A Tale of Two ACL Tears: My ACL Story

acl acl recovery podcast Feb 14, 2022

Today’s episode answers a question I get all the time: how did I get through TWO ACL tears and come out stronger than ever?

I was a competitive gymnast for years, and despite gymnastics being a high-risk sport, I never really had a significant injury… until one day during my sophomore year in college where I was practicing a new combination tumbling pass that ended with a double full. I told myself I was going to do one more… famous last words, right? It was on that last turn that I injured my knee.

Years later, when I was the strongest I had ever been in my life, I was competing on American Ninja Warrior, and on national television, I tore my OTHER ACL after dismounting from an obstacle.

In this episode, I’m going to talk about everything I went through tearing my ACL not once, but twice, and all the things I learned along the way that allowed me to come out of that opportunity (yes, opportunity) to learn and be stronger.

What if injuries are just an opportunity to be better? If you’re experiencing hardship right now, ask yourself, “what am I learning from this?” Instead of saying, “why me?,” ask yourself, “What is this teaching me?”

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