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I am writing this out in hopes that it might inspire a few of you to train even when you think you cannot.
When you think of training adversity what do you think of? Training through a cold, sore muscles, lack of motivation, bruised hands, broken hands?
I would kill to only have to deal with adversity like that.
About a year ago I started to bleed out my ass. I was surprised... hmm, I haven't been violently raped in the ass lately WTF is going on?
After many months, and many trips to various doctors, all of whom wanted to thread a nice big endoscope up my ass, I was still bleeding.
Finally I found a GI that wanted to put me to sleep and shove a huge camera up my ass.
Turns out I have Ulcerative Colitis. It is an incurable autoimmune disease were my body is actively trying to annihilate my intestines.
It frequently feels like I am being stabbed in the gut.
Thankfully after about 6 months we got my Colitis under control, but yesterday it flared up and I started to bleed out my ass again.
Through all of this I have missed a grand total of 2 days in the gym. 1 for my Colonoscopy, and 1 when I broke my toes.
Thats right, I trained 6 months 4 days a week while bleeding out my ass in varying degrees of excruciating pain, I continued sparring until my doctor insisted I give it a break until we got my bleeding under control, and I didn't complain about any of it.
When you think of training adversity what do you think of? Training through a cold, sore muscles, lack of motivation, bruised hands, broken hands?
I would kill to only have to deal with adversity like that.
About a year ago I started to bleed out my ass. I was surprised... hmm, I haven't been violently raped in the ass lately WTF is going on?
After many months, and many trips to various doctors, all of whom wanted to thread a nice big endoscope up my ass, I was still bleeding.
Finally I found a GI that wanted to put me to sleep and shove a huge camera up my ass.
Turns out I have Ulcerative Colitis. It is an incurable autoimmune disease were my body is actively trying to annihilate my intestines.
It frequently feels like I am being stabbed in the gut.
Thankfully after about 6 months we got my Colitis under control, but yesterday it flared up and I started to bleed out my ass again.
Through all of this I have missed a grand total of 2 days in the gym. 1 for my Colonoscopy, and 1 when I broke my toes.
Thats right, I trained 6 months 4 days a week while bleeding out my ass in varying degrees of excruciating pain, I continued sparring until my doctor insisted I give it a break until we got my bleeding under control, and I didn't complain about any of it.
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