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It’s easy to rest the first few days after an injury or niggle. Well, it’s not that easy. But you can learn, and it’s easy to tell when you’ve rested enough for mild injuries and tweaks (usually one to three days).
It’s easy to start running again. You find a distance or time you can manage and build from there. This is usually a steep curve: you’re tentative at first, but within a couple of weeks, you’re likely to be back to where you were before the injury.
The tricky part
The not-so-easy-part is to keep your guard up after the first two or three weeks. It’s easy to slip into doing hard sessions too quickly. There’s no pain, so you totally forget you’re still recovering from an injury.
But the hardest thing to do is to keep going with the rehab and strength exercises that probably sped up the recovery or at least reduced the pain during the early stages.
I always fall at this last hurdle.
I strengthen the injured area just enough to get by and then drop the rehab work because everything is going good.
What I should be doing
- keep the daily rehab exercises going and build on them until I’ve equaled if not surpassed my previous level of strength in the injured area
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