Cotto's roadwork?

i didn't invent it!

 

Are you a professional athlete? No offense, but if you aren't, your opinion is worthless. You're talking about a guy (Cotto) who is in in better shape than 99.99999 percent of the population. That you got injured after running has no bearing on this discussion. I'm 33 and I run 4 miles every day outdoors. I have never been injured and I am no Miguel Cotto.

In the end, it all depends on the body. And I'm sure that Cotto, one of the world's best athletes, knows exactly what his body is capable of.

 

they didn't run slow miles from what i heard

you obviously know more than me so correct me if im wrong...

but didn't guys like marciano, robinson etc run miles fast and hard?

from my understanding they didn't just jog in a brisk pace, they ran like the devil was chasing them plus the many rounds of sparring, the bagwork, jump ropes etc....

 

Also, you must be in terrible shape to have torn your mcl, because that is a very rare runner's injury. My father is a marathoner (seniors tour) and even for people who run one hundred miles a week, they seldom experience that kind of injury. To actually tear your mcl running 3 miles a day for less than a week...You must be either old or extremely out of shape.

 

not at all, at the time i was in the best shape of my life, sparring regularly, going to the gym 5 nights a week, had my nutrition sorted, everything was going well till the injury.

it actually wasn't an mcl tear, that was what the initial diagnosis was, the name of the injury escapes me at the moment...

 

Right...I mean, I'm no doctor. But I've never heard of a young man in great shape tearing his MCL after running 3 miles a day for a week. It would have to be a real freak injury. Normally. an MCL tear is what we see in high impact sports like pro basketball or football where guys are jumping 4 feet in the air and their knees are absorbing all the impact. Running, even outdoors, just doesn't create that kind of impact. It's hard on the feet and occasionally the knees, but soreness is often the only symptom. From my experience, real damage to the knees is extremely rare...in the short term.

 

medial meniscus is the name

 

i started feeling it after the 3rd or 4th day and decided to ignore it.

 

Yeah...that stinks. Maybe it was a preexisting injury. I'm sure your doctor got to the bottom of it.

 

It would have helped with the way they eat though.