Thread: Training whislt injured

Are you in Vancouver now? I have an amazing physio therapist you could see to properly rehab those injuries.

And yes, lower body work is always a good thing. Can you hold the barbell okay with that wrist? My husband broke his hand last summer and it really limited his ability to squat because of the position his wrist was in during the lift.

PS you hang out at the Anza? www.anzaclub.org

Of course, you can always work out around most injuries. I'll go out on a limb & tell you anyone who works out, with any serious weight, always has some kind of a strain, pulled muscle, etc. You just have to work around it & build up the support groups around the injury.

No unfortunetly im back in Melbourne now, love Vancouver though am in the process of getting my wife Canadian citizenship so we can look at maybe moving there for a few years. Am seeing my physio tomorrow, he's going to organize for me to get an ultrasound because where my wrist is sore is not where I fractured it.

Holding a barbell isn't to much of an issue, its when there is a heavy load on top of it that it plays up, pretty much can't do benchpress, push ups or anything that involves curling the wrist back and forth. Deadlifts are fine for some reason.

The ANZA club had never heard of it till now. When I lived there in 2002/03 I played Aussie rules football for a little while though. Was entertaining schooling all u Canucks!

Was thinking of just doing lower push / pull.

Cheers

Yes do what you can. Definately do some squats. Even if you can't utilize the wrist for unassisted squats, doing them on smith machine would be better than nothing or simply grab a dumbbell. Most importantly though, it's always better to be patient then to risking re-injury. 6 weeks is really not that long off from lifting so I would do what I can for now and wait till my wrist is back to 90% before I attempt anything else with upper body.