Why is it when you sit down and try and put your life in order and just when you think you have, fate deals you a blow from under the table that you just don’t expect.
I love doing my fitness and I love my 1 hour in the gym. I push myself hard with the help from Steve and I feel great for it. A sense of achievement and a step closer to my goals, to cut a long story short, I have come off my pride and joy. In doing so I have broken my left collar bone in 3 places.
So that has destroyed all my plans. What I need to do now is sit down and redo my plan for the next 12 weeks. The reason I have chosen 12 weeks as my basis to organise my next plan is because the doc advised me that it will take about 12 weeks for my collar bone to heal.
So first things first. What is my big WHY going to be ? Put another way, WHY am I training ? My WHY has to be big enough to motivate myself even when things are getting tough. My WHY needs to empower me and drive me in the right direction.
My WHY is going to be “fit to train properly by week 12” So how do I make this statement work for me ? I’ll print a few of them off as big as I can and put them in places that are always in my view, for instance on the fridge, above the mirror in the bathroom and on the inside of my front door.
This is where you good people come into it, I’m also going to do daily blog on the forum about my progress and what progress I am making during my rehab. What I’d like from you is a poke saying “Where is today’s report” if I miss one. That in it’s self will be enough to keep me motivated and on course.
Now I need a training program, I need to take it steady and not go mad. So this is where I turn for help from www.ultimateperformancecentre.com I need a training program that will suit my injuries. My left knee is very sore but usable, my left collar bone is very painful and I can’t use my left arm. So any upper body work is out of the question.
Once I have my training program I need a start date. It’s no good saying I’ll start tomorrow or on Monday, because we all know tomorrow never comes and Monday I’ll be too busy. So I’ll start today and see how it goes. It will only be very light to identify just what I can and can’t do. An assessment really. It’s very important that an assessment is done. The first part of the assessment is a talk with the doc, just to make sure I am fit to start any physical exercise and at what level so I don’t hamper my recovery or complicate the injuries I have.
The assessment is also a great start point to refer to, so you can measure your progress and re-asses your training program. Just because you have a training program in black and white that doesn’t mean you can’t change it. The program might be too hard or not hard enough, there’s only one person who can dictate that call and that’s you, or in this case me.
Because it’s going to be a gentle start and so that I don’t overdo it, I’m going to work on a 3 day training week but I’m going to increase my duration. I’m going to do Abs and leg work for about 75 mins. The reason for that is the Abs work needs to be non invasive on my upper body and my leg work needs to be controlled so that I’m not using my arms. As for the leg work I need to talk to Steve and put a program together that will suit my needs.
I’m looking forward to the next 12 weeks and my recovery to full health and getting back to full training, MMA mat work, weight lifting and endurance work.
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