Home gym

  If you are curious about how serious this whole CrossFit/WOD crazy husband of mine is, let Ava be your guide.

  When we left Seattle, we left this really amazing community of CrossFit and people at Lake Hills CrossFit.  It was super close to our house, it was affordable, and the owners were the best and let the kids be monkeys all over the gym.  I even could sneak in a workout and they would be happy to watch the kids.  We really miss that and know that we will never get anything like it.

  Mike still goes to a CrossFit gym, but not nearly as much as he'd like.  Enter (in his mind), a home gym.  Over the course of the last 14 months or so, Mike has been getting his own equipment.  Bars, plates, wall ball, kettlebells...  Then, he ordered these big horse mats.  That kinda made the home gym legit.

  The home gym makes it super easy for him to get a WOD in during naptime on the weekends or after the kids go to sleep at night.  We also have some traditions with a number of friends that do a workout with us when they come over.  If you ever come, he'll definitely get the weights out if you are interested!

  Ava was keeping him company while he put the mats all in place.  She was having a hay day running all over the mats and dancing on top of the stack of weights.  She was echoing his enthusiasm for sure.

  She got a little carried away doing chalk on the new mats.  Look at her "got caught" stance and then trying to wipe it off.  So funny.

  Swimming is still my thing, but CrossFit is ADDICTING!  And Mike has taught me most of the Olympic lifts as well as the fancy pull ups.  I just need to figure out the double unders.  I won't ever be a crazy CrossFitter, but Mike (as you can see) can be that for the both of us.

  I posted this on instagram this past summer.  Mike was deadlifting every single plate we owned.  We have since gotten some other plates that will allow him to dead lift more weight.  I think this was 395 lbs.  He is crazy strong and can throw weight around like it's no big deal.  It's the burpees I can still get him on!  :)