So after competing in the #BattleForCourage Ogar Strong competition last weekend, my body was wrecked. I didn't realize this until Tuesday morning when I was trying to workout and I just had nothing in the tank. Wednesday morning rolled around and again my body just wouldn't cooperate. Thankfully, Thursday is a rest day for the competitors at my gym, so when that rolled around me body was yelling at me to rest and I finally listened.
I did end up at the gym participating in the Movement and Mobility class but that hour of torture by James was much needed to get my body moving again. The class is run by a PT who is certified in ART. He takes us through movements with various mobility tools to help our muscles relax and move in the correct way again. Being a PT student, I love picking his brain and asking questions about why we are doing the things we are doing. Anyways... I digress.
I returned to the gym on Friday morning and had a great workout! My body was able to move and I was able to walk out of the gym not feeling like a ton of bricks hit me in the face. Last week was not my best training week, but it was a learning week and that is what makes it invaluable. Even when you may not be moving your best, you can still learn something from every workout and that is what will ultimately make me a better CrossFit athlete.
A big lesson that I learned was even though I am young and sometimes I think I am invincible, I am not. My body needs rest. Moving heavy weight and performing numerous repetitions of various movements is not rest. And it's not smart. All it takes is one little thing to create a major set back and that would not be fun. I need to listen to my body and when it tells me to rest, I need to rest. I am an educated individual on the body and movement (at least I like to think so...) and I need to start acting like one. I need to make myself use the knowledge I possess on myself and not just my patients. How come it is so much easier to give advice than to receive it? I don't get it.
I also learned that I am not very good at sitting still... I guess my family and I always knew that (one of the reasons I am a PT major so I can move all day) but sitting still Thursday was tough. I love to move and to get the "workout high" and when I don't get that, I drive myself crazy. Number one, it is like 500x harder for me to focus, which makes the long 12 page assignment I have to do nearly impossible to get done (it still took all weekend so I probably can't single handily point fingers at the rest day). Number two, there are not enough new TV shows on right now to fill in my free time and Facebook/Instagram just don't provide enough entertainment when you look at them every 20 minutes. Oh well, I survived Thursday and still got my gym fix in so tI guess I can't complain too much.
I am starting to get excited for the FitBodies CrossFit competition I am doing this coming weekend! I tested the workouts yesterday morning and I am hoping I will be able to do well there. This will be my first ever individual competition so we shall see what happens but I am going in with confidence in my abilities. I think my parents are even going to come and watch so I am super excited.
This past Saturday I did play in a sand volleyball and got to show off my mad volleyball skills! Don't ask anyone on my team how I did because I am pretty sure we would have different answers. But it was fun and it's always nice to get out there and do something active outside of the gym! Anyways this past week was a rough week for me training wise but I learned some more things about myself, so I am going to keep them in mind and keep pushing forward to be the best I can be.
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