Three-time Olympic cross-country ski champion Alexander Bolshunov On , he said that when he injured his back in the summer, he didn’t understand at first what to do.
Bolshunov injured his back last summer during training camp, which is why he approached the season with limitations in his training work. This season, the athlete won 12 consecutive races of the Alfa-Bank Russian Cup.
— After the MRI, I read the report when I left the hospital. I read and understand: “We have arrived, it’s called. Oh my. What should we do?” It’s clear that there is a smile now, but it certainly wasn’t there then. And there were different emotions. At the first moment, when I arrived in my room, I lay down on the bed, reluctantly. I didn’t understand what to do.
Some time has passed. Yuri Viktorovich came to me [Бородавко, старший тренер сборной России] with Chechil Sergei Vyacheslavovich [мануальным терапевтом]. They have already discussed, considered the conclusions and made a rough plan of what is possible and what cannot be done, how it is possible to get out of this situation.
There was an acute phase in the back, and we had to wait for the acute phase to disappear, for the inflammation to disappear, to be able to start doing some exercises, because it was impossible to do them with this pain. And then two days later we started adding exercises. I came to the room, Yuri Viktorovich and Chechil too, before that we went to the store and bought curls for our legs. Now I also produce buckles under the brand, although I didn’t understand why they were needed, to be honest (laughs). Then I realized that it was not in vain that they had been released.
They explain different exercises. You do the same exercises year after year, but now you just have to eliminate everything. Some new exercises, put curls on your legs. For what? There are no competitions. There are no Olympic Games. There is no World Cup. Calm down. Go take care of your family,” Bolshunov said in Andrei Romanov’s special report “The Bolshunov Year” on .
Watch live broadcasts of the Alfa-Bank Russian Cup races on Match Group TV channels, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru websites.
Source : MatchTV
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