Baseball....I'd love to hate you
My last season of baseball before I decided to pursue lifting and bodybuilding seriously took a toll on my body, especially now as I go deep and deeper into lifting and the choices become obvious...suck it up or bite the bullet. Here's the laundry list of ways baseball screwed me up.
Nerve damage in my left hand, both elbows, and both shoulders
Seperated both shoulders
Three broken toes
Bad rotator cuffs (my own doing)
Fried trap
Ripped two toenails off
And tore both my ACL and meniscus on the same play (a whole 'nother story)
But the thing about tearing my ACL and meniscus...I didn't need surgery. The off-season work I did in the weight room building my legs and hammies (stiff-legged deads, especially) saved me from the knife. The doc looked at my xrays and told me to take it easy for a while. And I'm just about back, in leg development at least.