Dealing With Injuries
by Sean Barker,CPT
Anybody who has been active in sports or weight training in particular for a number of years had to deal with an injury at one time or another. Whether it's a small muscle strain or a broken arm or leg. It usually swipes the rug out from under us right when our training is in its prime.
This is when you should draw upon your years of experience and "bite the bullet". You just have to accept what has happened and do whatever you have to do, for as long as it takes to let it heal and repair. Depending on the severity of your injury, you probably can work around it to be able perform some type of low intensity exercise. If you have to stay out of the gym all together for a couple of weeks or even a month so be it. You have to look at the long term.
If you have been training for years and plan to for as long as you can and have to take a month off, don't worry. That one-month which you have to stop training doesn't really mean much in the big picture if you have been training for years and will continue to train after your injury. If you can perform some type of exercise, even if it's only walking, do it. Your getting your body moving, your blood flowing, and it helps to clear your mind. An injury is just as much as a mental setback as it is a physical setback. It's the people who remain mentally strong and positive during injuries that recover faster and get back to fighting shape and sometimes even better they were before the setback.
So do whatever you can to avoid injury in the first place, but if it happens look at it as a challenge not a setback...
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Sean Barker, CPT
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