ashaw
Cathlete
I'm now a little over a month and a half since I injured my knee doing Cardio Slam. I've really enjoyed the P.volve workouts I've been doing for my lower body because I still work my legs and glutes without weighted lunges and squats. I'm still doing my heavy upper body lifting with Cathe and can fit that in after P.volve and a I have a ton of variety with STS, ICE Muscle Meltdowns, Fit Split and next on the upper body radar is XTrain's Chest, Back & Shoulders and Biceps and Triceps workouts. I miss high impact, high intensity cardio though. I've done the Low Impact Hiit Cardio workout from Fit Split with no issue. Last Friday, I did PHA 3 and the next day I did a Turbo Fire cardio workout. My right knee was sore all day Saturday, but I woke up Sunday with no problems. Today I did ICE Rock 'm Sock 'm kickbox with a lot of modifications and my knee is sore. I was overly aware of my knee the whole time I was working out. I'm trying to be ultra conservative because worsening an injury that could results in MRI's or expensive surgery just isn't in my family's budget right now. I would love to have an MRI of my right knee so I could know exactly what's going on, but at this point, I have no pain, no swelling, I can walk, I have mobility of the joint, so its not absolutely critical. I'm still looking online for a compression type support sleeve, but I don't think its going to be as simple as put on a compression sleeve and suddenly I can blast out of the gate with To The Max, Cardio Core Circuit, HIIT 40/20 or even Cardio Slam. I don't know when or if I'll be able to do high impact cardio again. I'm certainly not rushing back into anything either. And, earlier this year, I had finally increased my Cathe dvd collection to almost all her current series and some old favorites so I'm using the ones I can use with upper body and hope to get back to the others eventually. I'm just thankful that I can do P.volve and upper body.