Tuesday

Finished up my "returning from a long trip" chores in the morning and tried to come up with a quick workout schedule for the week that would take it easy on my hurt left shin and left elbow.

As I getting my schedule worked out, I realized I should look up my elbow injury and see if there is any rehab for it.  Hard to pinpoint whether its "tennis elbow" versus "golf elbow" but its definitely one of those.  I found some stretches for tennis elbow and did those.  Then noticed that there were athletic braces for tennis elbow, but they just looked like elastic straps that went around the forearm, just below the elbow.  I have a tough elastic wrist brace so I tried wearing it for the day's workouts to see how it went.

Got to the gym at the usual 2ish.  Surprisingly saw Padawan Jodie.  Haven't seen him all summer since he was taking summer classes and working for his dad.  Chatted for a bit.  He's getting back in the gym but having to take it easy due to a pretty rough wrist injury.

5:00 rowing warm up, but with the resistance on 10/10.  10:00 of stretching afterwards.

First:
Crossfit 081012
7 Rounds, for time:
21 x 75lbs Shoulder Press
21 Back Extensions

First time for this wod.  Figured it would be a rough one, and it was.  The back extensions were easy, I did all of those unbroken.  Not so much on the shoulder press.  I can shoulder press 75lbs easy, but doing it 147 times is not easy.  First set unbroken, everything after that was in groups of 4-6.  Finished in 28:31.

Second:
Well, I wanted to do abs, then a SealFit wod, and then biking, but my friend Brian texted me asking if I wanted to go see a super matinee movie that afternoon.  Unfortunately it was in roughly 50min.  Quickly ran upstairs and pedaled hard on a stationary bike for about 8min, then got my stuff from the locker and headed home.

Elbow felt good today.  Hard to tell if it was the stretches or the brace but either way, no pain afterwards.  When I got back into my car to drive home, I immediately took the strap off and put an ice pack directly on the elbow.  No problems the rest of the day so I'm going to keep doing the stretches, using the brace, and icing it after workouts and see what happens.