...that's what I've resorted to. My nostrils can take no more blowing. They've been rubbed raw and have recently requested to be fired one barrell at a time.I've always had pretty bad allergies but this year seems to be worse than normal. Towards the end of last week I started feeling a bit stuffy...by Sunday things had progressed to a full blown sinus infection. I just dealt with one in April right before Regionals- got a ZPack then and it cleared up pretty fast. This one is worse and despite getting another ZPack script, I can tell its gonna linger for a bit. I took off Sunday and Monday and didn't train. Today I did "Angie" (100 Squats, Pull Ups, Push Ups, and Sit Ups) and then did 50 Double KB Front Squats w/ 55lb KBs, 50 Ring Push Ups, 50 Weighted Pull Ups @ 35lb, and 50 Knees to Elbows. I didn't care to keep time on any of it and I'm glad I didn't because it would have surely been depressing (I started prior to the CFS noon WOD and was still going when everyone was leaving at around 12:50). However, it felt great to move around, do a little work, and push hard here and there.
There was a wonderful energy in the CFS box today. I was there from 5am to 8:30pm and- even though I was spent by day's end- today was a great reminder of why I love what I do so much. It's a true blessing to see people show up each day and tap into a strength that dwells within themselves...there is nothing better than to witness doubt being replaced by confidence, hesitation taken over by initiative and action, and complacency triumphed by an overwhelming desire to progress and excel.
Kickin' it with the fam-dam-ily, for time!!! Freakin' great weekend, yo. We marinated by the pool for most of the time. I did get 200 push ups in on Saturday and 5 rounds of 5 reps 315lb deadlift & 10 Pull Ups then 5 rounds of 5 reps 135lb OHS & 10 Pull Ups followed by 5 rounds of 5 reps 135lb Thruster & 10 Pull Ups. Between each round I did 50 double unders. The globo-gymers at "Powerhouse" gym in Joplin didn't know what had hit them. It's easy to take forgranted the quality and quantity of work that we get done day in and day out at the CFS box. All I can think while I'm crossfitting at these feux-fitness places is "Good-LORD, aren't you bored out of your mind? It's been like 10 minutes since you've done your last set of anything?!" But, of course, when I roll in doing front squats and push presses, deadlifts and overhead squats, and 150 pull ups... people stare at me with this look on their face that says, "What?...Why are you workin' out like that?!" Really??? "Why aren't YOU working out like THIS, MUTHA TRUCKA?! I Pity da Foo stuck on the preachers curl lifting 25% of his body weight. I Pity da Foo seat-belted into the horizontal adduction pec dec machine squeezin' his own creatine filled boobies in between sets of 12. I Pity da Foo shoulda pressin' 545lb throughout a 4-inch range of motion on the smith machine. I Pity da Foo who be "run-walkin" for like 3 1/2 hours on the treadmill with the speed set on 3.0 while he texts his girlfriend to put the pizza in the oven. It's like my boy Henry said...Henry FORD: "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said a faster horse." Rumor has it, he went on to say that someday globogymers will be replaced by hardcore, freakishly strong, crossfitters just like muscle cars replaced pretty ponies in the 20th century.
