skipping on concrete - good or bad

how do you get rid of your shin splints?

 

it's gonna sound dumb :yep

I get some weights and put them in two plastic bags and hang them from my foot. Then I'll sit and let my feet hang from a bunk bed or maybe a table or something high enough for your feet not to touch the ground and I'll lift the weight up like I'm curling the weight.

I'll do it from 3 angles. With my foot turned all the way right, left and pointing straight out

 

It's only about the thrid or fourth thread he's bought back up that's nearly 3 years old.

 

In the past few months theres been a ridiculous anount of pointless threads bumped to the front page by all the newest posters

 

thanks, i will try this next time i have them.

 

no problem man :good

A lot of my injuries from overuse and over training have been healed just by strengthening the muscles around them.

My rotator cuff got rehabed
My lower back
My shin splints
My elbow tendinitis (I'm still working on it though)

The only thing that didn't get healed by working out the muscles around it was my jumper's knee.

 

haha, keep your muscles strong and you will have nothing wrong:deal

 

How are you getting over your tendinitis? I have it in my lead arm elbow. Been doing 3x50 2kg curls most days but it doesn't seem to be getting better. I injured it before my first fight and carried on training and fighting for 4 fights over 5 months so its damaged pretty bad.

 

as long as you are landing soft i see no issue

 

I'm still working on mine and I'm not sure how fool proof it is, but I noticed it started to feel noticeably better when i started strengthening my forearms. I iced them also of course and made sure to stretch them before I trained.

I would assume that maybe doing tricep extensions and bicep ork would make it better, but it just hurts more when I do stuff with my tricep, so I don't know if that works.

The forearm seems to be working though

 

Stop your boxing until it's rehab'd.
Wrist curls both ways with light weights for 10-20 reps x 5.
Squeeze a tennis ball repeatably etc.
Look up forearm exercises, you need to progressively overload, you can't just do one exercise over and over again and expect to get better.
You need to get to the point where you are stronger than before the injury.
Lots of people just live with tendinitis because they don't have any idea about rehabilitation, get it fixed now because it will just hold you back.
You have either medial epicondylitis (on the inside, golfers elbow) or lateral epicondylitis (on the outside, tennis elbow), go see a physio and get it sorted.

 

lol...I have all the same injuries except the rotator cuff. All caused from boxing training.

Got lower back injury from doing kettlebell exercises but was doing them with bad form when I got tired. Got shin splints from skipping on my driveway. Got elbow tendonitis from missing a massive left hook and being off balance.

 

This. I skip in medium fitting wrestling shoes on a very hard rubber surface. No prob. Guys need to make sure they are skipping in a shoe that either is cushioned or allows the ball of their foot to properly spread to absorb impact.

Push yourself, but also know when to quit. Many people keep skipping long past when their form goes to complete crap. Crap landings = painful feet, ankles, shins, etc...