Should an Old Athletic Injury Keep Me From Working?

What if I have an old athletic injury? Does not suggest that I should off the hook when it comes to working out? This may come across as harsh, but... I really do not think so.

This poses a curious question. First of all, I really do think that everybody should be working out, the same as we think that everybody should be brushing their teeth. Maybe you disagree in your particular instance, but almost all of the health problems in this country are obesity related. You may even have one developing right now as you read. These ultimately come from being sedentary, except in a very few cases involving steroid side effects or possibly bad genes..

Yet, you presumably disagree with me and you think that I should get off your back. OK, be the way that you are as long as your significant other doesn't mind and as long as you apparently don't care how you look or feel.

But, the real reason for the post is to explore the old athletic injury objection. Do you really have one that completely restricts you from working out? I have a degenerate disc which probably comes from dead lifts in the mid 70s. Thus I have to compensate when I lift and sit on the bike.

Maybe yours is a lot worse? Let's say that it is. But what is it really like in relation to a handicapped person who competes in spite of their restriction.

I don't think there is a polite answer to the "permanent disability" objection. If this is yours, I think you simply do not want to do anymore than you are doing. That is YOUR right. Yet, you are reading my blog post for some reason. Why? Do YOU have a really good answer? Or do you find yourself as problematic as the person who says that they cannot afford a toothbrush. Frankly, I don't know of anyone like this, do you?

It seems to me that the choice is yours. You can use an old athletic injury as a justification for not working out. Or, you can use it as a springboard into its cure or into another type of activity which isn't limited by it.

As we both know of growing, healthy athletes who have artificial limbs, it is impossible to contemplate much other. You would agree with that, wouldn't you?

Hi Readers My name is Mark Clemens. I am all about people staying young forever and got that way after my one and only state championship in 1978. I was a terrible high school athlete prior to that and was even worse all through grade school-- an obese kid nonetheless. But after the big state meet I resolved to never miss a workout and keep tabs on how I would continue to keep staying in shape. I figured that someone might care somewhere down the road. Hopefully that's you today thirty years later.

Hopefully that's you; and hopefully what's in my blogs, site and book will help to keep you on course for the rest of your life.

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