"Hello!
I have a sports injury that I have been trying to work around. Do you have any advice for how to get a good workout, but without interfering with the healing process?"
- George C.
A
Hello George!
I noticed you didn't mention what type of sports injury you have, so I have provided advice below for the two most common injuries. If your injury isn't for knee or shoulder please let me know and I shall add more Do's and Don'ts for your kind of injury.
Knee Injury Do's and Don'ts
Do
-Focus on upper body in seated and standing exercises.
-Work out the lower body on the floor (glute kickbacks, inner/outer thigh raises)
-Focus on core and stretching
-Cardio
only within limitations. Running is bound to be aggravating to a knee
injury but perhaps the elliptical is fine. Listen to your body.
-Depending
on the injury shallow squats (preferably with a stability ball) can
help to strengthen the muscles, tendons and ligaments.
-Air punches for cardio can even be practiced seated.
Don't!
-Do lunges
-Do step-ups
-Run
Shoulder Injury Do's and Don'ts
Do
-Focus on lower body
-Add more core and low back exercises
-Try new cardio exercises (cycling, running)
-Stretch
Don't
-Use the arm handles on the elliptical
-Many
upper body exercises use the shoulders. Listen to your body. You may
be able to do bicep curls but not a triceps push down.
-Do bench press (too much weight and shoulders assist the chest and triceps and secondary working muscles)
-Do shoulder exercises unless prescribed by a physiotherapist.
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