Meet Newish to CROSSFIT Me!!!!

[Cheeka3]

Hi Guys,

I'm 30, a mother of one & started doing CrossFit in April of this year. I'm 168cm short, 78kgs down from 104kgs at the beginning of this year, still working on getting down at least another 10-15kgs+ hopefully by the end of the year.

I'm eating 6 small meals a day & see a nutritionist, in saying that I could do with a bit more will power to stop myself from over indulging lol.

Well anyways: I'm going to be competing in my 2nd CrossFit Comp in the scaled division in Dec of this year. I'm not bad at the heavy lifting & double unders, but struggle a wee bit when it comes to burpees & pull ups, in saying that my fitness is not too bad. I do at least 5 Xfit sessions per week to ensure I'm putting in enough work & not missing out on too much & was just wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how best I can prepare for the comp (in 1 month), in terms of homework etc away from the gym?

Lifting Stats:

Front Squat 105kg 1 RM

Back Squat 110kg 1 RM

Deadlift: 140kg 1 RM

Hang Clean: 60kg

Power Snatch: 55kg

[tomsammce]

Awesome lifts.

[sFlUuCtKs]

thats pretty strong for a girl (i think?).

and congrats on weight loss.

keep up the training.

[tomsammce]

And to prepare do more crossfit, train ur ass off.

Repetition is the mother of skill.

[Andre01]

Your lifts are great, mine is not far off that so you have done well. I'm doing a 1RM next week so that will be interesting. The thing with crossfit is that you cant really prepare for competitions like traditional events. If they are doing it right you wont know what you going to do until you turn up that morning. Anyway just keep up with what your doing and get your mindset in the right mode. :clap: and remember to have fun.

I have my first in-house one tomorrow so it will be interesting and then I have to go to work afterwards....Now that will be interesting.

[Danomyte]

Welcome on board Cheeka3! Impressive lifting stats, grats on the weight loss too. If Crossfit doesn't workout for you - powerlifting and weightlifting will gladly welcome you :nod: \:D/ All best at your comp in December.

[Cheeka3]

Thanks a million for all of the positive feed back, will def take everything on board, love the "Repitition is the mother of all skill" comment. I'm off to CF this PM, awesome way to finish the week, I must say, in saying that.....

Have a fantastic weekend everyone.

[teamfatboy]

Welcome - and W.O.W. - both on the superb weight loss, and those strong lifts...

Tom and Andre are right on the money - it's about practice, practice, practice, whether it's powerlifting or CrossFit.

[gympro]

Awesome lifts - I'm only my 3rd week into CrossFit and I've only done my deadlift max of 110kgs so far, (i'm 6ft/82kgs) so you're kicking ass. Well done!

[severe]

Mean drop in bodyweight! High intensity is awesome

[icecream]

Hey Cheeka!

Wow your lifts are amazing!

I'm a crossfitter as well, have just started taking classes in the box I train at :grin: agree with tom, just train your butt off! You never know what will get thrown at you :grin: and make sure you taper off in the last week so you can get all boomsauce on the wods in the comp. is it the HPU playoffs?