My new CrossFit home – CrossFit Plamen

One of the first things I did when I found out I was coming to Slovenia was to check and see if there’s a CrossFit near me. Am I crazy?! Probably. I was excited to find that there was one pretty close to where I’m living. I decided to go check it out yesterday.

Because I love CrossFit and love to talk about it (probably to the point of being annoying), I figured I might as well post about it since I’m keeping a blog now. Maybe this will be a better outlet so that my non-crossfit friends don’t have to hear about it anymore. 🙂

To get to the box I decided to take a bike. It’s a bit across town and I knew post-WOD I wouldn’t feel like walking all the way back. So, it’s just a short walk to the bike station and then about 1.5 mile ride and then maybe a 5 minute walk from that bike station. I got a little bit lost finding the exact place as it’s in a sort of shed/barn type building down a gravel road among other houses.

The box itself is pretty small. Maybe about the size of the old CrossFit San Elijo location but more square than rectangular. They didn’t have nearly as much equipment but the nice thing about CrossFit is you don’t really need much. The coach, Katarina was really friendly and spoke English very well. I’m not sure if anyone else spoke much English which would explain why people weren’t very talkative to to me.

We warmed up with 3 rounds of 10 good mornings with PVC, 10 goblet squats, and 10 press with PVC followed by a 400m run. Did that twice. The WOD was a partner workout. While your partner runs 450m with a med ball (14#) you do AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) of the following. 9 deadlifts, 6 front squats, 3 push press. I think we did about 55#. When your partner returns from the run you switch. Then there is a 3 minute rest, then repeat two more times.

All in all it was a great workout and I decided to sign up for a twice a week membership for the month. At least this will help me burn off all the calories I will be eating in delicious food! 🙂