starting to run again after injury - advice needed please

[ThatVikRinA22]

i had been running regularly and enjoying it -i had even joined a running club.

i had literally just got to 10k when 3 days later i fell downstairs and broke my coccyx.

i havent done any exercise at all now since 3rd December,

i am so fed up about it, i am top end of my BMI, never found fitness easy to maintain, and it only took a week of no exercise before i was floundering.

now its been 4 weeks i am almost dreading starting again, even though i want to do it, i know i will have been set back and i will be disappointed with myself.

The gp has told me not to run for about another 2 weeks, so by the time i get back into any exercise at all, i will have had 6 weeks off.

My question is what would be the best way to start again?
im a member of a gym, so i will book some personal training sessions to start me off, will more than likely start on a cross trainer.
but running was something i found way more enjoyable than the gym, and i am keen to start again.

How should i go about this please?

any one?

Swimming? Whenever DD has sustained an injury swimming has been a way for her to keep some degree of fitness.

I'd start off with an easy couple of miles to see how it goes, and build on that. Are you more worried about your loss of fitness, or aggravating the injury? Could someone from your running club advise you?

doctor said no to swimming.

fetch....both really. but i suppose the thing that has peeved me off more is the loss of fitness after working so hard

ive not been to running club since i did it, and i cant really go back until i can run about 5 miles - if i cant run that i end up running alone anyway as everyone else is miles ahead in both speed and distance.

I feel your pain... just as I had got up to 10K I had the mother of all colds that lasted a month, broke a rib coughing and was out for a further month! But IM limited E, fitness comes back much, much faster than achieving it in the first place. Good luck!

well i look forward to that then.

as well as the running, i am also on a healthy eating plan so hoping to maybe shed a few pounds and get fitness back,

i am itching to get back out there, i can literally feel my fitness draining away! its horrible!

i have a fitness test (job related) in March, so thinking i will really go for it in a big way - perhaps a run one day and the gym the next, but obviously i need to just take things a bit easy to start and darent aggravate the injury.

so you reckon an easy couple of miles will be ok to start with? i was hoping for something like that tbh...maybe try 3? walk if i need to?

i will not time myself.

Yep, up to 3 miles, walking if needed and not timing yourself, is spot on IMO. But take it really easy getting yourself into the alternating gym/run regime, the last thing you want is to push it and end up knackering a hitherto functional part of your anatomy, such as your knees- that really would bugger up the fitness test!

Good luck getting back into it and esp for the test in March- that's got to be quite a motivator, I would have thought!

Build up slowly. Listen to any new aches and pains, and don't try and "run through them". If you have gym membership/have a cross trainer in your living room, this is a great low impact way to keep up cardio fitness without too much strain on any part of your legs.

I have learned this the hard way. Eight months ago I could run 10k. Then I broke my toe/s/foot. That was three months off running. Then, when I went back, I tore my calf three months in - another two months off. I'm still trying to build up a base level of running fitness at 5-6k, before starting to build up the miles again.