If you play sports, you won't always feel perfect
Every athlete deals with aches/discomforts, and pains
Every athlete at some point ends up on the IL
That’s life
The DIFFERENCE is that athletes who thought playing “low contact” sports like baseball was their ticket to never experience any discomfort or any pain, OVERREACT when they don’t feel absolutely perfect
Instead of making simple modifications and adjustments, they stop everything and get lost in the physical therapy vortex
And waste precious months, and even YEARS
To rise through the levels and reach your true ability, you will have to understand that aches/pains/discomforts, and yes even injury, can ALL be worked around in your program
Some exercises will have to be modified, others eliminated; new ones will need to be added, others amplified
Volumes and intensities, and your overall periodization plan has to be adjusted as well
But the key is that you don’t succumb to the temptation of using the ache/pain/injury as an excuse to do nothing, and as a consequence, start going in reverse
Rather, adjust your plan and come out the other side a better athlete, and still on track to chase your dreams
-Fenske