CrossFit and a retraction

After thinking about my last post, it occurred to me that the story cannot possibly be true.  I hate it when people post things like that.  Why can it not be true?  Well, first of all, the guy supposedly started, taught-- and failed-- a class, all since Obama was elected, and since Obama's tactics became widely seen as socialistic.  Not likely.  Also it gives no location for the class, no year, no identifying info.  I'm sorry I posted it.  

But... I still think the concept is a correct one.  So.

And now, since I'm sure you've all been wondering.... CrossFit!  How is it going?  What are we doing?  I know, I know.  You've been dying to hear all about it.  =)

We wake up at 8 each morning.  (Yes, it's shockingly early.  But we have pioneer ancestors.  Early hours are in our blood.)  After morning songs and prayers we do the WOD.  (Work Out of the Day)  I don't remember what we did on Monday (probably something from CrossFit Kids), but on Tuesday we did a five-minute warm up (push ups, sits ups and such) followed by 7 individual push presses.  I can hear you asking "Push press?  What is that?"  (No-- not you, Mike R.  I know you know.  You're probably asking, Just 7?  I mean the rest of them.)   It's a weight lifting thing.  With one of those bars with heavy round things on the end.  That's the technical description.  You can watch a video of it here.  After that we did overhead squats to the end of the driveway and back.

Wednesday we did 1 minute of the basic dot drill and one minute of double unders for warm up.  Gasp!  Pant!  (No, that's not me in the double unders video.  I know you were wondering) followed by-- in 15 minutes -- a 400 meter dash and AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) of 10 pull-ups and 20 squats.  We installed another pull-up bar upstairs, since all of us were waiting for turns on the one in Josh's doorway, and it was really making the work out too easy.  Mike promptly pulled himself up right into the top of Naomi's door frame and did the rest of his pull-ups with an ice bad on his head, poor guy.   I made it through 6 rounds before our timer rang.  That's 60 pull-ups and 120 squats.  I thought I was going to either throw up or pass out-- or both-- by the time I was done.  (I am such a wimp)

Today we warmed up balancing on the 55 gallon water drum (turned on it's side so it rolls) in the backyard, followed by push-ups.  Then we did 150 wall-balls for time.  Mike creamed us all, finishing in just over 2 minutes, and not even looking winded afterwards.  (He said, "Was that it?")  Josh came in next at 3 minutes, followed closely by Bethany.  None of them looked too pooped.  But then, we were using an 8# ball instead of the prescribed 20# ball.  Ugh!  Do you have any idea how heavy 20 pounds are when you have been throwing them over your head and catching them for several minutes?  My arms ache just to think of it.  Or maybe that's from the WOD.  My own 5.5 minutes were not the slowest in the family.  Peter, bless his little heart, took a whole 10 minutes.  Probably just to make me feel better.  =)  

Believe it or not, I think we get a harder WOD when we do CrossFit Kids than the regular CrossFit  I guess maybe they think kids are able to be more active than adults?  (Huh.  Why would that be?  =)  Everything I've posted here is from the adult WOD, but I'm thinking tomorrow we'll do the kids' WOD.  You can read the kids' work out here.  (Scroll down past the picture of Junior doing an overhead squat.)  Then give it a try.  If your name is Mr. Incredible, it will be a snap.  If your name is Mrs.SitOnTheCouchAnd CorrectMathMostDays... well.... just come over about 8:45 some morning to see what you'll look like.

So, I may not be Super Girl yet, but I''m working on it!  

=)

Socialism

I know many of you will not agree with this post, and I'm fine with that.  I'd like to hear your thoughts- for and against- as long as they are not just attacks.  I would really like to know how people who are pro-socialism see the world.

I got the following from my dad.  Enjoy!

Rebecca  =)

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, 
but had once failed an entire class.

That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". 

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. 

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. 
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.  

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.  
The second test average was a D! 
No one was happy. 

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. 

The scores never increased as bickering, 
blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.  

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.   It could not be any simpler than that.