By Brenda Glidden
First, it was her two sisters. Then it was her parents. Then her husband. Her kids. Some in-laws.
All told, there are roughly a dozen members of Brenda Glidden’s extended family who work out at CrossFit Relentless in West Hartford, Conn.
“I knew that they would like this,” she says of her two sisters.
Others took longer to convince.
“My parents said, ‘Absolutely not. There’s no way on Earth we’re going to do this.’”
“At first I thought she was crazy,” her dad blurts out between breaths while doing a WOD.
“We were like, ‘I don’t know if that’s for us. We’re too old,’” says Glidden’s mom.
But Glidden’s dad came in and was hooked. And when his wife saw how happy he was, she decided to give it a try. For Glidden’s husband, CrossFit has been like returning to childhood, he says.
“I feel like we’ve turned the clock back about 15 years,” he says. “It’s awesome.”
We are seeing this Crossfit thing start to spread within families. We have a whole family of about 6 doing our Lite Fit program here at CFNA. We have more and more adults, who have been crossfitting for awhile, start to bring their kids in. We have wives bringing their husbands in and vice versa. Maybe its time the parents of our crossfit kids joined in the fun. We do have a Lite Fit program that you could try out before making the jump to the regular classes!
Warm Up
50 m Row
High Skip To Front
5 Pull Ups
5 Box Jumps
5 Line Plate Pushes (Metal 5#)
5 Double Unders or Attempts
5 Seated Rope Climbs
5 Push Press (Bumper Plate 10#)
Skill
Cleans 5x5
1 Min Mobility
WOD- 15 Min AMRAP
100m Row
D&B Farmer Carry
5 Cleans
