In Season Injuires

Injuries and sore spots are inevitable during the season and to be honest, you should expect them which means that the program we are currently doing may not be able to be followed like it is planned out to be.

You need to be flexible in your training and programming as you don't know when these injuries, or what injuries, you'll sustain during any given season. I have been blessed to not sustain any serious football injuries during the year and couldn't have missed more then 5 games with an injury during my career. Even when I severed all my ligaments and tendons on my right hand right at the completion of the 2001 season, I played the first game of the 2002 season.

This makes it important that you have back up exercises or maybe a back up program during the season. Choosing an alternative method of training can include:

• using less nervous system intensive exercises
• using unilateral exercises
• using machine based exercises
• using a deloading program
• using a restoration / recovery program
• using an injury prevention program
• using a corrective exercise program

This set up provides plenty of options of what to do when an injury or a sore spot presents itself. If it is an injury then work around it, don't just stop training thew area. If it a sore spot then you may simply need to use a less intensive exercise for the day.