what injuries have you gotten and how did you adapt uh so obviously active lifestyle you know growing up and spending my life in the seal teams ton of injuries from everything i’ve had mcl tear off sprained ankles shoulders wrists lower back elbows but the most serious actual injury that i had um was i had neck i had neck surgery so i had a frame anatomy in my neck which is they go in and they scrape some bone away from the foramen which hurt bad when they did it and but it’s been really good um i was really i mean i had like lost movement in my arm for a little while my right arm from your neck from my neck injury just grinding over time and and you know i remember there’s one part of seal training where you’re carrying these boats on your head which is not that big of a deal but then the instructors would jump from boat to boats you get these 200 pound instructors and and they’re just jumping their boats on your head and they’re jumping from boat to boat and it’s i remember an instructor jumping into the boat landing pretty much where i was and i remember hearing a grinding noise in my neck and i you know of course i was 19 years old so i didn’t care bring it on but uh they don’t they don’t do that anymore they actually don’t jump from boat to boat anymore which is which is cool they shouldn’t because it’s not good for you so but but anyways with all these injuries whether it’s mcl tear whether it’s you know high ankle sprains and and all kinds of ligament damages in my in my ankles and my lower back which i’ve injured a few times mo almost all muscular there uh what i do is i do the same thing with all of them and that is i do whatever i can you know if i if i when i hurt my knee and i couldn’t squat i could do like a quarter squat i did a quarter squats you know i’d go out the garage and i’d stand there with no body weight and just do quarter squats and get the blood moving and you know then i’d try and do my other body parts and you know could do pull-ups still and so i did dead-hand pull-ups because i couldn’t even move my knee to like kept at all so i did what i could there you know so you can’t do ring dips do regular dips if you can’t do dips do push-ups you can’t do push-ups push off of a wall whatever it takes to get something done you can’t lift that 40-kilogram kettlebell lift the 24 kilogram kettlebell just do something move get the blood in there and not only get the blood in there because i always think that the more you’re moving and the more you’re using that range of motion the faster you’re gonna heal you know you’re just circulating more repairing nutrients to your body so it would make sense to me that that’s going to help you heal now of course you can re-damage you can go worse you know if it hurts to do a quarter squat and so you do half squat you’re going backwards yeah you know so you want to stay within the range of motion when you’re not re-entering it or making it worse so don’t be stupid but do get the movement going and also i don’t know what i would do mentally if i like couldn’t do anything at all now when i hurt my neck though i was i was laid up i didn’t think i was gonna be i was just gonna power through it like a tough guy yeah no i was laid up with my head and it just hurting and but i’ll tell you as soon as i could get up and start trying to walk around i did it and like i said try to try to stay sane and then the other thing that happens is when you have these injuries you know you’re you got to adapt your goals you know and you guys got to set new goals okay you know and and really i’ve never really fully regained the strength in my right arm and my right pec it’s not as strong as it was and it’s definitely way weaker than my other side you know it’s probably at 70 or 80 percent okay and you know i just have to say okay well what can i do it’s like okay you’re going to be no you’re a normal human now you know so so here’s what here’s here’s here’s what your new goals are and i’m you know i’m still trying to improve and get better at whatever it is but you know injuries are going to happen in life and you got to just do the best you can to work through them as smartly as you possibly can and kind of to add to the the train smart this may seem obvious but when you do like higher rep like heavier weight or not higher up sorry heavier weight um lower reps or real explosive stuff you’re gonna be more prone to injury so even being just more conscious of your movement yeah and and really avoiding those types of movements when you feel an injury start to come on like if you get a little lower back thing or a shoulder thing oh for sure um just be conscious of your movement way more today i was dead lifting and i i was like nope okay we’re done dead lifting for the day yeah and and you know i definitely spared myself being laid up you know and i just got out the roller and just grind it out for a while got out the ball grounded out for a while but for sure you got to listen you got to pay attention and if you feel that little twinge it’s no big deal you know there’s plenty of other ways to get your to get your workout on besides jack and the big steel so yeah and you um like how you were saying bodyweight squats you’ll just do it you know like if you’re if you had a sick squat workout planned and you feel your lower back or your it bend is a big one where when you when you get after it in squats that’ll um a lot of times act up well i sprained my ankle sick enough probably four or five months ago and it i couldn’t do it was weird it’s one of those weird things i couldn’t do overhead squats but i could do overhead like after a snatch yes i couldn’t do overhead squats because it hurt my ankle for whatever reason yeah but i could do front squats and regular squats and i couldn’t go to full the ones i could still go to full depth on again i don’t know why i’m not a physician front squats felt the best so i started doing more and more front squats at the time and and then eventually you know and now i’m back to doing everything so figure out what you can get away with figure out what you can do and do it also when in regards to being conscious of like your movement a lot of times i know this is this is the case for me where i’ll get little injuries from just like racking or unracking weights just because it’s like well maybe i need to do more functional training my friends i don’t always get injured but no it’s it’s just little things you know because that a lot of times that is like it’s unconscious i’m just put this over here you know and you’re not meanwhile if you do a cleaning jerk you’re like okay i’m going to focus on this good technique so again that goes along with being careful of your movement being being conscious of it yeah especially when you feel when you hit that fatigue when you know you’ve been working out for three weeks straight hard very little rest you’re running you know and you start to feel these little things come about i think it’s important to to to be conscious of those yes and also to what you were saying earlier if my head’s not in the game i’m not jacking the big weights yeah because you’ve got to be thinking about it you got to be thinking about your body position you know before you do before before you just try and grab on this big weight and throw it around yeah you got to get your head in the game
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