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ok so my only mission during this week off.. is to get my calves to loosen up, left especially. Left is just tight as fu*k.
ice helped it calm down it seems.. felt good.
about to go get some compression sleeves specifically for calves, just to see how that affects them.
this calf tightness is really bugging me.. need them (left) to relax.
edit: btw, I think it has to do with something going on behind my left knee. I think that triggers it.
Tight calves are fucked. From what I've read the behind the knee feeling is actually triggered by the tight calves. Seriously try these two. The foot sequence gave me probably the most immediate relief I've ever had from tight calves and the stick one hurts like a mofo but is super effective.
Foot sequence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvAto6yIGLY
enjoying this guy's presentation. however, he lost me at the very first step of putting one leg atop the other while sitting down.i can't do that, haven't been able to since i was like 10.. lol.
i've never seen someone grab their foot like that. wtf?
i did it. it hurt.
pretty much everything he does, i consider too risky for me. which is something I hate about my "body", and i've tried to address in various ways, always making myself worse.QuoteCalf stick one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1nxYoWA0GI
love that stick stuff, can see how it would potentially help. I can feel the pain->release just watching it.
I pretty much can't do anything in those videos you posted, lmfao. Most of those positions I know will wreck me, bad.. It bothers me that I can't get into certain positions without risk of injury, obviously sounds like a problem .. but really just seems to be the way it is for me (with certain things).
<edit: I wrote a bunch more but just rambled too much, will save it for another post some day!>
Shit haha.
I suppose you only need to be flexible enough to do what you want to do which probably isn't really that much flexibility anyway.
ok so my only mission during this week off.. is to get my calves to loosen up, left especially. Left is just tight as fu*k.
ice helped it calm down it seems.. felt good.
about to go get some compression sleeves specifically for calves, just to see how that affects them.
this calf tightness is really bugging me.. need them (left) to relax.
edit: btw, I think it has to do with something going on behind my left knee. I think that triggers it.
Tight calves are fucked. From what I've read the behind the knee feeling is actually triggered by the tight calves. Seriously try these two. The foot sequence gave me probably the most immediate relief I've ever had from tight calves and the stick one hurts like a mofo but is super effective.
Foot sequence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvAto6yIGLY
i can't do that, haven't been able to since i was like 10.. lol.Calf stick one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1nxYoWA0GI
yo! how's it going? :/
not great! worked out like two or three times since last post, a bit of running, nothing really last few weeks though. feel crappy. travelling w/ gf for a couple of weeks soon, though, so will hopefully restore rhythm there. adjusting to full time has been rough. i've got a bit pudgy again. probably not gonna log until back from trip. missed this place but felt unable to get back in the gym and, as such, embarrassed to pop back here :/
02-01-18
Happy new year
Morning BW: 73.2kg
Workout
Run -- 6.1km in 31:02
Fairly easy run in fairly heavy rain. This run included a 24:59 5k, so I guess that's the benchmark for the year.
Legs quite sore today, actually, though not due to any deliberate training. Got back from travels on the 30th, and on the 31st I took the train to visit friends for NYE. I was a bit late so I had to pull out a basically 100% effort 300m sprint to catch my train. Glutes were cramping when I boarded, lol, so I spent first 10 mins of the journey pacing the carriage to alleviate this.
Notes
Present goals -- get back into a workout rhythm and enjoy stuff. Maybe resume weight loss aiming at sub-70kg. Hopefully body comp will improve quite a lot as muscle will come back quickly w/ lifting, I guess?
