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One knee injury completely changed my lifestyle
I wanna say that back in college, basketball was basically my whole routine outside of classes. My friends and I played pickup almost every eve and sometimes at the campus gym, sometimes at random outdoor courts until it got dark and we could find some good spots. I never was some elite player or anything, but I loved it. It kept me in shape without feeling like I have to workout and stick to the routine. It was fun and I got a lot of friends because of playing
After graduation, life kinda changed and everybody I knew got jobs, schedules got messier. But somehow we still kept the basketball thing alive and even got a new team members if I can say so. A bunch of us from work would play after office hours a couple of times a week and sometimes we’d meet up on weekends. And it was probably the only reason I didn’t completely lose my mind working a desk job
Then I injured my knee really badly…
One bad landing during a game and suddenly I was in horrible pain and almost fainted
The doctor told me to take a break for a while, and a while turned into several months faster than I even noticed
I hated it… I missed moving around, missed sweating, missed talking trash during games, all of it. It was basically my life outside. But I kinda adapted fast to my new lazy routine. My couch somehow got really comfy. Ordering food became easier than cooking. Chips and soda started sounding way better than rehab exercises that I postponed for later. I just told myself that it’s temporary, then next thing I niticed that I barely fit in all my closes, only my sweats were comfy, I even wore my sweats with my shoes to take less time dressing up. Imagine how stupid I looked
I decided that this can’t go any longer and tried getting back into fitness the normal way. Went to the gym a few times, walked on the treadmill, lifted a little, but man… I was bored... I realized I never actually liked exercising for the sake of exercising. Basketball was the thing I loved. The fitness part was just a side effect.
Saw some of my old basketball buddies recently and tried to offer them to meet up and play again, but they seemed like the yaren’t really interested
The other day I saw one of those portable basketball shooting https://www.grindbasketball.com/products/basketballshootingmachine machine online and it’s the first thing in a while that made me feel motivated again. I thought maybe that’s exactly what I need right now and not full pickup games, not trying to relive college glory days, just something to help me get moving again without depending on five other people to show up
Maybe I just miss hearing the ball bounce on concrete more than I realized
#inspiration
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I wanna say that back in college, basketball was basically my whole routine outside of classes. My friends and I played pickup almost every eve and sometimes at the campus gym, sometimes at random outdoor courts until it got dark and we could find some good spots. I never was some elite player or anything, but I loved it. It kept me in shape without feeling like I have to workout and stick to the routine. It was fun and I got a lot of friends because of playing
After graduation, life kinda changed and everybody I knew got jobs, schedules got messier. But somehow we still kept the basketball thing alive and even got a new team members if I can say so. A bunch of us from work would play after office hours a couple of times a week and sometimes we’d meet up on weekends. And it was probably the only reason I didn’t completely lose my mind working a desk job
Then I injured my knee really badly…
One bad landing during a game and suddenly I was in horrible pain and almost fainted
The doctor told me to take a break for a while, and a while turned into several months faster than I even noticed
I hated it… I missed moving around, missed sweating, missed talking trash during games, all of it. It was basically my life outside. But I kinda adapted fast to my new lazy routine. My couch somehow got really comfy. Ordering food became easier than cooking. Chips and soda started sounding way better than rehab exercises that I postponed for later. I just told myself that it’s temporary, then next thing I niticed that I barely fit in all my closes, only my sweats were comfy, I even wore my sweats with my shoes to take less time dressing up. Imagine how stupid I looked
I decided that this can’t go any longer and tried getting back into fitness the normal way. Went to the gym a few times, walked on the treadmill, lifted a little, but man… I was bored... I realized I never actually liked exercising for the sake of exercising. Basketball was the thing I loved. The fitness part was just a side effect.
Saw some of my old basketball buddies recently and tried to offer them to meet up and play again, but they seemed like the yaren’t really interested
The other day I saw one of those portable basketball shooting https://www.grindbasketball.com/products/basketballshootingmachine machine online and it’s the first thing in a while that made me feel motivated again. I thought maybe that’s exactly what I need right now and not full pickup games, not trying to relive college glory days, just something to help me get moving again without depending on five other people to show up
Maybe I just miss hearing the ball bounce on concrete more than I realized
#inspiration
source
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