I joined CrossFit a week or so ago. Do you know about CrossFit?<\/p>\n
It’s a gym. Most importantly, it’s a gym on the same block as my workplace. But it’s not like other gyms. CrossFit is all about push-ups and pull-ups and squats and turning over tractor tires. Yeah, I don’t get that last one either.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the trainers are all very strong people. I was helped yesterday by (let’s call him) Brutus, a very muscly fellow, with a cartoony-handsome face, a great deal of patience, and a tremendous knowledge of how to lift heavy objects over your head. Brutus looked like he could pick up my Subaru with his neck.<\/p>\n
We were doing the clean and jerk. Do you know how many steps there are to the clean and jerk? If you guessed two, you’re wrong, wrong<\/em>, my friend. There’s eleventy-four tiny steps to the clean and jerk. And Brutus knew every last one. Intimately.<\/p>\n Well, I did about 75 of them, or parts of 75 of them, albeit with a paltry 15-25 pounds on my bar, but fuckin-A, bubba, I kinda teared up at the end there.\u00a0 I was so exhausted and proud of myself.<\/p>\n My favorite part was when we were stretching out. Brutus, the could-pass-for-special-forces guy, got us into upward-facing dog and told us, “Try to relax your tummy.”<\/p>\n Tummy<\/em>. Hee hee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I joined CrossFit a week or so ago. Do you know about CrossFit? It’s a gym. Most importantly, it’s a gym on the same block as my workplace. But it’s not like other gyms. CrossFit is all about push-ups and pull-ups and squats and turning over tractor tires. Yeah, I don’t get that last one … Continue reading De Oppresso Liber<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}