Yer sorry to hear about the injury, but it sounds like you have a good plan with the seated exercises. Just think of all that upper body mass you will gain.
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Shit man, you gotta stop playing hop scotch at work! Not good for a big lad like yourself. Recover well mate.
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Good to see you got a plan mate.
Hope the down time isn’t too long.
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@simo74 @Irishman92 thanks lads yeah can’t dwell on it but disappointing non the less
Hahaha yeah nah I was unloading glass out of my van (I’m a glazier) and as I’ve stepped back, my foot got caught up under a couple of bricks and copped the full weight of the glass panel coming down on top of me, hyperflexing the ankle as I’ve fallen.
Would of looked hilarious watching it but damn it hurt, especially trying to drive the manual van home using my torn ankle to press clutch 
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Thanks mate
Estimating 6/8 weeks until I’ll start weight back on it but rehab will start in around 2 weeks 
Well thats no good man, hope your injury heals up fast. And At least you get to skip legs😉
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Hahaha no way man
Legs are the best dunno what you’re talking about 
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Thought I would check in and keep up to date with what has been going on.
Fortunately my work has agreed that this incident doesn’t need any paperwork and have kindly let me come back to light duties, because I really couldn’t stand staying at home this close to Christmas, considering I get like a fuck load of time off over the new year.
My current weight is 125.3kgs and I know that’s just due to me being an absolute fat c*nt these last 2 days with my diet.
Shamefully have fallen off the wagon but I will get back on.
This week I have managed two workouts and they are pure upper body bro split between chest/biceps and back triceps.
Have forgotten what rep ranges but it was pretty light from memory
Bench press, incline bench, seated smith military press, dumbell Arnold push presses, seated lateral raises, kneeling rows (back), lat pulldowns, kneeling shrugs, facepulls, curls, kneeling tri pulldowns,
As you can see, I’ve been really trying to use the kneel as my standing option but fuck me silly the ankle was hurting more than last time.
Decided to go get an ultrasound to see what was the actual grade tear (no lols for ultrasound, not preggo)
Grade 3 tear of the ATFL ligament It is.
Have decided to do some water rehab that worked pretty well when I was recovering from the achillies blow out (actually it works better then pretty well, hands down best rehab you can do)
4 laps walking in Olympic pool at 5am, best to do it as cold as possible.
Have also iced bucketed yesterday for 30mins.
I feel like my judgement is clouded because I can’t do my usual conditioning and cardio. Very snappy and generally pissed off. It’s not fun for anyone when the giant is pissed, because naturally I have a short fuse to get frustrated.
I’ll have to deal with it somehow, but yeah.
Feels good to get it off my chest
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So surgery or nah? If you want to give it a go I’ve got some sterile staples here.
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I’m opting against for now but if it happens again then I probably will.
It’s never bothered me whilst I’ve ran, weight trained etc
Only when it’s rolled or got caught on uneven surfaces at work.
Oh my goodness that sounds like I terrible idea
I love it
Are these the $10 staples from office works? Always wondered why they cost so much but apparently surgeons pop in all the time to stock up for operations
I can do this for you very cheap. Only cash pls.
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So I’ve got a random thought but I think it’s a valid point towards calves and growth.
There is always talk about genetic and slow twitch muscle fibres that prevent people from getting huge calves and whilst to an extent it is true but I have my own theories that may or may not have been spoken about that I will share.
For those who have read my previous posts, I was an athlete who played a lot of rugby league and AFL in teen years and I started training pretty young looking back.
My first year of training that I did outside of the normal 2 nights a week was back when I was 10 in 2004. I didn’t have access to the internet until about 2008 and didn’t understand weight training principles until about 2009 so my methods looking back are probably outdated.
Obvious the two nights a week for league training was just ball skills and defence so plenty of running and specific skills to RL, and every afternoon after school I would run PRECISELY 5.3kms through various terrain up and down very long and steep hills, bush tracks etc.
I would also ride my bike to school.
The only form of progression I had was how long it took me which was generally around the 45mins to an hour from memory.
Now looking back in my family, bar my dad who is a tradie and did a lot of lifting and carrying in his jobs, plus our removalist jobs we did, everyone had small calves.
I have plenty of uncles and male cousins and yes everyone in my family is tall.
My dad is 7ft, my cousins/uncles range from 6ft6 to 7ft3 and generally speaking it is harder for tall people to gain large looking calves because of the sheer size of the muscle.
I will admit I have large calves that have a fair bit of mass on them
Now thinking of the anatomy of the muscle, if slow twitch muscle fibres are the only thing that causes them to grow, why isn’t running or even a decent walk with a weighted vest on seen as a valid training exercise for calves.
If we have figured out that 200 reps valve pushing isn’t going to grow them, looking outside of the box may be the way to go.
Looking at top level athletes who bike ride/ run sprint also provides a little of insight that the sheer quantity of resistance running/bike ridding does for not only calves but also quad growth.
I’m curious if anyone has any insight in this as I know the downfalls of too much cardio does for muscle growth however it may be a valid training option
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Not sure if bigjez or bigcalves or #HumbleBrah. Dem angles make your tibia look like its 1 foot long.
Hmm why the sudden interest in calves? Mostly I just say genetics, throw on some pants or tights and skip calf training completely.
IMO:
I think as far as the structure your genetics give you there’s nothing you can do about that and if you got shitty genetics IFFB pro juicing and any kind calve training you could think of will barely get you cracking “decent looking”. That’s what calf implants are for tho.
As for training calves it makes sense that endurancy stuff works. Calves are made to keep you walking/running for hours so they’d get some nice adaptions to those kinds of stimuli. Kinda like traps they be supporting your shoulder girdle all day so they are use to a lot of work. So either you do super high volume high intensity training or super super high volume moderate intensity training lel.
Luckily you got dat soviet sport supplement action for traps but small fuc boi calves are forever.
If you want big calves go outside or better yet jump on an incline treadmill and walk on your toes for a few hours. Walk on your toes everywhere you go. Will probably develop a deformity but hey big calves so who gives a shit.
Was under the impression that sprinters had high calves and long Achilles tendons. Good for sprinting but not so good for maxing out the measuring tape.
I think there’s a direct linear interference between the good kind of gains and cardio gains. At least that’s what I tell myself. I get much cardio in as I need to maintain a level of conditioning that supports training/recovery. Crossfit mofos like you are almost certainly at that interfering level but looking at the crossfit games its not like you’ll be bad at either just that if you are serious about lifting then maxing on the cardio is dumb af.
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Why calves? I just wanna see that thicc booty
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Now that’s how you take a pic of your calves. Gotta get that out angle on everything else.
Btw where’d you get your implants done bruv?
Srsly tho was expecting something like dis:
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Roses are red, lemons are sour, spread them legs gimme an hour
I don’t wanna know what you had to type into google to get that image 
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Hill sprints will pump them up…but don’t fuck yourself up.