Mixing up your training is not only good for progress but good to keep you fresh.
Another good point is giving you more options when it would be easy enough to call it quits for the week!
If you pulled your calf, twisted your knee or hurt your arm, there IS another way to train as many of you are proving.
I won’t go over all the excuses i have heard over the years, but they still make me mad from time to time, make that ALL THE TIME!!!!!
My favourite or not so favourite one is the one that someone cant train because their “training partner” is not training anymore, so they can’t train anymore!!!! Have you heard anything so ridiculous in your life!!! But i have heard this a few too many times i can assure you! You DO NOT have to rely on someone else to exercise, you really don’t!!!!!!!!
So the bottom line is getting used to all sorts of training so your options become greater and greater. If your arm is a little sore, what’s to stop you cycling or running, although i will admit you do use your arms on both, in different ways but workouts are STILL possible wouldn’t you say!!!!
If your knee is bad, you can do weight training circuits that don’t hurt your knee obviously, just find out the exercises that don’t hurt so much!!!
Swimming is a good exercise if you have aches and pains, because like cycling, it is non-weight bearing and will actually help your body improve, instead of slowing recovery down like other forms of exercises can do.
Nothing wrong at all with walking too if you have a pull in your arm or upper body, the bottom line must ALWAYS be if it hurts, then DO NOT do it. If there is no pain and makes you feel good, then it will be fine and you always need to use this rule, the saying “no pain no gain” is absolute hogwash, train smart and thats means training carefully!!!!
Lots of options out there and that means no excuses!!!
Know you are right about that Keri, you can train around an injury. I am training around my knee injury as you know, but there is only so much upper body training you can do, I did 4 circuits of upper body yesterday and 6 circuits of upper body today. I dont mean any disrespect to you but it is getting monotonus, so I will be having a day off 2mo. Will be happy when the injury has cleared up as you cant burn the same amout of calories if you dont use your legs, it would be different if I had a wrist, elbow, shoulder or other upper body injury as I could just sit on the rower, bike or just go for a run. But I must not complain, will get there in the end, hasnt been this bad since my operation. But we all have injuries at sometime and we just have to be patient. Again, thanx for your help, but I dont think there is much point in me paying my subs next week until my knee is healed. I will wait and see how it is.
no worries jean and i know you are going through a very frustrating time. You are doing well just to be doing anything so try and keep your diet tight if possible.
You have made some very decent progress and its time to keep being positive about your future, because once that knee is right ,you will be flying along very well as usual.
Hope your knee gets well soon and keep on icing it.