In my current case - I can’t lift weight with my sprained AC (right shoulder) , but I can use my muscles to stabilize the shoulder. If I focus well to use all surrounding shoulder strength, the stabilization is strong enough to even handle jump impact. So while doing legs, it keeps my shoulder muscles activated & used, so they don’t disappear as quickly as if I did nothing at all.
I can train legs pretty well despite shoulder injury. Sure, I currently can’t use free weights (barbells🤍) as usual , but in a state of injury, machines come in handy. I mostly only use machines when I’m hurt 😂 To train around injuries. When I’m 100% fit, I don’t like the isolation of machines much, I prefer complex exercises that force my entire body to work together at high efficiency and intensity.
But then, if you think a little, you also always find cool „not-machine“ stuff that still works despite injury. In my current case - pistol squats. I generally love pistol squats. When you can do them full-range pain-free it means your knees and ankles are pretty good and your strength is decent. Pistol squares are a great indicator of where you’re at :) I like ending leg workouts with a stupid long set of alternating left-right pistols. That way, I can use all the remaining energy I have. So this last set of my leg workout is very much strength endurance (almost cardio 😂 - without speeding it up, clip was 2,5minutes of pistols! 😂) while the rest of my previous workout was mostly in the low-rep-high-intensity-max-strength range. I laugh in the pistol clip a few times because I realize I lost count 😂 Was aiming at 20pistols on both sides. No matter how many it was - I won’t loose my leg strength due to shoulder injury 😎
3 years agocelinagalup
You're absolutely right, I stayed still for far too long when I injured my leg
3 years agosilviamitfit
Add on - I’m not saying everybody with AC injury should start jumping around 😂 This is a very personal example of where I’m at right now. If I had a grade 2-3 AC, there’s NO chance I’d be jumping around. Training with/around injuries is highly individual, depending on the exact type of injury plus pre-existing base-strength and gym routine. So please, no one take my individual current situation as their personal recipe! All I want to say with this post is to think twice before letting an injury take you out entirely for several weeks or months. Usually there’s a lot you can do anyways if you really get in touch with your body and listen to what it tells you. You can easily do upper body despite a leg injury, and legs despite upper body injury. Will help you with a faster comeback in the long run 😉
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