A Present to My Body

So since February I have been doing Crossfit intense WODs at Crossfit Central 5 days a week (M, W, TH,F, Sat). I've been "resting" on Tuesdays and Sundays. But usually one of those days I try to do yoga or running so it's not even really resting. Well, the past two weeks by the fourth day in a row of working out my body has been screaming at me to rest. On Thursday of this week we did cleans and then Friday morning I did more cleans, and by Friday night, my shoulders hurt so bad that Geoff tried to massage them and I was literally screaming in pain. I've decided to stop doing Saturday workouts. This means my new workout schedule is Crossfit Women's on M, W, Th and then Crossfit Co-ed on Fridays.

So it's Saturday right now and I didn't workout and mentally, I was feeling lazy and want to beat myself up. But I'm sitting outside right now on my back porch and I took a moment to stop and listen to my body and I feel like my body is saying thank you. I need to learn balance and recovery. So it starts today. I am going to take Saturdays off completely. No yoga, no running. Sundays I am going to run. And on Tuesdays I will do very gentle yoga in my garage. I'm going to test this out for April and May and take some Advocare Night Time recovery. You're welcome, body.