How to Exercise with an Injury
How to Exercise with an Injury 
One of the most frustrating times when following a diet plan is when you suffer an injury. You were motivated with your programme of exercise and dieting and getting the most from every session. Out of nowhere, you become injured. So now you are sidelined, frustrated and feel like all that hard work is flying right out the window. Plus you do not feel motivated to keep up the exercise. Then the diet plan slips…It is a downhill struggle.
How do you deal with exercise injuries?
Fortunately, an injury whilst exercising doesn’t have to mean a set-back. There are ways round it meaning you keep up the exercise even when injured. You just need to know how to approach it properly and how to exercise when injured.
These are some some key things you should be doing now if you find yourself this situation. However in all cases prevention is the best strategy so maintaining proper training regimes during your workouts is a must. If you do that, you can avoid these situations in the first place.
What about an alterative workout
Assess whether you are still be able to continue with certain parts of your workout that exercise those parts of your body unaffected by your injury. For example, if it is knee pain you are experiencing, you can still follow upper body workouts successfully.
If you contimue with these on a regular basis this will still keep your metabolism high and prevent muscle mass loss.
If you try and make the most of what you can still do you will feel less frustrated about the whole situation.
Increase Your Exercise Knowledge Base
If you are going to be completely sidelined from doing any exercise at all for whatever reason, then turn your focus elsewhere. Try to not get too down about the whole scenario and use this time to enhance your knowledge base about exercise routines and learn some new workout facts which will help you improve further when you are back on track.
Research the latest workout techniques and diet programmes that you can implement in your routine to take your progress further.
Knowledge is power when it comes to weight loss progress so use the downtime wisely. You can also benefit from periods of total rest so if you are a keen exercise follower try to think of this time as an extended rest period which is actually helping your body through the down time.
Focus More On Your Diet
Another important thing to do is cut back on your dietary intake of calories. Since you won’t be hitting the gym as frequently you won’t be needing as many calories as you normally do. To prevent weight gain, cut back on o your calorie intake by 200-400 calories a day according to how long and hard your workout sessions were.
Remember that diet is the most important factor for weight loss success anyway, so if you get this right then weight gain shouldn’t be a concern. You can still lose weight!
Perform Healing Activities
Finally, stay up on any exercises that you’ve been prescribed by physical therapists to help your injury. Some people get into such a slump that they don’t even want to do the minimum exercise thinking it is not worth it. However if you want to make a speedy recovery, it will help.
Do whatever you are advised to do that will enable you to get back into the gym all the sooner so that you can start training hard again.
So here you have some suggestion on how to exercise with an injury or at least keep in the exercise game till you are back to your full training capacity again. The important things to note about dealing with an injury is if you maintain a positive mindset then it really doesn’t have to impact you in a negative way and you can still progress with weight loss success.
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