Injured Fetlock

What day are we at?… Friday. Okay, Tuesday I had a good session at the gym. I pounded the treadmill and was pleased with myself. Legs ached on Wednesday but this was fine, they were supposed to. What they weren’t supposed to do was ache even more on Thursday. Actually, it isn’t both legs, it is only the right calf muscle, it ached so much I was forced to limp around. I was still going to the gym on Thursday limp or not though.

I had a bit of a warm up, and stepped onto the treadmill. I did a minute or so walking and it was alright, I had stretched the limp away but my calf muscle still ached a little. I pressed the walk up to a run and was okay, bit of an ache but I could run on it. When the treadmill got up to a 3 degree elevation though the pain kicked in, at ten minutes I was forced to pull up sharpish. The treadmill was at 7.5mph and I suddenly reduced my leg count by 50% which resulted in the worlds fastest hop.

The gym was busy, I scanned around to see what else I could do that wasn’t leg based and the only thing free was the rowing machine. My shoulder was feeling fine, and I wasn’t going to leave the gym ten minutes after I had got there so it was decided. I took it pretty easy Level 7 15 minutes. 410 strokes. I worked up a bit of a sweat and felt pretty good with the effort.

I then tried the cross trainer. The elliptical motion generally doesn’t strain my legs in the same way so I gave it a go. 20 minutes level8 interval training was just fine, though I was now sweating quite a lot and the iPod crackled as some liquid got into its inners before turning itself off, I think a little puff of smoke came out of the headphone jack.

Stomach crunching out the way I followed those up with the erector spinæ exercises. I forgot what weight I was supposed to be doing it at and I think I put it to 68kgs. I was more than able to lift the weight with my back muscles however 68kgs is pretty much what I weigh, and while I was fully laid back preparing to lower the weight in a controlled manner I was gently lifted off the seat as the pile of weights returned to their stack this meant I was slowly lifted into the standing position. Weights adjusted to a more sensible 56kgs and 3 sets of 15 ensued.

I have managed to get over the fact that there are bigger weight pushers in the gym and didn’t mind sitting there with my puny arms while they hoisted slabs above their heads. Triceps push down. 3sets of 15 with the 6kg weight. No bother. Hotly followed by the dumb-bell arm curls. 3 sets of 15 with 7.5kg weights.

And that was my effort for Thursday. Right calf is still giving me a limp despite lashings of Deep Freeze, however I can report that the iPod made a full recovery.