torn calf muscle

[Stewby]

Okay here's the thing, (started application in june) I have been training hard for my prmc, everything was going well the training was tough but thats the point and I could feel real improvments in my fitness.

Then my lower right leg started getting painful during and after running, I figured it was just overuse so i ice it (RICE) and make sure im stretching properly. after 2 weeks it was still off so i go and see a phsyio. iv'e TORN MY CALF MUSCLE! ouch! Anyway she showed me excersices to do on it and to keep cooling and heating it, it started to feel fine so I went for my first run in 2 weeks this morning (the time she told me to wait) . Really looking forward to it did u know u can get quite attached to those county roads! anyway jus did a steady 4 miler to get back into it and its screaming again. Did i just not wait long enuf? anyone with any knowledge or backround on this tell me wot to do I really want it to heal
%100 as quick as possible so it wont effect my training.

cheers Rob

[bigbart]

Bloody hell. I'm not an expert, so I can only tell you what I'd do if it was me. I'd rest for a few more days, then try a 2 miler at a jog. If that goes well, wait a few more days and do another. And get back into it gradually. If it still hurts, go back to the physio. However, if I were you I wouldn't listen to me. I'd get an expert opinion rather than listening to the guess work of some prat called big bart who has never torn his own calf muscle so doesn't know.

[tom1123]

Correct me if Im wrong but Im sure your physio would have stressed the importance of GRADUALLY getting back into exercise. A 4 mile run after a torn calf muscle is way too much. The best saying in returning from injury is to listen to your body-your calf causing you pain is your body's way of saying 'hang on a minute mate thats too much!' I would reccommend start of by just jogging for 20 minutes twice or three times a week on GRASS or another natural surface for anything up to 3 weeks before you start hammering it on the tarmac. Best advice go back to the physio and see what they say.

[south african]

if your worried, why not do alot more swimming
iam no expert (been training for an empressive 2 weeks ) but that seems to be the message i get, about what to do when injure, and it makes sence to me ...just a thought anyway

[Stewby]

Cheers guys, I really should be taking it easier I know (and I realsie this is no excuse because i will end up worse off in the long run) but i really wanted to get back into training ive been working more on upper body but i swear i could feel my self getting unfit as far as CV goes (paranoid??!)

as for the swimming i hav been doing plenty (pryamid 5) 3 0r 4 times a week.

hope i dont start growing gills!

rob

[icklecathy]

Cheers guys, I really should be taking it easier I know (and I realsie this is no excuse because i will end up worse off in the long run) but i really wanted to get back into training ive been working more on upper body but i swear i could feel my self getting unfit as far as CV goes (paranoid??!)

as for the swimming i hav been doing plenty (pryamid 5) 3 0r 4 times a week.

hope i dont start growing gills!

rob

Hey,

I know exactly what it's like to be injured, I am also addicted to the country roads, but you really have to froce yourself to take time off from running otherwise the problem will never heal properly and it will affect your performance if you join up.

Good luck

[Stewby]

Hey up, so I went back to the physio last night looks like a lot of you were right 4 miles was way to much as if i didnt know!

Anyway after a massage and a bit of a fiddle she told me it was much better about 75% compared with the 50% last time. Aparently there's much less scar tissue. (thats reasuring!!!)

She gave me a workout that I should be doing its really demanding! (bags of sarcasm in that one!)

Friday: swim and gentle stretching
Saturday: swim gentle walk
Sunday: swim
Monday: 2 mile gentle walk
Tuesday: rest
Wednesday: 2 miles (walking for 5 mins running for 1 repeated)
Thursday: back for more physio and a massage!!

with all that I shud b a royal by 2014!!!

Rob