You may wonder how a knee injury helped me appreciate the importance of push and pull strengths. I was found to have a torn meniscus back in September and I had to undergo an arthroscopic surgery in November. This was a huge set back for me in achieving my running ambitions and I had to cancel all my key marathon and ultramarathon races (including a repeat 100 miler at The Border) planned for last year.
After one month of rest and rehab, in December I decided to focus on best utilizing my recovery months and fall in love with strength training routines. After a lot of drag, I’m now able to focus hitting the gym and doing more weights. I’m very happy to say I’ve seen a significant progress.
I would like to give one more month to see some more progress with my self-created pushing and pulling challenges.
I’ve been doing these uncomfortable exercises and I should say I have already started feeling very comfortable. The initial days were harder and I hated myself for committing to a “daily” completion goals. But I should say, after a month, I no longer hate them and those weekly once random workouts have become 3-4 times a week exercises.
Stay tuned, I’ll be updating this post with more specific details about my strength capabilities and how I have been building them soon.
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