My ankles have been sore currently, hopefully simply an overuse harm. I had been climbing loads so I in the reduction of on that, however I’ve nonetheless been doing high-volume biking, like greater than two hours per day. So I’ve determined to offer my ankles a breather by sticking to shorter rides. This provides me time to bump up my higher physique coaching a bit, which I attempted immediately. It was an fulfilling and difficult exercise with a number of stations of dumbbells or resistance bands. I do a mixture of isometric and standard energy coaching with heavier resistance, and in addition strength-endurance coaching (larger reps with much less resistance).
I noticed my Doc yesterday as a result of I’ve a bump on one in every of my knees. Not painful, but it surely didn’t go away after a couple of month. So she’s sending me to get it x-rayed and an MRI. I additionally instructed her concerning the ankles, and he or she additionally considered overuse harm or attainable arthritis, so she’s sending me to get the ankles x-rayed additionally. She additionally thought bodily remedy would possibly assist if giving them some relaxation doesn’t do the trick.