In Sports History - Has anyone ever pulled a thigh muscle jogging?

[drh]

C'mon guys, don't tell me you are buying Vitali's excuse.

How can you tear a thigh muscle 'jogging'? Is it possible? especially for an elite athlete, with extreme body conditioning?

[BBFM]

footballplayers do it from trying to run so fast.

[drh]

footballplayers do it from trying to run so fast.

my question was do they do it from 'jogging'

and it was kind of rhetorical

[Soundtraveler]

I have read no reports saying he tore anything, just a pulled muscle, and no I don't buy it, he is supposed to be a fighter, not a ballet dancer.

[Stickman]

C'mon guys, don't tell me you are buying Vitali's excuse.

How can you tear a thigh muscle 'jogging'? Is it possible? especially for an elite athlete, with extreme body conditioning?

You're obviously not an athlete of any sort.

I've pulled thigh muscles running numerous times, generally in the first portion of a run if I didn't get warmed up well, or in cold weather. Usually it's caused from stepping in a slight depression or hole I didn't see, or stumbling over a piece of gravel or something like that, but there have been a couple of times I've pulled one for no readily apparent reason. And I'm in good shape. Not exactly world class anymore, but I can still make a 5 to 7 mile run with no problem, and come in with a better per-mile time than most high school 1000 meter track stars.

Anyway, it's usually my left leg, and it takes up to a week before I risk any serious running again, and even then I keep the pace low for another few days.

Athletes whose sport demands that they be at the very pinnacle of physical conditioning can't risk anything being wrong with them, not even a pulled muscle, and they can't break from training a month or 2 before a fight. To do so could cause them to lose a match, and it simply isn't worth it. Klitchko pulled the muscle training for the Rahman fight. If you figure a week or more to heal properly before he can train at full force, and then having to re-start his training camp, I can easily see why the fight was pushed back a few weeks. Hell, I'm surprised it wasn't rescheduled for late summer or early fall.

[abdiel2k3]

I have read no reports saying he tore anything, just a pulled muscle, and no I don't buy it, he is supposed to be a fighter, not a ballet dancer.

so these tickets for Vitali on Ice and Vitali Live at the Pheonix Dance Academy arent authentic?

[drh]

You're obviously not an athlete of any sort.

I've pulled thigh muscles running numerous times, generally in the first portion of a run if I didn't get warmed up well, or in cold weather. Usually it's caused from stepping in a slight depression or hole I didn't see, or stumbling over a piece of gravel or something like that, but there have been a couple of times I've pulled one for no readily apparent reason. And I'm in good shape. Not exactly world class anymore, but I can still make a 5 to 7 mile run with no problem, and come in with a better per-mile time than most high school 1000 meter track stars.

Hi Stickman,

Your obviously not much of an athlete either - i loved this bit!

'Usually it's caused from stepping in a slight depression or hole I didn't see, or stumbling over a piece of gravel or something like that'

Got to watch those pieces of gravel stickman, their bitches to deal with.

To elaborate on my point, athletes play injured all the time, champions more than others. Lewis, Holyfield, Oscar are all known to have carried injuries - they don't postpone.

And FYI - I've played state cricket, was a member of my universtity athletics team, and i'm an amateur boxer.

Best Regards,

DRH

[Soundtraveler]

so these tickets for Vitali on Ice and Vitali Live at the Pheonix Dance Academy arent authentic?

LMAO!!! That is funny stuff, you know, I was in sports all through school and afterward too, I have pulled muscles many times!

But damn, it sure wouldn't keep me out for months at a time, perhaps if he were a track star or something involving running at full speed I would understand. The guy is a fighter who doesn't even move that well to begin with so what does it matter if he has a pulled muscle, he isn't kick boxing!