I am sad to say that in my desire to do something fun with the kids and still make it a physical activity, I decided to take them ice skating on December 31st. Why is that sad, you may ask? Well because after about 40 minutes of some fine ice skating I took my first fall. Unfortunately it wasn't just on my behind. I fell forward on the inside of my left knee...and heard a "pop". Not good. At first I thought it would be ok, I got off the ice on my own and was able to walk around. However after a short time I discovered I can't twist my leg at all, from my hip down to my ankle. You know the old song,
"Your toe bone connected to your foot bone
Your foot bone connected to your ankle bone
Your ankle bone connected to your leg bone
Your leg bone connected to your knee bone
Your knee bone connected to your thigh bone
Your thigh bone connected to your hip bone...."
I understand that song so much better now that when ever I move one of those connected bones, I get a sharp pain in my knee!
So after my fall, one of my first thoughts was how am I going to keep up on my exercises? Can't go to Curves, can't do most of the Wii Fit exercises, so my options are floor exercises that don't use my legs. So I will focus on my abs and arms until I find out from the doctor what the extent of the damage is. If any of you have any ideas of other exersices that don't include my bum knee, let me know! Thanks!
Shannon
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The abs and upper body are a good idea. I keep reading online that circuit training with non-leg stressing exercise involved can still help raise your heart-rate. Can Curves tailor a workout that doesn't aggravate your injury? I'd say the Total Gym would be a good thing to work on. Possibly see if you can get a heavy punching bag that you could even sit in a chair and continuously punch (with boxing gloves), or get a set of weighted boxing gloves and shadow box for a set time while sitting. There's a machine at my gym that's used by people with leg injuries - check it out:
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I'm wondering if you could rig something up with a bicycle on a stand so you could get the same result?
Thanks for the ideas. I've been doing nothing today - have a bit of a headache - so I need to think some things to do. I'm surprised at how tight my calf muscles have gotten from limping. I was hoping to see the doc today, but he's on vacation till Monday, and didn't want to deal with an oncall doc or urgent care. It will just have to wait till Monday. I checked out the link, that's pretty cool for those not able to use their legs.
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