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Advice: training with an injury; low impact!

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  • 01-03-2009 9:21pm
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    McConkey
    Registered Users Posts: 506 ✭✭✭


    Hi everybody, hope ye are all well and happy :)

    I have just joined the gym for a month to stop me losing my fitness as I wait for my foot injury to heal. The physio says it will probably be another four weeks before I can run, then it will only be on grass. I am allowed (!) to use the crosstrainer and bike at the moment as well as swimming so I will be giving all of these a bash.

    So my question really is what kind of training should I be doing, in order to increase my fitness over the next month so that I will be in reasonable condition to continue my marathon training. I would be hoping to get to the gym 5 times a week if possible.

    How long?
    How intense?

    I did a session on the cross-trainer today for 10 min and the bike for about 43 min but I didn't really break into a sweat and I wasn't struggling for breath at all, my HRM said that I spent:

    25 min in HR zone 1
    35 min in HR zone 2
    15 min in HR zone 3
    7.5 min in HR zone 4
    4 min in HR zone 5 (176 bpm)

    Any and all advice is welcome, thanks a million for taking the time :)


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    #2
    McConkey
    Registered Users Posts: 506 ✭✭✭McConkey


    Sorry mods, I posted this in training logs in error so I've re-posted in A/R/T and maybe ye could delete or lock this thread. I went to delete it but for some reason there was no option to delete the post, thanks, C


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