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Right, I've just been to hospital and was diagnosed with tenosynovitis of the foot on my right foot, given crutches and told not to weight-bear. And I also severely sprained my ankle 2/3 weeks ago on the left, so I'm stuck with 2 useless legs for the moment.
What I'd like to know is, how can I burn calories without using my legs? (no dirty suggestions please!!) Is there any form of exercise that I could do at home to burn a few cals? (my gym subscription has now been frozen as a result of today's preceedings!)
Ta, Ilora x
What I'd like to know is, how can I burn calories without using my legs? (no dirty suggestions please!!) Is there any form of exercise that I could do at home to burn a few cals? (my gym subscription has now been frozen as a result of today's preceedings!)
Ta, Ilora x
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Maybe swimming?
Or you could unsuspend the gym membership and go on the arm ergometer. Its a retarded machine but its cardio all the same.
Or also at the gym you could do some stretching to warm up and do some weight machines. You are sitting and not using your legs for those.
Swimming is good, as it is taking weight off your legs. Can't hnoestly think of anything else!
That machine is so boring though.
Also, my gym doesn't have an arm ergometer :no:
I think I'm screwed for the next few weeks...
Ilora x
With the same set up. Riase both arms above your head shoulder width apart. Bend your arms at the elbows slowly so that your hands go towards the back of your shoulders and your elbows stay pointing to the ceiling. Raise your arms back up so that hands point to cieiling. That one works your bat wings.
Same set up. With or wthout weights, keeping shoulders loose relaxed and down in their natural position, extend your arms so that they are horizontal with the floor, your palms should be facing the floor. You can either hold them completely still (what are these static exercises called- there's a 'proper' name for them?) OR you can move your arms in tiny little circles.
Same set up with or without baked bean weights. Do the rowing machine action to firm up your pecs.
Using weights will burn more calories and building muscle will enable your resting metablic rate to be higher, therby burning more calries just by existing as the ratio for cals for fat:muscle is 1:30 (I think).
A website I like for telling you how much your natural resting metabolic rate is and how much your daily exercises will expend and how much you should roughly be eating each day is fitday.com. It works out stuff from your age/weight/height and when I joined it was free, think it still is. It's good coz you can change the details whenever, like if you hurt yourself and your daily walaround rate is lower etc. There is also a journal space so that you can write up your activities.
Dumbell press
Dumbell flies
Bench Press
Concentration curls
Military / Shoulder press
Rowing ( may not be suitable in this case )
Seated bench press
Incline dumbell press
Wrist Curls
Non-weight exercises -
Sit-ups
Crunches
Back raises
Could probably do ball work too.
If you don't know the exercises, google them.
Swimming probably still best overall though.