Overcoming limitations
I have always had mixed feelings about people selfies, are they proof of self-obsession of self –promotion?
However I think that sometimes, they are telling a story from which we can gain to learn.
I want to tell you about my comeback to training after two shoulder operations and finding a way to train around injuries.
In the autumn of 2013 I an operation on my left shoulder followed by my right should shortly afterwards. I spent months rehabilitating and returned to light training in the end of February 2014. However my left shoulder has always been in some level of pain, weaker and prone to limitations. To make matters worse, I then picked up two further injuries, a torn pectoral muscle and a hamstring tear. It was probably due to slight over training, compounded by lack of sleep / recovery time and age.
Some of you may agree with my wife at this point, that it may be time to give up! The problem is I am not ready to give up
When I was younger I was devastated mentally by any injuries, but as the time passes and the injuries heal, I have learnt that there are ways to work around limitations and disadvantages. When training clients, and myself I use my experience of training different sports (Olympic free style wrestling, cross country running, karate, basket ball, kick boxing body building, MMA) and overtaking my own injuries and limitations to help clients get result, faster and in a safe manner.
This is due to a passion; interest and almost 30 years of training and personal development and a keen interest in seeing my clients achieve their own personal goals and be the best that they can be.
You must want to do it, to make it happen, find your own small, measurable goals that that you want to achieve. This can be Improving your diet, losing a small amount of weight each week, increasing your running distances, lifting more weight, dropping a dress size. The most important is to visualise how you want to look and how you want to feel, in the new fitter you.
If you look for excuses, you will find plenty of reasons not to train. Just keep training and reaching your goals, keep going you will get there
P.S. I took this photo on my 40th Birthday 19/12/2014. You might say that it is nothing special, and without my history they are probably right, however training around various injuries including a bad shoulder, lack of sleep and being 40, I think this picture tells a good story.
I have just had my second operation on my left shoulder and I will come back stronger than before
Keep in good health! – Artur
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