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February 19th
What was your first day like at CrossFit Ireland? Were you nervous or excited? How were the coaches? What were your thoughts/feelings as you left the gym?
Right, we’ve 25 people competing on Saturday. If your name isn’t here, you must contact me ASAP so I can try re-arrange things.
Here’s the list of competitors, if there’s an asterisk next to the name it means they’re an external competitor, and may choose not to take part in both events.
1. Tom (2) (3)
2. Jeff (2) (3)
3. Tony(4) (2)
4. Jason (4) (2)
5. Derrick (5) (5)
6. Eoin (5) (5)
7. Paul (1) (5)
8. Eamonn (3) (2)
9. Pixie (5) (4)
10. Ed (5) (3)
11. Ruairi (3) (3)
12. Pat (1) (1)
13. Ger (3) (4)
14. Darragh (1) (1)
15. Will (1) (4)
16. Colm (3) (1)
17. Ames (4) (5)
18. Deirdre (2) (4)
19. Sue (2) (5)
20. Dominic (1) (1)
21. James Hanley (3) (2)
22. Lucy (4) (4)
23. David Concannon (4) (5)
24. David McKonkey (5) (5)
25. Stephen Weinmann (2) (1)
Workout One:
Heat One:
William
Dominic*
Paul
Pat
Darragh
Heat Two:
Tom
Jeff
Sue
Deirdre
Stephen*
Heat Three:
Colm
Ruairi
Hanley*
Ger
Eamonn
Heat Four:
Tony
Jason
David Concannon*
Lucy*
Ames
Heat Five:
Eoin
Pixie
Ed
Derrick
David McKonkey*
Workout Two:
Heat One:
Colm
Pat
Dominic*
Stephen*
Darragh
Heat Two:
Tom
Jeff
Tony
Jason
Hanley*
Heat Three:
Paul
Eamonn
David McKonkey*
Ruairi
Ed
Heat Four:
William
Lucy*
Deirdre
Ger
Pixie
Heat Five:
Sue
Ames
Derrick
Eoin
David Concannon*
Good luck at the weekend guys, looks like it’ll be a blast…. better than a two hour exam on Advanced CNS Pharmacology at any rate.
Hmmm. My first day at CrossFit? The first day that I can remember was the day I called down to learn how to power clean but that doesn’t really count in my book as it was purely a technique day. My first real day was after I got back from OC, Maryland and got stuck into back squats and:
1000m Run
50 SDHP (20kg)
30 Pushups
Getting actual instruction before the lifting was really cool I thought. I was worried in Crunch that I was lifting wrong but here at least someone would tell me about it. And of course there was always the O’Reilly wit. What else could I have wanted??
I got the metcon out in the princely time of 13:10. I thought I was fit when I came down to CF, not brilliant but I thought I could hold my own. I wasn’t nervous at all, my squats went well, this would be easy I thought. Sub 10 no problem. Oh how I was wrong. The run was fine but then it went steadily downhill.
Honestly I found the encouragement a little off-putting, it wasn’t something I was used to when working out. Having people who barely knew me shouting my name was weird. It’s a good thing don’t get me wrong now but at the time it felt strange. Felt like I was going to die afterwards. Properly die. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve felt like that it was so bad.
My abject failure intrigued me though. I was pitifully unfit but I was going to change that. I vowed that next time I did this workout that it wouldn’t hurt me like it had today. And it didn’t. About 3 months of SS later this came up again on Friday 2nd January; 8:42. Not stellar but after 10 minutes I was happy again, the world didn’t seem like it was going to cave in on me anymore. My dedication had worked, I wasn’t the unfit blob that had turned up in September.
My first day was a success of sorts, had I busted out the metcon easily I’d say I wouldn’t have come back. I’m glad it made a mess of me and left me rolling around the floor wincing in pain. It wouldn’t have been CrossFit if it hadn’t, and I wouldn’t have come back.
First day (not counting Nov 2007,though that was good but there on my own).Every one ,coaches included ,were very friendly, not like the headphone wearing masses at the globo gym.All the encouragement was great.Feeling like I was going to puke not great.And not being able to work down stairs forwards for a few days very weird! But all in all the first day was very welcoming.Seeing eveyone doing the WOD at a scale to suit made me feel that my very unfit self could fit in and progress.
That was the same day I started Bobby. I can’t say remember seeing anybody in a bandana that day though.
I had just moved up to dublin and was looking for somewhere to do starting strength. Colm replied to a post I made on boards.ie so when I first came down to check the place out I said I’d just do a crossfit workout first to get a feel for the place. I wasn’t aware of the close association between SS and crossfit at this time.
