Fast Heal

The last couple of weeks have been great at my workouts, not so great at work though. While I have been pushing harder and harder at the gym my pulled hamstring muscle has proven to be totally healed. I feel 100%.

This last week, the week most students have spring break, I have had a new addition to my workout classes. CJ, pictured here, came up from Santa Barbara and was in on most of the same workouts that I did. This kid is going to be a beast! He has alot of heart and is very strong, especially on any kind of squats. He seems to have a great life plan too. I believe he's going to be the owner of a very successful Crossfit gym in the next few years. I've always been intrigued by people that have things so planned out. I have pretty much just taken life as it comes and have never really been good at long-term planning. I guess there's pro's and con's to both personality types.

Having CJ in those classes definitely had me digging alot deeper than I normally do. I am going to have to find some way to find that extra push down deep. When your a little over the halfway point in a workout and feeling spent it's very hard to pick up the pace. Pushing yourself when you're totally out of breath and full of fatigue is hard enough all by itself. With CJ there I was somehow actually able to find it in myself to pick-up my pace towards the end. This is something I believe is hard to come by unless you have a competitor right behind, or out in front, of you.

The trainers at Crossfit NSC have been great. The tailored my workouts around my hamstring and kept me in top form. I believe this also caused fast healing to my injury. When it comes to nutrition and fitness Crossfit trainers are the ones to trust.

Instead of me posting my workouts for you to view just click here.. http://crossfitnsc.com/wod/index.php scroll down to go back in time. Sometimes you have to click the comments to see the scores.

Until next time...........................

It's Been Awhile

I haven't posted in quite along time. I'm not sure how it happened but things got really busy all of the sudden. Work has been crazy, softball season started and coaching the team has taken alot of the evening times, Britnee had her second child (a boy, my third grand-child), and there has been lots of family stuff going on.

We always refer to core stability at Crossfit. Well in costruction stabily is key as well. Here you see a steel moment frame being added to a home for stability.

As far as fitness goes I have still been charging hard at Crossfit North Santa Cruz. On the 13th I had a low hamstring pull on my left leg and had to avoid running and some leg exercises this week. It feels mostly healed except for sprints I think I can get back to doing just about anything this upcoming week. Luckily I didn't pop it and it has healed surprisingly fast. Everyone prepared me for this to be a long slow process. Being 45 years old I assumed it would be a slow heal. I'm sure diet and the crossfit way of doing things has aided, but I'm quite happy with the healing time.

During last week when I had to modify some of the workouts for my injury I focused more on upper body intensity. All of the sudden I have been able to do a few of movements that I didn't have before. First, I finally got muscle-ups. I can't believe how much mental this movement is. Once I got one I could do a few in a row without problem. Second, I figured handstand push-ups out. I went form thinking there was no way I could do anything more than a negative to being able to get 5 in a row. Again, very mental. Once your brain realizes you can do one they become much easier. Lastly, I went up the rope w/o legs. Athough I have gotten pretty good on the rope this exercise was my nemesis last fall and I had no idea I would be able to do "ams only" assents, ever.

If you really want to have sore arms do some muscle-ups and legless rope climbs and feel the lingering pain. While I have learned these new movements I really haven't progressed much on the double unders. Of course I couldn't work on these while my hammy was bad, but with my rythem I'm not sure it would matter. Hopefully the will just click one of these days.

I'll try to post with some sort of regularity from now on. Until then keep hitting it hard.............