Exercise ideas when ankle is hurt?

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Dottie27
Dottie27 Posts: 159 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Hi, My ankle is hurt and I am not supposed to do weight bearing exercises. I'd be grateful to hear MFP tips to burn calories while I am healing.

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  • efry200894
    efry200894 Posts: 6
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    swimming , resistance bands .. maybe?
  • IanGiles
    IanGiles Posts: 54
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    Got to be swimming...
  • trud72
    trud72 Posts: 1,912 Member
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    arm weights ect!
  • JohnDryden1
    JohnDryden1 Posts: 1
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    Any movement that you can do in shallow water (around chest depth) walking and running in water to hold your weight off your lower limbs, water aerobics exercises, stomach exercises on a bench, press ups against the kitchen benchtop. You really can mix it up, the reason I know is that I have stress fractures in both feet from trying to run and being too heavy for me to do that!
  • Debtappe
    Debtappe Posts: 164 Member
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    I dunno - does the stationary cycle work? Probably not - so swimming is the best. Or conducting.
  • AdoraK
    AdoraK Posts: 724 Member
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    Maybe do upper body work in a chair with weights. Or you might do work on the floor on your back like crunches.
  • daybyday
    daybyday Posts: 537 Member
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    *bump* as I will be having foot surgery this summer.
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
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    I have the same, I have a damaged tendon in one ankle. I am swimming and cycling, and wearing a support for things like circuits.

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