Underground, 343 challenge and feeling destroyed
This has been an interesting week. Monday and Tuesday I did normal crazy stuff like I normally do I should have written them down. Tuesday I woke up and not know exactly what happened by my shoulder felt like it used. Lots of pain and numbness. Wed I did a light easy wod with kettle bells and push ups to get everything lose again. Thursday still feeling rough and beat up but I had to try the underground. I did almost all of it minus the last row it was a very light but killer shoulder wod. Working mobility made all the difference because even though it was sore it wasn't hurt so I pushed it.
Friday was 9/11 a day that holds a lot of significance to me it is the day that I decided that I should look into the military. It was a day that I think every American for a short time stopped being anything other than American. So when I got to the box I was trying to figure out what I could do that day that would favor my aches and pains and not push it to hard. The wod of the day was the 343 Challenge. It is a wod that is done in memory of the 343 first responders that lost their life in the attacks. I sat there for a minute thinking about those people that had to go running into that hell without any thought for how they felt or what else was going on in their life. I could not miss this wod. The 343 challenge is:
100 Deadlifts 145lbs
100 Cleans 95lbs
100 Ground 2 Overhead
43 Burpees
This took me a long time to get through 59 minutes to be exact. As I started everything just started to hurt my shoulder my legs nothing felt right or good. I had to dig deep and tell myself that those people that were at that scene had no choice to stop and say this is to much I am to hurt. They just pushed through until their bodies could no longer move.
This is part of the reason I work out like I do. Being in shape is a great thing it nice to know that you can just go run a couple of miles and it is not that big of a deal. That is not the reason I train like I do. I train because even though I am just a recruiter I signed a contract to support and defend the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. I train so that no matter what happens I can be ready to help out those that I agree to protect. This can be something as simple as carrying someones groceries to their car or as extreme as what the Airman did in France saving all those people on that train. My goal is to be able to maintain a level of fitness that will allow me to be supportive to my fellow Americans any time they need my assistance for as long as they need.
Friday was 9/11 a day that holds a lot of significance to me it is the day that I decided that I should look into the military. It was a day that I think every American for a short time stopped being anything other than American. So when I got to the box I was trying to figure out what I could do that day that would favor my aches and pains and not push it to hard. The wod of the day was the 343 Challenge. It is a wod that is done in memory of the 343 first responders that lost their life in the attacks. I sat there for a minute thinking about those people that had to go running into that hell without any thought for how they felt or what else was going on in their life. I could not miss this wod. The 343 challenge is:
100 Deadlifts 145lbs
100 Cleans 95lbs
100 Ground 2 Overhead
43 Burpees
This took me a long time to get through 59 minutes to be exact. As I started everything just started to hurt my shoulder my legs nothing felt right or good. I had to dig deep and tell myself that those people that were at that scene had no choice to stop and say this is to much I am to hurt. They just pushed through until their bodies could no longer move.
This is part of the reason I work out like I do. Being in shape is a great thing it nice to know that you can just go run a couple of miles and it is not that big of a deal. That is not the reason I train like I do. I train because even though I am just a recruiter I signed a contract to support and defend the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. I train so that no matter what happens I can be ready to help out those that I agree to protect. This can be something as simple as carrying someones groceries to their car or as extreme as what the Airman did in France saving all those people on that train. My goal is to be able to maintain a level of fitness that will allow me to be supportive to my fellow Americans any time they need my assistance for as long as they need.
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