Workout energy and how you need it regularly is well documented to allow you to succeed with your health and fitness goals, but the same intensity is needed with your injury recovery too.
We do hear lots of stories of athletes coming back sooner than ever from injuries. But this is due to their relentless effort and help from professionals to do so. An ACL knee injury often took 18 months, many footballers would retire and their career would be over, and this thinking was around 30 years ago too.
Now you hear of recovery taking 9 months to be able to play again, but that again involves the daily commitment to doing the right things over and above what you would expect of a “normal” person who isn’t a pro athlete.
You may not recover quite as quick but we are determined to help you as much as possible to get back to normal life as quickly as possible, but this requires you to keep your side of the bargain and keep showing up and doing your best, the more you put into it, the better and quicker your recovery end of story!!
Positive attitudes change recovery too, it’s very easy to be frustrated, to get fed up, but as long as you are moving in the right direction, and keep your spirits up along the way, your recovery will be far quicker than a sheet of paper with exercises that are often given to you by physios in hospital (they often don’t even demonstrate the exercises with you or test you on them to see if they are suitable or cause you pain).
REMEMBER how far you have come, remember how well you are doing and double down on the effort side of things as well as the showing up side of things (3 times a week minimum) and great things WILL happen for you in the healing and recovery process.
