Quick background, I was supposed to be in the Golden Gloves this year...However when I went for my physical a few weeks ago, on the questionaire one of the questions is if you had had surgery or been hospitalized in the past year. Well not thinking anything of it, I check off 'Yes' because I had shoulder surgery in the middle of last year to repair a torn labrum. So the doctor tests out my shoulder and pulls it backwards a bit and honestly that **** hurt. He saw me cringe a lil bit as he was doing it...so because of that he wouldn't clear me until I got a note from my doctor saying it is ok to box.
Soooooo....
I go to my doctor and I'm just being real with him. Not lying so I can get an ok and injure myself, I told him the shoulder still hurts a lil bit. He said the best thing for me to do is more strength training and that none of his patients who had that surgery box so he couldnt give a real good assessment on how my shoulder would do at this time. So I didnt leave with the doctors note I needed...Since then I kinda lost hope and stopped going to the gym. However wanting to still feel like I was in training, I been doing massive amounts of roadwork to keep busy...but I admittedly lost mad focus/motivation to fight.
But because my fighting spirit wont die, I looked elsewhere and now theres a chance I can get cleared from another doctor...the only thing is I have been doing tons of roadwork/plyometrics etc but not too much sparring. Only sparred 3 times in the past 5 weeks (although they were hard sparring matches).
Theres a chance I can still get in the Gloves, my deadline to get them the note is really tomorrow or Friday...but my training has consisted mostly of roadwork. I have been fighting for a few years, been in the Gloves before...I think I am in good shape, not great shape.
Should I try to get in the gloves with my shoulder issue and as little sparring as I've done? I'm down to the wire here. My mind is going back and forth back and forth on if I should pursue clearance or not. Every minute my brain and motivation changes, its like a roller coaster.
Soooooo....
I go to my doctor and I'm just being real with him. Not lying so I can get an ok and injure myself, I told him the shoulder still hurts a lil bit. He said the best thing for me to do is more strength training and that none of his patients who had that surgery box so he couldnt give a real good assessment on how my shoulder would do at this time. So I didnt leave with the doctors note I needed...Since then I kinda lost hope and stopped going to the gym. However wanting to still feel like I was in training, I been doing massive amounts of roadwork to keep busy...but I admittedly lost mad focus/motivation to fight.
But because my fighting spirit wont die, I looked elsewhere and now theres a chance I can get cleared from another doctor...the only thing is I have been doing tons of roadwork/plyometrics etc but not too much sparring. Only sparred 3 times in the past 5 weeks (although they were hard sparring matches).
Theres a chance I can still get in the Gloves, my deadline to get them the note is really tomorrow or Friday...but my training has consisted mostly of roadwork. I have been fighting for a few years, been in the Gloves before...I think I am in good shape, not great shape.
Should I try to get in the gloves with my shoulder issue and as little sparring as I've done? I'm down to the wire here. My mind is going back and forth back and forth on if I should pursue clearance or not. Every minute my brain and motivation changes, its like a roller coaster.
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