OUCH!
October 29, 2009
7am Class will be starting this Monday, November 2nd. Post to comments if you will be there!
Don't forget Friday Night Fights is tonight at 6:30pm. Please post to comments if you plan on attending and if you would like to go out to dinner after.
Boxing will be held on Saturday at 3pm.
"Linda"
Here are the heats and your partners for Linda this Saturday. There will be a 30 minute time limit, be sure to be warmed up and ready to go. Please see the thread on the message board to determine how you will be scaling this WOD. You should come in knowing what weight you will be using for all three movements.
"Linda" is full. So if your name is not on this list, do not expect to hit "Linda" on Saturday. If you cannot make it please let us know ASAP.
10am/10:30am:
Amanda/Adrianne
Tim/Shye
Andrea/Cat
Kevin/Shaun
11/11:30am:
Sam/TJ
Jess/Angie
Kia/Viv
Jen G./Deja
Ouch – written by Leb(atomoy)
Everybody hurting a little after this week? I know I am. “Barbara” alone left many of our athletes sore for days. Still, many people toughed it out and came in despite the aches to do battle with the ensuing WOD’s. You might be asking “Caleb, aren’t you being a bit hypocritical praising such actions after making a big fuss a couple weeks ago about overtraining and not letting your body rest?” If in fact there were individuals who were not actively allotting adequate days for rest then, yes perhaps my lauding said efforts is somewhat contradictory. But, in this case, there have been tremendous improvements in appropriate training amongst those at potential risk of overtraining, so no such issue was present. This does lead me to my topic for this piece, the issue of working through pain.
Many of us former or current competitive athletes (though I’d say we’re all current athletes as CrossFitters) have faced injury at sometime or other. What did your first ask as they stood over you trying to assess the severity of your ailment. Especially if you were involved in the rough and tumble world of contact sport, where the macho-man mentality reigns supreme, you probably heard something along the lines of “So are you hurt or are you injured?” If you didn’t catch the reference, this is a quote from The Program when James Caan addresses Omar Epps during football practice. What I am trying to get at is, we need you to be able to distinguish the difference between the general soreness that comes with the training we prescribe, versus actually incurring significant structural damage (i.e. broken bones, sprains, strains, etc.). One of these things (actually both but that’s for later) can be managed and overcome, albeit with a little will power in concert with appropriate recovery tactics. Often, by simply coming in on those tired and creaky days when your body just does not seem to want to cooperate, and going through an active rest day (mobility, stretching, foam rolling with perhaps a lower intensity workout for example) will leave you feeling much better and more restored than if you stayed home and did no physical activity at all. That’s not to say don’t take full rest days ever, just consider something like a lower intensity WOD instead of avoiding coming in a third day in a row.
Also, as it turns out, you can actually continue to train when you are injured. Not only that, it’s encouraged. Let me say it again in for emphasis, you CAN and SHOULD CrossFit with an injury. Revolutionary… I know. Sarcasm aside, it is true that by continuing training whilst injured is not only not bad for you, it will aide in your recovery. Don’t believe me? Watch this video with Kelly Starrett (http://journal.crossfit.com/
In the end, I again urge you as I did in my previous blurbs to be smart about your training body and make intelligent choices when it comes to pushing the intensity or backing off and letting an active recovery allow for more healing to take place. There is a time for both so just make sure to listen to your body and react accordingly.
***This video is not work or family safe. There are lots of bad words in it. Do not watch if you are easily offended or in the company of children***
"All the happiness you ever find lies in you." –Anonymous
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12 Responses to OUCH!
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Amanda B says:
I’m in for Friday Night Fights! Don’t know about dinner after, so probably count me out. If plans change, I’ll let you know tomorrow.
Caleb – I totally agree about training injured. You guys do a great job of helping us work around an injury.
And that video was hilarious.
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javymartinez28@yahoo.com says:
I’m like a damn Navy seal and an olympic gold medalist wrapped in a fuck*n suit of body armor”=the greatest saying in the world. I’m in for Friday Night Fights, ill be getting there right at 6:30 from work, but i’ll be there!
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Sarah J says:
I am going to Friday night fights and dinner.. but Leb isn’t coming to dinner, so I will probably need a ride home =[
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Arianna says:
I’m pumped about my first friday night fight
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buzz says:
Very helpful
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Adrianne says:
I’ll be there for Fights and I’ll go out for dinner too.
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Kelly C. says:
I think I can come to FNF and dinner, but if I do I’ll need a ride home too since Dave is working!
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Lenora Pfeffer says:
That was a very cute video. Do we sound like that?
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Kari says:
I’m going to try to start coming to the 7AM class. We’ll see if my alarm clock still works on me, though…
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Deja says:
I should be at the 7am class.
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Rachel says:
That is hysterical.
that was pretty f’in funny:)