Alright well its hard to type with one hand (takes a lot longer), pretty much in class today my arm broke, the bone chipped n stuff where the elbow is. So anyways I’m out for 6 weeks.
Just a queston…how much strength can I lose without doing activty for 6 weeks… I was thinking of doing some curls and one arm presses with my right hand. I’m gonna eat a lot of protein and keep my cals high so i don’t lose much muscle n stuff. So any idea’s?..
It really sucks cause I hit 300 on the bench and was gonna go for a 310-315 and post a vid like I said I would in my physique/performance post. So yeah, anyone with personal experience?
Wondering the same thing myself. I was also curious about good sups to take to speed the healing.
I broke my 5th metacarpal (bone in hand) last week and had surgery to put K-wires in. It’s a “Boxer’s Fracture”, but I didn’t punch any walls… I fell playing tennis with the racquet in my hand.
Anyway, I’m out for a month to 6 weeks myself. The doctor was happy with the surgery and didn’t put me in a cast and told me to move my fingers as much as I can. Friends have told me that will shorten dramatically the healing process. Hopefully, the gauze wrap comes off next Monday when I have a check-up and I should be able to hit the gym again.
Like you, I’m trying to keep my metabolism high and consume enough protein.
For exercise, I figure we can still do legs and some core. I’m going to continue working out my left arm since it was weaker than my right anyway. This week I’m doing as much body weight stuff as I can without working up a sweat.
Yes sir, I am a year and some change out from a COMPLETE humeral fracture. I did a bit of one-arm work, but I took my cals way down so “my muscle wouldn’t turn to fat.” I lost some weight, but I put it back on in no time once I resumed my normal eating volume. The four inches I lost from my right arm were back in a month and a half or so.
So how’d it happen anyway?
you can lose HEAPS of strength with no activity. But it comes back fast enough.
If you exercise the other unbroken arm, there is a bit of transfer to the broken one (who knows why, the brain + body must think they should stay in tandem)
focus on other things.
work the other arm.
use it as an opportunity to learn something new and recover and all that
i broke it fighting in my MMA class, me and the instructor were just doing basic stuff, tensed up my arm so he cant move me, fast twist of the arm and me falling, just a few cracks were heard when it happened. I get up and he knew that somethin definately happened, i tell him my arm kinda hurts.
4 hours later and getting x-rays, its done lol. The thing is my arm is in a sling and i cant move it at all, bone chipped right where the elbow is. I’m lucky, if it were more severe i couldve gotten surgery. I’m just gonnas do bicep curls, one arm presses, and some tricep work. It’s preety much all I can do.
Also i’m going to mainly focus on muay thai now, just so i dont break anything again ritght after this heals, and i dont want people playin with my arm after its healed lol
[quote]dl- wrote:
i broke it fighting in my MMA class, me and the instructor were just doing basic stuff, tensed up my arm so he cant move me, fast twist of the arm and me falling, just a few cracks were heard when it happened. I get up and he knew that somethin definately happened, i tell him my arm kinda hurts.
4 hours later and getting x-rays, its done lol. The thing is my arm is in a sling and i cant move it at all, bone chipped right where the elbow is. I’m lucky, if it were more severe i couldve gotten surgery. I’m just gonnas do bicep curls, one arm presses, and some tricep work. It’s preety much all I can do.[/quote]
rofl, when you said class before I had this image of someone sitting in school at a desk, falling asleep, and falling out of the desk hence breaking their arm. Sucks to hear man, but thanks for the laugh.