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Tinker Tuesday for September 17, 2024

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service.

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If you have stress fractures you need time to heal, and possibly a physician.

In the case of normal shin splints though, have you tried incorporating tibia raises? I have never gotten shin splints after I added a few sets a couple of times a week. You can use a dumbell and a bench if your gym doesn't have a machine for them, which is like 99.9% of gyms. Just sit on the bench and extend your legs like a leg extension, holding the dumbell in your feet. Then lower and extend your feet. It can help to sit further back then you would for a leg extention, and to incline the seat by a notch.

You can also do them against a wall, but I don't feel like that is as effective.

Appreciate the suggestions. I’m not sure what it was but today I feel fine. I’ve gotten pains before at the top of my tibia near my knee but that’s been ok. This was weird in that it was soreness lower down by my ankle. I ran 4 miles last night though and today it’s perfectly fine.