I was pretty nervous my first time down, but I get nervous going to the dentist so nothing too strange there. I was reasonbly ‘cardio’ fit at the time from a few weeks of cycling to work but I didn’t really want to stand out of the crowd so during the run part of the metcon I stayed in the bunch of other people I was doing the metcon with. I guess things started to get hard with the 50 SDHP and by the time I was finished those I was clawing for breath. I’ve always been able to knock out a few pushups so I got through 20 of them unbroken soon after the SDHP. I was completely winded following that though and thats when ‘the kyle’ started shouting encouragement at me to just get stuck in and finish off the remaining pushups. If he hadn’t of done that I probably would have been 30 seconds slower just on those 10 pushups.
I quite enjoyed it, it was the first high intensity stuff I had done since I stopped playing gaa about 6 years previous. I stuck with SS for the next 6 months though because I was far too skinny and weak and needed SS alot more at the time than I needed crossfit (probably still do tbh)
The encouragment you get is probably the best thing about crossfit. If it wasn’t for that you wouldn’t push half as hard. I soooo wanted to quit my first fran a couple of weeks ago but the coaches and other participants pushed me through it.
hmmm my first day at crossfit , it was a Cindy i think 20min as many rounds as possible of squats pushups and pull ups looks easy enough but man i was nackered .
Mind you to start with the guys very friendly and helpful when i arrived helped me alot and introduced me to all there that day i though this lace is very friendly not like a normal gym , Loved the encouragement from Colm and Will through the whole class .
Final though on that day Man that was hard but alot of fun il be back for sure .
Also guys have a great day on Saturday
Eamonn, I’ve only started bringing the bandana back recently. In September I was bringing the fatness back.
Colm/Will,
I am just after learning an exam I had due for tomoro has been put back till sat. On the plus side, more time to study.. but on the negative Im now a no go for sat, major bummer as I had been looking forward to it.
Anyway I thought u’s should know as soon as, I know with the demand ul have no prob filling my space!
Luckily my first day is well documented and soon to become the stuff of lore. I remember sweating a lot and getting completely smoked by Will. Funny how neither of those changed for the entire year I was there.
My first CrossFit experience happened thanks to one of Colm’s private session clients not showing up, so he brought me in to the gym and showed me how to deadlift, instructing me in a Texan accent the entire time…
I’d known Colm about two months at this stage, during which time I kept telling him that he had no chance of getting me anywhere near a gym. It was just myself in the gym at the time so didn’t have to worry about anyone else and treated the whole thing as a bit of a laugh. (Still treat it that was come to think of it…)
What I consider my first ‘real’ session took place one week later, a Friday night, the workout was ‘Helen’ and I think it was Pixie’s first session too so were both fairly clueless, struggled through it together and had a bit of a laugh in the process.
The next morning I did ‘Fight Gone Bad’ – Will spotted me, I met loads of new and friendly faces, nearly ate box and with that I was hooked!
My first day at CrossFit Ireland? How about, “I know you’re on holiday and have been drinking Guinness like a fish, but today’s WOD is Fight Gone Better…and THAT’S your med ball!”
Have fun this weekend guys!
When I arrived for my first experience I was a bit nervous and wasn’t sure how I’d react to the WOD. I’d been following the site for a couple of months, reading the posts and looking at the workouts. I remember thinking I’d love to give that a go. I discussed release from parental duties with the wife and headed down on a Saturday morning to give it a go. I was greeted by Colm but he had a kid’s class to coach and left me in Will’s capable hands. Louise started that day too so I wasn’t alone in feeling like a fish out of water. We did the deadlift/box jump WOD and I remember feeling wreaked after it. When I got home my knees were bruised and swollen from clattering the oly bar into them repeatedly but I was feeling overall very satisfied with myself. I left the gym with none of the nervousness I’d entered with but instead felt very welcomed. None of it has gotten any easier but I suppose that’s the point.
Apart from the variety and intensity of the workouts, it’s the people of CFI that keep me coming back, you’ll struggle to find a more encouraging, supportive and witty bunch. CFI is a place were everyone knows your name.
Eoin: 50 (6)-52.5-55(3) / 60-65(2)-65
Stephen: 60-62.5-65 / 70-75
Tony: 50-52.5.50 / 60-65-70(2)
Ruiairi: 45-47.5-50(3) / 65-70-75(f)
Tom: 45-47.5-47.5 (3) / 60-65-67.5
Martin: 40-45-47.5 / 55 -60(2)-50
Shane 1.0: 35(4)-35(4)-35(3) (dammit!) / 45-50(2)-50
Damien: 55-55/ 60-65 (2)-65
Margaret: 20 across / 25 across
Sarah: 20 across / 25 across
Jason: 50-52.5 / 60-65-70(2)
Bobby: 50-52.5-52.5(3) / 60-65(2)-55
Neil: 50-52.5 / 60-65(2)-55 for form work
Scott: 50(3)-50(4)-50(1) / 60-65-70(2)
Hmm.. Do you know what! I can’t remember my first night down at the gym, which really says a lot because it shows that everyone was friendly and welcoming and helpful and it’s remained like that. So for me nothing horrible happened that makes me remember it, know what I mean? I did look up what I did that first night and it was a Tabata mash up and I do remember heading home thinking, I going to like this
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