Broke my Ankle

Oh, no! So sorry. I once tore my Achilles tendon, which meant a lot of limping and no exercise for months. It was tough, for sure. That took forever to heal. I guess after a couple days, though, I was so bored I decided I had to snap out of it. I made sure to take a shower every day, which made me feel more normal. I asked people to come over and visit. I asked to borrow good books from friends, then read them. I made soups and salads. And sometimes I just sat on my back deck and drank iced tea wishing things were different, then convinced myself that eventually I'd get back at exercising again. And I did! Anyways, I hope that you take good care of yourself.

I had a trimalleolar fracture from a bike accident, and the plates/screws throughout.

I did a few 1 legged spinning classes.
When I was allowed to do some flex and apply 5-10 lbs, I confirmed my shoes attached to spin bike kept within that angle and pushing was at that limit (no standing).
As I was allowed to do more, I could push harder.
That was 1-2 times weekly.

Mainly I crutched around the circuit machines and did all that didn't require pushing with foot. Got total body workout. Even calf of problem leg got workout in boot with allowed amount of weight. Nothing like 10 lbs and 10 degrees of motion with many reps to keep the calf strong. More and more as progress was allowed.

Came out of 3 months stronger than I went in, since I don't normally do weights during summer.

2 days after being released from boot (already had a few weeks at full weight load, just limited range of motion) I did 40 mile group bike ride.

You might be limited for the first week after surgery just because.

But once past that - it's merely excuses. You can do more. No need to be lazy and give up.

Now put that thinking cap on and what do you have available to use for some full body workouts?
Shoot - got empty gallon milk jugs, and an old broomstick handle?
You've got a total upper-body workout available at home.
Got a table to sit on?
You've got an almost total lower-body workout available at home.

Oh man that's so frustrating!

I dislocated my shoulder last July and regained all of the weight I had lost (15 lbs). I sat around feeling sorry for myself instead of being proactive. I could have worked my lower body and could absolutely have stuck to logging calories. Don't do what I did! You can still work your upper body and stay focused on CICO. Good luck

Mousaroni wrote: »

Thanks guys! Doctor says I broke my distal fibula, the outside bone right above the ankle. Even just shifting hurts it; I've never hated gravity more lol

I work on a horse ranch, so that was my exercise. I'm going to have to find out how people exercise at home/in a gym because I've never done any of that before!

If anyone has good resources for total beginners, that'd be amazing

What do you have to work with at home already?

Unless it's likely to be used going forward (and if you haven't felt a need for it yet, perhaps won't be), you can try to use what you've got.

As I mentioned above, broomstick (or if you have longer that's better), empty gallon milk jugs (or if you have bigger sealed containers that's better), and some string, and a place to sit that lets leg and more clear the floor for a swing (like a table), you've got the makings of a complete body workout for all major muscle groups, except the calf.
A pull-up bar would be even extra, rope useful in that case.

Because giving you a Be your own gym workout, which relies heavily on feet on the ground - would be useless at this point.
Giving you a dumbbell workout, which for about half would need feet on the ground - would be tad useful.
Access to a gym with machines - you got it.

So the options available to you depends on what you got available.