Oct 29 2011
W17 - Back From Holidays …
Went away to Spain for a week last Saturday, the day after my physio. The expectation was that I was going to do some jogging and swimming whilst away.
Unfortunately the pool was close to freezing due to the cold nights and relaxing got in the way of jogging. I did though manage to do some surprising things …
Early in the holiday we went to the beach. My friend got out a football and off I merrily went jogging away in the sand kicking a ball about. It took a fair few minutes for me to actually realise what I was doing and that I wasn’t bothered by it at all. At the place where we stayed there was also a table tennis table. As my friend and I were both keen players in our youth this is where most of the day time was spent. What I didn’t count on was the increasing amount of bouncing off the toes I was doing, as well as jogging up and down a steep slope to retrieve wayward table tennis balls!!!
What I find strange now is that I’ve spent a week doing none of my usual exercises, but have instead done things my physio will likely kill me over this coming Friday.
What is even stranger is that my calf feels far better than it did a week ago which was proven when I went in the living room earlier this evening and showed my wife how I could do unassisted one legged heel raises … 7 in total … and that was after about 4 or 5 a couple of minutes before that.
Be interesting to hear what the physio says on Friday but I think it feels about right to start doing some plyo type exercising to really get that calf going as I can tell you, some of the things I did whilst playing table tennis (for example going sideways from good foot onto bad foots toes and then springing back), show me that everything is going pretty damn good!
Cool, all good stuff here. Only downer here is the cold pool
I remember you saying some time ago how great it would be to be able to do those things you used to do without thinking, like breaking into a run across the street. I am so happy for you and have also found that while I have been slack with the physio, things are improving. My physio told me that just doing the things you would normally do in moderation will bring you back to normal. There is a time we all have to just get on with life and forget about the past. Maybe you are not far from that.
It’s ironic Stuart that with the work you’re doing on a house, you may doing some of the best rehab yet as I mentioned in a previous entry my physio saying that being a brickie etc and constantly going up and down with your calves will get you back super quick.