Would you rather be plagued with a hamstring injury in the summer/fall leading up to fb season or be smart about the injury and NOT run tomorrow?
Sometimes you have to do what’s best for YOU man. In this case, re-injuring yourself will just set you back even further. Not worth it to try and rush back.
Been there I know it’s hard and you don’t wanna let your guys down (had my share of hamstring/quad strains).
I want what’s best for me, but I have a feeling that the coaches are going to force me to run. We have a good shot of making it to regionals with me, but my alternate will have to sacrifice one of his events to regionals. To tell you the truth, I really want to rest up my hammy and head straight back to spring football/7on7.
your coaches cant force you to run its ur health.
That’s the truth. Stick up for yourself bud. Think about this…
IF you did run (for example), they stick you on the 4x1 and pop goes the hammy you guys don’t even finish the race… What good is that??
As opposed to having an alternate run, they still will be able to have a shot without worrying about whether or not you get injured, or in your case re-injuring yourself.
Is this like you’re the running back from Varsity Blues or something?
lol, i think he want to be the hero. 
Very funny. Guys I promise that I will not let these coaches talk me into running hurt tomorrow. I appreciate it.
u should try rubbing some heating cream and wrapping the leg in a ace bandage before bed.
Were you the hero today?
Not at all, I told the trainer to make sure that he explains to the coach that running full speed 3-4 days after the pull is ridiculous. What sucks is that I would have done real well at this track meet, I know for sure that I would PB.
Well track season is officially over for me now. We didn’t make it to regionals, but we still wouldn’t have had a chance because the coaches made the track team do 7on7 the day of the track meet! That’s about the stupidest thing I ever seen yet from those coaches. I’m talking about 7on7 full-speed too. Besides that I am still a little depressed because its hard seeing people in the weight room working out and getting better while I’m just stretching my right hammy. We are going to be testing next week, and I probably won’t be able to do anything still.
Hows the hammy?
Its been almost 10 days. I still have no idea what the condition of it is. I won’t be able to see a physical therapist until Monday. I’m dying to come back, I’m going to be so weak when I come back though. It just depresses me that I could have been working out and getting better these past 10 days, but I’m slowed down because of a stupid hammy! But I have to keep on reminding myself that everything happens for a reason.
Well within these 10days you should have been during heavy upper body 4 days per week and by now you should be able to run around esp if it was a grade one pull. By day 4 or 5 you should have been during some lite acc.
Are you serious? The coaches told me to take most of the week off! Oh, man I feel like I wasted life right there. I sure hope we don’t test/max out again, I’m not ready for it.
3-4 days of total rest after then get up and start during tempo and lite acc work 2-3x10x10.
“Work the upper body weights with a push/pull split 4x/wk (Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri)and depletion push-ups 2 x/wk (Wed, Sat) for stimulation and use EMS on the hams, gluts, Erector Spinae, and abs (be careful with your selection of sit-ups till you know if it might be a problem)”. CF
A few points quickly:
1: When injured, you aren’t concerned about the ability to go fast at that point so that is the time to work harder- not less!
2: Choose the work which doesn’t stress the injured area.
3: When massaging the area work towards the injury site from BOTH directions. (Up towards it from below and DOWN towards it from above).
4: Rehab running sessions- set up three cones, each 10meters apart.
Run from a standing start from cone one to the middle (2nd) cone then jog to a stop, turn back to the third cone and, again from a stand run to the middle cone, and repeat. Be sure to start all runs from a complete stop and don’t accel past the cone. Make sure he is completely warmed up before starting the routine and don’t over-stretch the affected area.
5: For the first running session, do 10 x (10 x 10 runs, back and forth) with about a 1 min break between sets of 10.
6: Upper body weights should be ramped up to compensate for the lower CNS output from the running portion of the program and should be supplemented once a week by depletion push-ups (max possible till you drop, wait 90 sec, again till you drop, 90sec, repeat for the last time in the set.)
LOOK AT MY JOURNAL DID YOU EVER SEE ME TAKE 10DAYS OFF.
did some ice and heat on hammy
Read the definitive hamstring recovery thread.
Out 2-3 weeks because that’s what it is–what do you expect him to do? What rehab do you expect to do? You shouldn’t be doing crap for the first 3 days and extremely light stuff after. Most people, even with therapy, take a few weeks to get back to normal.
Read that thread and Charlie’s hamstring protocols–very simple, but they work. Did you run or what?
Your plan should have looked something like this:
Day 1-4: rest/ice/ems
day 5: lite strecthing/lite drills/biking/bw lower body
day 6: rest
day 7: lite lower body stuff/lite acc 2x10x10
day 8: tempo 10-20x50
day 9 lite weights for lower body/lite acc 2x10x12
day 10 tempo 8x100
day 11 rest
day 12: med weights/lite acc 2x5x15-20
day 13 tempo 10x100
day 14 rest
day 15 total body weights/3x3x60m spilt runs
your injury was probably a grade one pull and in most cases you should be ok in 10-14 days, the rare cases would be 20-25 days. around day 6-8 you should and get some massge work done.