Quality over Quantity

I have been wanting to try Crossfit for awhile now and last night I finally went. You have to go to 6 classes over a 2 week period in order to learn proper form before you can actually workout so I am going to save my opinion of the class until then. For now, all I will say is that it is not for everyone. This morning, I felt more in my element at HIIT. Some strength training followed by 12 minutes of AMRAPs (as many rounds as possible) and I felt great. After work, I am going for a run and my legs are feeling good so I am looking forward to it. I have been choosing quality over quantity when it comes to running lately and it is working miracles for my knees. I do a long run on weekends and shorter runs on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Giving myself time to fully recover in between runs is improving my running and making it more enjoyable again because I no longer have constant knee pain. I think running 3 times a week, HIIT 4 times a week, and now XFit 3 times a week is working out well. I am constantly trying to find the right balance of exercise because I have the tendency to overdo it sometimes, which usually leads to me burning out at some point. It leads to a decline in fitness and sometimes even injury and then I have to come back from that. It's time to break the cycle and time to train smarter. Focusing on the quality of my workouts instead of the quantity of them seems to be the way to go.