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What a CrossFit Injury Taught Me About My Thought Life
Thinking too much can be dangerous.
I couldn’t feel my thumbs.
CrossFit was new to me. Actually, training in general was new to me. It had only been about six months since I started going to any kind of gym. But from the moment that I started working out, CrossFit was calling my name. I was attracted to the challenge, the competition, and the sport. Only one problem: in Canada, CrossFit was too expensive.
So, when I arrived in Colombia for a six-week stay, I signed up at a local box. It was an affordable way for me to try it out and a fresh way to get to know a city I had visited many times before.
Time was up. Soaked with sweat and breathing hard, I sat down. With the Workout of the Day done, I started the cooldown and stretch. As my heart rate approached normalcy, I noticed that I couldn’t feel my thumbs. I remembered feeling my hand going numb during the workout… and how I had ignored it. I pressed the nail of my pointer finger into my thumb’s skin. Nothing. Moving over to lean against the wall, I drank some agua and assumed that the feeling would come back soon. It probably just fell asleep.
The feeling did return to my thumbs…
seven days later.
