Once again I'm out injured for a week. At first I felt angry about this, since I've been making some outstanding gains in recent weeks. I soon got over it, and figured I can use the time I'm taking to recover from a overzealous Fran attempt on Wednesday to contemplate my Crossfit experience.
I love the Crossfit philosophy, and while some would blame my bum groin and shoulder on a bad program, the fault is all my own. Despite the obvious fact that prescribed WODs are developed for guys who are significantly stronger than I am (watch any of the videos on the website, then compare their solid physiques to the 172# pencil that I am), I continuously attempt to push my WODs to match the website WOD. The problem with this is obvious; if I can bench press, shoulder press, and deadlift half of what the Crossfit rockstars can do, I probably should not be attempting to Fran anywhere near 95# yet. Not that this isn't a reachable goal for me, but I'm guessing I will need to be able to shoulder press 135# comfortably, and front squat 135# ten times easily before I should even attempt a full Fran. For me, 21-15-9 thrusters would probably make more sense at 55 or 65 pounds, rather than the 80# I settled on after a futile first attempt at 95#.
To shorten a 10K story, while resting my bum body for a week, I'm going to reconsider what weights I should be attempting to do some of these workouts at. Obviously any single modality heavy day, or any bodywieght exercise can still be done as prescribed. It's only some of the mixed modality WODs with prescribed weights that are tearing the crap out of me.
Here's to a week on the couch. :(
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