“I couldn’t wear sneakers to go to training” – Bolshunov on his back injury

Three-time Olympic cross-country ski champion Alexander Bolshunov On he spoke about the pain he felt this summer when he injured his back.

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.

— Carrying out training exercises. And the body was not ready for such a heavy load. And he seemed to be saying, “Stop, I can’t do this today.” » But I continued, realizing that I had to straddle myself, to surpass myself, I tried to extricate him, to push him all the way.

My back started to hurt. I thought I just overloaded it, that there was nothing wrong with it. Then he continued to train in the same way. It is clear that we examined it with massage therapists and figured out why my back hurts. Then I practiced. Then I went out for the second training session to run cross country. The back is strongly involved. When you lift your leg towards you while running uphill, I felt like I couldn’t run. I go through the pain. I understand that it is a very strong discomfort.

I didn’t hide it. I went to the bedside table to put on my sneakers, I had to go exercise. And I can’t wear them. I try to reach it and I can’t. With this pain, I realized I needed to go get an MRI. When I got in the car, it was difficult to sit still and drive. The back is also heavily stressed. I couldn’t sit down.

When I got up in the morning, I just had to sit or move carefully,” Bolshunov said in Andrei Romanov’s special report “The Bolshunov Year” on .

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