Earlier this week Tony Horton was the guest for the Team Beachbody National Coach Call, and he discussed a recent injury he sustained while doing "iron cross flys on rings with my feet on a stability ball." The move made his right bicep muscle tear away from the bone, and it required surgery a few days later. That makes the sore hip I've been nursing for awhile sound a bit namby-pamby...Anyway, he said he's recovering well, and that he should be back up to speed soon.
You'd think an injury like that would put a 52-year-old guy like Tony on the sideline for a bit, right? Nope. Tony's philosophy is: "if the top's broken, work the bottom. If the bottom's broken, work the top. If the top and bottom are broken, work the core." Tony is working on his cardio, legs, and core -- things he admits are not his bread and butter -- while his arm coalesces.
I think there are two lessons hidden in Tony's example: one physical, and one mental.
The physical lesson is that if you need to take some time off while a body part recovers, that doesn't mean you sit on the couch and eat Pop Tarts all day. Find something you can do, rather than lose all of the progress you've made.
The mental lesson is to look at an injury as an opportunity, not as a reason to get depressed and quit. It's natural to focus our workouts around what we "like" and what we're "good at." When that is taken away by injury and you can't do it anymore, what do you do? (Ahem...Yoga, anyone?)
Tony has a refreshingly opposite view of things at which he's not very good. He sees it as an opportunity to get better. In the One on One workouts, Tony often says "Don't be attached to the outcome." That means don't get bent out of shape if things don't go the way you envisioned them. If you're doing your best and giving your all, that's all you can ask of yourself. That's a good lesson for fitness and life.
Beachbody has graciously provided a link to the National Coach Call featuring Tony Horton. If you want to check it out, click here.
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Workout of the Day
We took the day off from RevAbs to try the new One on One Volume 3: P.A.P. workout. Oh my goodness, this was a rocker. I think it's going to become a favorite!
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