June Goals : Crossfit

Happy beginning of June and the official start of summer! The weather has obligingly been moderately nice this weekend on cue and I hope you've all had a chance to enjoy getting outside 🙂

The start of any new month is a chance to refresh your list of goals for the year, and I'm taking the opportunity to reassess after a few busy months!

Energizer Night Run 5k, She Runs Windsor 10k and Nike We Own The Night 10k!

I've already ticked off one of my New Years Resolutions - "run a 10k race", in fact I've done two! I ran SheRunsWindsor and the Nike We Own The Night 10ks and really enjoyed both of them. I've also got the Women's Running 10k in September, with a new PB to aim for there!

I also feel like I've sort of completed "run with a running group" too after attending some of the Nike/Elle training sessions at Niketown London, as well as going along to the Team Naturally Run training session organised by Leah. It at least got me to overcome my fear of training with other people and not being able to keep up!

Next up on the list is "try Crossfit", and guess what? I've got my first intro class tomorrow evening, eek!

For those who haven't come across Crossfit before here's a quick summary:

"CrossFit uses a blend of gymnastic elements, Olympic weightlifting movements, kettle bell exercises and other real world activities to improve the ten components of fitness: strength, power, speed, stamina, cardio-respiratory endurance, coordination, agility, balance, accuracy and flexibility." Source

I'm looking forward to trying something new, in particular something more focused on increasing my strength and muscles! Most of the sports I have participated in previously - netball, dance, rowing, running - have been predominantly endurance and cardio based so this will be a new challenge 🙂

I have a 3month membership with Crossfit Vauxhall - they're currently offering the Foundations Course (3 x 1hr sessions to cover the basics) for FREE if you sign up for a 3month membership, therefore saving you £155 so check it out if you're interested! (they also have a Crossfit Central London box (gym) near Southwark) I'll keep you posted with how I get on!

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Food-wise I'm looking to add more fruit and veg into my diet - it's much more appealing to snack on fresh fruit and eat crunchy salads in the summer when the weather's nicer I find! One of the other ways I'm hoping to achieve this is through smoothies, particularly green smoothies- a cheat way of sneaking things which are really good for you into your meals!

Here's one I whipped up the other day- looks gross, tasted great! 🙂