Tuesday: Re-Aggravating Injuries

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon, Jason. What's going on? How are you ready
for Christmas?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I think so. I think luckily. My wife does ninety
nine percent of the shopping, So I just got to show.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Up, show up and figure out what somebody else got
for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Right, Yeah, I'm just a guy that comes in and
kicks the extra point. That's all. I got to bring
the credit card. There you go.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
All right, let's talk about Lamar Jackson. He took a
knee in the back the other day. What kind of
an injury is this and how does he get over that?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah? Fortunately the MRI didn't show any real damage, but
that doesn't mean he doesn't have a pretty severe bruise
back there. I think you got to worry about with
that type of injury. Specifically, where he got hit is
rem fractures. Obviously, you can cammage from of the cartilage.
You can break a rib or kidney damage because it's
pretty close to where the kidneys are, So eliminating those
two things is good. Now it's just a deep muscle bruise,

(00:50):
and those can be basically debilitating until they're not and
usually lasts forty eight to seventy two hours of just
hard to move very stiff. The muscle doesn't want to
work because it's been plained and sore. He's gonna get
a lot of treatment, a lot of fluids in there
by some IV treatments and then should be pretty good
to go within a week unless it's you know, something
more severe as they're not putting out there. But it

(01:12):
hurts a lot, but it heals pretty quickly.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Is there not much protection from the kidneys for blood
forced trauma to the area, which I think that would be.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, they do have some pads back there. Some quarterbacks
have even more, but it's just it's a pretty freak injury.
Usually don't take a hard shot, even with the helmet
because it's so blunt. A knee is so much sharpers
it's unusually hit specifically on the kidneys right there. All right.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
We get a lot of opt outs this time of
the year for players who either are are either going
to transfer to a different school or are trying to
get themselves ready for Pro day and don't want to
get reinjured or aggravate something. And I've heard the line
where you know, we're trying to get so and so
in shape, so he's really good for Pro day. So
when you go from November to February, when the scouts

(01:57):
want to see what you can do, what do athletes
need to do to be able to perform at a
level and get healthy enough to be able to show
us Scott what they can do.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, so depending on the position, most likely, so assume
assume if kild player is going to take a lot
of throws, is gonna catch a lot of catches. Runners
are going to be doing some you know, zigzag rateral drills.
But ultimately, if you want to boil it all down,
they're working on speed and strength. So the faster, more
explosive they can get. So things like power cleans, power snatches,
have relatively heavy deadlifts with a hex bar, not necessarily

(02:28):
bending over, but the one that's where parallel to your legs,
heavy squats, heavy bench press, anything explosive they can do
with relatively low reps but high weight. They're going to
be just getting real strong and real fast. A lot
of sprint workouts, a lot of conditioning, but generally just
working on speed and explosiveness.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
How much working out and exercising and keeping his body
in good shape, as Philip Rivers had to do to
be able to do what he's done, especially after not
playing for five years and then being somewhat productive for Indianapolis.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I'm pretty shocked at this one because most NFL quarter,
most high level, you know, elite athletes, when they retire,
they they lose their shape real fast because they've been
doing it their whole life and it's fun. They get
a break, they're rich, they can do whatever they want.
So he must have kept himself in pretty good condition
and not had a lot of significant injuries building up
over the years, like you know, head drama, shoulder injuries, knee,

(03:22):
low back. For him to come out there forty four
years after a five year hiatus means he's been taking
really good care of his body, much better than the
average former athletes.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
All Right, New Year's Resolutions are coming up next week,
and if somebody says, you know what, I'm going to
fix my body, I'm going to get healthier, I'm going
to do this or that. You know, gym memberships are
at their highest in January and then they're the vast
majority of them get canceled by March. So what should
someone start if they're trying to change their lifestyle going

(03:52):
into twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah, if the biggest most important thing with whether it's
diet or exercise is consistency and commitment to any plan,
any plan. You know, the commitment of the plan is
so much better than the genius of the plan. So
if you commit to yourself to show up three to
five days a week and substitute most of your sugary drinks,

