Oct 21 2011
W16 - It Could Be Worse …
… I could be the guy I just met at physio. He was at 16 weeks, one week out of the cast due to him falling and re-rupturing at 4 weeks. He was at best, how I was at 6-7 weeks. That must suck!
Anyway … last entry for a couple of weeks (maybe) as I’m off on hols tomorrow, woohoo!
Physio was today. Usual warm up of the bike/incline walking and then he had my walking around on tip toes. Said there was a massive improvment in the calf. Yay!
Learnt a coupee of new one for walking around on your tip toes as well. One way is to stay in a squat whilst doing it (works upper and lower calf), the other is to do it straight legged (works just the lower part).
Then did 2 exercises with the massive ball behind your back against the wall.
First was in a squat trying to do heel raises.Second was in a squad, keeping heels up and using your knees to move up and down.
The second one was superb, could really feel it working the upper and lower calf. First one was OK, but didn’t get the same feeling of achievement I did with the second one.
Then moved on to bounching around the trampette which was OK but more fun than useful I thought.
Towards the end I pushed the idea of plyometric type stuff for when I return which he seems up for, so will be introducing small jumps on tip toes on to a step and off a step as well as some other things as we work on the next phase of recovery which is explosion.
So thats me done for a week with work. Time for a well deserved break!
Everyone take care now 
Sounds like excellent progress. Just curious: when did you start the trampoline work?
Have a GREAT holiday!
Did some balancing one foot on the trampette 2 weeks ago.
This week it was slight bouncing with minimal “air time” to get used to explosive push off and landing via the toes.
If I remember rightly, Stuart was a big fan of the trampette.
Timing is all with a bunch of these exercises, which is why it’s so helpful to have a written protocol and/or a PT. A great exercise for week 16 might be a waste of time at w.18 and way too scary at w.13.