Rehabbing from a sports injury is never a pleasant process. It requires ample care and patience, and shouldering too much of a load too soon can prove to be a step back, not forward, in the recovery process. Having a low impact exercise method to get back in shape is invaluable to retaining pre-injury status. Assuming you stayed off the injured body part during the healing process, it will have received little to no work over a span of several weeks or months.
Significant strength will have been depleted during this time frame, meaning prudence is key when easing back into any sort of fitness routine. This is complicated further because of the fact that in most cases the loss of strength will not have been distributed evenly; the body part that sustained the injury will have depleted strength capacity when compared to the one left unharmed. In order to bring it back in balance with its counterpart, extra focus will need to be placed on the portion of the body which was injured.
One of the best machines for getting back on solid fitness footing after a sports injury has fully healed is the Total Trainer home gym. Once your doctor has outlined what is and is not acceptable, you will be able to engage in quite an impressive offering of gravity resistance exercises that make the Total Trainer ideal for getting back into desired condition, giving you low impact workouts that can be made gradually more challenging as you regain strength. Total Trainer’s ability to let you begin lifting at lower weights before ratcheting up the resistance levels is a primary reason we highly recommend it for injury rehab purposes.
The machine weight lifts that define the Total Trainer allow for smooth motions, movements often running counter to the inconsistency of motions found in free weights. No choppiness will be present as you rehab your muscles back to their previous shape. After all, nothing short of top notch ergonomics is offered to Total Trainer users. Getting your muscles accustomed to exerting force once again is something that cannot be done in a single session or two: stores of patience will be needed while you utilize the Total Trainer for reaching previous heights. The Total Trainer’s gravity resistance lifts will pay tremendous dividends when it comes to ensuring the body is fully recovered from injury.
A function of this fitness system which makes it so effective during injury rehab is its capacity for providing superb Pilates workouts. Pilates’ ability to build back up your body’s strength and flexibility lends itself to the speeding up of this process, as does the major upgrades to your core provided by this form of exercise. Pilates done on the Total Trainer can be the antidote for your injury recovery
On a side note, Pilates can also be valuable as a preventative measure as well. The strength lost during down time has a twist put on it when injury recovery is in the mix. This makes it more of a challenge than just merely getting back in the groove after time off, but the Total Trainer is definitely up to the task.