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My leg was broken and it’s in a full leg cast. 3 months before I can get it off. I am terrified of losing my fitness bc of this i duct taped a pillow to the foot hold and can row. But I’m wondering if any of you have knowledge of a better way to do this. Thanks in advanced.

I have not tried this but if you took off the foot hold on the side of the broken leg and put a roller on the metal bar so the cast rolls over it?

Your arms will be getting quite a work out with the crutches. A backpack was the key to survival when I had my stints on crutches.

Good luck and heal quickly.

It's been done before:


Use a roller skate if your plastered leg needs to move.
Or switch to a regular ergo on sliders or a dynamic rower (the ergo moves under the rower, you stay, mostly, in the same place).

The C2 is the center of my recovery:

https://psychling1.blogspot.com/2018/09 ... ssing.html

Might someone with a non-working leg get a better workout from a ski-erg?

Ombrax wrote: ↑

September 14th, 2018, 11:52 pm

Might someone with a non-working leg get a better workout from a ski-erg?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1rcqe3GlrI

I'm guessing that other than the Dyno, which is super-rare, in order of most to least appropriate for getting a good workout without having to use one of your legs, C2 products would be ranked: 1) Ski-erg, 2) Rower, and 3) Bike-erg. (Although a long, long time ago a member of our bike club at work did surprisingly well using only his left leg, having lost use of his right due to a childhood accident.)

At 2016 WIRC, a young lady competed while sliding the sock foot of her extended leg on a large cookie sheet. Same idea as the Union Jack pillow above.

jackarabit wrote: ↑

September 19th, 2018, 2:13 pm

At 2016 WIRC, a young lady competed while sliding the sock foot of her extended leg on a large cookie sheet. Same idea as the Union Jack pillow above.

That seems like a crumby way to do it.

In the past (and I will again next week when I have my 5th foot surgery since March 2013), I've used a technique similar to the Union Jack pillow with one difference ... I didn't sit on the erg's seat, I put a seat over the glide rail and didn't push off the foot platforms. I had the back of the erg butted up against a baseboard so it wouldn't move when pulled on. I assumed the uneven pressure wouldn't be any better for me than it would for the erg. Thoughts?