Destroyed knee

[Tomas Payne]

Never seen that one. I like the oversized foot plate! Keep doing what you are doing. Half the battle is getting you mind over the fear of the injury. Your body will let you know what is good and not good. ROM is not a big deal now, just putting a load on the muscle is what you need. It will come back quick. Here is the one we have in the gym. Never had any problem with my surgery again but now I do have some osteoarthritis in the knee. The other knee needs replacement surgery. I think the meniscus was injured when I collapsed with 600lbs. Over time this is what happens.

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This one is better when doing single leg presses.

 

[Tomas Payne]

Thank you sir. Training legs right now, started doing these, so far so good. When I get to a certain point I'll get on the Hoist. So far as pair of 25s feels good. Not much ROM on this machine though.
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Is this a free-motion leg press, more for hamstrings from the angle?

 

[Bricks]

Is this a free-motion leg press, more for hamstrings from the angle?

Not really more for hamstrings. Pretty much like any leg press glute/ham involvement is going to be dependent on foot placement as well as actively engaging/activating your posterior chain. What i like about this leg press is the foot plate moves in such a manner that it's a good machine for those with shifty ankle mobility. What I dont like it is when focusing on quads and a more narrow stance it's such that depth is limited if you have a large upper body. My go to is my Hoist leg press. That machine is gold.

 

[Glycomann]

Don't worry about hijacking this. Share your rehab here, it's all good. We all learn from each other.
The swelling I'm having I'm pretty sure is from the arthritis on the back of the patella, whish apparently is pretty bad. That couple with inury/surgery and now a lot of increased use. I wore a compression sleeve at work yesterday. It worked well but at the top and bottom by the end of the day was way too tight. Now, this was one of my 7mm sleeves I have (Mark Bell product) and not intended for wearing for 8 hours.

Does anyone have any experience with one of these? Probably going to order one and try this.

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I'm 3 days post surgery. So still lots of ice and these squeezer things on my lower legs. I'm up 5 lbs and it's all edema in the leg. When I busted my arm it took 10 days for the swelling to go down enough for the surgery. I'm guessing the swelling in the leg is gonna be like that.

 

[Glycomann]

I've been on legit TRT for 3 months to get as healthy as possible for the surgery. This will probably be the longest stint of time at normal test levels in at least 5-7 years by the time I get back to adding in more milligrams. I didn't really lose any size and trained up to the day before the surgery. Then again I just stay between 195 and 205 lean year around. Starting to freak out a little though since, I will admit, I am a PED addict. I will try my best to stay at normal hormone levels as long as it takes until I can work the leg a decent amount. That might be 6 months or more, who knows.

 

[Bricks]

I'm 3 days post surgery. So still lots of ice and these squeezer things on my lower legs. I'm up 5 lbs and it's all edema in the leg. When I busted my arm it took 10 days for the swelling to go down enough for the surgery. I'm guessing the swelling in the leg is gonna be like that.

That may take longer than 10 days but it'll resolve. In the meantime be diligent and do your PT and move that knee like your supposed to. Every now and then I have to put some some to sleep so ortho can crack that knee loose because they were a pussy and didn't move it cause it hurt and it got frozen up.

 

[Glycomann]

That may take longer than 10 days but it'll resolve. In the meantime be diligent and do your PT and move that knee like your supposed to. Every now and then I have to put some some to sleep so ortho can crack that knee loose because they were a pussy and didn't move it cause it hurt and it got frozen up.

I've been through 3 previous knee surgeries. You are dead on. I have been lucky in the past. Yesterday was first PT. I am 5 degrees from full extension and at 80 degrees flexion.

 

[Wizbang]

Hows the wheel doing? Update?

 

[Glycomann]

Hows the wheel doing? Update?

Ahead of schedule. Went to doc to get the bandage changed and he freaked at my flexibility at this point. So far doing well. Still very painful. Off all the pain meds. I felt toxic on all that crap.

 

[Bricks]

Update:

Trained legs today:

Leg press is 25% of preinjury weight
Extensions 37%
Hamstrings 68%
Abd/add 75%

The hamstrings and abd/add are simply bringing things back up from 2 months of no weight training.

Quads felt good, still getting the swelling in the joint as I'm on it throughout the day. At 4 months it's not completely healed nor is it at its strongest. Also dealing with some pretty sever arthritis on the backside of that patella. The fitted compression sleeve I ordered is supposed to arrive tomorrow. Surgeon sais we're gonna fix that swelling by working it, and actually what helps the most is the resistance training.

So, continuing to progress with no setbacks. In October my subcontractor at work will be starting to work every other week at one of the 2 facilities I cover. That'll give me more time for more proper rehab/recovery cycle of training without being on my feet so much each day.

Right now running BPC-157 500 mcg every night before bed and TB-500 4 mg/week in divided dose Sun and Thursday.

As far as progress goes on the quad stuff, leg press and extensions, going forward that's gonna be no more than 25 lbs increase every couple weeks on the leg press and 5 lbs increase every couple weeks on the extensions. I used 175 lbs of plates today for the leg press which puts the actual load north of 400 lbs. Absolutely no need to push it, hypertrophy should return without the need to go as heavy as I used to if I go about this intelligently.

 

[Bricks]

Update and a bit more....

Back to about 45% of preinjury weight for quads, that's going well.

Now the more part. The left elbow that's been an bother since right before I injured my knee, that was put on hold because of that inury, well, about 2 weeks ago there was a pop doing the Hammer Strength shoulder press. Pissed it off pretty good. Had the MRI today, triceps is 90% torn. So...back to the OR we go. Tomorrow after I do a knee replacement at work we'll be sitting down and getting things lined up. Well, fuck.

 

[Yano]

Update and a bit more....

Back to about 45% of preinjury weight for quads, that's going well.

Now the more part. The left elbow that's been an bother since right before I injured my knee, that was put on hold because of that inury, well, about 2 weeks ago there was a pop doing the Hammer Strength shoulder press. Pissed it off pretty good. Had the MRI today, triceps is 90% torn. So...back to the OR we go. Tomorrow after I do a knee replacement at work we'll be sitting down and getting things lined up. Well, fuck.

Ah shit dude , God Bless , that sucks. I was hoping for a sick training update.