I seem to get hurt all the time doing the stupidest things. I dislocated my shoulder swimming fly, pulled my hamstrings in both legs stretching to far in yoga, broke my wrist when I fell snowboarding...stupid easily preventable things.
My mom says I get hurt because I'm trying to do things out of my scale because I'm not an athlete. Now I'm not in 100% amazing shape, but I consider myself to be an athlete. But how I can I become a better athlete if I keep getting hurt during my training? I don't often go out of the scope of what I feel I can accomplish, so it's discouraging to get hurt doing something that is easy for me.
So the question I pose, is how athletic do you think you are and how often do you get hurt? Do you think you get hurt less because you are an athlete? Do you think you would get hurt less if you were more athletic?
Kyra,
I am SOOOO clumsy! Don't even worry about it. I cannot even tell you how many totally STUPID ways I've hurt myself: getting off the chairlift (knee), waterskiing (falling down), playing in a pool (neck injury when someone fell on me), biking no hands = big owies and water on the knee, getting pushed over a barbed wire fence on a swing and shredding my back, just getting out of the pool tweaked my back once, motorcycle crash (into a hill!) burned leg, cheap shotted by a friend's police dog (bite to the leg), and the list goes on. Some of those things were, as you say, preventable, but I learned a lot of important lessons, too.
The best lesson being, since this is a swimming thread, that when I hurt my knee, I couldn't do breaststroke for awhile. I wore stretchcordz every day to practice and did all free and back. And in 1997, Federal Way, I did two lifetime bests in the 100 and 200 back! You just gotta look for the silver lining... ;)
Kyra,
I am SOOOO clumsy! Don't even worry about it. I cannot even tell you how many totally STUPID ways I've hurt myself: getting off the chairlift (knee), waterskiing (falling down), playing in a pool (neck injury when someone fell on me), biking no hands = big owies and water on the knee, getting pushed over a barbed wire fence on a swing and shredding my back, just getting out of the pool tweaked my back once, motorcycle crash (into a hill!) burned leg, cheap shotted by a friend's police dog (bite to the leg), and the list goes on. Some of those things were, as you say, preventable, but I learned a lot of important lessons, too.
The best lesson being, since this is a swimming thread, that when I hurt my knee, I couldn't do breaststroke for awhile. I wore stretchcordz every day to practice and did all free and back. And in 1997, Federal Way, I did two lifetime bests in the 100 and 200 back! You just gotta look for the silver lining... ;)
