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Saturday, March 14;

Team workout Trevor destroyed me and my shoulder.

I'm done, and I don't know whether it is the lack of sleep, the constant push to be on the go, or the shoulder recovery. Right now, I am sitting at my desk at work. I am updated my blog instead of doing research that I desperately need to do. I'm icing my shoulder, and I've taken a healthy dose of Alleve. Exhaustion is setting in despite the multi cups of coffee I have ingested, and I'm in some serious pain. My body is aching all over. My arms are tired. My shoulder is throbbing, and my back is on fire.

In general I'm a work horse. I live on very little sleep, and I function at a fairly high level of outpoint. When I burnout I do it hard. It's a serious crash and burn.

Sometimes team workouts are good. They encourage you to work hard not only for your sake but for the sake of others. You feel obligated to push harder than you may for your own benefit. You want to see your team succeed, and you want that to happen despite your own limitations. At least that's how I see it. Of course, I pushed too hard today. I subbed out pullups for jumping pullups, which weren't too terrible. My downfall was the pushup. I didn't really sub I just modified. Knee pushups. I knew by pushup #50 or so that I should stop, but I didn't I kept going. I pushed through pain. That may be good for athletes in good health to do, but when you're in recovery pushing through pain is unacceptable. I've been pretty good with stopping when I experience pain. Today, the desire to fight through it for the team's sake got to me. I wanted to win. I wanted them to win. I wanted to carry my weight. I should know better.

It's easy to be hard, but it's hard to be smart.

WOD
"Team Trevor"
300 Pullups
400 Pushups
500 Situps
600 Squats
26:??

Way to be Pat, Andrea and Harold!