Injury - Advice Needed

[JamesCo]

Hi All

I have a question regarding how to modify my workout following a potential injury - it involves my ankle and knee on one leg, and while I can still do squats and deadlifts, I have decided to rest my leg until the injury is properly fixed, or until a doctor says it's fine to do them anyway. Until now I've been mostly focusing on barbell squats and deadlifts, with overhead presses, bench presses and barbell rows thrown in. I could simply carry on doing what I'm doing but minus the deadlifts and squats, however as I think those two are really the core of the workout I don't think I'll really be achieving much.

What I'd like to do is add to OP/BP and barbell rows with some more compound stuff which adds some intensity and ideally hits the core and back, but without large loaded leg movements, I'm just not really sure how best to do this. Leg injuries suck. Let me know what you guys think! Has anyone had a similar thing in the past?

Thanks!

[SpecialSundae]

What sort of injury is it? I'd lean towards sticking to upper body and walking/cycling until you know exactly what you're dealing with (and anyone who knows me knows how much I hate not squatting).

[JamesCo]

Not quite sure, it seems to be inflammation-related, but getting seen by a specialist who can tell me exactly what's going on is taking a while. It's kinda built up over time (it actually started before I started squatting), and it doesn't actually hurt or anything during squats. However, it is stiff all the time.

[SpecialSundae]

Amp up the upper body work for the time being and rest the leg. Bench, OHP, pull-ups/chin-ups, rows. Maybe add hyperextensions and ab work.

[JPrev]

If loading the upper body still creates too much stress on your legs, don't be afraid of using machines as well.