Motivation trouble after ACL

[DoctorHERB]

I feel your pain....

I blew my ACL in 1988 while playing football at Tenn. Tech. I was a freak when it came to training, but when I got injured, I got depressed and discouraged(my rehab was 18 months). After i finished rehab I was no longer able to play ball, and I was inactive for 5-6 years. Well, in 1994-95, my best friend bought a health club and I started working out because it was free, well long story short, Im 33 now and in the best shape of my life. Im going to be in my first BB competition in Aug., and I cant wait to get in the gym every day to get better!! Keep ya head up dog, your young and got lots of time to recover and do whatever you want to with your life. E-mail me if ya need any encouragement or questions bout ACL injuriess/rehaab.

 

[Bulldog_10]

I dislocated my shoulder during every game of my junior year football season. By the 7th game I couldn't even lift it above my head. So I took a week off and went to physical therapy...one weeks turned to two...two to three. Then I came back for my last game of the season...I was sooooo jacked up to go out and play again with my pals, I was going nuts in the locker room!! Finally game time comes and the Fuckin coach never put me in! After the game I threatened to kill the coach and went off for about an hour. I was running up and down the field screamin and shit. Finally I jumped on the ground and started punching the ground and guess what.....Dislocated shoulder! Only this time there was no one there to put it back in for me!
Surgery time!
So I had the surgery and couldn't move for about 3 weeks. It got better and better, until I was lifting semi-heavily again. I changed gyms so no one I knew would be there, cuz I felt like a pussy lifting such light weight. I worked my ass off. And by the end of the summer I was benching my weight 22 times(180 pounds), a record for my school. Thats how we do our strength test before and after the summer to see who actually worked out during the off season. The next best person did their weight 6 times!! What pussies!
So I came back for the season and rushed for 650 yards, only four touchdowns though, and made 133 tackles at cornerback and had 6 INTs.
And I dislocated my shoulder in every game again, but this time I never told my coach, I just had my friends twist it back in during the huddle!
Now my shoulder is still fucked after the second surgery and there is no motivation like I had that year. So I'm kinda in the same boat as you. I'm just starting to get back into the gym and already seeing myself get alot stronger while my friends are at the beach all day getting fat and sunburned...That's all the motivation I need.
I go to the gym from 12-2 and still have time to hit the beach when I get home! Unless I have to work, which is only 3 days a week!

Thanks for listening to my rambling ass,
B-10