#SaturdayStorytime - bandaid games
social media is a highlight reel and we show the sunshine and rainbows, but I’m here to tell ya, sometimes it gets real rainy out here. And just when you think things can’t get worse, in fact they can 😂.
2020 was a weird year. shut downs, no live competitions, gym closures. Training was strange. That said, I was in good shape leading into the 2020 games.
The games that year were 5-6 weeks later than usual so it was a long period of prep. I was hanging on by a thread and eventually snapped. About 2 weeks before the games that year I tore my groin front squatting. It was very not good. For about a week any engagement in my adductors was agony. I couldn’t even roll over in bed.
With a couple weeks until competition we did what we could to take care of it and find movement patterns that didn’t hurt. Basically what this means is we tried to do cyclist squats, all quads, butt to heel and just go 100% quads for anything I could. It was an inefficient work a...