Training with a low body injury?

Physical Training
#1

Hi,

has anyone had a lot of success training with a lower body injury?

I sprained an ankle pretty badly two weeks ago. I can walk on it again now, and I might be able to climb a bit soon, but I don’t think I am going to want to fall on it for quite a while.

obviously there is hang boarding, has anyone tried hanging 4 days per week while injured? it seams like a lot.

I was also thinking about campus ladders with my good foot on the ground.

does anyone else have interesting ideas?

#2

Low to the ground, steep limit level boulders where you can just land on your back are perfect.

4 days a week isn’t a bad thing if you keep the volume pretty low session to session, or have a session of much lower intensity, moderate volume. Just depends what you want out of it.

#3

I had knee surgery a couple years ago and spent the initial phase hang boarding and really focusing on heavy weighted pull ups and dips.

Once I could move around a bit I pretty quickly started climbing in the gym but never high at all unless I felt like I was in complete control.

Like kris said a lot of limit moves really close to the ground.

I really didn’t ‘lose’ as much as I was worried I was going to when I was contemplating the surgery

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#4

Hitting the gym

#5

Just tweaked my hip quite badly yesterday. Already thinking how many different things i can try, few ideas:

  • holding static positions on my projects 2 arms on bad holds or 1 arm on better holds.
  • “projecting” beastmaker 45 slopers
  • experimenting with no hangs finger training lifting weight from the ground to add some novelty to finger training
  • getting a gentle introduction to campus training cuz i have never had a campus session
#6

I’m getting a double hip surgery this year, which means no climbing for a few months. I’m tempted to ask my gym to put up 2 bolts at the top of the campus board, I could then rope solo campus my way up and abseil down, all without the risk of falling so my hips are safe and can heal :stuck_out_tongue:
It’s an incredibly silly idea, but I’ve never used the campus board before and I thought this could be the perfect excuse to give it a go. Of course making sure I don’t injure my fingers, because that would make me extra sad.

#7

Do you have autobelay? Some gyms have it on 10 degree wall which makes it quite campuseable!