25 Injury Insights Every CrossFit Enthusiast Needs to Know

By Carina Huggins

2010 was the year of Crossfit for my husband and I. Our world was rocked with new friendships, a new lifestyle and new bodies. It bought us even closer. I went balls to the wall. Trail running, Crossfitting, paleo and some pretty epic stuff: Triathlon? Sure! Sign me up! Duathlon? Why the hell not! Muddy mountain trail run? Duh.

Life couldn’t get better.

Two years before Crossfit I was in an MVA and injured my back. My progress was careful, heavily regulated and very modified. Like many people, I experienced dramatic improvements in strength. I went from struggling with a 45 lb deadlift to PRing at 185 by the end of the year. My pain disappeared during WoDs and seemed to come and go in cycles instead of being constant. I had spent 2 years being ground down by pain and prescriptions, now I was thriving and had thrown those prescriptions out. However, after 120 WoDs in February 2011 I walked out of my first WoD. I laid on the ground in tears.

It seems stupid to me now but I had taken on the “Suck it up” mentality. I didn’t want to be that chick that was always whining about hurting. I’d grimace and tell concerned coaches that I could push through. That night in February, as I laid on a Canadian ice pack (snow in a ziplock bag), I got the talk from a coach: Back off of the WoDs and start dealing with things. I was told that I was using WoDs as a distraction from the pain, and that my determination was doing more harm than help.

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