Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

ISO: any and all recs for workouts, videos, trainers to build up the strength/mobility in my fully recovered leg post achilles rupture.

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F me dude.  I’ve had a minor rupture as well as calf tear in the same leg.  Been dealing with it for 10 years now.  You have to be diligent with pt, I was not.  You have to repair and maintain the tendon in the direction of its contraction, lots of calf raises with a slow eccentric.  Stairs, machines, whatever.

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Zero drop shoes in the gym are a no go, anything with load aggravates it.  I am always barefoot walking around at home.

Atrophy 100 percent sucks, I lost so much ankle mobility with it too.  Get into knee over toes guy

Daily stretching everything all the way up to the hips.  I still play higher level tennis on it but I have pain every morning when I wake up and it takes a while to stretch out.  I wear insoles with a slight heel raise when I play tennis just to protect it.

I’ve tried everything on my Achilles and calf problems (not sure of chicken vs egg here).  Massage, scraping, ems, dry needling, stretching, pt.  After all that I really think my complete movement of the leg from hip to toes needs management and affects it.  Hip mobility, knee, ankle… Isolated things did little

Sorry to hear that it's still a bother 10 years later. Did you or do you get therapeutic massages to help it? I did it once midway through recovery. Wish I made it a regular thing. Maybe I will again to help with the scar tissue.