Personally I haven’t gotten a weight loss from doing CrossFit. I know, I know, but I haven’t.
I’ve gotten better muscles, more strength, but not really the huge “ohmygod!” changes that testimonials are made of. Er…in fact, I put on fat over this very long and inactive (trapped indoors due to a skin condition) winter. Talk about depressing!
Keeping a workout log book kept me from giving up – that and this is plain fun. But my times got better, my weights got higher, I’m doing full pushups frequently now – this is progress.
But it wasn’t until I was able to get outside again and start walking and running this spring that I’m starting to notice the fat coming off. I have a very sedentary job. I’m sure the additional muscle mass is helping, but it seems like it’s taking a deliberate raising of my activity level through adding walking & running to my daily routine to actually effect the fat loss.
YMMV. Hope this helps.
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