thanks for the knowledge guys, I really appreciate it.
Almost two weeks on (thrus the 2nd being when I did it) The pain has pretty much totally gone now, but the slight numbness within the calf still remains, albeit largely diminished. During the early days of the pain I couldn't even walk longer than 2/3 mins without extremely large dull pain within the calf and lower right leg, forcing me to stop and wait. The first two nights sleep as also a bitch unless I slept with my right injured leg on top of my left leg (like a spoon position
) but got better. Bending the leg eased the pain and felt zero pain from sitting down/ squatting down - It seemed to hurt when the leg muscles were at full extension but fine with slack. Air squatting helped and seemed to aid the pain.
I took a full week off and started going back the gym on sunday with upperbody lifts only. I actually barbell squatted perfectly fine today (despite struggling with 110kg thanks to crappy sleep and food probably) and will probably massively deload my deadlift and work it back up from something like 135.
Are sumo deadlifts any 'safer' (bad word I know) than conventional deads? Stupid question probably but I have never tried them.