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26 Responses to “What can I do to exercise and keep up weight loss while I have a foot injury?”
I would suggest to lift handweights, like 5lb – 20lb. dumbells. Lifting can burn calories and actually speeds your metabolism for days! It will also make sure you only lose fat, not muscle mass. Good luck!
The solution is simple. Take in less calories than your body burns and you will lose weight. This may mean that you will have to limit your caloric intake to 500 a day, which would definitely suck, but it would get the job done.
i’m not sure about your legs but you can still do abs and upperbody stuff while sitting, for your foot, depending on where the injury is, you could possibly do leg curls or something like that
I had this problem the summer before my freshman year. I tore ligiments in my foot in mid-July, and I was trying to lose weight. STAY ON DRINKING WATER is about the best thing for you to do. If you can, try to walk on your foot, but not too much, and try to keep from laying around and doing nothing; get up, and even if you having to stay seated all of the time, do arm workouts, like work your biceps and triceps and that will help a lot!
You can lift weights and do sit ups which will keep up your tone. but you wont be able to eat as much as you used to, count your calories and dont eat a lot of fat.
pool exercises, upper body machines… mat and abb exercises, open chain exercises for the legs (like leg extentions rather then squats which are considerded close chain) walking if you can do it.
Swimming is great excercise because you have to work hard to propel yourself through the water, but since you don’t bump into any hard surfaces it won’t further injure your foot.
Also, you can try doing different swimming strokes that don’t require that much foot movement. (Like breaststroke)
You can ask your doctor for suggestions, since he will know about your injury and limits. If you cannot use your foot at all, then do arm weights and abs work. If you can stand on your foot, but not bounce around on it, maybe you should try some yoga or something else low impact and see whether or not your foot can tolerate it. Just remember to stop if it starts hurting, because you may only end up hurting yourself worse and not being able to exercise longer. Hope you feel better soon!
I empathize with your situation. I know how frustrating injuries can be. You might want to think about doing upper-body exercises, including lifting weights, etc. And, doing sit-ups to keep your abs in tact.
Since you can’t exercise much, I think you should focus on your calorie consumption to at least maintain your weight loss. Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and stay and eat healthy foods that your body will continue to burn. Here is a great resource:
Try a workoout bike or an actual bike, you can use one leg if necessary
You can also do 1 legged pushups, situps, or try sit-bagging
sit-bagging (i came up with it) is when you get a punching bag (or a pillow from a string) you put a chair next to the bag, throw on gloves and spend time wacking away at the thing, its great cardio.
Keep up with your upper body exercises while sitting, including twisting at waist. You can also sit and tighten individual muscle areas— hold for count of 10—Then relax for count of ten. Start with 10 repetitions per body area.
This won’t do as much as your normal routine, but it should keep you from backsliding too far.
Since i don’t know how much strain you are capable of putting on your foot, it’s hard to say, but i would recommend using dumb-bells for your arms, and i’m thinking that you should still be able to lie on the floor and do crunches- but if it hurts your foot, don’t do it! This may sound wierd, but if you sit in a chair, you can clench your buttocks muscles together and hold for a count of 20 seconds- do as many reps as you can, and keep your stomach muscles tight. Also, since you’re not as active right now, your metabolism wont be working as fast, so make sure your eating small portions of nutrient rich foods.Grab a fittness magazine and see if they have any work outs you think you can manage. Another thing to keep in mind is that your body is working hard trying to repair damaged tissues, cells, muscles,etc. in your foot.This takes energy-energy from the calories you consume. I doubt that your going to gain back much weight. Don’t stress.
December 16th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Lynda Parkinson
Lift weights? You can do 1 foot routines too. Try the chair one.
December 17th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Lydia Nixon
eat SPARINGLY. one calory not eaten is one calory burnt,
you can do the arm circles. but i can’t think of anything else.
December 17th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Liza Ottesen
arm exersises
December 18th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Louis Paris
Push-ups!
December 18th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Edward Newberry
lift weights
December 21st, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Tia Coddington
Try doing crunches because they dont need your legs.
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:03 am
Jesse Lippert
I would suggest to lift handweights, like 5lb – 20lb. dumbells. Lifting can burn calories and actually speeds your metabolism for days! It will also make sure you only lose fat, not muscle mass. Good luck!
December 25th, 2009 at 12:55 am
Sonia Carrigan
Try swimming.
