HELP!!! Cannot do Cardio... Must exercise.

Its gotta be cycling eh, or you could try a rebounder mini trampoline.

I am a power walker and the rebounder gets me as puffed if I work it good...it is a tricky one.

Or how about rowing?!

Good for you and Hi from the UK!

Hey that great u lost 4lbs so fast. :happy: Have u tried riding a bike? even doing punches might help too. its some kind of movement.

I agree with an above poster about boxing. Punches are a great way to get cardio in with a lower body injury. Add some weight and you'll have cardio and strength training at once!

I agree with doing curcuit training with weights, but don't count out pilates and power yoga. As with anything in life, you get out of it what you put into it

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I have the wii fit and wii active and its amazing, if u do decided to buy it try the wii sports. the time passes so fast and its great to play either alone or w family family and friends.

I feel your pain! I have a sartorial muscle tear (which is a fancy way of saying my knee really hurts!!!) so I can't run, bike or swim (so my triathlon training is going really well :bigsmile: ) I am doing a couple of things to avoid stressing it.

1. Yoga. It's just awesome. It's amazing how much you sweat doing what seems like simple movement! If you have never done it before, I recommend doing a trial membership at a studio (they are about $20 for an unlimited pass for one week where I am) and then you can download free workouts, or buy DVDs (the P90X yoga is a good workout!).

2. Circuit weights and combination exercises. Think of any exercise you might do following a DVD, in a class, or back in high school gym class (think pushups, situps, burpies, lunges etc...). Now write down about ten of them, and do them in one minute intervals (one minute for exercise one, one minute for exercise two etc...). Do that circuit three times and you'll be sweating like crazy!

3. Take advantage of weight classes at your gym if you belong to one. If you don't, try out their free 7 day pass to get some ideas from their classes!

Good luck!

And yes Steve, I would LOVE specifics!

Possibilities are endless, really. I didn't catch whether you're training at a gym or at home. And if it's at home, I'm not sure what you have at your disposal in terms of equipment. But any weight would do.

You could do traditional circuit training weight weights where you merely run through a list of exercises using high reps and low rest. Once you complete the list, start back at the first exercise. Rinse and repeat as many times as you'd like. Something like:

Bodyweight Squats x 15
Romanian Deadlifts x 15
Assisted Pullups or Pulldowns x 15
Pushups or Modified Pushups x 15
Lunges x 15

Or you could do a circuit that includes other things. For instance, I train a wrestling team in their pre-season for conditioning and I'll have them do station drills. Essentially they move from one station to the next where they spend a minute at each station and 30 seconds rest between each. You'd have to limit your exercise selection to things that don't bother your foot. We typically do jump rope, mountain climbers, burpees, shuttle sprints, russian twists, bodyweight squats and pushups, etc.

You could do complexes where you literally do one giant set of various exercises using dumbbells or a barbell without putting it down. The weakest exercise in the "bunch" dictates the weight you use. So the giant set might look like this:

Romanian Deadlift x 5
Standing Rows x5
Front Squats or Goblet Squats x5
Overhead Press x 5
Lunge x 5

So you do 5 reps of the deadlift then go right into 5 reps of the standing row, so on and so forth. Once you complete the last movement, you rest for a couple of minutes, rinse and repeat.

I could go on and on... and don't get hung up with the exercise selection. The point is, not all strength training is created equal. You can use weights for a cardio effect.

You're welcome, and glad you're enjoying the blog.