Saturday, April 21, 2012

Injured: No BJJ Training, No Grappling Tournaments

No BJJ Training for 6 Months

If you look at the archives you will notice that I stopped posting for around a month. Around a week before my grapplers quest tournament I found out that I had a herniated disc in my back and could not do any sports for 6 months or more. It took a while for me to figure out how I had hurt my back, and no it was not BJJ but running. A year ago when I was training for a triathlon I was doing some really hard high intensity interval training which ended up herniating my back. It wasn't until I started seeing a chiropractor 2 months ago that I finally started making progress with healing.

I was really upset at first so I abandoned blogging so I wouldn't have to think about it. Now I am starting to really miss it, thus here I am back again. One month down, 5 to go.

4 comments:

  1. Injuries are no fun, I hope you get well soon! I injured my ankle about 2 months ago and I'm still recovering. When you recover from injury you really become 10 times stronger.

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  2. Thank you for the kind words. Good luck with your ankle healing.

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  3. Good luck to you. I came back to the mats after 5.5 months and my back was NOT ready for it. I encourage you - when you go back, to go back one day per week - see how your back feels. Mine took a WEEK to feel relatively normal again after going to a single class, so I'm still grounded.

    I hate this crap.

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    1. Thanks for the advice, I will keep it in mind once I finish healing.

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