Beyond-Brawn-2nd-Edition

18. How a Training Nightmare
Was Silenced
18.1 If someone else had written this chapter I would probably be shaking my
head after having read through just some of it, cynically muttering, “You
expect me to believe this? What’s in it for you?” But because I am the one
who experienced the “miracle” I know the truth of what is written here.
18.2 Here is my effort to share a wonderful rehabilitation therapy. If what I came
across only worked for me, I would be wasting time and space reporting it to
you. But it has proven its miraculous-at-times worth for many people. And
some people have benefitted from it in ways that make my gain look very
modest.
18.3 is is a personal account, but how many detailed personal accounts of
recovery from injury have you read? ere are hardly any published. All
people who exercise seriously and for long enough will experience injuries,
and even people who do not exercise have lots of aches and pains. You can
learn much from my account that will spare you from having to learn the
hard way like I did. It was not until 1996 that I returned to my summer 1992
level of strength and development. Had I known in 1992 what I had learned
by 1994, I would have avoided perhaps the most frustrating period of my
life. Not only that, but I would have been able to continue building strength
in 1992 despite getting injured. Injuries themselves are one thing, but how
you deal with them is another. Deal with them in the wrong way and they can
become much more serious than they really are.
18.4 I had better start by dealing with my own cynicism imagined in the first
paragraph. I hope you will believe me because I am telling you the truth.
But you cannot learn what I am about to reveal the results of without doing
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