robin_sinclear’s BodyBlog

So in my last post, I wrote "I have to watch out for overtraining", blah, blah, blah. Well, guess what! I didn’t listen to my own advice. I was doing one of my track workout days, and about half-way through, while doing Power Skipping drills, I felt a pop in my calf muscle as I pushed off of the ball of my right foot. That kind of pop is never good. I went straight home and iced it for the rest of the day, popped some Ibuprofen, saw my doctor who referred me to a Sport Medicine Dr, who referred me to physical therapy. I am two visits into my six PT sessions, and so far I have alot of bruising. It’s one week later, in fact, and it is still bruised from the base of my gastrocnemius to just above my ankle over the achilles tendon. I have a small tear in the muscle belly. It has hindered my workouts, for sure. Cardio, of which I’m supposed to be doing two hours a day, is hindered significantly. I can pretty much only manage some spinning and a little bit of elliptical. No running, no stairmaster, no plyos. That really makes dropping bodyfat much more difficult. All of my weight-training has to be done circuit style now, with nearly no rest between sets. My diet was tight already, as tight as I can go without shriveling up. I’ll be posting progress pics on Thursday, so we’ll see then how much damage I’ve done. 2 1/2 weeks until competition…

I’ve had to really drop my carbs and, therefore, also my calories, but I’m finally starting to really see some changes in my physique. I can see ab blocks now all the time, not just at certain times of the day… and the cuts in my quads are peaking out! Yay!  This is when I really feel good and motivated.  I have to watch out for overtraining, because I want to push myself so hard.