Deltoid injury?

[Catrin]

Yes Ridebikeme, we certainly have to be careful with how we address our movements. That is why I love my group training environment. Our coach is an old-fashioned strength and conditioning coach. He does use Crossfit methodology, along with other tools. He strongly insists on proper form. There are certain things I am not allowed to attempt, or must scale because I cannot perform them properly, and on other things he makes me stop if my form starts to deteriorate. As he keeps telling us, weight doesn't matter if we can't perform the movement right.

I am the slowest and weakest in my group - and that is OK, this is not about ego. I am also the oldest I've seen SO much physical improvement in the last 11 months of doing this - and this is the closest thing to an injury I've had. No matter that I am the slow one, I can do things that I once never dreamed of. I love this, but I would probably not join a straight CrossFit box unless the coaches had the same kind of background. There has to be the knowledge base to know HOW and WHEN to scale the work properly for different limitations. The interesting thing is my neck does much better when I do this 3 times a week, if I drop down to twice a week my neck complains.

What happened Thursday had a bit of ego to it, we were doing a different type of pushup and I was so initially pleased at being able to do it that I started ignoring my body. That won't happen again.

In a way it is good it happened, because it is pointing to a probable root cause of my overall shoulder/scapular dysfunction and THAT is huge! It just hurt SO MUCH Thursday night that I really thought it was something far worse.