(04:15):
most of your alcohol for water, so drink water instead,
and then just eliminate you know, the real junk food,
all the highly processed things. That sounds like a lot
for people because they're not used to doing those kind
of things. But if you just commit to one to
two of those things, get used to it, and don't
expect any results in the first five weeks, six weeks,
ten weeks, think one, you know, six months to one

(04:37):
year out. If you show up consistently, you will be
a completely different human being in a year. If not,
you're gonna say it didn't work for me, it doesn't work,
and you're gonna quit. Like ninety percent of those New year.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Resolutionists, the elimination of sugar is the one thing that
I can attest to or at least as much sugar
as I used to, especially in drinks. I mean, I'll
still have some things with sugar in them, but drinking
one hundred ounces of sweet tea day is no longer
in my wheelhouse. Uh, and so in probably one fifty
on on some on some days. So I can tell

(05:10):
you how much better you're gonna feel. And more importantly,
you know things like we don't realize, like acid reflux
is caused by sugar. Excessive weight is sugar, fatigue is sugar.
I mean that's the ultimate bad choice, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, Diabetes, hard disease, the things that are gonna affect
you when you're fifty, sixty, seventy, they're gonna be like, man,
I don't know what happened. I was so healthy and
good in my thirties and forties. I felt great. Yeah,
oh well, you were constantly poisoning yourself and it eventually
catches up to you. So do yourself a favor. Now.
I'm not saying, you know, don't have desserts for Christmas
and don't have a beer here and there, but just
consistently do better is not that hard.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Here's one thing that I think a lot of people do,
and I know I'm guilty of this. I was playing
golf on Saturday, and I wasn't overly thirsty because it
wasn't overly hot. It was in the mid sixties most
of the day, maybe low seventies. But as the round
was going on, I realized I haven't had anything to
drink in a while. You still need to hydrate even
though it's not hot outside.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Correct, you do. And it's a little bit debatable, controversial.
So the first thing you're gonna feel is thirst and
if you're thirsty, drink water. Like drink water no matter what.
If you're not thirsty, it doesn't mean you're not slowly
getting dehydrated. So if you're out outside and you're doing
something physical, especially if the air is a little dry,
drink a little more water. Or if you're going on
a ski trip, you're getting on a plane. You don't

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realize how much how dry the air is up in
Colorado or up in an airplane in general, and you
get dehydrated pretty quickly. So, just as a general rule,
if you're doing anything out of the ordinary, drink more water.
Drink another glass, maybe two glasses. If you're sweating, drink anymore.
And anytime you feel thirsty, absolutely drink some water.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
What's the one thing that you can look for on
ingredients when you're shopping for snacks or just food to realize, hey,
I'm not really eating real food. This is something that
was made in the lab somewhere.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, you could probably go in your pantry right now
and grab any bag of chips, any type of snow
there and look at the ingredients. And if you don't
see things like milk, water, salt, whatever, vegetables, you can't
pronounce it. If you don't know readily what it is,
it's probably highly processed. It's probably fake for the things
like you know, sodium tetra dioxide. If you see things

(07:18):
like that, that is not food, That is a chemical
that is intended to make it taste better, probably make
it more addictive and make you want to have more
of it. Exactly.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
I can tell you that right now, I think I've
got a snack here in the end the day, I'll
look for that chemical here in just a second. All right, Jason,
thanks so much. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. We're kind
of a truncated next week as well, so we'll see
you on January seventh when we resume for.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
The new year. All Right, you and you have jam
all right.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's doctor Jason Garrett from a ROSTI keeping us healthy
and giving us an idea of all these athletes out
there that have injuries and now they're going to get
back to whatever it is that they need to get
back to. All right, let's talk about Dan Lanning. He's
got an interesting concept, a concept that would actually hurt
his team this year, but one that he'd like to
see going forward. See Andy Everette Show on the Ticket