EndlessBeauty.com is the new website I’m working on, and it is absolutely awesome. The concept is awesome, the team is stellar, and the office is like a sorority house. For the month of April, we’re taking on the Endless Beauty Extreme Body Challenge, where we do Relentless Bootcamp coached by CrossFit Central’s Zach Thiel, a man who makes frequent cameos on this here blog.
I’m still trying to figure out what the schedule will be with this addition, but for Monday I hit up my usual .com class for a stellar strength + wod day:
3×5 Push Jerk (95-105-115)
5 Rounds:
40 doubleunder
30 box jumps (24″ box)
20 KB swings (16kg)
Time: 21:23
I was not properly hydrated and FELT it, ugh. Need to start carrying around my nalgene again, I need my H2O!
Recovered with a homemade green smoothie (frozen butternut squash, coconut water, milk, spinach, greens supplement) for the two of the day, Relentless Bootcamp with my team.
There, Zach put us through some good warmup stuff and we had a basic WOD:
4 Rounds:
20 squats
20 pushups
20 situps
20 medball swings
1 parking lot lap
Earlier in the day, my shoulder popped every time I did pushups, hurting mildly, but I didn’t think I had DONE anything, so I thought it wasn’t a big deal. Well, four hours later when I tried to do pushups at bootcamp, the pain was excruciating. After two rounds of slow, slow pushups, and sloppy ones at that because it didn’t hurt as bad to not lock out at the top, I switched to pushup plank holds to finish out the WOD. It was disappointing.
Last night my shoulder got stiffer and stiffer, and this morning I can barely move it without pain. This is bad news. I’m headed to workout now, but with limited shoulder movement I don’t know what will happen. Back to my buddy Dr. Kyler Brown at Austin Sports Therapy I will go …
Speaking of CrossFit injuries … check out my post on EndlessBeauty.com on “What is CrossFit?” It’s a basic exploration of what it is and the pros and cons. Kyler is one of those trainers who says “CrossFit works, but it wrecks your body.” Sigh.