I am getting restless

2 months of the shoulder injury - 3 weeks of no training whatsoever and the boredom is really kicking in.

I have my 5th physio session this week and we are moving into very very light exercises. It's so slow. Like..all I am doing right now is pressing my arm against a pillow on the wall. Seriously. At this rate it will still be another 3-4 weeks before I am cleared...but to be honest I have questions.

How can I tell if this physio is really working? Say I had not done anything anyway in 3 weeks but totally rested - would it be any different?

How do I know the acupuncture works?  On Saturday night after the W1 event my shoulder was killing me from fatigue (probably from driving)...so I am not sure...

I feel I am being processed a little bit also. Thanks Scott - that's another $75 please. With my physiotherapist - I am usually sharing her time also with someone else so while I am am getting acupuncture she leaves me for 15 minutes on my own and see's another person. Back and forth chit chat...sort of impersonal...lots of small talk. She STILL calls me Robert (my first name).. I am being encouraged by my friends to discuss my concerns (to be honest though my expectations might be ludacris) or change who I see but I would not like to face my current physiotherapist if I was to switch....Awkward..? Maybe it's just the pace I am bored of and looking to scapegoat someone..

Anyways....it's just me being chomping at the bit to come back...I need my Jitsahol...

I have started jogging too and have invested in some proper running shoes - another first. I want to increase my cardio for my eventual return...When I say I have started - I have had 1 run ;)

I think tomorrow I might swing by the academy and watch or hang out...I know I am missing out on things..

...the strange thing is the timing of this comes right at the same time for a call to venture out to Saskatoon in September to DJ for a friend at a show so all of a sudden I have been given a project to get back into music and mixing so that has at least been keeping me very busy along with major changes at work that is keeping me there past hours.

Life has swept me off the Jiu Jitsu beach and I am trying to swim back to shore. (even though I am not meant to be swimming..)

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