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After an injury - advice

  • 27-08-2008 10:23pm
    #1
    gary the great
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    Im joining a gym to get fit again, i was really fit and put on a decent amount of muscle up until last year when i got a very serious major injury in my knee while playing football. i had increased in weight from 12 to 14 stone and was doing well. then i found myself in plaster for 3 months and took another month before I could walk again so basically all my training went out the window. its just over a year on and i want to get back to the way i was.

    Now i dont think its going to be possible to get as big as i was as I cant do sqauts or deadlifts due to my very dodgy knee, so im aiming just to get back into a good shape and then take it from there.

    I still have a lot of muscle wastage in my leg, and due to impact running isnt really an option. So im going to do a lot of swimming. Now what i need to know is doing a lot of swimming before going into the gym a good idea?
    Would doing loads of laps, then sitting in the steamroom, having a cold shower and then into the gym a good idea? I need to incorporate swimming into my program somehow.

    Also, for putting on muscle and getting into shape, is swimming really that good?


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  • #2
    puntosporting
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭puntosporting


    From personnal experience having torn my acl a few years back the excercise bike was a great non impact friend to me helped bring my qaud muscles right back i slowly managed to stert doing bodyweight sqauts then progressed onto single leg bodyweight sqauts and eventualy started pushing weight!
    This was all under supervision of a professional do!


  • #3
    gary the great
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,665 ✭✭✭gary the great


    I suppose a bit of info on the injury would help. I broke the Tibial Plateau very badly, which is a very serious injury and the worst type of leg break you can get.s o its not to good to have a lot of pressure running into it.
    I also did my Posterior and anterior cruciates and destroyed my cartilage, all in one go. i now have arthritis in it.

    Ye i do tonnes of cycling and have done for the last year, but am going mad on the bike and want a different challenge!


  • #4
    puntosporting
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 801 ✭✭✭puntosporting


    Man you realy did a lot of damage!
    Have you been given any advise on what you can expect to be able to do?


  • #5
    Colm_OReilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,577 ✭✭✭Colm_OReilly


    I know Rip has no ACL - mightn't be a bad idea to ask him.


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