Didnt feel a thing in the ankle doing deadlifts. I'm squatting tomorrow so I'll see how it holds up there (only exercise its hurt on). Ankle feels about 90-95% there, I think a lot of the rest will come just from using it properly. One thing I havnt done is try to run on it yet, I need to head out one night and try some gentle HIIT (which I guess wont be HIIT but the same idea slowed down
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Yeah, forms important to me. I dropped weight about 5% on every lift getting back into it now and handled most of them fine. Next week most will be back up to what I was doing previously and I'll work on increasing gradually from there. Whilst I'm not lifting huge numbers, I can pride in looking around the gym and realising I'm one of 2 I've seen squat (and other guy doesnt get parallel lifting half what I do) and the only person I've seen deadlift at all.
I'm focused purely on the bf% at the moment. Any str/size/whatever else I get is a bonus. Once I pull the weight off then I'll worry about all that.