Ow. Just... ow

When someone tells you that you're going to crawl across the room, you don't think it will be terribly taxing. Even though you've done about 40 front squats, 40 presses, some kettlebell swings, and 100lb barbell deadlifts, etc etc etc. I'm pretty sure the bear crawl was intended to make adults look stupid, question their brain/body connections and give the instructor a good laugh. Our Elements group provided all of this entertainment last night, and then some.

We were especially entertaining when we started doing broad jumps, and if anyone in your line was off balance on their landing your group had to do 3 burpees; and I was the first one who stutter stepped and caused my line to have to do said burpees (but someone else did it later so I didn't feel quite so rotten). Jumping is what screwed up my achilles when I used to do Bosu ball drills with my old trainer, so I'm not really a fan. Plus my ligaments and tendons have to hold up a lot more weight than most of the people in my class, so I'm just glad I haven't completely ruptured something at this point.

My hands and knees are tender from the beating they took yesterday after doing a series of bear crawls (front and back), my knees hurt because my IT band is all jacked (presumably from squatting with toes that are angled too far out), and my left ankle feels... "loose." My right hip (well, on my back above my right hip) is tight, so clearly I am all sorts of messed up. Yet I looked at the WOD today (since after last night I am able to go to unlimited WODs until the end of the month) and I want to go. But I think I will give myself a day to rest and recover before I get all Olympic athlete on myself, and probably get more sore.

Last night's WOD:

Bear crawl the length of the gym and back
15 sit ups
10 KB swings (14 KGs for me)

Repeat til we're done.

Again with the "repeat til we're done." I ended doing 3 full rounds and a half round of the bear crawl before it was all over. And then I made my first sweat angel. And someone told me that I was her hero and that I definitely knew my way around the gym, and my strength showed. That was pretty awesome, and almost made me forget the previous 80 minutes.

And with that, I am going out on a limb and showing you my somewhat awesome upper back muscles. Please ignore the other chub.