WWYD if you couldn't do weighted squats or deadlifts?

NovemberJune

Suppose you had hip joint issues and decided that you shouldn't be doing weighted squats or deadlifts. What would you do? Just cry, or what? I've said goodbye to my favorite lifts after having a setback with my hips and deciding that I was probably in denial that it was ok to continue. I've been going on with upper body lifts but now I feel like I'll never meet my goal of having a nice bum. Plus squats were my favorite.

I only have Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday at the gym so I have 2 lifting days and 2 cardio days plus walking on the weekends.

I've been seeing a chiro who seems to think walking is the best exercise, which I agree it's great, but..... I could see some sort of orthopedic specialist to see whether it might actually be ok for me to continue but that will be at least January when my Flexible spending account begins for the year. And I can only guess that they would say not to continue, and I wouldn't know if they were saying that to be on the safe side or because I really would be risking my health by doing so.

Thanks for your opinions.

fisherlassie

I'm a newbie so what do I know, but I have found that doing weights really helps my joints. more so than a lot of other exercise. Although I tend to have to go a lot slower than most people. Do you think that backing off the weight on the lower body and going a lot slower with the increases, like for example increase when what you are doing seems easy rather than increasing on a certain day because the workout schedules says so. Maybe it doesn't have to be all or nothing. Maybe you can find a compromise so you don't have to stop all together. I would hate to stop all together so that is what I would do. When I was doing the exercise videos i would always modify so that it didn't hurt me. I plan to do that with SL too. I'm sure you will figure it all out. I understand your reluctance to always believe doctors!

heatherloveslifting

Probably stair climbing or uphill walking.

NovemberJune

Thanks ladies

Stair climbing for much time tends to be terrible for my hips. blah! That's why I mostly do the cardio machines at the gym, it takes out all of the impact. Sometimes the gym will close for a week for "maintenance" and then I will walk campus and do loads of steps but it really screws up my hips for the next day and then I'll need a chiro adjustment. But I do do incline on the cardio machines to hopefully hit my butt some. I know plenty of people have nice butts without lifting heavy so maybe that will work eventually ! lol

I used to do a lot of workout DVDs but the high reps of lunges and squats were horrible too, and any jumping. That's when I told myself that I need to join a gym and do ellipticals and cardio machines with no impact, and do low reps high weight! My hips had been slowly improving from May to October but then last month, I basically had a setback to where I was in May or June. :frown: So sad. And I hadn't done anything in the week prior to that other than cardio machines and lifting. Usually, if my hips really get screwed up, I had done something else that I can blame it on. lol.

I feel like a bundle of excuses right now but the fact is that I really hate that I have to quit doing squats because it's my favorite thing to do at the gym but I'm scared it will be bad for me in the long run. I'm going to ask my chiro about it when I go next. I know he'll say I shouldn't be lifting and I should be walking.

Walking is good EXCEPT times like now when my hips are just so screwed up I should be going to the chiro every week, if not twice per week. And I love taking my kids for walks in their wagon but that really seems to bother my hips.

OOOOOOOOOOOOh yes and I can't forget that I'm supposed to do yoga. But I really don't like doing yoga LOL.