Keeping your sanity when injured
mudplugger_uk
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Firstly hi everyone,
Been a lurker here for a while but this is my first post.
My question is, how do you remain sane and retain your run fitness when you can't run.
I'm trying to get over an inflamed knee bursa (self diagnosed, but thats another story), so i'm off the bike and running until it clears up.
I'm in the pool pretty much every day so at least my swim is improving, but my first triathlon is in august and I think it will be quite a competitve one so i really need to be fast and my training was going so well.
I'm doing plenty of stretching, taking ibuprofen and applying ice. but I'm going crazy at the thought of my dwindling run fitness.
Any advice for home exercise or anything to keep my legs working would be welcome.
Cheers
Matt
Been a lurker here for a while but this is my first post.
My question is, how do you remain sane and retain your run fitness when you can't run.
I'm trying to get over an inflamed knee bursa (self diagnosed, but thats another story), so i'm off the bike and running until it clears up.
I'm in the pool pretty much every day so at least my swim is improving, but my first triathlon is in august and I think it will be quite a competitve one so i really need to be fast and my training was going so well.
I'm doing plenty of stretching, taking ibuprofen and applying ice. but I'm going crazy at the thought of my dwindling run fitness.
Any advice for home exercise or anything to keep my legs working would be welcome.
Cheers
Matt
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An injury philosophy I got from Martin Rooney was "dont tell me what you cant do, tell me what you can do", So you can still swim, do some lifts, core exercises, back exercises. Do stuff that keeps your HR high and you wont lose as much of your run fitness.
Keeping sane - i've no idea, soz.
I must admit i didn't even give a cross trainer a second thought, but i will try a session on that and see how it goes.
So - the next couple of weeks i'll step up the strength training, before getting back on my bike and then if thats ok back to the run.
Thanks again chaps, this triathlon training can be a lonely business, and i guess it's easy for your motivation to take a knock sometimes.
Cheers
Matt
I ignored it. I was to keen to run having finally got over calf problems. Which took an age. I had some key goals to achieve, and a bit of a twinge wasn't getting in the way.
Then, at the end of January, after a run, it really got sore. Didn't really hurt at the time - just a 5K road race.
But, rather than stopping, a week later I did another race - Cross Country... then it swelled up like a balloon.
I went straight to the physio, laid off the running, and switched to cross training - rowing machine, cycling, swimming.
In hindsight, this was just enough to keep it aggravated. Did a 10K at the end of March. It hurt, but not too bad.
Then the week before my first multisport event, I did a five K - just to get a bit of a feel again.
This time it failed catastrophically. Really swelled up. Couldn't move it at all. Couldn't drive. Straight to the GP and a referal to a surgeon.
That was the 11th March.
I've done no running at all since then. It still hurts - so I'm now too scared to.
Just focused on swimming - I've been working away a lot - so not really been to the gym either.
A week or so ago I went for the first bike ride. Just a short one. Then I waited for a full week before another.
This weekend is the best that it has felt since the 11th April - i.e. it hasn't woken me up in the night when I've turned over.
I'm starting to put together a rehabilitation plan (I've been doing very gentle exercises since - mainly static ones) - I wouldn't call it a training plan. Walked to the paper shop at the weekend for the first time (going down hill is pretty painful still - but not as bad as it was).
Really need to spend time in the Gym, but I keep being away.
Seeing the Consultant a week tomorrow. But I suspect it is just rest that will be required - probably what I am doing at the moment.
It is frustrating. I've been grumpy and miserable for ages. I've put on nearly a stone in since Easter, and the body fat percentage has gone up by 4%. I feel crap.
Moral: don't turn a 6 week rest into a 6 month disaster.
Take professional advice.
Think what you can do.
Then do 25% of that for the first week or two.
Just be patient......
and feel free to rant and moan here when it all gets too much.