I struggled to sleep last night because of my hamstring. I think I've actually torn it instead of just tweaked it. I iced it last night and there's no bruising but I can't walk properly or bend over so it's fucked. All I can do now is focus on my diet. I do love running but I"m becoming disillusioned with it. This is the 3rd hamstring tear in 4 years that I've had now. I'm thinking of playing social basketball now instead because this is just mentally and physically fucking me.
fuck.... ;/
you said it in one of your previous posts, got to listen to your body man.. right now rest up, don't mess with it. hopefully it's not as bad as you think it is.
when you're healthy again (in the near future), pin your recent post about ego/listening to your body and use it to help keep you in check. the most important thing in this hobby of ours is staying healthy. We MUST keep that as our #1 priority. Once you're healthy again (and you will be), don't let yourself make this mistake again. If we get hurt in an actual competitive event, it makes more sense; but not in training. We all fall victims to this (overdoing it in training). I know I have several times. It's always on my mind, i'm always trying to stay healthy. It's kind of like putting our hands on a stove but instead of it feeling hot/burning us, it feels great and then burns us.
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Yeah it was such a stupid thing to do especially just in training. I should've just kept doing intensive tempo and built up my base whilst losing weight and gaining my weight room strength back. My hamstring feels dreadful now. I can't walk without limping but it's not bruised. I probably have a Category II tear.
I saw this post in another thread but this pretty much sums it up for me:
"Sprinters have a tendency to go too fast in training--I know I do, and I know others who do. In my case, the "season" here up north is short and I am impatient to run fast quickly. That's a recipe for injury, and it happens all the time with sprinters.
There is a BIG catch-22 in sprint training: the better your sprinting form, the less likely you are to get injured; but you need to train a lot during a period of bad form in order to achieve good form, which is a recipe for injury. So slowly building up in the sprints to good form, AND THEN MAINTAINING THE TRAINING is essential, as that is the way to really avoid injury. The problem is that people take breaks, and resume training with bad form, and get injured, and then stop sprint training altogether.
Because of the injury cycle related to sprint training and the pain of overdistance training, almost no post-collegians train for sprints, and unless you can take a break in the middle of the day to train with college or pro guys, you will be training largely alone, which can suck.
So bad form combined with a built-in desire to go too fast and a bad pain profile sets up the perfect storm for injury, which repeats itself, and is a drag to deal with, especially alone as sprinters often have to".
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4184073&page=1This year has just been really bad. Barely played rugby and managed to break my cheekbone. Barely did any physical activity, yet somehow developed Achilles tendinitis. Barely went back to running and managed to pull my hamstring
Edit- Just saw your edit. I'm not sure where the insertion point is but my pain is around the middle of the hamstring. I'm definitely taking your advice and just resting it though.
