Athletes who have had injuries..

LLaKHigH
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:59:17 +0000

Oh, it sucks. I was gearing up for a huge senior soccer season starting at sweeper. I had been training all year and was actually going to take something seriously for a chance. Third day of double sessions I fractured my foot and ended up tearing the ligaments in my toes.

Of course I was crushed, but I was only supposed to be out for two weeks. And then I made some stupid decisions at a party and ended up jumping in a pool when the two weeks were almost up and rebroke it much worse than before. I ened up missing all but six games, four of them playoffs, and it killed me every day to watch them practicing.

I ended up going to the weightroom constantly, doing mostly upper body stuff, and got totally jacked so when I came back to soccer nobody wanted to mess with me and I could just manhandle everyone on the field. Plus I worked a ton on throw-ins so any ball out of bounds on their side of the eighteen was as good as a corner kick.

It sucks, but there are things you can do to get back in.