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Injury Prevention

Cup analogy

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  • Sleep hygiene
  • reduce stress
  • hydrated
  • balanced diet
  • exercise

what kind of exercise

acute workload vs chronic workload

  • what you've done on average in the past month vs this week
    • should be around the same
  • 10% volume weekly increase

80/20 rules - 20% is high intensity - 80% in low intensity - builds aerobic base (bottom of pyramid) - maintain a laboured conversation

Peace & Love

PEACE (3-7 days) - Protection - Elevation - overlasting - Avoid anti-inflammatories - initial inflammatory response is helpful - Compression - Education

Love (after a week) * Load * introduce some exercise on that muscle * Optimism * Vascularization * Exercise * reduces pain * gets nutrients in

Training alternatives when injured

  • strength training
  • reduced load (50%)
  • cross training
    • running
    • biking
    • swimming

Pain management

  • pain after exercise (< 24 hours) 👍
  • pain after exercise (> 1-2 days) 👎
  • pain during exercise
    • consult someone!

What to do when injured

resolves in < 3 months

  • see someone
  • structured exercise
  • be active, ask questions

removing yourself from the sport increases chance of injury - have to play catch up

Compression sleeve - as long as it doesn't cut off blood afterwards?


Last update: 2023-04-24