Wrist recovery workout for beginners
Before fracturing my wrist I had been to a gym less than 10 times in my life. This situation changed dramatically when regular visits to this chamber of sweat became the only way to keep muscles working whilst sporting a full arm cast.
Should you, athletic creature, find your delicate limbs trapped in a cast, listen what I’ve learnt: It is possible to hit the ground running with some common sense training.
The full arm cast covered my right arm from palm to arm pit, immobilizing both wrist and elbow. I had to rule out any exercises requiring fine balance and use of both hands and arms. Running was not an option thanks to the weight of the cast that bundled neck muscles in a tight knot. As the weeks went by, the shrunken arm inside the cast started moving ever so slightly, and so any pounding just made me worry about the positioning of the fractured surfaces.
Project objective: get back sailing quickly
I had to make choices based on my goal, which was simply:
To recover from the wrist fracture to sailing shape as quickly as humanly possible, and rejoin the round the world yacht race at the earliest opportunity. Read more
