Continuing training, if you are injured

Injury unfortunately happen, it is possible to slip or overdone training. Particularly susceptible to injury newcomers, who often do not calculate their strength too quickly increases the amount of training, wanting to run on a level with their more experienced friends. If you can not avoid damage, you should not immediately get frustrated, because you can not only do not lose shape during recovery, but also even add that at that time did not have before.

Many believe that the injury inevitably leads to regression. So it would be if a few weeks while you recover, to sit at home and count with envy in Rankipere kilometers to at this time ran friends, so it's best not to get depressed and think about how to spend this unhappy time, with a maximum benefit. So, what do you do?

First, be sure to go to the doctor, but not to normal or orthopedic traumatologist in the district hospital, because 9 out of 10 trauma surgeons will try to dissuade you from further jogging. It is better to find a sports doctor, it can be done in sports medicine centers, but it is better to ask at fellow runners, probably one of them already faced with injuries and could someone recommend. The doctor not only prescribe a course of treatment, but also tells what you can do and what can not, be sure to pay attention to what is possible, and it is this we will do.

I'll tell you what activity replace me running when injuries occur.

Swimming

If you are not currently issued ticket in the pool, it's time. In the swimming time work almost all the muscle groups, while the load on them is different from the running, and the chances are that the injury will not interfere. In addition, training in water contribute to the development of the cardiovascular system and help get rid of back pain. Not to mention the fact that swimming - one of the best ways to burn calories, because apart from the active body movement also has to spend a lot of energy to heat the body.

But it should be carefully choose the style that you will swim in consultation with a physician or trainer, to avoid overloading the injured part of the body. For example, brass demanding knees and crawl - to the quadriceps.

Orbitrek (ellipsoid)

Yes, this is the funniest simulator, which comically waving his arms and legs. Orbitrek great advantage is that it is very easy to keep the desired pulse, and the load on the foot is small. You know how difficult it is to run first on the pulse of 120 beats per minute, when you have to practically move a step, and this is very important work in the so-called first and second zone, which is often ignored runners-lovers.

Strength training

Another area that many people deprived of attention. If you think you have to run quite strong legs and heart, you are very much mistaken. runner's body needs to be developed harmoniously, neymoverno important to have strong abdominal muscles and back muscles, they also Core. Time on strength training should be allocated during active training and when the injury heals, you can catch up. But do not overdo it in the hall, do not get involved in building muscle, because this mass you then carry on running time, and the marathon is not something that every kilogram, every 100 grams per account.

And of course do not forget about the theoretical training, during recovery can finally read books, Which did not have enough time.

And what activities do you do when you can not run because of an injury?