Trainer no more

Lynette couldn't see any way to make it happen either so I had to send Darren and Tamaryn an email saying I couldn't live up to my end of the deal as one of their trainers.

I'm bitterly disappointed. Becoming a good trainer was something that was and is very important to me and the experience I had told me I could do it. Running group classes were a huge leap for me and I did a very poor job of it, mainly through being too self-conscious. If I stopped trying too hard it started to come together, but it was going to be a long slog until I could get myself out of the way of myself. I know that means, it's my blog, anyone else can go figure it out for themselves. One-on-one I'm reasonably happy with where I'm at. In that I know enough and can teach it well enough so that people can learn movements from me, be safe and get well on the way to being good CrossFitters. Am I as good as I want to be? Hell no! I still compare myself to Jeff and will always hold him as my gold standard for coaching CrossFit. I'm frustratingly deficient in drills to teach the movements, the olympic lifts in particular and that's something I want to address. Doing so was one of the things I enjoyed most about training.
I really loved working with complete beginners and teaching them the fundamentals. That's enormous fun.

So I'm out.
I'll still be involved with CFNZ where and when I can. Once I get past this effing cold and have established some sort of base fitness I'll have time to train there some of the time now.
I don't blame Darren and Tamaryn at all for the requirements they've implemented. They're very sensible and they're part of a really excellent program for developing their trainers that will set CFNZ up very well and that's good for CF in NZ. Hopefully there will be ways I can help them with that.

For now I'm thinking about how I can structure my training when I'm up to it. Thinking about things I want to include in my warm-ups/buy-ins and picking movements from Ido's Blog for cash outs. He has lots of great bodyweight movements that don't require equipment and excellent progressions to learn them. And I like capoeira, so this gives me a chance to pretend I'm learning some of the elements. If you want to humble yourself, try that Shrimp movement of his. http://idoportal.blogspot.com/2009/08/explosive-leg-workout.html

Meeting at CFNZ

Darren and Tamaryn organised a meeting of trainers at CFNZ to explain the formal process they're putting in place to intern trainers.
The system is very good and nicely thought through. They have some nice documents drawn up that outline the graduated process they'll be implementing.

The problem for me comes from the requirement that CFNZ trainers train at CFNZ at least twice a week. It's free, so no financial outlay, but I really don't see how I can make it. To honour my commitments to work, my family, other organisations and my interests outside of CF I can only give up so many nights a week. For example if I train at home I can take my turn at cooking dinner and fix computers, work on websites for other people etc. It's just a matter of walking out the back door to the shed to use the equipment and I can check on the progress of a PC rebuild between warm-up and workout.
I could still coach at CFNZ, which was my plan when I locked in 2 nights to coach as a fixed schedule. I'd decided I would train at home when I could and put becoming a better coach as priority. I was prepared to set my training aside to pursue that. Now I don't have that option so I have to see if I can make it work. I don't know that I can. A lot to think about.

I walked to the train, then from the train station to CFNZ, 30 minutes and 20 minutes respectively, then after the meeting walked back to the train station to catch the train to meet Lynette at Sylvia park. I pretty much collapsed at eh Panmure train station and was a wreck for the rest of the weekend, dragging myself around.

The cold/'flu has really left me little in way of reserves. I can see it's going to be a long road back from this thing. I don't feel week, but I have no stamina at all.

Man down

I spent the weekend furiously cleaning the house to be ready for a visit by the landlords on Sunday. I apparently depleted reserves a bit because on Sunday my scapular retractors had cramped tight and I had a splitting headache. That's a common headache pattern for me and it's been triggered by snatch grip deadlifts before, so they may not have been a good choice for a rehab workout. I think in this case the lingering 'flu/cold was at least partly to blame.

I was a waste of space at work on Monday and on Tuesday I went home after a few hours. Finally went to the doctors on Thursday as I seemed to have a sinus infection. The headachy sinus feeling had been with me even when everything else had died down and it was the centre of my misery then. Antibiotics cleared that up and now it's a matter of resting and waiting for the runny nose and cough to die down

Scapular retractor wrecker

I've missed a couple someplace.
Not timing WODs means I don't keep records and it's been a while.

I know on this day I did
5 rounds NFT
Run 200m
10? x 60kg Snatch grip deadlift

Felt fine and the run wasn't a shambling disaster.

See next post for what happened next.

Overhead Fran

21-15-9
Pull-ups
20kg OHS

OHS were hard! Shoulders not up to it.
A heavy OHS day is in my near future to wake them up.

I should have warmed up more, my shoulders were a bit strained after that.