![]() ![]() We don’t take time off.”īrooke used the situation as motivation for the the next training season. Whereas before, there was never going to be enough time to fix the little imbalances… I never had the time to do that because our sport is year round. At least now, I am going to get better…I kind of looked at it on the positive flip side, like now I can finally be the strongest I ever could have been, that I ever could be. “What I told myself at the time was true, but also at the time I just had to remind myself that this is what it is. The 28-year-old - who took 14th place overall at the 2015 Games - didn’t let her inability to train get her discouraged. So I go from doing tons and tons of activity to doing nothing.” I couldn’t exert myself enough to feel better. I couldn’t drive for five weeks, I couldn’t move my head for six weeks, my training was very limited and it was even harder because I was dealing with all of this emotional stuff with what I had just gone through and I couldn’t really release it. ![]() “I feel like people who come from a very physical background, whether it’s sports or gymnastics or dance, it becomes almost like an outlet. “I had quite a bit of nerve damage in my spinal chord and I went from training every day twice a day or more ,” she said. Brooke sat down with Life & Style to not only talk about her recuperation, but also her conviction to make it to the 2018 CrossFit Games - a goal she missed in 2017. After undergoing major spinal surgery - a bone graft infusion in her neck - at the end of March, her training came to a halt and she was forced to go from competitive athlete to patient in recovery. Superstar CrossFit athlete Brooke Ence had a rocky start to 2017.
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