Exercising with Injuries
Injuring your elbow isn’t extremely common, though it does happen. This type of injury makes it hard to do much of anything because every movement of your arm uses your elbow. Here are some ways you can exercise if you have an elbow injury.
Use an Exercise Bike
The first thing you can do is use the stationary exercise bike at your gym or if you have one at home. This doesn’t require you to grip onto handlebars like a regular bicycle and can even be done with no arm movement at all.
Use a stationary bike that sits upright so you aren’t leaning forward and having to hold onto the handlebars for balance. Using a stationary bike without holding onto anything requires your legs and abs to do more work, so it is an even better workout for you. Continue reading
If you have an injury to your hand or wrist, it will make certain exercises a little more difficult. But while you need to take a break from kettlebell and heavy weight lifting, that doesn’t mean there aren’t workouts you can continue doing. Here are some tips for exercising with a hand or wrist injury:
Choose the Gym Machines Wisely
With a hand or wrist injury, you might think that you can’t go to the gym anymore, but that is definitely not true! You just need to be more careful about the type of machines you end up using.
The main motions that are going to be hard on your wrists are where you are having to grip tightly. If you use any machines, make sure they don’t require you to grip onto anything. So while the pull-up bar and some of the weightlifting machines are probably out, you can still use the treadmill, elliptical, rowing machine, and a variety of other machines at the gym. Continue reading
