Angie, you really hurt me.....

Don't worry, I haven't strayed. I'd like to introduce "Angie", the name of a crossfit workout I attempted yesterday morning.

"Angie"

For time:
100 Pull-ups
100 Push-ups
100 Sit-ups
100 Squats

Straight-forward enough-don't move on to the next exercise until you've completed 100 reps. After about my 50th pullup, I had to use a stool to pull myself up, and just do negative reps. Today my biceps are the more sore they have ever been. EVER.

I stumbled on to some crossfit workouts a couple weeks ago, and now I'm hooked. The website posts workouts daily, mesage boards, video demos, and other fun stuff that helps one guide their way through this newfound method. It's all about "Functional Fitness", which is right up my alley considering my jobs/interests. The workouts are never the same; they revolve around basic exercises (pullups, pushups, squats, situps), weightlifting (squats, cleans, deadlifts, and presses), gymnastics, plyometrics, and relevant cardio.
From the Crossfit website, "What Is Crossfit?"
" CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.
Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.
The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don’t change programs.
The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ by degree not kind. Our terrorist hunters, skiers, mountain bike riders and housewives have found their best fitness from the same regimen. "

Whatever. Check it out for yourself.

www.crossfit.com