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Kristen.
So I stumbled across this site doing a little research on the local gyms.
My situation is kinda complicated and I'm looking for some advice.
I started gymnastics and it became my life. I trained for 8 years and due to injuries I had to stop. After taking about a year break from intense training I was planning on starting back with open gyms, not to work up to competitive training, but a couple days a week doing open gym. The kicker, the night before my first day of open gym I fell 40 feet and hit the ground. It was a nightmare, I broke my hip, snapped my wrist in half, sliced open a lung, burst a kidney the list goes on. I had to have surgery on my wrist, they put a plate 3 screws and 6 pins in it. This is when I was 17. That summer I taught myself how to walk again.
I was devastated, I don't have to explain how gymnastics infects you, how it's everything, and then to have it snatched away. I couldn't watch it on television without bursting into tears, even after getting over the hip thing I had lost the mobility in my wrist because of the plate. It stayed straight, I couldn't bend it, so there was no way to do a handstand without knuckling it minus anything else.
4 Days ago after 3 years of trying I had surgery to get the plate out. I still have my cast on, but I've already started working to get my flexibility back. (after a broken hip over splits turn into a normal guy trying to do splits)
So I guess I'm looking for the best way to get back into the swing of things.
Advice on workout routines, how often I should be working out, which stretches to focus on... I'm completely at square 1 again. But I'm SO excited and ready to get back into a gym.
Anything and everything will help!
My situation is kinda complicated and I'm looking for some advice.
I started gymnastics and it became my life. I trained for 8 years and due to injuries I had to stop. After taking about a year break from intense training I was planning on starting back with open gyms, not to work up to competitive training, but a couple days a week doing open gym. The kicker, the night before my first day of open gym I fell 40 feet and hit the ground. It was a nightmare, I broke my hip, snapped my wrist in half, sliced open a lung, burst a kidney the list goes on. I had to have surgery on my wrist, they put a plate 3 screws and 6 pins in it. This is when I was 17. That summer I taught myself how to walk again.
I was devastated, I don't have to explain how gymnastics infects you, how it's everything, and then to have it snatched away. I couldn't watch it on television without bursting into tears, even after getting over the hip thing I had lost the mobility in my wrist because of the plate. It stayed straight, I couldn't bend it, so there was no way to do a handstand without knuckling it minus anything else.
4 Days ago after 3 years of trying I had surgery to get the plate out. I still have my cast on, but I've already started working to get my flexibility back. (after a broken hip over splits turn into a normal guy trying to do splits)
So I guess I'm looking for the best way to get back into the swing of things.
Advice on workout routines, how often I should be working out, which stretches to focus on... I'm completely at square 1 again. But I'm SO excited and ready to get back into a gym.
Anything and everything will help!