Injury
It all began a few weeks ago. I was doing straight leg dead lifts and I was trying to push myself to get as full of an extension as possible. During one of my sets, I felt a an odd stretch in my right Hamstring. It did not hurt at first, but began to later in the day. I decided to take two weeks off in terms of hamstring exercises. After two weeks of stretching and rest, I decided to get back into things with regular dead lifts. The first week, dead lifts went well and there was no pain. Last week on the other hand, gave me the same stretching feeling that I got the last time. Being the stubborn person that I am, I decided to give it another week and try deadlifts once more. Bad Idea!!! This week the pain was intense and I wanted to just lay down on the floor and die. With my new found pain, I decided that a visit to the Doctor was in order. I arrived at the Doctor’s office this morning and immediately upon reading my chart and seeing the six inch vertical bruise on my hamstring, he told me that I had torn my hamstring slightly. I knew this was not good news. The first thing that came to my mind was, "I have my first competition in August and I need to do my deadlifts." Before I could express my concern, the Doctor saw the expression on my face and told me that I could do deadlifts again in six weeks. Six weeks is a long time to lay off and exercise, but it could have been much worse. On the bright side, he is allowing me to continue doing squats. I suppose that’s a fair compensation. So long deadlifts, I’ll see you in late December.
