Kevin’s AchillesBlog

Greetings fellow Achillesbloggers. I’m not on this site as much as I used to, but I’ve also been a very busy man. Sometimes its hard to remember what a long road it was to recovery from this injury, surgery, and lots of therapy to get back to normal. I’m up to running about 5 miles, although if I wasn’t so lazy I could push myself to do more. I been focusing more on weight training and cycling recently, which has felt great. Also, starting plyometrics a month ago or so has put alot more mass back on my calf muscle IMHO. There is still a noticeable difference between each calf muscle and I can’t go up as high on a single-heel raise on my ATR leg, but I’m very satisfied with my results. My final doctors appointment is next month and I can’t wait to be completely done with my Ortho.

I still haven’t played any basketball games yet, but that is more by choice and not because I don’t feel like I can. I also started putting some short hill sprints into my workout, although the other day, it left my peroneal tendon a little sore for 24-30 hours later. That being said I made a video of my calf raises earlier this week for a workout site I’ve joined (In fact one of the “beachbody” guys on their just ruptured his during some part of the T25 program , I think). I told him about this site, but never followed up. Anyway, here is a short video my daughter shot earlier this week. Enjoy and Happy healing.

11 Month After ATR Surgery: Calf Raises (Sorry I never learned how to embed video)