December 25th, 2009 at 1:31 am
Kristy Holguin
if u hav a weel chair hop on a tread mill and work ur arms by moving the weel on it i did it for fun
December 27th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Tonya Curl
Sex
December 30th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Doris Lenhart
use light weights and do arm exercises and dont eat more than u can burn off
January 1st, 2010 at 10:14 am
Eunice Hellman
The solution is simple. Take in less calories than your body burns and you will lose weight. This may mean that you will have to limit your caloric intake to 500 a day, which would definitely suck, but it would get the job done.
January 2nd, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Beatrice Hooper
Swimming is good. Your really not using your foot muscles.
Sometimes I go in the deepend (with a noodle) and lick my legs around.
January 5th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Margaret Sorrells
i’m not sure about your legs but you can still do abs and upperbody stuff while sitting, for your foot, depending on where the injury is, you could possibly do leg curls or something like that
January 9th, 2010 at 12:52 am
Sandra Swinney
Do reps with a light weight (5-10lbs), about 50-100 in a row. Do this on each arm 5-6 times a day. This will help w/ weight loss.
January 10th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Andrew Eicher
Do NOT lisen 2 the person above me. All you have 2 do is eat healthy.
January 11th, 2010 at 4:46 am
Stanley Sewell
I had this problem the summer before my freshman year. I tore ligiments in my foot in mid-July, and I was trying to lose weight. STAY ON DRINKING WATER is about the best thing for you to do. If you can, try to walk on your foot, but not too much, and try to keep from laying around and doing nothing; get up, and even if you having to stay seated all of the time, do arm workouts, like work your biceps and triceps and that will help a lot!
January 14th, 2010 at 10:40 am
Clinton Klosterman
You can lift weights and do sit ups which will keep up your tone. but you wont be able to eat as much as you used to, count your calories and dont eat a lot of fat.
January 15th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Pinkston
pool exercises, upper body machines… mat and abb exercises, open chain exercises for the legs (like leg extentions rather then squats which are considerded close chain) walking if you can do it.
January 19th, 2010 at 4:02 am
Irma Cabrera
Try swimming.
Swimming is great excercise because you have to work hard to propel yourself through the water, but since you don’t bump into any hard surfaces it won’t further injure your foot.
Also, you can try doing different swimming strokes that don’t require that much foot movement. (Like breaststroke)
January 20th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Steve Castle
You can ask your doctor for suggestions, since he will know about your injury and limits. If you cannot use your foot at all, then do arm weights and abs work. If you can stand on your foot, but not bounce around on it, maybe you should try some yoga or something else low impact and see whether or not your foot can tolerate it. Just remember to stop if it starts hurting, because you may only end up hurting yourself worse and not being able to exercise longer. Hope you feel better soon!
January 22nd, 2010 at 3:36 am
Mathew Saulsbury
I empathize with your situation. I know how frustrating injuries can be. You might want to think about doing upper-body exercises, including lifting weights, etc. And, doing sit-ups to keep your abs in tact.
Since you can’t exercise much, I think you should focus on your calorie consumption to at least maintain your weight loss. Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and stay and eat healthy foods that your body will continue to burn. Here is a great resource:
January 25th, 2010 at 2:36 am
Carlos Bethel
push-ups
crutches.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:49 am
Sandra Swinney
Try a workoout bike or an actual bike, you can use one leg if necessary
You can also do 1 legged pushups, situps, or try sit-bagging
sit-bagging (i came up with it) is when you get a punching bag (or a pillow from a string) you put a chair next to the bag, throw on gloves and spend time wacking away at the thing, its great cardio.
January 29th, 2010 at 11:38 am
Jason Polson
Keep up with your upper body exercises while sitting, including twisting at waist. You can also sit and tighten individual muscle areas— hold for count of 10—Then relax for count of ten. Start with 10 repetitions per body area.
This won’t do as much as your normal routine, but it should keep you from backsliding too far.
January 31st, 2010 at 2:31 am
Vincent Cairns
Since i don’t know how much strain you are capable of putting on your foot, it’s hard to say, but i would recommend using dumb-bells for your arms, and i’m thinking that you should still be able to lie on the floor and do crunches- but if it hurts your foot, don’t do it! This may sound wierd, but if you sit in a chair, you can clench your buttocks muscles together and hold for a count of 20 seconds- do as many reps as you can, and keep your stomach muscles tight. Also, since you’re not as active right now, your metabolism wont be working as fast, so make sure your eating small portions of nutrient rich foods.Grab a fittness magazine and see if they have any work outs you think you can manage. Another thing to keep in mind is that your body is working hard trying to repair damaged tissues, cells, muscles,etc. in your foot.This takes energy-energy from the calories you consume. I doubt that your going to gain back much weight. Don’t stress.