gvinton - Since my SCI 9 years ago when I was hospitalized for 6 months in the ICU and then at bedrest healing wounds, I lost all my conditioning. I went from 165 with a less then 10% body fat to 120 lbs. 40 lbs of muscle wasting. I slowly crawled my way out of that hole.
Since then I have had maybe 5 major surgeries where I lost all my conditioning and muscle mass and I had to start all over again.
My point is that you can get through this shoulder ordeal even if it takes 9 months where you aren't working out. Once the surgery is over, you slowly rehab it and work with elastics and the PT for shoulder rehab and start building your conditioning from the ground up. You just have to get your shoulder to heal right. Lots of athletic gimps have had shoulder repair and made a come back. It just takes time, patience, and perseverance. This is going to date me , but here goes..... Gilda Ratner As Rosanna,rosannadanna would say, "It's ALWAYS something...." (going wrong). I always had some part of me going awry.
One big thing you have to do is be super careful about not gaining weight and lowering food intake if you aren't exercising. And try to work around the shoulder injury. You can do dumbbell workouts with the other arm, elastic workouts, I guess you could do a one arm ergometer, but don't overdo it or you will get another injury or some weird imbalance.
nice job - rubberaslegs. good cross training.
Today was day 27 for the nordic sitski season. We are skiing on December snow, January was dry but the temps are cold and the sun is out and the nordic sitskiing is brilliant.
Also got in some killer Crutch (SideStix with snowbaskets) Snowshoe days - we took some great HD video and I need to get that edited and 'share'...... Sorry all you people in the East who are freezing.
Since then I have had maybe 5 major surgeries where I lost all my conditioning and muscle mass and I had to start all over again.
My point is that you can get through this shoulder ordeal even if it takes 9 months where you aren't working out. Once the surgery is over, you slowly rehab it and work with elastics and the PT for shoulder rehab and start building your conditioning from the ground up. You just have to get your shoulder to heal right. Lots of athletic gimps have had shoulder repair and made a come back. It just takes time, patience, and perseverance. This is going to date me , but here goes..... Gilda Ratner As Rosanna,rosannadanna would say, "It's ALWAYS something...." (going wrong). I always had some part of me going awry.
One big thing you have to do is be super careful about not gaining weight and lowering food intake if you aren't exercising. And try to work around the shoulder injury. You can do dumbbell workouts with the other arm, elastic workouts, I guess you could do a one arm ergometer, but don't overdo it or you will get another injury or some weird imbalance.
nice job - rubberaslegs. good cross training.
Today was day 27 for the nordic sitski season. We are skiing on December snow, January was dry but the temps are cold and the sun is out and the nordic sitskiing is brilliant.
Also got in some killer Crutch (SideStix with snowbaskets) Snowshoe days - we took some great HD video and I need to get that edited and 'share'...... Sorry all you people in the East who are freezing.
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