the big four!

Had a good session today, despite a mood rollercoaster. Before I left I was cheery, confident and carbohydrate loaded. As soon as I got there, changed and walked up the stairs to the actual room, Mr Knee (for some reason I always pictured it as a guy...) said 'hold on a second, wait just a minute there miss - why so happy?' and began to be annoying. Not much to do but to get on with it, so that's what I did. Interval cycling is no fun, and I hope my sucking at it won't affect my recovery too much in the long run. Summary:

10 mins cycling
Interval cycling
Leg press: 65+65+70 kg
INCREASE! Leg curl: 39+41.5+41.5 kg
Leg extension: 14.5 +14.5 + 14.5 kg
Lunges
Squats (tried 2x 10 reps with bar - still no-go)
Ski jumps
Bending
Running: 4 km (lvl 10-11.5, increase every 500 m)

As mentioned above, tried adding the bar to squats, as the regular ones start feeling good now - but no. No, no, no. After first 10 I felt it was bad, so I tried another 10 just in case. Bad, bad, bad. Maybe add the small bar next time, see how that goes. In general training, besides running, seems to have reached a static point at the moment. I might have to ask Mr Physio how to increase difficulty in ski jumps (tried adding speed + distance) and lunges for example. And how much am I supposed to push weight increase in leg machines? How important is it? Questions for physio rather than you, my readers, but there you go. Maybe a physio will stumble across this ACL reconstruction question and answer them who knows?

Again, good session but it'll just get tougher and tougher as always. From now on I will increase running distance with 1 km per week, and it will put even more pressure on my mental capacity and stamina. Plus my friend who's doing the same rehabilitation is swimming, doing yoga/pilates and other stuff that I could only dream of at the moment - and she had her surgery 3 weeks later than me! How is that fair? She did first time ACL (so hamstring) + meniscus though so the difference might be normal, but it annoys me that I still cannot do normal things. Yes, yes only 4 months, it takes a long time, big surgery bla bla bla. I know.

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