Tell me your life’s story on Health and Fitness, here’s mine
I have played and loved sports my entire life, especially baseball. In fact in 1998, I left my hometown, Tampa, Fla, to try out with a AA affiliate baseball team, the Sonoma Crushers. Before spring tryouts, I tried snowboarding.
It was the last day of a great season. On the last run of the day, I was doing a good 20-30 m.p.h following my buddies. The next thing I knew I “caught an edge” and flew right into a tree, injuring my left side from hip to knee. I suffered a fractured pelvis in two places, in the groin and lower back.
For four months, I couldn’t get out of bed. My weight increased from 175-225 lbs. Eventually, my breaks had healed, but I also learned that the bones of my pelvis had fused together. So, even after I had “healed” I couldn’t escape the pain I experienced anytime I was active. It killed my enthusiasm to be active.
So to force myself to get healthy, lose weight and be active, I became a personal trainer. Originally, I followed traditional wisdom and trained like “Arnold”. I continually pushed myself to do more weight and more cardio. Of course, I did get some results. But, at the same time, I noticed that my overall mobility was decreasing!
Through my own trial and error, I learned that it’s not how much you train that gets results. It’s how you treat your body as a whole.
S. Boley
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I have been an athlete for over 30 years. I too, just like Shane, played all sports growing up, mainly baseball. With all the possibilities of being able to succeed as an athlete. But, in 1993 I was in a major car accident followed by a coma for 6 six days. I was touched by an angel! Because somehow, after almost 3 years of recovery, I was able to get back to doing the things I love. Like, playing baseball!
Shane and I, have been on the same team since 1998. During our 2009 baseball season, Shane noticed me static stretching my Hamstrings during the game. He began explaining to me that my hamstrings wasn’t the problem, it was my hip-flexors. He showed me dynamic stretches that we did for 10-15 minutes before every game and static stretches for after. He was right, I no longer had the hamstring issues that I had the previous couple years. Shane told me about this program that he created called “No Shane, No Gain”. He asked, if he could take me through a work out session. Because he believed, that I could excel as a personal trainer, that runs the No Shane No Gain program. I now realize where I’m supposed to be, at what I’m supposed to be doing, here helping YOU!!!