Training Log Archive: Animal-O

so, ... it is now official. Physio's verdict:
Iliotibial band syndrome or IT band bobo (for the ones in the know).

My knee collapses in when I squat, and going down stairs, because my hip and gluts are too weak to hold everything nice and straight (which makes my stronger quads compensate pulling the It band out of wack.

Also, I might have weaken my right hip "more", during "compensation" habits from my achilles rupture...
I'd be breaking my hips with every running stride and not keeping my pelvis straight, and this twists the leg just enough (again collapsing the knee inward).

Also, toeing in during cycling... need to get the slight "duck feet" technique.

.... much work to be done!!! Basically doing the IT band videos TWICE a DAY!! ahhhh!!! (twice a day she said!! oh my ! ) (plus the always there should-be-doing calf work)

So no more running for me in the next 3-4 weeks!!! :(
very ver sad about that...
THE GOOD NEWS IS CYCLING GOT A GREEN LIGHT!!!
Video fitness routines also got a green light! So ... will be starting Insanity!
(a good friend's recommendation)

Fitness Test_ W1
Straight Kick up 57 (114)
crab squat 54
leg up 80
crab jump 25
frog jumps 9
suicide jump 14
push up jack 20
side leg pumps 45

side leg lift - 30
open clams - 30
crab walk - 5 steps x 10
35 kettlebell swings

+ 30 hip dips x 3 times at various times during the day

C • Clams n' Crabs 2

Beresford to Elm... heeeyyyy back on the bike!! oh it felt good!!!
felt right knee but only a tad.

first half was a gazelle run, feeling great.
2nd half knee pain set right in and had to revert to walk/running (but mostly running).
BBBBoooooo!!! Go out, but,... man! I will have to address this, i continued running on it, partly to describe the pain in my head.
To know what to tell Mr. Physio !! haha. I call him now.

I smell the pool creeping up on me,... if this knee issue does not clear up, and it does not seem like it will right away, after one week off, it feels pretty much the same??!

I have changed myself diagnosis to the famous IT band issue (pain outside of knee)
(this will be confirmed: Physio appointment next wednesday)

... till then i will be reading up on cause/treatment, etc.
:(

HAHAHAHAHAH:

IT band treatment: BACKWARD RUNNING!! hahahha
Just watch me!

http://strengthrunning.com/2011/02/the-itb-rehab-r...

will be doing this! now, i need a little bandy thing!