Doctor said no more running!

[MadHatter04]

Exactly the title! 😭😭

During my last marathon, I stupidly jolted my leg whilst running and even more stupidly carried on with 15km to go.

Gave myself a couple weeks off running to recover and catch up on my social life. However since the run my hip has not been right but I have tried to convince myself of every reason why it could be hurting that hadn’t related to running.

Finally given in and have been to the doctors and they have advised me to keep exercising but not to run or do high impact cardio until my results have come back as my hip problem could result in surgery 😭

The problem is I loveeeeeee running! It’s my time from the craziness of life. Any advice
on what other cardio I could do.

I do have a gym membership with a pool, tried to get my confidence swimming
but I’m not an amazing and feel people are staring. Even though I know they aren’t - Hopefully 😬

I currently strength train, and always have done to support my running but I’m struggling to find a better love.

I also feel a bit unmotivated from exercise. Can anyone help me create a new routine please 🙏🏼

This. Although not quite the same calorie burn for me (probably about 80%). But I still get the endorphins of working very hard and classes make it fun

It is obviously very different to marathon running though

Mountain biking - obviously depends where you like but even without mountains cycling off road is awesome!

That’s exactly what it is. I just feel a bit lost in myself not being able to run.

Thank you for the lovely supportive message though 😍

Thank you so much for all the suggestions! Definitely some ideas I really like and in a weird way it’s nice to know I’m not on my own. I don’t know many other people who run so there is not many people who I feel understand how gutted I feel atm.

I used to do half’s and ran for years and years now have a bad knee. I had a lot of physio but everytime I went past 5k it flared up again.

I stuck at it for 18m hoping to have a breakthrough but once flared I couldn’t do anything not biking, not walking. So in the end I thought it was better to be able to do something rather than nothing and stopped trying to run any distance. So I now manage some HIIT classes (I can mange the running intervals), do loads of resistance training. Cardio is walking or intervals, cross training or spin. Treadmills are better for my knee. I miss leaving the house and those runs where you just add another loop!

I think you need more specific advice about what cardio to avoid - I've loved boxing, park bootcamp (perhaps easier on the joints generally as on grass) etc - but you need to know it is safe specifically for this hip issue. What are the results you are waiting for and when will they be back? I agree about then working with a good physio.

In the meantime, could you try something completely different? I train calisthenics for strength which is much more upper body focussed - push ups, pull ups, dips, levers etc. It is quite niche though and you need a class or instructor who knows about it.

I understand how you feel and hope the results are reassuring.