Beguiled

...meet Cindy:


AMRAP in 20 minutes:

5 pull-ups

10 push-ups

15 squats

All of the movements are your basic high school-PE-class kind of stuff. But Cindy’s sexiness is in her simplicity.

Cindy was actually my first workout at CFDC. On that day I crashed a Sunday members-only open-gym and had no idea what Crossfit was.

My confidence was way up that afternoon. I had been going to my mainstream gym regularly for years and had been working with a trainer. I thought I was in shape.

But after the first few minutes of Cindy’s special brand of bullshit, I was hurting, bad.

It was very humbling (I vividly recall the moment I resigned myself to do “knee pushups” in front of some inexplicably fit SMU co-eds that day).

But it was a great introduction into Crossfit programming simply because no matter how athletic you may (or may not) be, Cindy can easily illustrate what fitness is – in 20 minutes or less.

The numbers of reps for each movement are all deceptively reasonable and there are no weights to scale. It’s just you, the time clock and maybe a little chalk. Come on, you’ve done these exercises since grade school, right?

But no matter how many times you take Cindy to the dance, within a few minutes you’re always cursing yourself for letting her break your heart all over again.

OK, that’s a lot of metaphors. But seriously, Cindy’s style is all about her deceptive simplicity, which is why she is my favorite girl.

Cindy 12/1/10: 16 Rx'd rounds + 5 pullups