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?
Skip,
I had to find a way to avoid walls. I just hooked up the stretchcordz to the starting block and did the workout with everybody else (I had my own lane, though). For example, I know my stroke counts, so if we were doing 50s I would take 28 strokes and then stop, while everybody else came into the wall. I usually finished first because I didn't have walls to deal with!!! If I were feeling feisty I'd add a few more strokes (extra credit!).
It was great because I could do everything but *** and turns. I did this for about 4 weeks. Worked out great for backstroke!
Skip,
I had to find a way to avoid walls. I just hooked up the stretchcordz to the starting block and did the workout with everybody else (I had my own lane, though). For example, I know my stroke counts, so if we were doing 50s I would take 28 strokes and then stop, while everybody else came into the wall. I usually finished first because I didn't have walls to deal with!!! If I were feeling feisty I'd add a few more strokes (extra credit!).
It was great because I could do everything but *** and turns. I did this for about 4 weeks. Worked out great for backstroke!
