Comments on: Mental Barriers After Injury

By: Dan Blewett

Dan Blewett — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:33:21 +0000

I appreciate that. I’m always looking for more injury stories, so that they can stored here for others to read when faced with the same problems. Anyone can submit via the submission page, and I’ll post them.

By: Costa Kapothanasis

Costa Kapothanasis — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:03:25 +0000

This is a great post. I’m going to show it to a lot of the guys on our staff who are recovering from injury.

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:53:33 +0000

Holding back…I never thought of it like I was holding back effort, but rather my effort was holding back my performance. I would get into trouble because I would try to throw hard (gripping the ball hard and almost grunt after each pitch), but really I was holding myself back (by not letting my body work the way it should). It’s like Jank would talk about having guts to throw a strike. We’ll you have to have guts that being free and easy will work and sometimes this is hard after a surgery because you constantly feel like you need to try and try to get what you had back.

By: Dan Blewett

Dan Blewett — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:43:29 +0000

You know, that’s a great point that I omitted. I too had one of those incidents, and it eased my mind a ton. I had just been cleared to lift weights, and our winter sprint workouts started that same week. I was nervous, though, about falling on it. Sure enough, ten minutes into our first workout I slipped on a cone, fell backward and caught my whole body on my right arm. It was fine, and I got up and finished the drill. It was a “holy shit” I really am fine kind of moment, and I was confident in after that.

By: Jon Hart

Jon Hart — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:36:12 +0000

I often tell my knee to shut up, pain is mostly mental, but some of the best things that helped me with my knee were accidents, for example someone jumped on my back and my knee snapped backwards, which was scary, but I realized it didnt tear, so I could push it harder.

By: Dan Blewett

Dan Blewett — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:46:21 +0000

When I hit the, what I’ll call, “angry 100%” effort/velocity, my arm started to get like that. It would really knot and seize up right when I was done, and wouldn’t feel better til the next day. I went easy on it in everything except for pitching, and I didn;t throw as much between pens, and I stretched out my days rest in between. I can’t say for sure whats going on with yours or what you should do, but my arm went in and out of that stage in 2-3 weeks by just keeping the course. This was at 9 months for me as well. Sounds like we had pretty much the same thing. Listen to your body and take care of it and it will get there.

By: Steven Eagerton

Steven Eagerton — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:59:53 +0000

That’s definitely hard man. My elbow has been sorer than I thought it should be so I had to figure out if it was really sore like tendinitis coming back or me just finally starting to let it loose and the elbow just loosening up. I think its probably the latter but I have still been trying to take and extra day off here and there. I am fine when I start throwing (tossing) once I start throwing hard its sore but eventually if I just get through it, it loosens up and feels better the remainder of the pen. The next few hours it is generally super sore and tight (when bending etc) and normally feels much better the next day, but I still normally don’t toss the day after pens right now at least. You think this sounds about right to you. I’m doing all my exercises and am 9 months out from TJ. Hope everyone’s recoveries and training is going well.