Broken Hand! What now?

[HUNG4RY4N]

Well, I was fucking stupid and clumsy enough to break my hand this AM I broke a bone within my palm, the one that leads to my pinky, so I'm in a cast from pinky to elbow, and I'll be in one for 4-5 more weeks. After it's off, I'll have a few weeks of therapy so I can use my hand again

I'm wondering WTF I can/should do now. I can't even squat. All I can do is cardio, but I don't know If that's a good idea if trying to maintain musclemass. At the same time I don't want to become a 250 lbs ball of lard. I gain fat very, very easily.

Should I use this time to cut bodyfat real low so I can bulk like a fucking madman once I heal?

If any of you have been in a similar situation (injured, can't train for +- 2 months) or if you are able to give me some advice, please do so.

Thanks,
H.

 

[Kane_Red_Machine]

make acardio maintain your bodyfat low.

make muscles regrow is just a reflex. make all fine, coorectly to come back safely!

don't try to be quicker than your nature. let the time pass. you will loose some muscles, not all, around 10 lbs. but before all make cardio and good diet.

your diet, way of life, and cardio will help you more than nothing else. you will not regret to wait the time in need to fix it.

 

[HUNG4RY4N]

Thank you for chiming in Kane. I appreciate your advice, and as you always say: "Think positive". I'll try.

 

[HUNG4RY4N]

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[StoneColdNTO]

Concentrate on legs - Leg Extensions, Leg Press, Hack Squats, Reverse Hack Squats, etc. You don't need your hand for any of those and they will force the rest of your body to maintain or even grow.

 

[HUNG4RY4N]

Thanks for the advice StoneCold, I'll spend this time bringing up my calves and working on my legs. I really appreciate the good advice. Sometimes the simplest solutions are hidden from the searching eye.

 

[HUNG4RY4N]

Today was my first day lifting with my broken hand. It actually went pretty well. I asked a guy to help get the plates off the seated calf machine, but other than that I encountered no major difficulties. Until now I lifted heavy with moderately low reps and mostly only the big 3 and some other compound excercises, so I tried some higher reps today.

I walked to my gym as warmup~15min downhill, casual walk
DC style calves 3x10 on leg press
Dc style calves 3x10 seated
Leg presses 3x15
laying ham curls 10, 8, 8
10 minutes on treadmill high incline fast walk
15 minute casual walk home uphill

All in all It felt good, I think I'll get through these few weeks no problem.

 

[HUNG4RY4N]

Ladies and gentelmen, boys and girls, I got SCREWED!!!

I went to new, knowledgeable doc (hand specialist) and found out 3 interesting little details about my broken hand:

1, The first doc screwed me, because he didn't put my hand in the proper cast.

2, The first doc screwed me, because he should have preformed surgery to place the bones back in their natural position.

3,The first doc screwed me, because If I don't have a new doc fix my hand, my pinky will not be able to grip properly (it will be much weaker) and the knuckle of my pinky will be shoved 1cm into my palm (towards my elbow).

The first chance I have to get the surgery done is 8 days from now. This means my hand will have spent 2 weeks in a cast healing (would only have 2 more to go), and will be broken again and wired together and I'll have a fresh 4 weeks of wearing a cast, plus the therapeutic treatment, and then later removal of the wires.

WTF should I do? Go for the surgery and spend 6 weeks in a cast? Or say F it, be done in 3 weeks and live with a weaker, and bit odd looking pinky?

What would y'all do?

 

[HUNG4RY4N]

Oh, I forgot to mention, I'll have to spend 3 days in a rundown, shithole hospital for the surgery.

 

[Biggin]

Suck it up and have the surgery. Get ur shit fixed right, instead of sayin f*ck it, and looking like ur fingers are deformed. Unless u want to have a weak hand and complain about it all the time!!!

 

[Miss Muscle]

Do whatever will make it right.

I am currently in the same situation as you...I have tendonitis and can only do lower body and only certain exercises.

Like Stone suggested do the exercises you possibly can and keep the cardio in. I've been keeping a stricter diet as well since I'm not working out as much.

 

[HUNG4RY4N]

Yeah, I'm going to have the surgery done, the situation just aggravates me. I'll use this as motivation to hit diet & training twice as hard once I heal. Thank you for chiming in Miss Muscle and Biggin, I appreciate the help.