I did a lot of mobilization work yesterday as an active rest day before football practice. I did 10 minutes in the bottom of a (banded) squat, with a good chunk of that time spent with a 25# plate on top of my knee/quad to help promote active dorsiflexion. Figuring some of my problems are also upstream with my hips in particular, I spent some time in a super frog, which was as unpleasant as I remembered it to be. Following that I spent some time in a middle split wall stretch, where I discovered that my adductors are pretty much so tight that they feel like bone. Awesome. That felt great. I was also in the zone and wearing noise canceling headphones and didn't notice when the crossfit class lined up to do sprints. They were nice (and a small class) and didn't use the fourth lane that was taken up by me. :)
Between yesterday and today I've compression flossed my left knee three times and having done so, have regained enough mobility that I can hit terminal knee extension. It's one of those things that makes me curious whether my problem is or isn't meniscal, but I guess I'll find that out in a few weeks. The whole area feels kind of weird though.
I worked through a few drills at football yesterday. I'm still very slow, which hurts my pride, but it's good to be building my confidence and getting the mechanics back. I did some ladders with the full team; I'm at maybe 50% of my healthy speed. People are supportive though, and happy to see me doing something. I worked the basics of locking up and drive blocking against limited (no) resistance and that went pretty well. Pass blocking I need to work on having a softer knee and driving through the toes. We did some lateral mirroring too, which went better than expected. It was probably my best lateral movement to date, which I credit to thinking more about what my partner was doing than about my ankle.
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