Defined Fitness

The last few months, I’ve been putting all my trust in the process.

I took a break from CrossFit for 2 reasons:
1. A stupid injury that stopped me from lifting overhead
2. Burnout, and the loss of a passion for training

None of these 2 reasons are because of CrossFit, let me make that clear.
I LOVE CROSSFIT.
I love it’s structure, and the exercise choices, and it’s focus of getting strong and fit for every day life.
I love that it’s adaptable to all ages, fitness levels, and even disabilities.
I love the competition aspect and the community feel. It’s brilliant!

The injury:
Shoulder impingement doesn’t only come from training, it can come from your body structure, and biomechanics. Its onset could’ve come from packing boxes away at home, or picking up a child, or sleeping funny, or just ugly posture.
It hurts to move weight overhead, and the pain lingers through the day in the night. Your strength is diminished pretty quickly, and it’s so noticeable between both sides of my shoulders.
I can’t tell you how demotivating it is to go from lifting a 45kg strict press, to barely finish 10reps at 15kg, without pain.
The good news, is we are getting there. I’m slowly building up my strength, and managing to train, adjusted, without pain. Baby steps.

The Burn Out:
I’ve spent post-covid working my butt off to the point of exhaustion, and the energy to power through a metcon is just not there anymore. The passion kinda dwindled. The thought of finishing a 12hour day, some days, and getting through a HIIT session makes me feel ill, because I know it’ll just exhaust me even further, not to mention the fear of tweaking the shoulder again.
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Snackaholic over here bringing your around 100 calories of simple snacks, for every occasion 🤤

Ramadan Kareem to all my Muslim friends & clients 🌙

Here’s cheat sheet on how to maximize your nutrition during this month:
1. When breaking fast, try incorporate a lot of high fibre foods to reduce your insulin spikes, and to keep you fuller.
2. Stay hydrated, not only by sipping water through the evening, but by eating foods with high water content, like cucumbers, tomatoes, watermelon & cantaloupe
3. Eat high protein foods at Suhoor, with moderate fats, to help keep you fuller throughout the day.

Isn’t she fabulous? ❤️‍🔥
10 years after leaving Doha, my mom popped in to finally see her old stomping ground.

Watch this reel by jade.upton on Instagram .upton: “Turns out, a week full of cocktails, seafood and sun might be just what one needs to hit a new PB 😂…”

GET
UP ⬆️
AND
GO➡️

SUMMER IS COMING👀🌞

Otherwise, you well? 🥂

And so, we bid “farewell” to the CrossFit Open for 2022. Good riddance 🥲🤕
But a great wake up call to measure just how far behind I am from where I was before - and now it’s time to put in the hard yards for a successful training year ahead of me.
Which was your favourite 2022 Open Workout?
I’ll go first: 22.1🤸🏻‍♀️

Aunty Jadie is very happy🥰