Moxley shares that he’s been going to P.T. for his hip.
The reigning AEW World Champion Jon Moxley is in the midst of his fourth go-round with that championship. His latest victory came in the main event of WrestleDream where he captured the World Title and ended Bryan Danielson’s full-time in-ring career.
Moxley has been making the media rounds ahead of the 10/30 Dynamite in his home state of Ohio. There’s an extensive interview with him that was conducted by Maria Angelova of Authority Magazine. He was asked what workout regimes he uses to help with injury recovery and shared that he’s been going to physical therapy over the last few months for his hip.
I’ve been going to physical therapy for my hip for the last few months. When it comes to rehabbing injuries, just find quality P.T. people and do everything they say with 100 percent effort. Vetting them is important. I think the biggest differentiator between someone who returns from a serious injury 100 percent and someone who’s never quite the same again is simply the attitude with which they approached rehab. If you’re on crutches and all they tell you to do for the day is 15 reps of little foot flexes or something, make those the best, most focused 15 reps you can.
For me, being that I’m 38 and have been getting the crap kicked out of me for 20 years, I don’t recover as quickly as I used to. That’s been difficult to accept. There’s a principle I learned at 11 years old when I started wrestling. Basically the principle that hard work beats talent, or at least it can. You may not have been given the same natural gifts; you may not have the same advantages. It doesn’t matter. Hard work evens the playing field. The ability to endure, to have discipline, a simple willingness to put in more time and effort — this was like learning some cheat code to the universe. Discovering that simple principle, changed the course of my life. That’s what gave me the confidence to pursue pro wrestling despite the astronomical odds of success. I was a nobody; I didn’t have any advantages but who cares? I’d just outwork everyone. I read a book back then called ‘A Season on the Mat’ and it talked about how Dan Gable wouldn’t be satisfied until he had to be carried off the mat after practice. That’s how I approached my life from then on.
While it has been difficult to accept that my body can’t do everything my mind wants it to anymore, I have found that the key now is redirecting that same energy towards being disciplined about recovery. It’s about attacking all the tedious stretching, mobility and recovery practices, with intention.
Since WrestleDream, multiple members of the AEW talent roster have been trying to get their hands on Moxley, Marina Shafir, Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta and PAC.
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