I Broke arm 3 or 4 months ago, and the healing process took alot longer than it should have. Hence me still having a really weak arm, and can't do free weights at all, due to not being able to grip properly and lift much.
I've found i can do a couple of exercises:
Seated check squeeze machine
Squats on smith machine
back and lat exercise machine pulling down the weight with back of upper arms.
Some ab workouts
Does anyone know of any more exercises that dont put any strain on a broken lower ulna? Hence dont involve gripping or weight pulling on the wrist.
Broken arm training
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yeah your probaby best suited to do bodyweight stuff until you can grip better performing circuits as well as any machine exercise you can do...there's plebty of lunge variations you can use for legs using pauses during each rep to make them hard, single leg pistol squats are great even if your hands do work...as for upper body it depends how much opressure you can put on the arm support wise so you could do push upos on knuckles or whatever...definately keep up that machine pulldown as all rowing movments require grip strength as you need to pull the wt rather than push it...maybe try single arm db and cable woerk whioch can still be hard but with lighter wt than 2 hands would require
Thanks guys.
The pulldown thing, is forced down with the use of the back of upper arms, so hands are not used at all. Theres no way I cud do pressups at the moment.
Legs are really coming along at the moment though. Think I'll focus most of effort on them and getting some hard core cardio in.
Just out of curiosity, someone once told me that doing single arm stuff, your body compensates, and tried to balanace out encouraging growth in the other arm etc. Is this a true even if other arm is not being used at all, do you have to still stimulate the other arm, or is it just a myth?
The pulldown thing, is forced down with the use of the back of upper arms, so hands are not used at all. Theres no way I cud do pressups at the moment.
Legs are really coming along at the moment though. Think I'll focus most of effort on them and getting some hard core cardio in.
Just out of curiosity, someone once told me that doing single arm stuff, your body compensates, and tried to balanace out encouraging growth in the other arm etc. Is this a true even if other arm is not being used at all, do you have to still stimulate the other arm, or is it just a myth?