I love the always changing, constantly challenging aspects of CrossFit. I never know what to expect and that is one of the attractions for me. Oh, and the fact that I’ve been running for years and years and years and am currently a bit “stalled” in that aspect of my life. What to do when a road block appears? Travel in a new direction! I refuse to give up on fitness but desperately needed to freshen things up and attempt to find my lost “mojo”. In the interim, hopefully I’ll get strong and kick running in the ass throw down some fast times somewhere in the future.
Today was Day #14. I only go 2x a week for strength and cross training but certainly see that it can become additive and lead to an every day “habit”; however, that doesn’t fit into my time budget nor would it be productive for running and TRI training. As with everything, moderation is key!
WOD
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10 Wall Climbs
We’ve done the wall climbs before, once. Not an easy feat for most of us uncoordinated mortals. I’m going to revisit the demo from CrossFit Fire below.
This time was definitely better for me. I was able to climb up to the point where I was almost all the way back to the wall, enough to lean my body on it, then take a break and walk back out. Still don’t have the sliding back down the wall (to the ground) mastered so, I bent at the midsection/butt and slid my feet down with my butt in the air. Wrong. Definitely not the proper technique but it did allow my feet to come down without feeling as if I were breaking my toes. Baby steps! I’ll get there. I do notice that I’m getting stronger in the core and had more control during the wall climbs this go around verses my previous attempt. However, I apparently spent too much time upside down because I noticed miniscule red dots on my eyelids when I returned home that I recognized as broken blood vessel (last time this happened, I had a baby to show for it, and a lot more broken blood vessels all over my face & eyelids). #Winning
Next up – 7 rounds with one minute rest between rounds. I only completed 6 rounds because time wasn’t on my side today. Had I known that traffic was so jacked up that I would be 40 minutes late to work anyhow, I would have just stayed for the last round. Live & learn, right?
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10 Kettlebell Deadlifts (35#)
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10 Push Press (bar only – 45#) Wowzers, these were hard for me. I was about maxed out after the third round and it was getting super tough for me. I had to be very careful about form and pushing with my legs to keep everything in line. I may not have done the best job either cuz I tweaked my back getting out of the shower after the workout and it’s REALLY sore now. But we looked super
badasstough in the photo!
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5 Burpees
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10 Tire Step Ups
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10 Sit-Ups
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100 meter run
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1 minute rest, then repeat x7
Great workout! Have you broken any blood vessels, or anything else during a workout? Tell us your most bizarre “workout” injury?
** Trying To Get Stronger ** Amanda – TooTallFritz **
TooTallFritz 
Never during a workout… but I’ve sneezed hard enough to blow a vessel in my eye! Ugly, but no real harm done. But I have had to peel “evidence” of the weekend’s long run off my feet before teaching yoga 2 Mondays in a row now. No one wants to see 1″ by 2″ chunks of flesh hanging off someone’s big toe!
(You know you’re an athlete at heart when blisters and busted blood vessels become a source of pride!)
My feet are a mess. That’s all I’m gonna say. The pumice stone is one of my bestest friends!!
Awesome progress you are making! I love reading your Cross Fit posts so much.
My weirdest injury? Tearing a tendo in my finger last Summer while hitting a shot out of a sand bunker on the golf course! I had a bump there for months and they physiotherapist told me that hand injuries take so long to heal because there is not a lot of blood flow to the hands.
Yikes! That sounds painful!
Friday’s WOD (Elizabeth) caused HUGE bruises on my upper thighs and some broken blood vessels, I also have some mean bruises on my collar bone. (Cleans will do that to you)…not sure if those will ever go away—unless I stop CF.
I’ve now done so many sit-ups that I have permanent scaring on my bum. No photo of that you’ll notice. LOL!
Sounds intense! I cut my chin flipping over an ab roller once, but that’s as weird as I’ve gotten.