Strength Training and Stroke Recovery

[stef]

by Todd Peters

It was Thursday, October 29th, 2008 and I had evening no-gi practice at my local Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu club. My neck had been sore for a few weeks, but anyone who has spent any amount of time training in a grappling sport knows that this is nothing new – you do your neck bridges and get stronger, then next time you get thrown you won’t tweak your damn neck. What I didn’t know was that this time there was a bomb waiting to go off inside my head…

Article (http://startingstrength.com/index.php/site/strength_training_stroke_recovery)

Resources Page (http://startingstrength.com/index.php/site/resources)

[elVarouza]

Very inspirational article. I wish you the best success with your continued recovery.

[jcorwin]

This was an amazing article, thanks for sharing.

[Ironcinder]

Thanks for the article. I had a (set of) strokes about a year ago in October 2011, and although the brain trauma was sort of different, the end result has been the same. I found it particularly interesting w.r.t. balance issues which are a huge problem for me at the gym. Stabilizing the dumbbell stuff I have been doing has been crazy hard. This article (linked from Fitocracy) bumped SS to the top of my reading list!