Police Officer Preparation & Law Enforcement Resource - Archive

Long story short...about a year ago I started P90X and loved it. I lost about 15 lbs in the first 8 wks. However, my shoulders began to kill me so decided to give myself a break and wait for the pain to go away. A few months later, still wasn't to the point where I felt comfortable starting back up so had the doc take a look. MRI showed bone spurs. Glad it wasn't the P90X that did it because I want to start it back up along with Insanity. In December, they went in and found the spurs were sawing at my rotator cuff and bicep tendon. Now here I sit on light duty since then and it's driving me nuts! Sitting at a desk is just terrible (in my best Charles Barkley). Therapy is going great and he said I'm ahead of where I should be. Check-up with doc on Friday so fingers are crossed that I can get past the stretching phase and start strengthening.

Just curious if anyone else has had similar experiences and what they have done fitness wise once they got cleared to resume normal functions.

I would not jump back into Insanity or P90 right away at full speed. I would slowly work back into it or you might end up on disabilty.

I was planning on giving myself 6-12 months of prep time to work slowly to those points. I'm just interested to see what others have done to work back from this kind of situation.

I was planning on giving myself 6-12 months of prep time to work slowly to those points. I'm just interested to see what others have done to work back from this kind of situation.

I worked my way up from P90 to PS3. Lot less shoulder pain, lot higher body count. :) For safety, use your off hand so carpel tunnel syndrome doesn't affect your trigger finger. Joeyd6 also recommended wrist weights as those controllers are a lot lighter than pistols :). Still haven't figured out how to get the controller up to a 12 pound trigger pull.