{"id":1583,"date":"2008-02-24T22:46:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T06:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2008-02-25T22:07:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T06:07:18","slug":"the-kinder-gentler-crossfit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1583","title":{"rendered":"The kinder, gentler crossfit."},"content":{"rendered":"

The new gym<\/a> I go to does a lot of crossfit training, so I decided to go to the main Crossfit<\/a> web page to check things out. It was kind of intimidating. The thing is, I’m used to going to a neighborhood gym. There’s a lot of doctors and lawyers there since my neighborhood is no longer the working-class neighborhood I grew up in. My old gym and the new crossfit gym I go to fit in with the not-always-so-young urban professionals in the area.<\/p>\n

The main crossfit page, however, looks much more hardcore. For example, I’m not sure I’d ever seen a 100lb barbell plate before I walked through the Gold’s Gym in San Diego. (I actually had a guest pass, but I worked out there during my business trip but I went out of my way to find In-N-Out burger and coincidentally the Gold’s was next door.) The pictures from the main crossfit page remind me of the San Diego gym. Lots of big scary guys with crewcuts. I think it’s all Marines and gung-ho cops.<\/p>\n

Which is not to say that’s a bad thing. I’ve never had a run-in with a big guy at the gym. They’re usually quite pleasant and helpful. I think the not-quite-so-young urban professionals could be worse in that regard.<\/p>\n

Really, all this means is that if I do end up working out with the guys from the main gym, they’re going to be through their workout and drinking beer before I’m even halfway through. No problem, really, since I don’t have anywhere I have to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new gym I go to does a lot of crossfit training, so I decided to go to the main Crossfit web page to check things out. It was kind of intimidating. The thing is, I’m used to going to a neighborhood gym. There’s a lot of doctors and lawyers there since my neighborhood is no longer the working-class neighborhood I grew up in. My old gym and the new crossfit gym I go to fit in with the not-always-so-young urban professionals in the area. The main crossfit page, however, looks much more hardcore. For example, I’m not sure I’d ever seen a 100lb barbell plate before I walked through … Continue reading The kinder, gentler crossfit.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}