so we've got uh kyle vsp
recovering from ruptured achilles
excited to use atg for rehab
all right so there's no question there
but i have a friend here who's
also working on achilles rehabilitation
uh he tore it playing frisbee golf
frisbee whatever it is uh
ultimate frisbee that's the one and uh
he's not really a guy that plays that
much
and yeah so basically since then we've
started to do some work together
huge thing with the achilles is to work
with the short range
first right if you've had surgery or if
you didn't have the surgery
then you want to get really strong in
the short range positions
and work really slow and gently into the
long range
it's the best um
possibility to use the atg principle of
short to long right because it's a
tendon
it's a long tendon it's a very important
tendon the most important tendon in the
body
you want to start with doing things
where it's in in the short position so
if this was my ankle
eventually we want to get where it's
really strong in the stretch position
but initially in that longer position
so seated and with your toes pointing
down
the slant board will be a really good
way to start your
your calf raises and getting really
strong
in that position just gradually adding
weight thinking about
like sets of 50 sets of 100
and you should be able to train it with
reasonable frequency
never trying to cause any kind of pain
and then
you know put you put your boot back on
and eventually you want to be able to do
things like
the ziani step-ups and the romanian
rhythm squats
they'll come in towards the end before
you're running for sure but even before
you're walking you want to be able to do
things like the ziani step-ups they're
in the new zero gravity
program from atg so yeah i'm excited to
sort of see how you go kyle with
doing your rehab through atg and the
seated
calf raised and all this slapboard work
i think is super powerful you know
smashing the
tibialis on the slant board
will be great for it as well that's a
very low risk exercise that you can use
to build a lot of strength around the
ankle
and then you know first facing down the
slant board and then gradually
working into to facing up the slow board
more
is going to be huge for it so yeah good
luck
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