Phase II

On Tuesday and Thursday of last week I did some light squat snatches and squat cleans. They felt great! Also I'm up to a 20" box for box jumps. Everyday I see a little more of my knee cap, so I'm happy.

Back has been fine but.......

Sometime in early May or late April when everything was going great I did three exercises I had not done together (run, jump rope, and box jump[on and off]) and my knee blew up pretty good. This set me back about two months or so. My squats and the height of the box for jumps AND step downs had been increasing almost daily but the swelling took that all away. Now the day before my birthday things are again looking up. With Dr. Barney and Dr. Ken performing A.R.T. on my knee the past 4 to 5 weeks and me concentrating on perfect form in my workouts things are feeling much better.

Slight setback

I trained last week the day after playing volleyball(Sunday vb, Monday lift). Had a good workout. On Wednesday I squat cleaned, it was some work but ok. Either Wednesday nite or some time Thursday I had some back spasms. Haven't had those in a while. Friday did a lite workout mostly in the sagittal plane. But when I played vb on Sunday some more spasms. Took the week off and saw Dr B. Working on flexibility and core, feeling better, Looking forward to next week.

How's it going!

Yeah it's spring! I love spring for one reason is that summer follows. I'm training and still doing some rehab on my own. 20 to 40 reps each leg of eccentric step downs divided over 3-5 sets of 8-10 reps. My back squat is as of this post 175x10)3. Not much but no pain and I'm going to be patient. I'm power snatching 40kg for sets of 3-5 reps and squat cleans of 50kg for 3-5 reps(this is my front squat workout killing two birds with one stone. OH squats for 30kg 5-8 reps and some snatch balances with the same weight. My knee has some tenderness but not at the patella or quad tendon. I'm also able to jump rope and i'm doing some box jumps, not real high but each couple of weeks a little higher.

Update

It's friday and I will workout today. To catch up on Sept. 30th I had orthoscopic surgery to cut through some of the scar tissue that was inhibiting my ROM. I was immediately able to flex my knee to 140 degrees. Since then I've had the usual set backs (petella tendonitis and lots of swelling). But after having it drained twice my PT and myself feel it's time to go on my own. Wish me Gods blessing and good luck. Thank you.

How it happened

I can understand how some might feel I'm either lame, stupid or both. But there is a perfectly good reason this happened. Up until my back surgery I had not done a decent Hypertrophy phase in at least 3 years. This is what lead to an advanced stage of tendonitis. I had no continuous knee pain but I should have remembered that Hypertrophy phases are where tendons get stronger.

It's been a long time!

And for good reason, on March 25th while trying to get some depth in a barbell lunge I completely torn my quad (rt) tendon. I had surgery on April 17th and started rehab on May 28th. Because I was in a straight leg brace for 9 weeks, I'm having a hell of a time getting my ROM back. I at 111 degrees as of August 13th. Whether on my own or with PT I am going to get 130 plus degrees.