I am 30 years removed from brain surgery for tumor resection.
I highly endorse watching UCONN women being "bad fpr women's basketball" as a positive recovery method. It was part of my motivation after 35 days of no aggressive movements. In the next two months I was able to score 273 points out of a maximum of 300 points on the US Navy's semi-annual Physical Readiness test, which put in the top 5% of all onboard NTC Orlando. The Command was going to allow me to take a waiver due to the closeness in time to the brain surgery, but I refused the waiver.
But in the Nuclear Navy, "no good deed goes unpunished," and the Navy Inspector General ordered an inspection two weeks later of the Orlando area commands, with their choice of personnel to reinspect with their observers present, and I, of course was on the list of "must shows for mandatory fun." So three weeks of workout time got me to 282 out of 300. I lost all eight points on the 1.5 mile run, as I maxed out the push-ups and sit-ups {that are more like crunches}, and was one of two that actually improved their scores >450 did not improve but only lost 5 or less at our Command, so we passed with flying colors. One month later, I was playing center blocker at the South Atlantic Regionals in Volleyball for the third year in arow (the only one on my team to achieve this feat).
Seeing UCONN play hard, and at a speed faster than all their opposition was personally motivating for me. Besides that, my wife (now of 34 years) is from Connecticut and her God-daughter graduated from UCONN in the same year as Stewie, Tuck, & Mo Jefferson made it 4 for 4 in NCs. Go Huskies!!!!
