Great summup. Will have to bookmark and check back for various aspects now and then. As mentioned I am in a similar process, but not yet as structured as this posting 😉
Ha! It’s the result of countless single articles which point in all sorts of directions. Super hard to find direction and keep up hope in this process but this too shall pass.
Change is inevitable. It passes already, we just are too impatient and ego driven most of the time. I remember an earlier injury and my big crisis back then. And what became possible after that. Sure, repetition isn't guaranteed (just mentioned that somewhere else, don't have the link at hand while in the bathtub 😉 ).
Really powerful reflection on teh cost of treating fitness as identity. The line about being "half-functional" captures something most training logs never show, that gray zone where you're technically not injured but also not actually yourself. I've been in that same spot with pushing through stuff that never quite healed, and realizing the question isn't "how much can I tolerate" but "what kind of relationship with my body do I want in 20 years." Appreciate the honesty here.
Very well put! I once called this gray zone a "liminal space". Like a train station, you already left but you are not there yet. A place of coming and going.
Great summup. Will have to bookmark and check back for various aspects now and then. As mentioned I am in a similar process, but not yet as structured as this posting 😉
Ha! It’s the result of countless single articles which point in all sorts of directions. Super hard to find direction and keep up hope in this process but this too shall pass.
Change is inevitable. It passes already, we just are too impatient and ego driven most of the time. I remember an earlier injury and my big crisis back then. And what became possible after that. Sure, repetition isn't guaranteed (just mentioned that somewhere else, don't have the link at hand while in the bathtub 😉 ).
Patience… the magic word.
Really powerful reflection on teh cost of treating fitness as identity. The line about being "half-functional" captures something most training logs never show, that gray zone where you're technically not injured but also not actually yourself. I've been in that same spot with pushing through stuff that never quite healed, and realizing the question isn't "how much can I tolerate" but "what kind of relationship with my body do I want in 20 years." Appreciate the honesty here.
Very well put! I once called this gray zone a "liminal space". Like a train station, you already left but you are not there yet. A place of coming and going.