Before I was hit by a car and broke my wrist (not my fault) I was riding 500 kms per week and going to the gym. Until my wrist heals the only exercise I can do no is to walk the dog.
From Strava, this is the impact it has had on my fitness level. Any advice to help improve it?
by Amazing_Tough_4456
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Hiking on challenging trails, the recumbent bike at the gym, riding your trainer, running.
Bull shit. Its your wrist. Run, go to the gym and do calf raises, leg press, body weight leg stuff. Work your core. You cant push or pull (with one of your hands), but thats it. If you want to get exercise, get it.
When I fractured my scapula and ribs, I rode a trainer with my arm in a sling. Obviously I wasn’t doing intervals or anything like that but pedaling is pedaling.
Suck it up and get back at it. There are many ways to exercise without one hand. Go run. Buy a bike trainer. Swim.
My score didn’t drop this much when I broke my clavicle, scapula and multiple ribs. I was on the trainer two days later. And finished my Ironman 6 months later.
Stop holding yourself back.
I broke my hand and was in a cast for 10 weeks. Hike or ride a stationary recumbent. Run stairs. There’s lots of options.
A few years back I broke my femur, scapula, and clavicle in a nasty little crash. Had surgery, metal rod in my leg, plates on my clavicle. I was off the bike for about four months. Basically all I did during that time was walking every day and some daily physical therapy exercises.
When I finally did get back on the bike my fitness certainly took a hit, but not nearly as bad as I would have thought actually. Honestly I just got back to riding, slowly ramped back up and my fitness was pretty close to my normal baseline in just a 2 or 3 months.
The awesome thing is when you’re already very fit, is you really bounce back no problem. Honestly, I think you’ll be fine. Just do whatever mild exercises you can without aggravating your injury, and then get back to it when you’re able. Just a few months of that and you’ll basically be back at 100 percent. That was my experience at least for what it’s worth! 😀
Fuck Strava and that metric, means shit – hope you get better
Put the bike on a trainer and start pedaling
You need an offseason anyway.
Be sure to find an ATHLETIC PT after the cast to ensure to don’t lose a lot of mobility. The ortho may send you to an old person PT – those have different outcomes
10 broken bones: ribs, vertebrae, femer, pelvis, collar bone, scapula and skull. I was on an indoor trainer before I could walk without crutches or walker. You can find exercises to do without a wrist.