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If you caught my earlier post this week about motivation then you know I am a big believer in constant goals. I try to live my own life by that. I do set and work towards a lot of goals. The problem is that lately almost all of those goals have been work related. While it has been good on that front, it is time to put some of that workaholic energy into my training, diet, and health again.

Over the past few days I have been embarking on training again. I am easing back in and basically, I may be outed as a fitness fraud.

Could of, should of, would of

For the first couple of months after I was injured I kind of rolled with it. I would even play racquetball in my little bootie. At some point I realized that I MIGHT be on the foot too much, and causing more damage than good. It is likely that if I wouldn’t have been stubborn and chilled out some I wouldn’t still be getting better. I put that as a warning for any of you finding yourself in that similar position.

My last PT appointment landed me with a “It looks like at this point there is likely going to be a permanent restriction and limitation of movement. With it might come some pain at times. Do the best you can to keep up training and stretching…yada.” To that I say I am going to focus on the use of the word “likely” and will take it from there.

I was going to go into a deficit, but the pain is kind of rough and it lessens with more food. I figured I am still a good 4-6 weeks out until I start to cut. I don’t though see any reason to put that off any longer. It is always a good idea when you start to push yourself to more extreme boundaries that you do so with as much nutrients as possible. Also it isn’t as if  I need to lose fat for anything other than a slight increase in skill and vanity, so it can wait.

My diet for the next 4-6 weeks is going to be as follows.

Calories: 2500-3000 calories a day depending on training. Could get upwards to 3300ish.

I will be monitoring it with the GWF, so if I need to increase I will. Dancing burns an insane amount of calories, but I can only do it for about a 3rd of the time I used to. I don’t see me needing much more intake than that.

Macros: 1.4BWx Protein – 100g fat min – Carbs make up everything else.

I am usually not overly Nazi about clean vs “dirty” foods but I am going to make extra effort to get my bang with my buck meals on.

Supplement Program

Since it is summer time and I am going to be getting a lot through diet I will be backing off on some supps and sticking with the following.

Multi x2
O3 Oil x6grams
Glutamine x2 500mg
Calcium x2 500mg

As needed probiotics/enzymes

Training: This first round of training is mostly diving back in to doing specific dance moves with adding range of motion to my ankles, strength back in my glutes, and trying to make it so that my calfs aren’t so tight that you can bounce a quarter off of them. Foam Rolling is my new friend (enemy, oh does it hurt right now).

Next post will have more detail on the program and maybe even some video.

2nd footwork attempt

In the mean time, here is what I did tonight.

Disclaimer: If you find this for the first time note I am not posting this as an attempt to show I am the shit. I am aware of the lack of quality.

This is a very short clip of me trying to get back into some spinning and glides. The weird thing about my body right now is it isn’t so much an issue of pain. Things do hurt, but it is more the issue of my body just won’t do it.

I will go to do a glide or a movement I used to do without thinking, and my body is like “F-A-I-L.”

I taped just a few mins. I will say I left out the attempt of dropping into a six step. Yeah, that didn’t go over well. It will likley be a little bit until I post up something else. Hopefully the next time I will be able to show some skill.

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