"Look at you, working out with a broken toe!"
That was Joe today, my buddy at the gym. He's my cheerleader.
This is Week 3 of working out: weights, rowing, abdominal exercises and stretching. Celebrated by getting new workout leggings on sale.
Yesterday I gingerly walked barefoot indoors for 40 minutes. Mistake. In bed, the weight of the down comforter - feathers! - made my broken toe hurt. It kept waking me up.
Resting for four weeks felt like my muscles were melting, growing slack. Reached my disgust level. I'm making a comeback.
Still in the boot. It's been 5 weeks. Will see my podiatrist and get more x-rays in two weeks.
I would think eight weeks would be the threshold. Broken bones heal more quickly than tendons or ligaments.
I blew out my quadriceps tendon in mid-January and it was almost six weeks before I could voluntarily lift my leg up off the bed. But once that happened, I was on to recovery pretty quickly.
It's been nearly five months. A full recovery from my injury is, typically, eight to twelve months. I've been walking and/or bike riding at least five days a week, on top of my PT exercises. The strength is coming back. Patience is the key
I bet you wish there was a pill you could take that you could just fall asleep and wake up when your toe was healed.
Exactly. Can't left an injury keep me down.
@LiterateHiker wrong honey can end up chronic pain please be careful if it heals wrong would need surgery to correct with pins
@LiterateHiker usually 8weeks depends on healing verified by X-Ray especially on a load bearing bone exercise before healing slows process and if ends up with crooked heal which can result in chronic pain and require surgery to repair
I haven't been able to exercise the way I want for a while now so I know how you feel about melting muscles... I'll get it back in a few weeks when baby decides to enter the world...
I once soloed the Third Flatiron (5.4, 800'(https://www.mountainproject.com/route/105748047/east-face-standard) in an inflatable cast. I had a broken medial malleolus.
try meditation when you feel the urge to over do. but you are being very good about this and have a great PMA Athena is right soon it will be over and the memory will fade. My knee surgery for a broken tibia crown seemed like forever but now a faded memory.
Really cool color and design on the yoga pants...sorry for the aside to the foot situation.