You know you’re a CrossFitter when…

…you don’t own a tractor but you own tractor tires.
…helping people move turns into a metcon WOD.
…every time you go to Home Depot, you are looking for the exercise potential of equipment rather than stuff for your home.
…you go to buy a swiss ball, and the salesperson goes into their spiel about the comfortable feel of the rubber and how easy it is on your back for doing crunches, and you interrupt them and ask, “Ya…but how much will it weigh when I fill it full of sand?”
…when you pick your cubicle at work because of it’s hand-stand practice potential.
…when you get married, you register at Rogue Fitness.
…your steering wheel and radio controls are covered in chalk…
…when you think it’s cool your wife/gf is purposefully scraping her hands with a cheese-grater implement.
…when you laugh at almost all the exercises normal people say they do at the gym.
…when you wake up at 5am to do an 8 minute workout.
…you can tell a woman she has a great snatch and not get slapped.
…the first Japanese word that comes into your mind is Tabata
…you constantly drag your kids to the playground then challenge them to various monkey bar races.
…a holiday is just an opportunity to get that glamourous handstand photo backdrop
…your shins have more scrapes than a twelve year old boy.
…CrossFit t-shirts dominate your wardrobe.
…the words Snatch and Jerk have lost there comedic value, but farting while deadlifting has not.
…pain is a relative term.
…you have posted pictures of yourself working out on Facebook.
…you have an appreciation for the sweat angels you leave on the floor.
…you consider other CrossFitters family.
…you start doing common household tasks “for time”
…you can go home and tell your wife you did Jackie, Helen, Fran etc.. this afternoon and not get in trouble.
…you’re a man and own knee socks.

Can you add anything to this list?

“Modified Helen”

3 rounds of:
50 Lunges
21 Kettlebell Swings
12 Pullups

Compare to April 19/10

Some post-wod carbs?
Some post-wod carbs?

33 thoughts on “You know you’re a CrossFitter when…”

  1. WU x 1

    Strength
    Cleans 5’s (with barbells)
    10-15-20-25-30 (each hand)

    WOD
    Modified Helen Version hotel for me
    50 walking lunges
    21 KBS (20 lbs)
    12 push ups (knee)

    Time: 10:51

    My legs are ready to go laydown on the beach, freaking lunges 🙂
    Good Sunday Everyone 🙂

  2. mob

    Strength Barbell Cleans x 5
    30-35-40-45-50

    WOD
    3 rounds
    50 walking lunges
    21 KBS (50# barbell)
    12 pullups

    8:36

    -You know your a Crossfitter when the first thing you do is to find another Box while on vacation.

  3. Warmup
    Power Snatch 45 (5) 50 (5) 55 (3) 65 (3) 75 (1) 75 (1)

    WOD with c2b pull-ups
    9:05
    Should have taken Lora’s advice and tried a heavier KBS. Next time!
    Great class!!

  4. mobility
    Wux1
    2 mins skipping

    member challenge:
    20 Burpee Deadlifts
    Time: 58 secs

    EMOTM Snatches

    5 mins 3 reps #105
    5 mins 1 rep every 30 secs #135

    WOD ” Messed up Helen”

    3 Rounds
    50 Lunges
    21 KBS #70
    12 Chest to Bar pull ups

    Time: 13:22

    First time using #70 on KBS in a wod didn’t feel too bad, gets a lot harder when your hands get sweaty though had to dodge a few from falling on my head.

  5. Mobility
    WU X1
    500m row

    Dead lifts X 5

    225-245-265-285(1)-285(1)
    ~lower back tightened up on 4th set

    WOD – Modified Helen

    50 lunges
    21 lbs @ 40#
    12 pull ups w/ black band

    Time – 14:00

  6. Back from vacation(s), so happy to be back to the gym, diet, and routine!

    Strength: Back squats
    5x 95-105-115-125. Only 40# off my PR. lol. I’ve got some work to do to get my strength back to where it was.

    Nice sharing the bar with you Joey, and nice to meet you!

    WOD rx’d: I think my time was around 14:15. I didn’t really care what the time was, I was just happy to finish it in the time cap. I was really dizzy from the KBs so I just tried to keep a steady pace throughout, even though it was slow. Thanks for the heckling, Blake. You kept me moving. 🙂

    Good job on your pullups Heidi! And Sarah, congrats on the band progression. You’re well on your way to bandless pullups. 🙂

    Great class Lora, thanks!

