02/23/2022
I’m not here to lower your expectations. But we need to be honest about them.
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I have lots of conversations with my athletes to keep their expectations in check.
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Progress should not only be objectified by one measure.
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Being able to do more difficult things with the same amount of pain as the easy things used to cause you is progress.
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Being less hesitant to try things, even if they are seemingly easier tasks, is still progress.
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I don’t often fully shut my athletes down from sport, but that comes with the understanding that in a ‘Perfect’ world things progress super linearly and progression would be easy to track based on a simple timeline.
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This is not the case.
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You pick and choose what risks and activities you want to do and you adjust your expectations of the healing process accordingly. Understand that ‘setbacks’ happen just as often as ‘moving forward more quickly than expected’.
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So before you get upset, check in with your expectations. Check the little goals, find progress you have made and build on that. Expect that this will be a wild ride and you will be progress much more that if your expectation is a perfect process.