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?
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I'm certainly not injury-prone, but I can be very accident-prone at times. I've slipped and almost fallen on the pool deck countless times, and I still can't walk normally in flip-flops. The worst is I have biked straight into brick columns - twice! Both times I was biking rather slowly. The first time I swerved into a column on my right and scraped up my left knuckles pretty bad (don't ask how left hand got to the column on the right), and the second time my front tire went straight into the column, but I fortunately avoided injury, except for a small bruise.
I'm certainly not injury-prone, but I can be very accident-prone at times. I've slipped and almost fallen on the pool deck countless times, and I still can't walk normally in flip-flops. The worst is I have biked straight into brick columns - twice! Both times I was biking rather slowly. The first time I swerved into a column on my right and scraped up my left knuckles pretty bad (don't ask how left hand got to the column on the right), and the second time my front tire went straight into the column, but I fortunately avoided injury, except for a small bruise.
