Overcoming Adversity

RE: Overcoming Adversity

swimr4life — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:37:53 GMT

You are so right. I'm going through my second swimming injury. Unfortunately, I didn't listen to my body with the first one.....even though it was screaming at me. Ended up having to have shoulder surgery and a long, painful, scary rehab. When I got my swimming ability back, I was indescribably happy and relished the pure joy of being able to swim again. I trained hard but, smarter and ended up doing close to my best teenager times! I'm injured again and doing everything I can to get back in the water. PT 3 times a week and lots of stretching and home exercises. Yesterday my PT said I could swim very easy for 15-20 minutes! I did and it felt so great. I still have some work to do because I am achy today. But, the pure joy of swimming and feeling the water move accross my body......priceless!

RE: Overcoming Adversity

FindingMyInnerFish — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:18:40 GMT

All very true... but just subjectively speaking, when I have injuries that keep me out of action, my main thought often is "okay, can I just skip this growth experience and get back to what I want to do?" ;) Takes a bit of time to come round to recognizing that I have to take care of the injury first. Should mention I'm more a runner than a swimmer, although I've gotten more active in swimming in the past couple years--and the swimming has helped me avoid running injuries for the most part and shortened the recovery when I do get injured. Thank God, no swimming injuries, and I hope it stays that way!

RE: Overcoming Adversity

funkyfish — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:06:51 GMT

Perhaps you need more core work to prevent your back from going out. Maybe… I do ball crunches, saxon side bends, side twists with a 15lb bar, hanging leg lifts, incline crunches. I'll do one abdominal exercise and one oblique exercise 3 x a week. For lower back I'll do good mornings, reverse hypers, and romanian deadlifts. But yeah, I probably should be hitting the abs more. I just find it curious that it could take something as innocuous as bending down to pick up a pencil and "BAM", your back's out. :wave::cheerleader::wave::cheerleader:

RE: Overcoming Adversity

dorothyrde — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:41:46 GMT

Perhaps you need more core work to prevent your back from going out.

RE: Overcoming Adversity

funkyfish — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:56:38 GMT

For me, it depends upon the injury, and the motivation behind training. I'm a bit prone to lower back problems, perhaps due to heavy lifting. The first time my back went out, I stayed away from lifting for 3 weeks, and gradually got back into it. As of late I do what I can to keep rom and flexibility going, even if I'm just going through the motions. The back is a crazy thing, you can deadlift 405 for reps one day, then throw it out the next lifting a bag of potatoes. Swimming has been wonderful for my lower back, even butterfly. I'm knocking on wood so far as shoulders go, but then, I don't have to swim 10k yds a day either. :applaud::groovy::applaud::groovy::applaud::groovy: