Small annoying ones. A few strains in my shoulders and elbows, knee had a fat pad impingement and patellar tendinitis. Have been wrestling with the knee since August, shoulder and elbows we're getting hurt earlier in the year. Luckily those issues have subsided and I'm stuck on knee pain.

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Are you more talking about then putting things in the WOD that you have to scale? I could see why that is frustrating. But dude are you seeing progress in these movements? Are you dropping weight? Are you getting stronger. If the answer is no then you need to find a new gym, cause based on your posts you go frequent enough.

Nah scaling movements isn't frustrating for me. I dropped 20lbs in one year since starting, but not much. As always I struggle to lose weight, despite my diet being pretty good. I struggle with eating enough calories to feel good in the WODs vs losing weight. I don't lose at a decent clip unless I'm at about 1900-2k cals, but workouts start feeling like arse when I'm eating at that intake. I'm currently doing RP, 4.5 weeks in and not much change yet..workouts feel good though.

I think you may be onto something as to why I'm losing interest. I'm not progressing anymore. I'm not losing much weight, my max lifts haven't gone up, and my cardio hasn't gotten better in some time. Throw in work stress and a newborn, and I'm feeling run down and stagnant.

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Posted by Lester Earl

Member since Nov 2003

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Posted on 11/21/18 at 9:41 am to Hulkklogan

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Long enough that I get looks sometimes from the coach as if they question the validity.

That shouldn’t be happening. Hopefully it’s just your conscience but wrong otherwise. Our coaches are great at “this not that” when it comes to dealing with injuries.

Knees are tough, especially big guy like you. Do you keep pushing it, because let’s face it, weight loss & strength are the only ways it will get better in the long run. Or do you ease off of it & risk losing gains while it heals.

Got to dial in the diet man. For every pound you lose you lose pounds of pressure of your knee joints at a time.

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think you may be onto something as to why I'm losing interest. I'm not progressing anymore. I'm not losing much weight, my max lifts haven't gone up, and my cardio hasn't gotten better in some time.

So you never explained what you meant by intensity. If your workouts are intense & you are seeing no gains then you need to pinpoint the reason. Is it stuff at home or is it the programming?

Generally speaking, Having each coach program for a month is a red flag to me. Without knowing their background. Because we have coaches that are basically just there to get the class thru the workouts. Then we have L2 & L3 certified guys that are more advanced, that can write & understand programming. Not just stuff that is “weeeeeeee this sounds fun!!”

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Posted by lsu777

Lake Charles

Member since Jan 2004

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Posted on 11/27/18 at 9:33 pm to Hulkklogan

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Hulkklogan

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. I dropped 20lbs in one year since starting, but not much

So hulk, reading the above and I have some questions for you

1) do you feel you should have lost more?
2) do you feel like the programming is conducive to your goals?
3) what is the reason you do CrossFit?
4) with all the added stressors in your life do you not feel like maybe something with maybe less CNS fatigue would be better for reaching your goals at the moment?
5) is CrossFit still fun?

I ask these questions because at your size, if you are watching your diet like you have posted you are, you should have lost triple that amount in one year.

I can give you tips to get your weight loss going or write you a program that you can do at the box and then do their prescribed WOD with a time cap or you could go see the brute guys at redstick and get on their brute body program.

Answer the above and I can help. Honestly I think the first option is prolly going to be the answer. And 20lbs on a year is not acceptable.

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