documentary about the cross fit games and I was blown away, these athletes were amazing. Of course, they were all younger than me but they were so fit and they looked nothing like the usual fitness models you see that are meant to inspire woman to get in shape.

They were muscular and sooooo strong, and suddenly my teenage dreams of wanting to be a super fit female WWE star came flooding back to me. I thought to myself that is what I want to look like, I have never wanted to be skinny, and I never will be with size HH cups. I would love to look like these woman, or even half way between where I am now and them.

So, in January I decided to give it a go, only in my garage as I am no way confident enough to go to classes and I live in the middle of nowhere so there aren’t any anyway. By March I had lost another half a stone and was down to 14 stone 7, but not only that my fitness was going through he roof, I was already running about twice a week maybe slow improvements but with the aid of the cross fit I could run much longer without stopping and at a faster pace, I was beating my post baby personal bests every week and I went from not being able to run for more than 4/5 minutes and a time to running 2 miles in 23 minutes nonstop.

When March hit I got ill, I still don’t know what it was but I couldn’t lift my head from the pillow I was weak and tired all the time and had to have a week of work in the end which I never do. I barley trained for all of March and didn’t really start back until April but I was suddenly scared to do cross fit anymore. I did one session on the 11^th of April but other than that I stuck to running. Then I broke my toe at the start of May :/ . I have done 5 cross fit sessions since the 18^th of May and I am starting to love it again. I am now at 14 stone 1lb (and that one lb never wants to budge). I am hoping that by continuing the CrossFit I will be able to get rid of the extra 2/3 stone that I don’t want to be carrying, and hopefully by sharing my experience here it will motivate me to keep going.

I will post the details of what I have been doing in my next post.