Incorporating New Training

throwback to when my chicken legs really were chicken legs

As I said in my last post, I had been a little disenchanted with Crossfit for a couple weeks (for my own reasons), but I also started to realize that I appreciate and love Crossfit even more when I mix in other kinds of training. That may sound counter intuitive, but it:

1. helps me stretch out and rest my muscles that I may not do otherwise  

2. makes me appreciate the feeling of using a barbell and pushing my body to it's limits 

3. humbles me and reminds me that just because I can squat so and so lbs does NOT mean I can go into any other fitness arena and master it. 

Here are some things I decided to throw into my routine: 

1. open water swimming- this is obviously a season sensitive thing, but it will hopefully give me more reason to jump in the pool when the colder weather rolls around. 

2. kayaking (season sensitive seems like a theme)- but it's beautiful and a great core/upper body workout

3. pure barre- at first this was way too 'girly' for me, but it helps with smaller muscle control and stretching

What kind of cross training/alternatives do you throw in?

kayaking in the LI Sound

lake swim at Lake Padden in WA