I Wasn’t Fast Enough (WARNING: GRAPHIC!)

Many of you have been asking what happened to my eye and why there appeared to be noticeable swelling over many of my recent videos. Here, I’m going to show you why being slow to act has put me in an unenviable position. No, despite popular belief, Jesse was not responsible for the damage. While

JEFF: What’s up, hot shot? Mr. Lacrosse. JESSE: Just tossing the ball a little bit. JEFF: Really?

Can you handle the weight of that stick? JESSE: Yes. JEFF: It’s a little heavy. JESSE: What? JEFF: A little heavy.

Even with the ball in it, too? JESSE: Jeff, I can shoot this over 90. I’m pretty sure I can handle it. JEFF: 90, what? JESSE: 90 miles an hour.

JEFF: Oh. No way. JESSE: Oh, you don’t believe me? Dude, I can hit you dead in the face right now. JEFF: You couldn’t hit anything.

You couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. JESSE: You really want to try it out? JEFF: Go ahead. JESSE: Okay. JEFF: F**k!

JESSE: Oh, shit. JEFF: What’s up, guys? Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX. com. So, you think I look bad?

You should see Jesse. Okay, actually, Jesse; come on out. Prove that you’re okay before they think that I harmed you. JESSE: No, I’m totally good. JEFF: There are not Jesses harmed in the making of this video.

I promise. Guys, there are some important lessons to be learned here today. Number one: mainly, I’m a dumbass. But this is what happens when you are a dumbass. You see all this black and blue here?

It’s actually improved quite a bit in the last few days. What we’re looking at here is a result of my procrastination. I posted pictures of me on Instagram – if you’re not following already, it’s @ATHLEANX on Instagram – of when this actually happened a few days ago. People were saying “Sylvester Stallone must have put you as an extra in ‘Creed 2’. ” I only wish that was the case, guys.

Instead, it was due more to my stupidity and procrastination because what really happened was – you guys have seen it over the course of the last few months. The more astute viewers were saying “Jeff, what’s up with your eye? ” You can look at some of these clips right here. “Jeff, your eye is swollen. It looks like there’s a big bump on the bottom of your lid.

What the hell is going on? Are you dying? Please don’t! We love your videos! ” It was something called a Chalazion.

You can go look that up. Chalazion. What happened was, it’s been there for three months. It started by having some swelling on the bottom of my lid that I allowed to keep getting worse, and worse, and worse. It didn’t really hurt me that much, but I didn’t act on it.

I knew I probably could have gone and had it drained, and just get it done, and be done with it, and it would have been all over. All said and done. But instead, I kept going, and I kept training, and I kept pushing, and I kept delaying, and I kept working, and I kept not doing what I was supposed to do. Then I wound up to the point where the damned thing looked like a gigantic growth on my bottom lid that I had to get taken care of. It was starting to hurt at that point.

It interfered with my sleep. So, I go to get it done, and I’m anticipating that they’re just going to drain the thing and be done with it. So, when I get there, not only are they not draining it anymore, the thing at that point had become fibrotic. The thing was now fibrous and no longer drainable. They had to cut it out.

So, I had to go in there and get injections to the inside of my eyelid. These are all the fun things that happen when you actually wait this long. First, they went to the outside of my eyelid, then to the inside of my eyelid with Novocain, then they went and cut the thing out because of all the scar tissue that had formed in there. I will probably never have a perfectly formed eyelid anymore because of that waiting. Is this the first time that I’ve been a dumbass?

No. No, because if you look at my fingers here, you can see this happened before. You see these two fingers? One of them, not so straight. The other one has this bump, but if you look at the joint itself, it’s really straight.

Both of these fingers were broken. They both suffered the same injury where I broke that distal bone there, I had a tendon detachment. One of them, I was fortunate enough that – the first one, here – to have it occur while I was catching a football on a baseball field. Long story short, one of our closers, Billy Wagner, used to throw 100MPH, threw a football at me and I just didn’t position my hands right to the point of catching it. I had to point it down a bit.

The football hit me right in the end of the finger and broke it. But I was fortunate enough to be in Atlanta, go right inside the clubhouse for treatment, get a splint put on that thing right away – no procrastination – and at least the thing is straight now. It healed properly. This one, I was out walking my dogs and one of them pulled on the leash. It wrapped around my finger, they went running after another dog.

I broke the finger and did nothing about it for about a week. Then I started to put the splint on myself and waited, and was never consistent, and that’s what happens. The damned thing, I can’t even reach in my pocket without it hooking on the side every, single time I do. The lesson here, guys, is do something about the things that bother you. First of all, let’s go through the obvious.

Maybe you don’t like the current state of your fitness level. Maybe you don’t like the way you look in the mirror. Maybe you’ve been saying “I’ll do it tomorrow, I’ll do it next week, I’ll do it… ” And you just keep putting it off and putting it off. You know what you’re doing.

If you want to get results you’d better start intervening because nothing is going to change for you unless you change something about what you’re currently doing. That’s just on the obvious level. We’ve got to go a little bit deeper. A lot of guys that write to me are like “Jeff, I’ve got a great question because you’re a PT. You know what you’re doing.

You train a lot of guys. You work with guys who have injuries. How about, in my situation, every time I lift my arm up to take a drink of water it feels like my shoulder is going to fall out of its socket, and I hear this ripping, tearing sound? Is that normal? And is it okay if I go back to overhead pressing?

” Guys, if that’s going on you’ve got a serious problem. You don’t need to ask me whether you should be training. You don’t need to ask me if you need to be doing shoulder presses. You probably need to go get a hands-on evaluation of what’s going on, to tell you what it is you’re dealing with. At that point, you can make a more educated decision.

If you’re dealing with a lot of injuries – which, a lot of us do – knowing what’s going on is going to be the first step in determining whether or not you have a training plan from there. Guys, I was going to speak at the National Strength & Conditioning Association’s conference this year all about this topic of training around injuries. I think it’s very, very possible for people to train around injuries when you know what it is you’re dealing with. But you have to do something first. Stop procrastinating.

Don’t use our message boards and your buddies at the gym to diagnose what’s wrong with you. I can tell you, as a physical therapist, you’d better get someone who is willing to see you in person to diagnose what’s going on, rather than guess what you’re dealing with online. With that being said, I hope you can learn from my mistakes here, and realize that we’re all not perfect. I definitely make some dumbass moves, and I certainly did this, and no; if Jesse ever did that to me, that lacrosse stick would be so far up his a-… Anyway, all of our programs are over at ATHLEANX.

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