Last spring I suffered a stress fracture and had to take most of the summer off then during cross country I was plagued by extremely tight calf-muscles (not sore, just tight) so I rested through cross country and now I am trying to pursue running again for track, but almost immediatley after returning to running they tighened up again. Does anyone have any suggestions or know if this would have any corilation to the stress fracture.
the muscle around the bone does tighten to take the shock and alleviate pressure on the fracture...does this mean you have a frac nah...i have tight calves a lot too, just stretch and ice the hell out of em.
Maybe you're trying to keep on your toes too much.
Be sure to let all your weight down on "all" of your foot in the mid support phase.
Otherwise you will wear out your calves trying to support your weight when they don't need to be doing it.
Did you change shoes to cushion the fracture? You might need to switch to a more neutral shoe now that it's healed.
they are linked
they ARE LINKED! in fact, i had really bad calf tightness and major problems right before I got a really bad tibia fracture. I wasnt sure what was wrong, but it got so painful and moved to the bone very fast...be careful!
Try 10 x (10 - 15 sec) steep hill-sprints
That'll make or break em (with little pounding)
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