You can’t hear a whisper unless you’re actively listening. Your body whispers to you all the time, mostly with pain. I have five places that whisper to me: my formerly broken foot, my left knee, my left hip, my right elbow, and my right shoulder. If I hear these whispers, things aren’t going well. A [...]
You can’t hear a whisper unless you’re actively listening. Your body whispers to you all the time, mostly with pain.
I have five places that whisper to me: my formerly broken foot, my left knee, my left hip, my right elbow, and my right shoulder.
If I hear these whispers, things aren’t going well. A severe injury is probably around the corner. Or I’m going down a hole that will be hard to climb out from.
So this past Sunday, I was doing bodyweight squats. My knee felt foggy, and my left hip popped. When I moved to pull-ups (again, during the warm-up), my elbow didn’t feel quite right. The nerve pain in my foot has also increased.
All things considered, I’m not in a boatload of pain. Nothing hurts to the point of grandpa movement, but I would be an idiot not to listen. Sadly, most people don’t listen. Whispers are easy to ignore, after all. It’s not a slap in the face. Not a shout. Just a murmur of a warning. The faintest, “Psst.”
Find out the spots that like to whisper to you. And when you hear them, don’t ignore them. Your body is smarter than your mind sometimes. Listen to it.
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(I wrote this quite some time ago.)