Cross-Fit Day 2: That wasn't so bad!

I guess they saw me almost passing out last class because this class was not so bad.  The trainers stressed form instead of actually trying to kill me.  We started out with a review of what we did on Monday for the warm up and added the Samson Stretch:

I can say it was hard to hold that for 20 seconds 2 different times.  I am just not flexible enough to do a lot of these type of exercises yet.  I really hope as I continue to try cross-fit I become more flexible!

The next few exercises we learned were the dead lift, press and push press.  I actually did pretty well at those.  We only used the bar so we could work on our form and try to understand how not to get injured.

Next was the WOD:

8 min round of
1. 10 dead lifts

2. 10 DB push press
(alternate between the two for 8 minutes)

I got approx. 12 rounds as the board says above and yes some of the girls did beat me but they are not 6' tall either.  It is so much easier for smaller people to do these exercises.  Towards the end of the 8 minutes I could feel my back tightening up, probably because I was doing something wrong so I called the trainer over to watch my form.  He showed me that I needed to straighten my back out more over the bar when I was doing the dead lifts.  He was right, my back started to feel much better after that.

I am not sure what to expect Friday...something tells me they are going to take us to hell and back since it is the weekend.

Can't wait!!