“The injury was dangerous. One clumsy, wrong movement – you can go back” – Bolshunov on healing

Three-time Olympic cross-country ski champion Alexander Bolshunov On he said the injury he suffered in the summer was very dangerous.

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.

— It was hard, to be honest. Especially the first workout [после травмы]. For what? For what? Why are you starting to do this? Then the second workout is easier. And somehow a training system was built later. After a while, I started walking – an hour, two or three. If before I ran, now I just walked. After a month and a half, I started walking with sticks. After a month and a half or two, I started doing imitation, when you try to repeat skiing movements.

I didn’t do classic skating until almost before the snow; before the snow, I did some classic workouts on roller skates. And the “skating” is quite fast, because the back is less stressed.

It was all in a corset. He puts pressure. You don’t understand why all this is necessary. What kind of corset? And you had to wear it every training session. First emotions: “Shit! I do not want. For what? No need”.

The first competition was doubtful. But after three months it was already possible to start running. That’s how it happened. But all the competitions were just sensations, because the injury is dangerous. One awkward, wrong move and you can go back. And everything will start again,” Bolshunov said in Andrei Romanov’s special report “The Bolshunov Year” on .

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