Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below I was halfway into my 30 second sprint on my second interval, and my calf just started to cramp and hurt like crazy. I finished the last fifteen seconds of the sprint on a very painful calf. Anyway it's damaged somehow and I'm not sure what it's called. Did I pull a muscle or what? It doesn't feel like a tendon it just feels like someone hit my calf with a bat, right below the gastroc, about halfway up on the soleus. It's a little sore to flex but if I try to give it any tension like standing and flexing it rising up on my toes or really trying to push off with that foot it kills. How long will I have to recover before I can sprint again? I'm super pissed about it because I was just starting to get stronger at the interval sprints. I don't want to be out for like two or three weeks until it is strong enough again. I have goals and this really messes with the plan. What are ways to rehab it quickly. How do I properly determine if it's is indeed a muscle pull and not something else?
Injured my calf running sprints for HIIT, how to heal fast.
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PolishHammer1977
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Ice, heat, stretch, massage. In that order.
The same thing happen to my calf when I just suddenly decided to run somewhere. Like you said, it felt like someone smack the back of my calf with a baseball bat. I thought my whole calf muscle must had pop out of the skin. Anyway with ice,advil, and started stretching after a week, it took 1 month to get back to 100%. It felt fine after 2 weeks, but only if I didn't do any running.
PolishHammer1977
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CobraUTAH said:
You should rehab properly no matter what!
The time is set on your own genetics and recovery rate.
FUCK, I can't wait a month to start running again. If I push it will it really get messed up? Can I damage the muscle more or the tendon? I know I sound stupid wanting to push the limit and run before I'm really healed, but I hate being injured and I really hate my goals being messed with. I want to be at 5% by the end of July and with this new set back I'm worried I won't make it. I think I could do a stationary bike for HIIT until it's better because it doesn't put as much stress on the muscle. Damn I had guess I didn't fully respect the effort that it takes to really sprint all out.
ffknight84
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did you completely warmup and stretch properly, it takes at least 20 min for a good complete warmup???
just do the bike for now, and rest the calve muscle, ice it, and stretch like everuone else suggested
just do the bike for now, and rest the calve muscle, ice it, and stretch like everuone else suggested
I did stretch before the HIIT session that caused the injury but afterwards I did remember that I didn't stretch my calves much at all and that's why the injury. I knew the importance of a good warm-up but still didn't fully warm-up everything. LESSON LEARNED!! I've been stretching it everyday since and massaging the muscle, boy does that hurt. I can do calf raises onto my toes with little pain but when I try to run that extra strain really makes it hurt. Does the ice really help after the initial injury? I thought that after the initial injury day you should use heat and massage to workout the damage, and not ice.
PolishHammer1977
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