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Hamstring Injury – Advice Needed
Question:
| Chuck: | I don’t want to deal with the boneheads on the freeway, but I can offer | you some help if you want to contact me. My program helped Lawrence | Taylor out of his hamstring injury, as well as many others. Feel free to | e mail me if interested. My request for info on hamstrings injuries to the above individual resulted in a reference to look at the Web Page for "The Stick" where one can buy a glorified rolling pin for $32 or dietary supplements. Even though I am desparate, my wife wouldn’t allow me to be taken in by quackery.
You probably know a lot about rolling pins with a wife that has you so p****-whipped.
Response:
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – - My request for info on hamstrings injuries to the above individual – resulted in a reference to look at the Web Page for "The Stick" – where one can buy a glorified rolling pin for $32 or dietary supplements. – Even though I am desparate, my wife wouldn’t allow me to – be taken in by quackery. And running shoes are just glorified sandles. I hope you’re not too proud of that insight, John, because Team Stick says that very thing on their Web page. We follow it with a brief discussion of why that is not particularily true. When Maggs first told me he was promoting the Stick I thought the very same thing. But I was willing to try it (as you are not, despite the money back guarentee). I have since gone on to two state cycling championships, and two trips to the Worlds with the US Natioanl Masters Cycling team (where I got several top tens). I credit the stick with some of that success. Yes, I do know Tim Maggs, but I am in no way financially connected to Team Stick (well, that’s not true, if Team Stick does well Tim will buy breakfast more often). I did up his Web page, and I co-ordinate his cycling sponsorship. The Stick works, and I respect Tim, so I’m trying to help out. I do have the benefit of having gotten to know him so I don’t have to shoot from the lip like so many others this week. Guys and gals, call him up and ask for a Stick. If you don’t like it send it back for a refund. You don’t ask more than that from any other company. Ken Manning
Ken, Congratulations on your success! I truly admire someone who can perform at an elite level in any sport. Let me explain my position in more detail. Below is the type of response I got, which I, in turn, was responding to. | Chuck: | I don’t want to deal with the boneheads on the freeway, but I can offer | you some help if you want to contact me. My program helped Lawrence | Taylor out of his hamstring injury, as well as many others. Feel free to | e mail me if interested.
This poster (CyclingDR) promised a program to help with hamstring injury. In email-ing to him, all I got was a reference to the Web page selling products. This, in itself, I would classify as a deceitful sales tactic. If you’re selling a device, then say so. (QUACK ALERT #1) Along with this device, dietary supplements were also being sold. (QUACK ALERT #2) I know plenty about nutrition and diet and how to eat the right foods and avoid pyramid sales schemes such as Shaklees, etc. Being old and experienced, I am also a sceptic. I’ve also tried enough massage therapy to know a tennis ball or two under the hamstring will give me much the same benefits as a rolling pin (no insight claimed.) Then there’s the even more common (QUACK ALERT #3:) "We can’t prove it works, but what have you got to lose by trying it, and it could save your sports career, save your life (e.g. Laetrile) etc." Foregoing modesty, I relied on experience, insight, and judgment to decide it wasn’t worth the effort. If I had gotten a straight sell, my choice might have been different. Others are free to make their own choice. Good Luck and Success, John Schwebel
Response:
Chuck: I don’t want to deal with the boneheads on the freeway, but I can offer you some help if you want to contact me. My program helped Lawrence Taylor out of his hamstring injury, as well as many others. Feel free to e mail me if interested.
Response:
I have been running 30-35 miles per week for about 12 years. Recently, on a normal 5 mile run, I felt a tug in my hamstring. Like a dummy, I kept going, and after another mile or so, I couln’t run any further with it. Next day, I went out and bought one of those $8 rubberized thigh pads, and lo and behold, it felt terrific. I was able to get back out on the trail immediately. Until one week later. I was running a 5K race, and felt the same ugly tug right at the end of the race. That was Feb 18. Ever since, it has been off and on. Some days, I can go 2-3 miles. Some days I can go nowhere. I have tried icing several times a day, but that does not seem to help. Stairclimbing does not seem to aggravate it. Questions. How can I tell if is a pull or a tear? Assuming just a pull, should I not run at all for 1-2 weeks? I am prepared to stop if absolutely necessary, but I try to run every day no matter what. If I do need to stop for a while, what can I do in the interim to speed up the healing process? Finally, how should I begin my running routing after the time off? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Chuck Houseworth
Response:
| Chuck: | I don’t want to deal with the boneheads on the freeway, but I can offer | you some help if you want to contact me. My program helped Lawrence | Taylor out of his hamstring injury, as well as many others. Feel free to | e mail me if interested. My request for info on hamstrings injuries to the above individual resulted in a reference to look at the Web Page for "The Stick" where one can buy a glorified rolling pin for $32 or dietary supplements. Even though I am desparate, my wife wouldn’t allow me to be taken in by quackery.
Response:
– My request for info on hamstrings injuries to the above individual – resulted in a reference to look at the Web Page for "The Stick" – where one can buy a glorified rolling pin for $32 or dietary supplements. – Even though I am desparate, my wife wouldn’t allow me to – be taken in by quackery.
And running shoes are just glorified sandles. I hope you’re not too proud of that insight, John, because Team Stick says that very thing on their Web page. We follow it with a brief discussion of why that is not particularily true. When Maggs first told me he was promoting the Stick I thought the very same thing. But I was willing to try it (as you are not, despite the money back guarentee). I have since gone on to two state cycling championships, and two trips to the Worlds with the US Natioanl Masters Cycling team (where I got several top tens). I credit the stick with some of that success. Yes, I do know Tim Maggs, but I am in no way financially connected to Team Stick (well, that’s not true, if Team Stick does well Tim will buy breakfast more often). I did up his Web page, and I co-ordinate his cycling sponsorship. The Stick works, and I respect Tim, so I’m trying to help out. I do have the benefit of having gotten to know him so I don’t have to shoot from the lip like so many others this week. Guys and gals, call him up and ask for a Stick. If you don’t like it send it back for a refund. You don’t ask more than that from any other company. Ken Manning