Grateful!!

Sooo...Honestly, I'm so grateful to God!!! okay grateful already sounds/looks weird to me so i'll use thankful!! My back has felt "broken" for the longest time and recently it's been getting better and better!! Last year, I injured my lower back from being stupid while doing snatches!! (i didn't bail when I was supposed to!!) and my back got messed for a couple of weeks!! and my dad said I may have slipped my disc a little! like a very minor slip, but a slip nonetheless! so i was like crap! but then it healed and i was back doing crossfit and then eventually got into cheerleading!  Cheerleading was a really fun time! :) not gonna lie! got much stronger and made friends with people I probably would not have been friends with if it wasn't for cheer! but...for those of you who know my love for crossfit and stuff, for the 8 months back in school, I didn't really get the chance to do crossfit so i sort of missed it a lot!! haha I still did compound movements in the gym, but...its different when ur doing WODs for time and competing against fellow strong people!! Anyways, I went back to crossfit immediately after i came back from school and screwed my back over ... AGAIN! The first WOD back for me was a regional WOD from last year! 21-15-9 of 315lbs Deadlfit and like 30in box jump or something.. it might not have been 30 inches, i don't rmb! but yeah!the frist 21 deadlifts were alright.. it was the remainder! and iw as like... "NO! i have to RX'd this" in my head! and i kept on going...rounding my back and crap just so i could finish when I should have scaled it!  Just to make it clear, Crossfit promotes people to scale when needed, so if i were to listen to them, i would have scaled it... it was out of pride that I didn't scale it! The fact that I thought i could do it.. and i did do it! lol but the consequence was that I screwed myi lower back for like.. 2 months! literally! It wasn't until last week was my back starting to feel significantly better! I told God and my brother (I guess to keep me accountable) that if i couldn't do a backflip by next practice (which was last sunday), I would quit cheer! and thankyou God! I literally didn't feel better until the day before practice! and during practice I was able to whip out 3 decent back tucks! the rest were fail, but my back didn't hurt while doing them whereas last time it would!

Just yesterday, I was able to power clean&jerk 225lbs! and front squat 295lbs!! and honestly, I'm happy with those lifts!!  I can say that my back is at least 90% back to normal!  because cleans and front squats require strong core and back! and my back didn't hurt yesterdday!! i'm not going to lie though, there are still some positions where my back will hurt and the occasional sneeze will cause slight pain to my lower back! and putting on pants and stuff still sort of hurts, but thank GOD its SOO MUCH better!!! literally, i couldn't even round my back at al lbefore.. even getting out of bed hurt, putting on pants was a mission and if i had to pick up something from the ground... LOOL yeah that would suck!! but yeah! :D i'm just so happy that i'm healed!! and I will not abuse the fact that I actually healed! cos honestly, during the last 2 months, i felt soooo handicapped! and it really sucked.. and i honestly thought i was gonna be like that forever! LOl so i'm just happy! Thanks God!

Smile! and be happy!

Jireh!!