The 12 Days of CrossFit

Today I did a workout called the "12 Days of CrossFit," an annual tradition at our gym. It works just like the song: on the first day of Christmas you get a partridge in a pear tree; on the second day of Christmas you get two turtledoves and a partridge in a pear tree - again. And so on. In this case, though, the turtledoves are actually dumbbell lunges and the partridge is a fiendish exercise called a Turkish get-up. So each round - 12 in all - you add that round's movement, but then you still have to go back through and do all the other rounds' movements as well. Since our coaches are psychos, they wanted us to sing out "Five golden burpees" every time we got to "day" five. Not too many people did that. :) All in all, it was pretty rough. I used 35 pound dumbbells for the DB stuff and finished the whole thing in 31:35.