I was talking to my frequent training partner, who also happens to be a nurse and incredibly nutrition savvy, V, the other night, and she mentioned something I hadn’t keyed in on in my quest to understand what’s going on with me – I’ve been injured. The shoulder still hurts, a lot. I can’t do heavy weights, kipping pullups, or very many pushups without it starting to pop.
This is no good, and would be demoralizing to someone trying to CrossFit on her own (well, with nature, you know, and the dog). Like me. Aha!
So I may have been overtraining, but I might also just be injured. Or both.
Which makes sleeping, resting, and playing (like football, tomorrow) all the more enticing. I’ve got big plans to ramp back up my training in a happy, healthy way, and I’ll reveal those soon.
It’s hard for former competitive athletes to stop “pushing through the pain.” When we played high school and college sports, we played through sprains and strains and other pains because we had to–our team, our season, our scholarship needed us to. But there’s no time limit on CrossFit. You don’t only get four years to play CrossFit. Ideally, you do it for life, right? So there’s no reason to push through the pain.
Just more to put in my–or your–pipe and smoke …