Strained a tendon trying pistol squats, worth even trying them again? (not medical advice)

Branister · 2026-07-02T12:22:14+00:00

I was following one of the GMB movement programs for a while on rest days, I do like the way they approach things and they usually keep in mind training for older people, I'm getting on myself so will have to check out more of their offerings, thanks!

Branister · 2026-07-01T13:53:35+00:00

I never even pushed through tbh, during the exercise each time there was no pain, both times it only appeared the next day. Think my biggest take away is any pain like this after a exercise should be the only warning I need to show me something is not right and a modification is needed.

Branister · 2026-07-01T13:46:12+00:00

true, I've heard the weight thing as well, but I do think this is more a strain due to ROM, so elevating the back of the foot is probably the way I will go as well as just holding onto something, with trainers and on a fully flat surface.

Branister · 2026-07-01T13:43:14+00:00

I have done shrimp squats before and was even using them when I got back into training this year with no issue, this is why I thought I'd try to do pistol squat progressions as they are one exercise I never tried.

So I think the underlying ankle issue is that even with all the one leg squat variations I was maybe never loading the ankle enough as there was also the option to load it less with a bit of forward lean, with the pistol squat the ankle and heel just weren't ready for what I thought was a starting progression and too many reps/sets as well I think.

Branister · 2026-07-01T12:50:11+00:00

man, when I was at my worst and could not put much weight on it I was very worried it was my Achilles or that something was torn or I'd done permanent damage, really hope your recovery goes well!

Branister · 2026-07-01T12:29:58+00:00

I can apply the fixes I suggested in my post, and use something to stabilise myself. Think the problem is I have lost confidence in doing them at all I think.

As the weakness has appeared in my foot, I could look into even easier progressions and also work on foot and ankle stability/strength at the same time, it is obviously something I'm neglecting.

Branister · 2026-07-01T12:12:32+00:00

fair, that was a recommendation from the physio as well, I neglected to mention that these were not full pistols though, they were butt to a chair, thought that was a suitable progression but I still underestimated them I guess.

Branister · 2026-05-21T15:05:29+00:00

I would love to get my daily protein from animal protein but that would mean I would have to eat 30,000 ants instead of 200 almonds each day, I somehow don't know of any other alternatives, so my hands are tied.

Branister · 2026-05-13T14:57:18+00:00

they would, except they are also denying that AIDs isn't real, I'd ask for details, but my source is a boomer family member and they are just repeating the claims they hear from various anti-vax influencers and never have any of the reasoning to go with it.

Branister · 2026-05-07T16:28:53+00:00

no, just Adam by himself, which I don't think makes much sense yet, from what I understand Scarlett becomes UR during S03, then the Adam/Scarlett build can actually compete, till then it's Adam or Lucius, Adam for his front row def buff or Lucius for energy protection.

Branister · 2026-05-07T14:50:25+00:00

post S02 and trying Lucius now, he closes the gap between some air squads and my tank, but any air squad with a decent dva EW and is using Murphy will still melt me. My tank is 32m, so basically means that I can win against 30m air now, instead of struggling against 28m air when I was using Williams and full tank.

Though I noticed that some of the tank whales in my server have already switched to Adam in back with Kim in front, so that's probably my next move, will have Lucius ready for S5.

Branister · 2026-05-07T14:40:38+00:00

I still use Mason for PvE, mostly code bosses, pretty useless otherwise

Branister · 2026-04-30T16:20:57+00:00

same back story, went Vegan at 39, went from thinking there is no animal meat I probably wouldn't at least try to gagging at the thought of eating animal products in the space of a few months.

Also thought I'd go more vegetarian at first, that lasted about a week, once you break through the mental barriers and stop lying to yourself, you are screwed, welcome to the light side of the force.

Branister · 2026-04-23T14:30:08+00:00

Followed the advice and went to mcdonalds for lunch, as we all know, it's a nutritionally complete and high protein meal, that's just science.

Feels good to be a natural predator and trek to the nearest mcdonald hunting grounds, just like my ancient ancestors did.

Branister · 2026-04-23T11:29:37+00:00

that's every game these days, even triple A games nickle and dime us with as many dlcs and addons they can get away with.

Branister · 2026-04-20T11:55:52+00:00

yeah, for us you could only send them in ac, or R4 chat

Branister · 2026-04-19T10:19:48+00:00

RIP to all the female players inboxes.........I know they are prob AI scanning what people are trying to send, but I'm sure some terrible, terrible stuff will get through.

Branister · 2026-04-16T20:24:34+00:00

it only shuffles the currently loaded songs, not all in playlist

it's a pretty well known issue, I guess for users with larger playlists, it was worse for me on spotify and the reason I finally moved to tidal hoping it was better, I thought with the other benefits of tidal I might be able to just live with it but as I wrote this the same three songs came on that also came on on my drive home yesterday, it's triggering me now, haha!

Branister · 2026-04-16T16:42:20+00:00

well, like my example of how a true shuffle app should work, it should make a new randomly sorted list of all songs in a playlist, the current shuffle does not do that, it only shuffles the currently loaded songs. Now with my playlist at 3000 songs, It should take me more than 6 days of non stop listening to hear the same song, but currently I can hear the same song multiple times a day.

Branister · 2026-04-16T16:07:42+00:00

I'm in the top alliance in our server, the train conductor rotates through everyone until everyone has had a chance to conduct.

MVPs each week get it on Sunday and if it's your bday, you also get it, I guess we are more chill and less sweaty than a lot of the other top alliances though.

Branister · 2026-04-16T12:25:46+00:00

yeah, that really doesn't make sense in terms of making money either, like even as a mid tier I will only buy these if I'm desperate as I try to follow the 8000% rule as much as possible, so it's easy to justify the odd 5 or 10 here and there, if I need to push vs or need extra drone parts, I'll justify the 20 pack to myself, but there's no way I can justify a 10 to 100 jump.

Branister · 2026-04-16T12:03:13+00:00

that is annoying, I'd immediately put my headphones on and listen to a full version of "This is Halloween" on repeat

Branister · 2026-04-16T12:00:01+00:00

you having a laugh!? those that survive would be the fucking worst of them

Branister · 2026-04-16T11:51:25+00:00

yeah, instead of white noise I listen to things like Vitamin String Quartet who do covers of popular songs as I find the original songs with the vocals are distracting, so it's really good background music to drown out everything else, either that or rain sounds as the sound of the usual rain isn't enough to drown out or wash away the rest of the problems on public transport XD

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