When your body does not cooperate

I dealt with back pain for more than 20 years.

It started again in high school – in a football match, and everything was fine … then *sudden *, seized my back. I had no idea what happened. All I know is: I suffered, I barely move, and I was afraid.

That moment started a life journey to learn about fitness, movement and prevention of injuries – and also learn how to do so Cursing When you realize that it is not everything in your control.

I learned how to train better. I ate a nourishing diet. Priority was given to sleep and regularly accompanying the corrective exercises determined by my doctors and natural therapists. But although I was doing “everything is fine”-every 6-24 months, I had a serious back collapse. Sometimes it will last for a few days. Sometimes, I was struggling with it for years.

The last one was the worst.

I spent months of twisted Crake. I couldn’t stand up straight. I couldn’t move as I wanted. And more than physical pain, was Vort a This made me.

“Will I remain stuck like this?”

“How long will it take this time?”

“Who am I even if I am not able to move, teach or trainer as I used?”

I spoiled my identity in a way that I did not completely realize at first.

I am the coach. Coach. The man who teaches others how to move well. I am the father who wrestles on the ground with his children. Who takes care of physical work all over our home.

Now I was working from bed and wondering if I would feel “normal” again.

In the end, I got out of the pain again (not everyone). And teach me some valuable lessons.

What I learned:

✅ Play the hand that you dealt with.

It turns out that I have the narrowing of the congenital spine (narrowing of the spine channel). I didn’t cause it. I cannot “fix”. But I can build a plan around it. Physiotherapy and force training both! In the simplest form, all of this is a copy of “Exposure Treatment”. Form your body enough, and in the right ways to get the response you want. Not too much, not very little.

Over time, the movements that are likely to cause glow. I can organize a training to build a “temporary store” of strength and movement in this field.

This is not what I would choose myself. But it is the best way to know how to respond.

✅ Mental recovery as much as my body.

Do not deduct the mental and emotional losses that the injury suffers from you or a member of his family. You can do all the “right things” and you still feel that you do not make progress if your mind has been overwhelmed by pain, fear, frustration or shame. You may not even get to know the impact that you have! I am so much hair As if I was dealing with everything wonderful. But my loved ones could see mental losses (not to mention physical pain) took me.

I learned this phrase from my teacher, and still resonates with me to this day. “Start in your place. Do what you can. Use what you have.” It is easier to say than doing it, but retracting this mentality helped me in some of my darkest moments.

✅ The movement is still worth fighting for.

Even when it takes months. Even when it is slower than I want. Even if the exercise is not the same as it happened before. It is still worth working.

Mental and physical benefits of movement, in any The shape I can do, is very strong to ignore it.

✅ The same solution does not work every time.

This was one of the most difficult ones they learned. There was no “one size that suits everyone” for my pain.

• Sometimes the heat helped. Sometimes he did not.
• Sometimes the exercise may feel great. Sometimes, you may feel panic.
• Sometimes, oral anti -inflammatory steroids helped. Sometimes they did not.

This made me learn to deal with every new scene like experience. To take every day as a small test for what I can do. This is the same approach that we learned with our customers – even those who do not deal with a chronic injury or condition. What was working for them in the past could give us evidence, but it may not be the best present A solution for what they need.

More than anything, this made me a better coach.

I understand now –truly Understand – how people feel chronic pain or injuries.

Fear, doubt, sadness of losing part of what makes you You.

This perspective made me more sympathetic, more flexible and more useful – something I tried to transfer to the entire training staff here in Nerd Fitness.

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If you are dealing with pain or setbacks or feel your body recently betrayed you, I see you.

It may take longer than you want.

It may look different from what it was.

But you can still build strength, confidence and momentum yet.

And if you need help in knowing how to do this in a way that suits your body, history and reality? I love help.

Just shoot me at a message.

– The coach died