Rest Days Make you WEAK (or so I thought)

well after what has been a very productive week, last night I had a minor setback. I had a great workout dont get me wrong, but I tweaked my upper back muscles ever so slightly. It feels like when you pull a muscle from holding in a sneeze. It is not too painful, but will not allow for too much rotation of my upper body- very frustrating.

Strength-
I decided to try and work up to a max on snatch. We did not have anything on the agenda, so I figured I barely snatch anything so it wouldnt tired me out. I watched a video with Olympic weightlifting Mike Burgener and learned a lot. I decided to apply some of his practices, and got good results. I worked up to 135 which was my previous max and hit it very easy. I was balancing the weight very well and staying on my heels in the squat. I put 155 on and hit that pretty easily as well. This had taken about 30 minutes to work up to this so I felt kind of rushed since Tiffany was waiting on me to do the WOD. I attempted 165 once and failed but had it over my head, just too far forward on my toes. I know I could have gotten it if I would have attempted it again, but felt like I was taking too long. Nonetheless, a 20# PR is a great way to start the day.

WOD
4 Rounds
6 Ground to overhead 185#
200m run

This WOD looks super easy to me on paper, but it whooped my butt. 185 is light for me and I felt like I would put down a great time. Our trainer who was the "test dummy" did it in 8:35 and I thought that was very long. My strategy was to do a deadlift, then a hang clean to push press. I did not hold the bar on my chest, it was immediately clean and press. I thought the run would be more of a sprint since it was only 200m, but the ground to overhead smoked your legs. I maintained a steady jog at about a 50-55 second pace. The ground to overheads were not a problem and I moved steadily through the WOD, but not as fast as I assumed. I finished in 8:41, just 6 seconds off the fastest time. Not bad, but I should have been better.

Tiffany has said that she thinks my little tweaks of injuries are from over training. I think she is crazy, but nonetheless, I am go to start "resting". I will still go to the gym, but spend a lot of time mobilizing and not even doing the WOD. I may do a couple 400, double unders, or situps, but nothing crazy. I am going to only lift strength 3 days a week as well. I hate resting, but it is better to rest and be 100% than be sore and tweak muscles. I feel soft for taking a rest day, but hopefully it will help in the long run.