Coach Glassman in the Box

Today I woke up at 7am on a Saturday to catch the metro to the absolutely stunning Crossfit Fairfax box for a free Crossfit 101 seminar with Coach Glassman! It was pretty surreal seeing the man who have created a way of life that dictates mine. We basically sat around for several hours asking him questions about Crossfit. He was extremely knowledgeable, funny, informative and interesting. He spoke a lot about being a trainer and I cant wait until it is my turn. I was introduced to all 5'7" of him during the break, got to shake his hand and chat for a bit. At the end of the day I went up to him alone and thanked him and told him how Crossfit had changed my life. He thanked me and said "your Jason right?" He remembered my efffing name which tells me that he is going to personally make sure I get my Level 1 cert. comped and he will provide a box for me to open my own affiliate! We're best friends!

The skill level at the seminar was below average. We did a team workout and lucky me, I got paired with the four most below average CFer's there. This actually turned out to benefit me because I was forced to do most of the workout. Unfortunately, due to the fact that three of my teamates were "unexperienced" girls, they put us on the 6'5" pull up bar!

Team Workout:
300 wall balls 20 lb men/6! lb woman
300 pull ups
20 rep max per set (once you did 20 you had to let someone else go)


I did 100 wall balls and 100 pull ups (not very evenly split). One woman in my group could not squat nor throw a 6 lb ball ten feet in the air. Not a single rep should have counted but I think our counter gave her credit. She also elected not to do pull ups, don't worry, Jason will do them! I also thought it was funny when one of the girls said to me "can you take my turn, I am tired?" "haha sure, I know how tough those jumping pull ups can be." I was forced to basically do the splits for every pull up since I was nearly banging my knees on the ground on every swing! It was a lot easier then I originally thought it would be but I would have loved to use one of their 9' bars!