Game Plan, week 0
This past fall, I had acheived the best physical shape I’d been in many years, down nearly two dress sizes and up five pounds from the time I started training in martial arts 16 months prior. This combined with some major personal and life choices had me aligned with who I wanted to be; and I felt confident, strong, capable, and happy. Ten weeks ago, I sustained a gnarly training injury. Though it was a blessing in disguise (more on that later), it has put me out of training for two months. While my feet still worked, my elbow most certainly did not after a full dislocation and minor fracture, and that is a surprisingly hard thing to work around. I tried to join in classes where I could and heavily modify a yoga practice to keep me in the game, but it just didn’t work and my attempts became less confident and less enthusiastic, as my body started to revert back to its old softness. After ten weeks of physical therapy and rest, I’ve been medically released to train again with my doc