are you kidding me?

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Quoted message said:

Chris Thompson, America's premier 1500m man broke BOTH
elbows doing

dryland exercises at the Olympic Training Center.<<

Bummer.

Steve Curtis

On 6 May 2004 09:20:01 -0700, [email hidden]

(4precious) said:

Chris Thompson, America's premier 1500m man broke BOTH
elbows ...

I just read that, and was trying to imagine the world's
worst flip turn, but ...

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... doing dryland exercises at the Olympic Training Center.

Maybe those pushups where you clap in between?

Donal Fagan AIA Donal@DonalO'Fagan.com (Anglicise the name
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sucks...pertinent to me however as one of my swimmers broke
her hand last night in dryland after a fall, which i imagine
was the cause of this.

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On 6 May 2004 09:20:01 -0700, [email hidden]

(4precious) said:

Chris Thompson, America's premier 1500m man broke BOTH
elbows ...

I just read that, and was trying to imagine the world's
worst flip turn, but ...

Quoted message said:

... doing dryland exercises at the Olympic Training
Center.

Maybe those pushups where you clap in between?

Donal Fagan AIA Donal@DonalO'Fagan.com (Anglicise the name
to reply by e-mail)

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I must admit to a rather strong accident prone tendancy.
It's amazing how many injuries, of varying signifigance,
I've collectect simply being a bit of a clutz pushing
really really hard. Truly unfortunate that, I'm guessing,
a similar slip would result in such an injury.

--Mike

You won't get any argument out of me. I'm the one who got a
"stinger" and bruised my spinal cord by jumping up and into
the water backwards. When the back of my head hit the water,
it felt as if I were paralyzed for a few moments. The Ortho
doc said the MRI showed a cervical disk slightly bulged
forward. So now I have to tell people I hurt myself
swimming....

Pat in TX

4-6 weeks seems rather optimistic for elbows, just about the
single most difficult orthopeadic injury. That's before we
consider the severity(or otherwise)of the breaks. Then once
the elbows are strong enough to take a training regime of
any sort, he has to get both arms working properly again i.e
extending, stretching, bearing load. As we all know,
swimming is the toughest sport ot spend a day or two away
from training. So can we really expect him to be ready for
the Olympics, now only 100 days or so away when for at least
42 days he'll be in recovery.

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4-6 weeks seems rather optimistic for elbows, just about
the single most difficult orthopeadic injury. That's
before we consider the severity(or otherwise)of the
breaks. Then once the elbows are strong enough to take a
training regime of any sort, he has to get both arms
working properly again i.e extending, stretching, bearing
load. As we all know, swimming is the toughest sport ot
spend a day or two away from training. So can we really
expect him to be ready for the Olympics, now only 100 days
or so away when for at least 42 days he'll be in recovery.

It was plyometrics!

Go to usa-swimming website and look at journal from Tom
Malchow, who was there when the accident happened.

They were jumping onto and off of a box and Thompson fell
backwards, breaking both elbows.

Should have been doing them on a softer surface. Better yet,
don't do them at all. No one has ever proven that
plyometrics have any benefit, but any kind of ballistic
movement will greatly increase the chance of injury.

I just read "ultimate exercise Bulletin #1" last night by
Dr. Doug McGuff. He's a protege of Ken Hutchins and the
whole Superslow weightlifting protocol. He says that if the
whole country stopped exercising, the overall health of the
people would instantly rise. So many people get hurt doing
stupid things like plyometrics.

Eric