2021 Series #16 | Blue Jays @ Indians | May 28-30

[jup]

..being/remaining healthy is a skill.. partially due to being lucky.. also, learned to a degree..

You are exactly right that staying healthy is a skill plus some luck.

The skill part has to do with how and what you train and starting from what age. The luck has to do with what we come into this world with genetically, which we have no volition over (at least not yet).

If you have certain physical predispositions, you may be able to minimize their impact through training, but they are still there. And a predispostion to injury will have you injured more often even with good and timely training habits.

 

[jup]

Seems like the injury bug makes its rounds and nobody has a magic elixir to avoid them.

It only seems like no one has the magic elixir because you never notice the ones not injured, you notice the ones that are injured. Those are the ones with either predisposition or bad and untimely training habits.

 

[CDAV45]

It only seems like no one has the magic elixir because you never notice the ones not injured, you notice the ones that are injured. Those are the ones with either predisposition or bad and untimely training habits.

I definitely think that injury risk can be significantly reduced with proper training and mechanics, but they are still going to happen even if less frequently. The aggravating part of it is that there is no way to determine if a player has any predispositions until they actually occur, and it's often too late then. Calf, hamstring, and shoulder injuries seem to be ones that haunt.

 

[CATS44]

You can have a pretty good handle on the likelihood of consistent injuries within a few years of beginning pro ball.

 

[KluberSociety]

If staying healthy is a skill, it's a skill I have more of than professional MLBer Zach Plesac.

 

[Criznit]

You can have a pretty good handle on the likelihood of consistent injuries within a few years of beginning pro ball.

George Valera... Triston McKenzie...

 

[sportscoach]

I dont agree that staying healthy is a skill. There is training that can be done to minimize the chances of injury, but a body that is injury prone is injury prone.

We've seen our share of those.

Staying healthy is a mix of genes, correct preventive training plus correct training and luck. The 1st and 3rd you cannot say is a skill, but the preventive training part can be considered a skill plus dedication. I lost a sports scholarship for college because I didn't do the right training for my body and had a bad injury... I did just the regular training I saw everyone else doing in a sense but I found out later, I needed to train way differently cause of a genetic condition. If I knew about the correct way to train for my body, I wouldn't have had the injury to begin with and likely would have played college sports (Soccer and swimming (possibly baseball as well), at a D-2/D-3 and track at a D-1/D-2 level).

Guys like Zimmer, Sizemore had injuries because of how they played the game.. play a different way and their careers likely would have played out a little differently...