Injuries can make or break your weight loss results for the year!
I am fortunate enough to have recently had an operation on a shoulder injury, and to have learnt some valuable lessons that I share with you in this video.
Don’t let an injury dictate your weight loss or how you feel, follow these two tips to help you recover faster than you thought possible…
Transcript:
Hi, this is Mark from the Doublevision Conditioning Centre, the place to be to lose fat and increase your muscle tone. Now, today I’m going to give you a little advice if you’re suffering from an injury.
So, about four weeks ago I had quite a, big operation on my shoulder. It’s an injury I’ve had for a little while, or for a fair while since I played rugby last. And I’d actually dislocated my shoulder and torn what’s called the labrum in my shoulder joint. Now, the only reason I’m mentioning this is because I’ve had a lot of emails recently, actually in the last two days, from people, who aren’t actually members of our Centre but, talking about wanting to be but saying they have to wait until they’ve recovered from an injury. And they’ve named their injuries, and they’ve said that it’s, it’s curtailed them for quite a long time.
Now, I just wanted to give you, uh, two tips that I’ve experienced, since having to rehab my shoulder. I’m actually, very far, you know, I’m not trying to blow my own trumpet, but I am quite far in and, advanced in my rehab, but that’s only because I know what to do and a lot of people obviously don’t. So really, see, I shouldn’t probably be able to get my shoulder up to here, but I can because I’ve been working very, very hard.
Now, the number one tip I would suggest if you suffer from an injury, is to get into the gym straightaway. Now, I had an operation on a Monday … it was general anesthetic … and I actually went to the gym on the Tuesday. Now, I was in a sling. Obviously I couldn’t do anything like I, I used to do, but I was still in that environment and that’s the environment that I’m, I’m relatively used to but it’s the environment that makes me feel like I’m, I’m not letting the injury take hold of me, I’m actually in charge of the injury.
So, I actually think I, I did some small rehabilitation exercises, and then I might have done some, uh, calf raises for my calves, and tiny exercises, but it was the act of actually getting up and going there as opposed to feeling sorry for myself. And it is something I could have done. I could have wallowed at home, but I got and made sure I, I got there and I just got into the environment and I made myself feel like I’m in control of the injury not the con- [00:02:00] injury is in control of me.
Now the second thing that I’ve done all the way through is to surround myself with a host of people, people who are exercising but people who are constantly reassuring me that I’m going to be, be able to get back to what I was or even better and people that aren’t, letting me feel sorry for myself basically. They didn’t let me for one minute, dwell on the fact that I, I couldn’t raise my arm above my shoulder. I was in a sling, I couldn’t sleep properly. I was having to take pain killers. They didn’t allow me to dwell on that and they just basically told me to buck up my ideas and to carry on. And that’s the kind of, environment I needed to make me be able to get on with the rehabilitation.
Now, it’s been four weeks and I’ve, I’ve barely even noticed it. It was a, a massive, thought or worry for me because obviously being a regular sportsman chap I wasn’t going to be able to do any exercise for what I thought for four weeks, was a big, it could have been a depression for me but, because I, uh, did these two things, I’ve actually, I’m well in advance of my rehabilitation and I’m actually really, really pleased I had the operation.
So, if you’re thinking or worrying about being able to get into a gym or, or coming into the Centres, we actually have protocols designed specifically for rehabilitat-, rehabilitating injuries and that’s actually what’ I’m going through, one of our protocols which is the pain-free shoulder system and I’m doing that amongst others in their normal sessions because it’s, designed to be able to be done with others in the same environment. And so I’m being rehabilitated whilst, being in the environment of other people who are trying to lose fat, trying to have other different goals. But it allows me to be around lots of positive people and to feel like I’m in control of the injury whereas it’s not the injury in control of me.
So, if you have any questions, please put them in the box below. As always, the conversation continues over at the dvcc.com so I’d love to see you there and see your comments. This is Mark from the dvcc.com. Bye-bye.
