October 28, 2018 | sean | in Blog

Be Willing to Train Around Injuries!

Firstly we need to view injuries as bumps on the road to success, not dead-ends. Here’s how I myself have dealt with setbacks.

The stronger/ fitter you get and the heavier/more work you take on, this increases the likelihood of you getting injured.

The guys at the top accept this as part of the process. They know that they are pushing their body to the limits and do the work around this to recover. Though sometimes it is not enough and they get hurt or sometimes and injury comes from absolutely nowhere. Like my first big injury which was in a car accident.
Since then I have had a couple of injuries though most of them minor and in the last 4-5 years.
I write this blog as part of my recovery from a current knee injury. researching around the problems at hand help me find a solution in myself and for others.

Now we need to remember that success isn’t dependent on avoiding injuries.
It’s dependent on how you deal with them and keep going.

Whatever your goal is physically the risk of injury increases proportionately to the amount of exercise or activity you are undertaking. This is because your muscles have more potential for growth and adaptation than your tendons, ligaments, and joints do. Handling more activities and more weight requires improved technique.
You may be able to get away with terrible form completing tasks of a low level or light weights but with heavier weights and more activity the risk of injury increases.

Often what determines which people reach the top and which fall by the wayside is the ability to successfully come back from injury. View injuries as bumps on the road to success, not dead-ends.

This is 100% the truth for me as my greatest obstacle to date was my car accident in 2014. Where doctors told me that I will never lift weights again, I would never reach the top and I would struggle in 3-5 years with arthritis in my hands and wrists.

I’ll never forget all the naysayers that followed those doctors words.
you can’t compete. you shouldn’t lift etc.
Those comments only fueled my resolve to come back better than ever.

I started doing what I could whether it was lifting my arms with no weight till they felt like they were going to fall off or hitting as much cardio, legs and abs as humanly possible.

At first, I believed them but through sheer will and necessity, I found a way to work around it.
Proving them wrong by competing 4-5 times in the next year and going on to train daily.

this is how and why ‘The Ultimate Training Guide For All Goals’ E-book was created and perfected.

Successfully negotiating injury is more mental than physical.
Never ever doubt your own ability to come back stronger.
It’s never IF you can come back from injury but rather how long it will take.
The fact that you’ll recover must be a foregone conclusion.

I guess the questions now are;

How did I do it?
And
How do you train around injuries?

well, there is no full proof plan but ill map out the way I did it myself and the way I will do it again this time.

– Find out what the injury is and research it as much as possible. Through physicians and the internet discover for yourself how bad it is and search for those who have overcome this injury or similar.

– Get detailed information of what you cant do… we don’t want to make it worse.

– Detail what you can and should be doing.
This includes rehab, exercise, mental tasks etc.

– Start slow.
Remember pain is a sign that something is wrong so if it hurts don’t do it.
Though keep in mind there will be discomfort.

– With all this information set. goal.

– Create a plan of how you will increase and progress to get to your goal.

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Written by; Sean L Jones
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