callous

I'm getting hands like a cowboy.  Gristled. Calloused.  Torn-up.  That's what you get when office hands meet the pull-up bar.  We did a nice workout at CrossFit a couple days ago - 10 pull-ups, then 15 box jumps, repeat 5 times.  The workouts always sound so short and sweet.  It's two little moves.  But at the completion of 50 pull-ups, and 75 box jumps, dripping wet, torn, pained, laying on the floor looking at the steel beams in the warehouse roof you get a different perspective.  It's not like working out at the YMCA.  No one falls to the floor in a pool of sweat at the Y.  But people routinely do it at CrossFit. 

When I get up there's a nice little sweat angel on the floor.  Eewww.

Yesterday we did medicine ball cleans for 1 minute, then burpies for 1 minute with 30 seconds rest between each move.  Repeat 5 times.  Again, sounds kind of easy but I felt weakened after the first round.  CrossFit is intense fitness.  I can see why and how people are getting hooked on it.  I think it was likely created by the Orthopedic and physical therapy industries as a means to increase revenue.  My long term swimming shoulder is throbbing even now.