Background: 37yrs old, bad ankle due to endless marine corps boots/hikes... sprained a handful of times... Self-diagnosed to a peroneal tendon sublixation and plantar fascitis/achilles tendonitis on my left ankle/foot.. Looking to get surgery done in the next year or two.. Anyhow, to work around this I've been doing leg press, lunges, leg machine work for the past year.. but really miss squats and want to do them..
Few days ago, Squat University on YouTube posted a short clip about toe squats for people with mobility/ankle issues.. tried it earlier this week w/ a slant board and could tell the tendon wasn't popping out of its groove anymore..which is good.. but was still getting some tingles at bottom of my heel due to plantar fascitis?
So, I tried switching up the weight distribution on the bad foot.. for the descent- about 70% of the weight geared torwards the balls of my feet.. and about 30% geared torwards my heels on the descent... For the ascent, I had about 90% of the weight torwards my heels and about 10% on the balls of my feet.. this seems to work but the fact that im doing this and cant generate enough force w/out discomfort using a tripod.. will probably just result in more problems when I increase the load in the future.. thoughts?
Few days ago, Squat University on YouTube posted a short clip about toe squats for people with mobility/ankle issues.. tried it earlier this week w/ a slant board and could tell the tendon wasn't popping out of its groove anymore..which is good.. but was still getting some tingles at bottom of my heel due to plantar fascitis?
So, I tried switching up the weight distribution on the bad foot.. for the descent- about 70% of the weight geared torwards the balls of my feet.. and about 30% geared torwards my heels on the descent... For the ascent, I had about 90% of the weight torwards my heels and about 10% on the balls of my feet.. this seems to work but the fact that im doing this and cant generate enough force w/out discomfort using a tripod.. will probably just result in more problems when I increase the load in the future.. thoughts?