Around about way

Monday, 26 October 2009

So you've cut your finger on your right hand quite badly and you're right handed too. It's been healing up nicely and you're now at the stage where you've taken the plaster off but it's still quite raw.

One of your mates offers you some of their salt n vinegar crisps. Salt n vinegar is your favourite flavour of crisps and you decide to accept their offer. Only the problem is your cut will sting like crazy if you take any. So what do you do? Well you use your other hand of course. Your left hand, the one minus the cut.

This daft story is a way of me illustrating training around injuries. Many people stop training when they get injured because their sore arm or leg or whatever will hurt. But like I pointed out with the crisps, if you really want to do something then you will always find an alternative way to do it, if you *really* want to.

For instance you might not be able to roll in bjj because of an injury, but there is nothing stopping you drilling an area that uses a part of your body that isn't injured. Of course the same can be said about any other system you train too.

Good training.....