In Case You’ve Missed It
If you’ve missed our previous 2 posts, check them out 5 Considerations and Control
I hope you are finding value in this series, because try as we might, we cannot prevent every injury, we can just make ourselves resilient and resistant to wear and tear.
Consistency
We are continuing our talk on returning from injury, focusing on Consistency
An operational definition of consistency is plain and simple, “repeated exposure, repeated efforts over time”.
So you cannot display consistency with two or three training sessions in a week, BUT that’s where we start building our body of consistency
Undoing 1,000 Small Decisions with 1,000 Small Better Decisions
Building a body of consistency is important because when we get injured, there were likely 1,000 small decisions that led to that injury that went completely unnoticed. To recover or return from an injury, it is incredibly important that you can offset the 1,000 less than great decisions that lead to that injury with showing consistency: making better decisions; making restorative decisions; making recovery efforts,
We have to build that physical durability bank account back up, because, for example, if we throw our back out, when we picked a sock up off the floor, it wasn't the sock that puts our back out, it was 1,000 things before that sock, so it was maybe sleeping poorly, it was maybe not having a movement practice, it was maybe not drinking any water, it was maybe eating a lot of processed food.
There were 1,000 small decisions that we were doing consistently enough to get injured, and now we need to build consistency in enough efforts to resolve it
Not Sexy AND No Substitute
Consistency is taking action over time which is, by the way, the least sexy way to return from an injury. BUT I guarantee there is nothing that substitutes for it