I played football for 16 years, and I was never really prone to injuries. Then I tore my ACL my senior year in south bend (there used to be a YouTube video of it, but I can't find it...good, makes me vom). I tore it twice more after that, and since then it seems I've been rather injury prone. Little things like spraining my scapholunate ligament doing power cleans, torn labra in both shoulders, complications from scoliosis...
The point is, I cannot stop. I was lifting weights (upper body) like 5 days after a couple of my knee surgeries, I continue to do CrossFit even with the shoulders, back, and 7 knee surgeries. I just cannot be sedentary. It is not an option for me. I feel fat, lazy, and lethargic if I take just a week off. The risk of further injury is worth it. The key is to modify to minimize the risk.
So to address the original point, the way I've found to deal with this when it is necessary (when I had a meniscal repair and was in a a straight cast for 6 weeks, for example) is to occupy my brain, and talk about it. Literally I learned Python. I immersed myself in doing something that challenged me. And I talked about it with my friends. I bitched and complained, and they both commiserated with me and told me I was being a bitch. Sounds stupid but it helped immensely, because it got it out of my head.
The point is, I cannot stop. I was lifting weights (upper body) like 5 days after a couple of my knee surgeries, I continue to do CrossFit even with the shoulders, back, and 7 knee surgeries. I just cannot be sedentary. It is not an option for me. I feel fat, lazy, and lethargic if I take just a week off. The risk of further injury is worth it. The key is to modify to minimize the risk.
So to address the original point, the way I've found to deal with this when it is necessary (when I had a meniscal repair and was in a a straight cast for 6 weeks, for example) is to occupy my brain, and talk about it. Literally I learned Python. I immersed myself in doing something that challenged me. And I talked about it with my friends. I bitched and complained, and they both commiserated with me and told me I was being a bitch. Sounds stupid but it helped immensely, because it got it out of my head.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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