Calfgate continues | An injury update | Current plans
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Hi,
So I’m back from Singapore and have some updates on where I’m currently at, more calf issues have appeared from nowhere!
Hopefully not a season destroyer but will see how the next few weeks pan out
Ruth most athletes goes through a dark phase but after that so many good things will come
Let s go💪
Have to stay at home because of broken ribs 😒Take it easy and stay in a good mood 🌈
my two cents; feel free to disagree.
resting then rebuilding solves nothing because it does not address the cause: you big and powerful calves overpower cooperating muscle groups thus taking more than 100% and being prone to injury. the solution is increasing hamstring strength a glute strength. but not sissy stuff typical triathletes do - walking lunges with 5kg dumbbells; you need heavy RDLs, heavy GM's, GHR 3-4x a week, single leg hip raises and seated calf raises with sets of 50-100 reps to condition them for strength endurance.
resting now and taking it easy you will still have calf power at 120% and hams and glutes at 80% (compared to calves).
your calves tear because they are so powerful and generate high force. they need to be offloaded by other surrounding muscle groups in the kinetic chain becoming stronger.
good luck.
I think you need to be sensible about your injury you have along career ahead of you you’ve had this problem for a while now you need to rehab and get injury completely healed every athlete that doesn’t listen so yes you should completely stop running otherwise later in your life you will pay so you don’t race until next year what does it matter look at the bigger picture go back to work take your mind off you have won 3 Ironman victories so you have the talent so do the right thing dont look at Kat mathews you are ruthless astle think about yourself please good luck 🤞
Last time you had a setback riding near Windsor you came back stronger than ever to win several Ironman events…
Only a matter of time to let the body heal and push on! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
You will come back stronger Ruth 💪
I have run over 135,000 miles during my running career. About 10 years ago I went thru a period of multiple painful calf tears and strains. No matter what I tried they kept happening. Somewhere in my research to resolve the issue I read that when you don’t have enough zinc in ur diet you can have calf strains. I found a multivitamin with over 200% of daily requirements and started taking it daily. I haven’t had any further issues since….just fyi…I know how frustrating it can be!
So sorry! You're being so wise with it. Fingers crossed for the best
🤞🤞🤞calf heals . See you in Hamburg 💪
I unwisely pushed an injury and it set me back a few YEARS. I could recreationally exercise, but not truly train with quality gains. You sound like you’re realistically processing all this. Thanks for your vulnerability and honesty. I hope for wise decisions and that your long term goals give you hope and cheer. All the best, Ruth. 🫶
Thats super frustrating. I know how it feels - iv had like 13 stress fractures over the years. It feels like you're always being knocked down. But we learn from our mistakes. Speedy healing Ruth ✨️
Darn... gutted for you- not least as I know what you're going through... Calves can be such an arse...
Also doubly frustrating when you don't know specifically where its' come from...
Good luck with your recovery- hope you can get running asap...
Oh no 😮 hope your recovery goes well,
Your massive calfs need a TH-cam and Instagram
channel to themselves 😂
All the best 👍
Was hesitant to like this video as I don’t like the fact you’re injured! Wishing you all the best on a speedy recovery and an end to anything calf related. Good luck with salvaging your season, would love to see you race.
ahww ruth that's terrible luck. hope you still get to do some racing and it all heals up magically 🤞
It sort of highlights how taxing triathlon is on the body. Hope you get a speedy recovery and can keep on racing through the season.
Gutted for you Ruth - fortune will come your way soon, hang in there
hope the recovery is soeedy 🙏
A pint of coffee ice cream a day always helps.
Heal soon, my best wishes!!
Keep fighting Ruth!!
Hoping it's a speedy recovery 🙏
Your videos are always so honest and open, thank you. Whatever the outcome you’ll have done everything you can do to influence it and at the end of the day, you seem like the type of person who also keeps things in perspective in the wider context of life generally. I hope you get what you want and are able to race again soon, that would be lovely to see 😎👍🏼
😢🙏❤️
Interesting filming angle.. Are you walking backwards on the treadmill? Is that a cool down or reps with an incline?
(I did that once for trail training - to build downhill strength... - and got really funny looks in the gym!! 😅)
Yes backwards walking on an incline 😊
Cool! Am not alone!! 😂
Is that calf rehab related? Curious to hear how you include this in your training! - 10mins post run? 3 x 6min at silly incline (10%?).
All the best with the calf 🫶
Red vine pastilles and no red méat or otther acid good and drink alla theee ruth
Alka thee
My darling Ruthie - PEMF magnawave - it’ll fix you right up . Worked for me and my broken down race horse - it can’t hurt you to try xxxxxxxx
Tibialis Posterior?
Ruth, you are being stubborn with your diet, go plant base and reduce inflamation and recover. You are my fav triathlete and so sad. Wish you a speddy recovery.
If you show me some scientific evidence that works I would consider it 😊