Training Around Minor Injuries

The most requested topic from a recent round of surveys, how to train around minor injuries is a real and pertinent issue for all of us at some point or another. Whether you wake up one morning with a crick in your neck or you twist your ankle while running, learning to train with limitations is a skill that can be learned.

In this episode, we dive into what constitutes a minor injury, why it's important to keep moving, and how to assess your situation and stay productive so you don't feel like you're wasting away while you heal.

Key Points:

How to Define ‘Minor’ – the criteria to distinguish what’s “minor”
Why It’s Important to Keep Moving – what the body needs to heal correctly
Know Thyself – the ability to assess your needs and tendencies is invaluable
How to Continue Training – the smart way to adjust your focus to continue training in a productive way
Reading Your Internal Barometer – learning to track and trust your subjective experience for longevity and autonomy
The Future: Help us decide which episodes to record next

Resources:

Body Maintenance Guide – Our head to toe solutions for aches and pains
Your Guide To Moving Better With Less Pain – Our article and episode about active recovery
Easy Self-Assessments to End the Guesswork – Our article on using a scale for ease and quality to make measurable progress
Dealing With Injuries – Our episode on the not-so-secret key to recovery that everyone tries to ignore
Overcoming Chronic Pain with Exercise – Our article on the science of pain and how to break the pain cycle
How To Make Progress, Even With Limitations – Our article on strategies for working with pain and injury
It’s All in Your Head – our episode on owning your subjective experience of exercise
Bronnie Lennox Thompson on Fibromyalgia and Living Well With Chronic Pain – a great episode on Todd Hargrove’s The Better Movement Podcast
Bronnie Lennox Thompson’s website – resource for on chronic pain self management