(Training) Plan - Week 5 - Jan 29 to Feb 4

Still no running or biking, possibly for another 5 weeks. But I am still allowed to do weights core and swimming. I have still left the numbers as a gradual progression but actually I plan to spend as much time as possible in the pool, so the numbers could turn out to be meaningless. I have drafted my plan for the whole year but I am still sitting on it until I get a real date to get out of the boot and at least walking. 

I have been reading again. Probably too much. There are a lot of studies of rugby players with syndesmosis injuries coming back within 2-3 months of original injury. Not just to walking, but back on the pitch in that time. There is a preferred surgical repair technique rather than screws which counts for about a week of the deviation in the reported statistics. I don't have the option to go back for that, should probably have done more research in the week between break and surgery and asked more about it. Even allowing for that week they are still much more advanced than my current prognosis which is 3 months from original injury to walking and 5-6 months to sport. I am going to stick with my instructions for the two weeks till my next fracture clinic appointment as the bone is still healing. I will ask again at that point about changing to more aggressive recovery and physio programmes. 


Targets - Run 0 miles, Bike 0 miles, Swim 1.9 miles.
Stretching session x0, Core session x2, Weights session x2.