I got hurt on my first day back to CrossFit

Well, my name wouldn’t be Laiken if I didn’t hurt myself on my first day back at the gym.

I was super excited for today, but also nervous. Like, “felt like I was going to puke before we even started working out” nervous.

I knew going into today that I wasn’t going to be at the same fitness level as when I was when I left CrossFit a year ago. I knew that my body was not only out of shape, but still recovering from pregnancy and my 2nd C-section.

But when you step into our box, you want nothing more than to push yourself.

Today’s workout just so happened to be using the bar and doing lots of power cleans. And I mean LOTS. I was excited about it, because I used to be pretty good at cleans. I was confident that I could hang today.

When it comes to strength, I wasn’t too far off of my past 1 RM (RM = rep max) from last year. I didn’t have a power clean max in Wodify, but I did have a clean. My last 1 RM was 6/29/2015 at 75 lbs. I remembered this, so I felt pretty good that I could still clean that.

After we found our heaviest weight, we went to 90% of it and then had 8 minutes to do as many power cleans with that weight as possible.

Well, the math part of my brain must have been so shocked that I was back to working out that it just stopped working, because I used 62.5 lbs instead of 67.5 lbs that I should have.

But besides the math mistake, I started with that weight and it was going great! Then Miss Morgan started fussing and needed a paci in her mouth really quick!

Pain shot down the right hand side

I was on rep 11. I went to go lift my twelfth rep and that’s when the pain shot down the right hand side of my lower back/hip.

I tried to lift again and knew that it wasn’t going to happen.

I flagged our coach, Sara, down and asked her what to do. She said I could go lighter or try kettlebell high-pulls instead.

I elected to try the kettlebells. I picked the weight and bent over to get them. A big Nope!!! At this point, bending down radiated pain.

Sara decided to get me to roll my back/hip/butt with a lacrosse ball. So for the rest of the time I was there, I was rolling it out and doing stretches.

Well that is humbling!

I knew that I’d have a long road ahead of me, but I didn’t expect to get hurt on the 1st day back.

After talking to Sara more, we decided the best plan for me is to focus on stretching and gaining my core strength back. A huge reason why my back/hip was strained is because my abs are so weak from pregnancy and the C-section.

So while I thought my form was okay, I definitely wasn’t able to engage my abs as much, because they just aren’t there!

Even though today didn’t go as planned, and ended with Tylenol and Deep Blue Rub, we do have a plan for the future!

It’s going to involve a slow and steady pace, and I’m not sure I can see the light in the tunnel yet, but I know this is the best route for me to be on the road to get fit again!

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