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« on: July 12, 2009, 05:42:28 PM » |
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Well, I broke my foot a while ago and couldn't stand on it for 2 weeks, and couldn't walk on it without crutches for an additional 3 weeks. so I was hoping scooby could do a video about good cardio for someone with leg/foot injuries.
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bloodhunter2552
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« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2009, 06:33:25 PM » |
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wow no one?
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« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2009, 08:25:29 AM » |
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Swimming,Stationary bike. Depending on your foot's condition and what doctors say.(feel free to ask them really)
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« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2009, 11:04:37 AM » |
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its a good idea but if your injured do something else.
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« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2009, 11:49:35 AM » |
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Swimming (as mentioned above) would be the best one, though could be hazardous if you have wet feet on a slippery floor (like mine)
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« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2009, 05:12:17 PM » |
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If you belong to a gym, there are some cardio machines that use the arms to turn a wheel, they're a little less common though. I think it's more of a rehab thing for old folks.
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« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2009, 05:32:52 PM » |
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^^ yea scoobys mentioned it before he called it a "hand bike" i think it'd be nifty to have one at home.. i should look into that haha
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« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2009, 10:56:58 PM » |
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Well, if you can't stand on your foot, how can you swim with it, putting pressure on it and constantly damaging it every day? also, I don't belong to a gym because I see it as a waste of money when I have a simple E-Z curl bar and a bench with $300 lbs of weights i got for $75 on the internet versus $150 a year for a gym membership. One last thing: I didn't mean necessarily limited to a broken foot. suppose someone has a broken leg, they can't move it at all and therefore can't swim.
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« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2009, 11:38:28 PM » |
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Well, if you can't stand on your foot, how can you swim with it, putting pressure on it and constantly damaging it every day? also, I don't belong to a gym because I see it as a waste of money when I have a simple E-Z curl bar and a bench with $300 lbs of weights i got for $75 on the internet versus $150 a year for a gym membership. One last thing: I didn't mean necessarily limited to a broken foot. suppose someone has a broken leg, they can't move it at all and therefore can't swim.
? i pay $10 a month.. and if you broke your leg scooby said there's something called a "hand bike" that some bigger gyms should have... and im sure you can jury-rig it at home |
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« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2009, 01:33:38 AM » |
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I asked a similar question a while ago (knee injury). Some of the suggestions were very good including boxing, swimming and the hand bike. Unfortunately I couldn't do any (boxing was too risky for my knee, no gym so no hand bike, and I can't swim  ). Anyway, the hand bike suggestion got me thinking. I got two lengths of rope each about 10 ft long, I tied a light weight to each (5lbs, I think) and threw them over my pull-up bar. I sat in a backwards facing chair about 5 ft away from the bar with the ends of the ropes in my hands and alternately pulled the left and then the right. Eventually the ropes got too close started to tangle so I made little grooves for each by wrapping layers of masking tape around the pull-up bar. I'm sure there are ways this idea can be improved upon but this sufficed for 30 min sessions of cardio while my knee was injured. A few additional points: (1) be careful not to pull the rope to far or too hard or the weight might come over the bar and at you  ! (2) the friction created by the rope moving over the same spot on the bar over and over makes the bar pretty hot, so don't touch it for a while afterwords. I'm sure some kind of pulley and carabeener (sp?) set up would fix this and (1) above, but I never got around to hatching one up. (3) this is really only possible with a fixed pull-up bar, a movable door frame mounted one (like iron gym) would probably fall, possibly injuring you a second time (4) at the end my arms hurt like a mf - far more than my legs after regular lower-body cardio (like running) - so I didn't do any arm related lifting on those days, which meant going without cardio on the days I did do arm related work. I suppose that after enough time your arms would adapt, but mine didn't  |
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« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2009, 10:38:31 PM » |
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our forum is soooo smart!^^^ you guys really are amazing  interesting suggestion |
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« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2009, 08:45:54 PM » |
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Well, if you can't stand on your foot, how can you swim with it, putting pressure on it and constantly damaging it every day? also, I don't belong to a gym because I see it as a waste of money when I have a simple E-Z curl bar and a bench with $300 lbs of weights i got for $75 on the internet versus $150 a year for a gym membership. One last thing: I didn't mean necessarily limited to a broken foot. suppose someone has a broken leg, they can't move it at all and therefore can't swim.
? i pay $10 a month.. and if you broke your leg scooby said there's something called a "hand bike" that some bigger gyms should have... and im sure you can jury-rig it at home and who woul've guessed that $10 a month equals $120 a year? |
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« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2009, 08:48:11 PM » |
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I asked a similar question a while ago (knee injury). Some of the suggestions were very good including boxing, swimming and the hand bike. Unfortunately I couldn't do any (boxing was too risky for my knee, no gym so no hand bike, and I can't swim ). Anyway, the hand bike suggestion got me thinking. I got two lengths of rope each about 10 ft long, I tied a light weight to each (5lbs, I think) and threw them over my pull-up bar. I sat in a backwards facing chair about 5 ft away from the bar with the ends of the ropes in my hands and alternately pulled the left and then the right. Eventually the ropes got too close started to tangle so I made little grooves for each by wrapping layers of masking tape around the pull-up bar. I'm sure there are ways this idea can be improved upon but this sufficed for 30 min sessions of cardio while my knee was injured. A few additional points: (1) be careful not to pull the rope to far or too hard or the weight might come over the bar and at you ! (2) the friction created by the rope moving over the same spot on the bar over and over makes the bar pretty hot, so don't touch it for a while afterwords. I'm sure some kind of pulley and carabeener (sp?) set up would fix this and (1) above, but I never got around to hatching one up. (3) this is really only possible with a fixed pull-up bar, a movable door frame mounted one (like iron gym) would probably fall, possibly injuring you a second time (4) at the end my arms hurt like a mf - far more than my legs after regular lower-body cardio (like running) - so I didn't do any arm related lifting on those days, which meant going without cardio on the days I did do arm related work. I suppose that after enough time your arms would adapt, but mine didn't Thanks for the idea, I do have a fixed pullup bar that i screwed into the wall. |
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« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2009, 06:49:32 PM » |
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Like i said in the video for teens voting thing.
I really messed up my legs and i don't even know what i did wrong. Doctor said i didn't cool down or something like that but i didn't even knew i had to.
My legs got weak because i can only workout upper body.
When i recuperate i want to workout legs too but i don't want to get injured again.
Doing a video about how to properly workout legs would be very helpful.
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« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2009, 07:30:32 PM » |
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Well, if you can't stand on your foot, how can you swim with it, putting pressure on it and constantly damaging it every day? also, I don't belong to a gym because I see it as a waste of money when I have a simple E-Z curl bar and a bench with $300 lbs of weights i got for $75 on the internet versus $150 a year for a gym membership. One last thing: I didn't mean necessarily limited to a broken foot. suppose someone has a broken leg, they can't move it at all and therefore can't swim.
although scooby says a gym isn't necassary, it helps. There is more than an E-Z curl bar and a bench at a gym, cables can be very usefull, there are machine weights for begeiners(that realllyy help, it's what i started on), and ab curl machines for people who are to lazy to do regular sit-ups(me)  |
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