Items purchased by me in the last week:
A giant spiked ball to roll my feet on
A giant stretchy band thing to do ankle "pre-hab" exercises with
Potassium pills
Kinesiology tape
Yoga toes spacers
...bringing my derby spending grand total to... One billion dollars!!! Also, a small glimpse into how much pain the bottom of my body is in.
My peroneal tendinitis does not in any way, shape, or form enjoy plow stop work. If you know anything about peroneal tendinitis (think outside of your foot, a band running from below your ankle bone up the outside of your leg) then you know it is in the absolute worst place for plow stopping. The mere idea of a hard plow (look it up if you haven't seen one) is enough to make my tendon throb. And, since I can't even do a regular plow stop I'm working on it for literal hours every week. At this point, I care less about the accomplishment of a try-out skill than I do being able to stop working on it.
Yesterday I went to the roller rink at the 4-6 session where I was literally the only person there and I just worked on skills at which I suck. I plowed, mohawked, jumped, did reverse cross overs.... and I learned that I am MUCH better when no one is watching. So, one of my new goals is to learn to block everyone else out so much it's like I'm alone. Theoretically, I know no one gives a shit what I'm doing or how stupid I look but still... it was pretty awesome to have the rink to myself.
Oh, here is the link to the exercises I have been doing:
Ankle pre-hab
She has a bunch of other great videos too.
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