Do you suddenly lose it?

I can't see any reason why you would 'lose it' over such a short time frame. It is probably a mixture of your absence from sport and a psychological problem.

Keep playing sport, it might improve.

 

I have bad days often, probably from overtraining. I'm certain that on days when my head just isn't in the game I perform significantly worse.

As exercise is associated with endorphin release, I guess just getting back into it is the best treatment for the mental side. I know that even when I'm having one of those days - getting my ass kicked in sparring cheers me up and makes me sharp again.

 

How much stretching do you do, or did.

 

Carry on scrap! Interested in this one!

 

Dont know you , so cant tell but reading what you say. You need something ive got at home, but thats out of the question seeing where you live. Can i ask, do you get Headaches.

 

Please elaborate Scrap, stretching and flexibility is a part of training I find difficult to stay motivated for. Tell me the damage I'm doing

 

I think as do a lot of learned people I know, actually not a lot of learned people come to think of it . Are the eyes, in fact they are responsable for 95 % of injuries, plus they slow us down. Both eyes are different plus they dont go direct to the brain, one eye the dominant one directs movement as such, the other gauges depth, there lies the problem. dominant side is the doing while the other side stabalises the movement. Everybody has a different walking gait, which causes an imbalance in the Hips, which goes up the spinal cord and causes all sorts of problems because of the oral cavity try to stablelise itself. Now with long term inbalancing injury you have a problem as you can imagine. What generates energy for movement is contraction, now how to get more contraction of muscle is to expand by stretching the thing for elasticty and bigger expansion it gives more contraction. Which helps to better support the bones and cartlidge from injury. If you buy an expensive car you maintain it. Our body the most expensive thing we will ever own we dont, hope this Helps.

 

Thats why i asked if you were getting headaches. Everything will try to compensate, to keep the head where it should be, causing the body tighten in the upper back to keep the oral cavity stable. Any injury like that causes the body shock, thats why proper rehab is important. Shame youre not near got the best rehab machine for that, there is on the planet.

 

This is one of those threads where as I read it the rolling penny finally drops.

Ankle, groin and hamstring injuries and then breaking my leg a few years ago mean I too feel I no longer have “it”. For the past year and a half I seemed to be permanently pulling muscles in the front of my thigh along with hamstring and calf pulls despite what I perceived to be suitable recovery periods and easing myself back in to sport. This was topped off recently with a popping sound from my knee and I find out tomorrow if an MRI scan reveals damage to my ACL with the consensus being this is quite likely.

Scrap, you seem to have a very well thought through and experienced outlook on this so I hope you don’t mind me asking a question or two. Is it possible that my injuries have caught up with me through a mixture of not seeking professional help with the rehab from these injuries and this causing a knock on effect? Also, I recently found out that long standing sleeping problems have put my jaw out of line.

The above is all very random and I must sound like I’m falling to bits but I’ve competed all my life and whilst I understand that elements of performance deteriorates with age I hate not being able to perform to my best regardless.

Sorry for rambling but this post hit a nerve and any comments would be appreciated.

 

Where do you live Rocket