    1. Nice push on the WOD. I didn’t know you were dizzy 🙁 You cranked out the last round of pullups like your life depended on it. Great job!

  7. Mobility
    Wu x 1
    More mobility on shoulders, thanks Lora for the stretch seemed to feel better
    2 mins double unders starting to get the hang of these with a normal jump… Yay
    Wod modified /modified Helen!!!
    50 lunges
    21 kbs 70 lbs
    12 Pullups (c2b)
    Rx+ 9:02
    Fun Wod cardio started to give out second round of kbs but very happy with my time..
    Thanks Lora great coaching and great class. Good work everybody

    1. Nice work today! Thanks for accepting the “challenge”. You rocked it!. Glad the mobility for your chest/shoulder helped. Try to do that every few days, if you can.

  8. Huge effort from everyone today! You all made me proud!

    I saw lots of work on finding (and maintaining) great form on your lifts during “strength”.

    Some folks opted for lacrosse ball work and foam rolling to work out the kinks. Always a smart thing to do, particularly when you are stiff and sore.

    Thanks to those who accepted the challenge to do C2B pullups (and to add extra weight to your kettle bells). Its official: YOU are crazier than ME! 😛

    1. I don’t know about crazier but u are a great inspiration whenever u tackle a Wod so it’s fun to do the same for u when u put out a challenge. 🙂

  9. WU x1

    400m run with Sadie and Wallie

    False grip pull-ups. Broke the skin today…yeah baby! lol!

    WOD: Modified Helen

    500m row ( hurt my left knee running 5.25 km x 2 with my grade 10 phased classes this week!)
    21kbs @ 35 lbs ( Really tried to have straight arms!)
    12 chest to bar pull-ups

    Time: 14:11

    Thanks Lora for making me to c2b pull-ups. The only way I am going to get better is to do them!

  10. Wu x 1
    2 min skipping

    Strength: back squat x 5
    135,186,215,225,245,250 (15 lb PR)

    Wod: Modified Helen
    50 lunges
    21 kbs @ 53
    12 pull-ups

    Score: 8:14 rx’d

  11. WOD
    Helen modified
    3 rounds
    50 lunges
    21 KBS @ 35#
    12 pull-ups

    Time = 9:04

    Great job on the pull-ups Heidi! And good job on your first workout back from vacation Amanda 🙂

  12. WU x 1

    500 m row

    Practiced snatch x 5

    55 75 85 85

    Modified Helen – 3 rounds

    50 lunges
    21 KBS 53# used 40#
    12 Pull ups

    Time: 11:34

  13. WU x 1 w/ wallballs
    5 min skipping
    Butterfly Pull-up experimenting

    (Squat) Cleans x 5 (yes I know that’s redundant)
    45-95-115-135-145-155

    Modified “Helen”
    3 rounds for time of:
    – 50 Lunges
    – 21 KBS @ 53#
    – 12 Pullups

    TIME: 9:00
    Need to re-add KBS to my “to work on” list…

    Great coaching Lora!!

  14. WU x 1

    500 m row (2.01 mins, tried to do it under 2 mins, have tried several times over the last month, can’t seem to break the 2 minute mark)

    Strength – Push Press x 5

    65 75 80 85 90 95×3

    Modified Helen – 3 rounds

    50 lunges
    21 KBS used 30lbs
    12 Pull ups – assisted

    Time: 9:58
    First time doing this WOD, only 2nd time doing KBS, more weight next time, and going to try unassisted pull-ups as I can do them in the warm up, but haven’t had the courage to do it in a WOD yet….

  15. mob
    wu x 1
    Row 500 m

    No strength

    WOD
    Modified Helen
    50 walking lunges
    21 KBS 30# (unbroken all 3 rounds)
    12 pull ups (blue band)

    Time: 12:06

    First wod with blue band! Thanks for the push at the end Blake!

  16. mob
    wu x 1

    4 minutes of skipping
    Row 500m

    WOD
    Modified Helen
    50 lunges
    21 KBS 53#
    12 pull ups

    Time: 10:45

    Nice job to everyone doing Rx + today!!!

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