The prayer and my rehab
I have gotten a lot of nice comments about my strongman prayer I wrote and that is really nice.
My rehab for my shoulder is going really well, but I am so impatient. I had set aside the month of January to train, but to keep the weight purposely dialed back to allow the joint plenty of time for healing. I am ten weeks post op today. I have been training for a month now and I have had full ROM for about six weeks. BUT, I stand in the gym and see these guys training heavy and I so want to jump in with them and do rack pulls or bench heavy or deadlift enough weight that when I sit it down it BANGS and startles all of the women in the kettlebell class.
As athletes, we push ourselves and we work ourselves. We have higher thresholds of pain than the rest of the population and we purposely take ourselves to uncomfortable places. I like it there. But when we are injured all of these qualities threaten our healing and we have to force ourselves and focus on NOT giving in to these qualities.
I wrote a letter to a national magazine proposing an article about this subject; being mentally prepared for sports rehab. I haven’t heard back, but then again all of the biggest magazines are really bad about responding to query letters.
If you have any positive rehab stories, share them with me!
January 16, 2008 at 6:22 am
Startling women in the kettlebell class by clanging down the heavy weights: Enjoyable everytime!