Healthy Athlete

“Healthy Athlete” is definitely an oxymoron. 

If you’re an athlete you damn better be pushing your body in relentless pursuit of your goals and sometimes YES even Strong Things Break!!

It's how you respond that’s what’s important. 

This is something I've preached my entire career as a Strength Athlete and now as a Strength and Conditioning Coach.  You're gonna get injured but if you're strong and you get injured you will rehab faster and return to playing. I don't need some scientific mumbo-jumbo to tell me what I already know.  I've lived it and responded to the challenge.

Had a high school basketball player, 7'1" tall basketball player, come down awkwardly in a game and said he heard something "POP" inside his knee and of course it hurt.  He called me all in a panic because he was out in Las Vegas at a big tournament.  When he got home I got him in to see Dr Schmidt who was the San Antonio Spurs Team Doctor and Doc told him that if hadn't been as strong as he is from the work that I had him doing he would be doing an ACL Reconstruction not a simple repair of some damaged cartilage!!!

Doc smiled at his parents and him and said "STRENGTH MATTERS"!!!  2 weeks later this kid was back running sprint on the track ... he never missed a strength session.  That's Resilient!!!  That's what Strength does for you.  

Found this picture from back in 1993 when I had knee surgery in the morning and by afternoon I was going crazy sitting inside of my apartment so off to the gym I went…to get my training in.  Luckily I had a great training partner to help load the bar and Olympic Gym had an amazing array of equipment to train on!!

side note for any pseudo medical professionals reading this.... everything I did and do training/coaching wise is done with real medical guidance