{"id":130,"date":"2008-01-21T09:46:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T09:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/why-ive-had-3-weeks-off-crossfit\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T09:46:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T09:46:51","slug":"why-ive-had-3-weeks-off-crossfit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/why-ive-had-3-weeks-off-crossfit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;ve Had 3 Weeks Off Crossfit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I hurt my right elbow at my brothers Stag Do whilst driving the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/24\/weekend-stag-do\/\">off road Tomcars<\/a>.  It&#8217;s been playing me up ever since but was never enough to stop me doing Crossfit.<\/p>\n<p>In the run up to Christmas <strong>however it got worse<\/strong>, basically a pain whenever lifting with it.  I was finding it harder and harder to do things like Push Presses, Cleans etc so eventually went to the physio just before Christmas.  She advised me to scale back what I was doing and I did for a few weeks, but it didn&#8217;t help.  So <strong>I decided to take 2 weeks off<\/strong> as complete rest.<\/p>\n<p>Well the news is good and bad.  <strong>The good news<\/strong> is that when I do get pain, the pain is less severe.  <strong>The bad news<\/strong> is, that I&#8217;m getting pain a lot more.  Even doing normal stuff round the house like washing my face, opening a jar, etc.  Even driving was giving me jip the other day.  This is 4 months after banging it and after 3 weeks complete rest.<\/p>\n<p>Yes it&#8217;s been 3 weeks as despite my intentions to go back after 2, I realised it was too soon.  Also, it&#8217;s surprising how quick you can get out of the habit of going down the gym.  I had several days last week when I really intended to, it just never seemed convenient.  I guess <strong>I need to go back to the physio<\/strong> \/ quacks these week to see what can be done&#8230;.?<\/p>\n<p>Still, <strong>I went back to Crossfit on Saturday<\/strong>, it was always going to be bad but especially the heavy running component was hard.  The Pose Running technique I&#8217;m trying is definitely helping reduce my calve pain when running, which is excellent news, but I found it hard to maintain the pose whilst knackered.  More work to be done there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try to go 2-3 times a week from now on again, until my elbow sorts itself out.  <strong>It&#8217;s damn frustrating<\/strong> constantly having to do substitutes, especially when it&#8217;s all the heavy lifting that I like, and can&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I hurt my right elbow at my brothers Stag Do whilst driving the off road Tomcars. It&#8217;s been playing me up ever since but was never enough to stop me doing Crossfit. In the run up to Christmas however it got worse, basically a pain whenever lifting with it. I was finding it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crossfit","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}