Guilty Pleasures - CrossFit vs. Strength

This past year has been dedicated to focusing on and building a strength foundation.  During this past year, I did multiple strength cycles, and I loved it.  Initially it was very hard to go from a CrossFit gym to a lifting gym.  I had to sit on the bench and rest?  What?  Silly now, but the concept of being seated and resting was foreign to me.  The strength cycles were hard, they pushed me mentally and physically, they challenged me, I cried, experienced a multitude of frustrations, and all the while and eventually...acquired results.  This past month, I have committed back to CrossFit.  Now I am having the opposite feeling again!  I am questioning myself and my training, just like I did when I focused on lifting and getting stronger.  Now I am feeling lost for not being on a regimented strength program.  Really lost!  I absolutely love the camaraderie that CrossFit offers!  And fortunately at CrossFit Amundson, he programs strength days throughout the week...but...I am lost!  I am really however, enjoying conditioning again and getting my booty kicked by a workout.  In a perfect world, I guess I would be able to strength train in the morning and condition in the evening, but I am working...so how to remedy this dilemma....I am not yet quite sure.  Still searching....and feeling guilty while doing so...

My Life in Pictures




August 2009,
My First CrossFit WOD Ever!
@ Orange Coast CrossFit

 

New Trick/One Handed Handstand,
June 2011

 

Old Trick,
Summer 2011

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31 Heroes WOD,
August 2011
to Benefit Fallen Navy Seals Families

Santa Cruz Affiliate Cup

@ CrossFit Santa Cruz,

October 2011

 Fall 2011

 Battle Ropes,
Jan. 2012

 Max

Personal Record/Jerk,
March 2012

New 1RMax 135#, it's Something

My Friends are Awesome

Lately, I've been pondering the importance of surrounding myself with friends who inspire me!  The beauty of friends is that they inspire us to be better than we are and to achieve our dreams through their examples.  I love my friends!  My friends are unstoppable; therefore, I must be pretty awesome too.  As the saying goes, "You are the company you keep." 

I thought  about the importance to state that these girls transcend beauty and success.  Success and hard work were captured in these images, but their individual successes translate into every area of their lives.  I believe that success is the constant which is demonstrated time and time again in work ethic, dedication, attitude, perseverance, mental fortitude, the drive and inner desire to be better than you were yesterday, and learning to fulfil your capacity for living and dreaming.

Photo swiped from CrossFit Costa Mesa's site.

Keeta Being Awesome!  I love her! 
~The Legend Lives On~

Photo swiped from Mel's fb page courtesy of OCCF

Beautiful Mel

I Owe it All to Her

Swiped from Max's Muscle Santa Cruz

One of My Best Friend's, Chelsea
~Fearlessness in Strength and Beauty~

Photo swiped from Joc's fb page

~Jocelyn~
5th in the Nation at the Arnold this Year (2012)
No Big Deal
Heart of a Champion