How do I train around an injury?

A few years ago for those that have been connected with me for a while I was all about the heavy lifting and high intensity workouts. And you know, when I'm younger it's amazing. We have this just natural resiliency to deal with hard stuff and we sort of shrug off the hard workouts. We got those muscle soreness the day after, a couple of...

...core and the erector muscles that surround my spine. It was a slow process, but over time I got stronger. I was training again and feeling great for it. This experience taught me a lot about myself, but even more about how to coach my clients. When I began working with new clients, I always asked them what do you need to release in order...

...ticed a massive, massive difference, literally. My performance improved, I felt more energetic and those nagging pains they eventually subsided and went away. In fact I'm more mobile and I'm just as strong, if not stronger, in certain lists now than I was before, because now I've got greater range of motion. I can also hold weights under...

...cording to the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, up to 70% of runners will experience an injury at some point in their running career. That's a staggering number. It's not just like minor aches and pains. We're talking about serious issues like stress, fractures, tendinitis, ligament injuries. You're setting yourse...

...e age there's something called decrepitude if we're not careful and that's just literally our body deteriorating from lack of use or abuse. And so here I am doing this half marathon and I did zero training up until other than my CrossFit, and there was a lot of things I shouldn't have done.

...ore and, trust me, there's a lot of the ones too. However, letting go of your why nots Years ago, I sustained an injury to my back during the competition. My L4, l5 vertebrae suffered a micro-terror which caused a disc to protrude and pinch it. It was one of the most excruciating injuries I've ever experienced. Up to that point, I had onl...

...struggling, you know, to really commit to their health and fitness due to, maybe, a chronic ailment or a chronic pain or chronic condition that they feel is really, just, you know, decimating their opportunity to to lean into more of that? well, one don't give up, right? I mean, keep searching. There's definitely a lot of practitioners fr...

...oms with it, you know, and I've never had someone actually dive deep with me on some of that to help me adapt my training modalities to deal with those when I have those flare-ups. So I see yours being a wonderful way of this profiling to give a better solution. So please just explain that, greg. I'd love to hear that. Yeah, it's differen...

...ain. And I don't know if you've followed some of my posts on Instagram. I'm putting up some numbers. I'm getting back to sort of like the weights I used to lift back in my late twenties, early thirties. And here I am, late forties and actually stronger and fitter than I've ever been. So, yeah, anyways, I digress. The big advantage with MR...

...right, let's just say, right now, there's a lot of myths in nutrition, okay, and fitness, like there's a ton, no pain, no gain, like there's some old cliches, but those were at one point believed to be true and that was the way. And you know, is there a couple nutrition or fitness myths that you would love to debunk today or at least shar...

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