My workout days are: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and I can say with pride that I haven’t missed a workout in over a month (I missed 1 day right after I had completely dislocated my shoulder) and I wasn’t going to let a little thing like a jammed finger mess me up.
Messed up pointer finger
At work Monday I was coaching my gymnasts when one unexpectedly moved the wrong way and jammed my finger… that wasn’t the issue I have already done that several times in the past, what was the problem?
My finger was and still is swollen to twice its size and doesn’t really want to bend too well, and I had a workout scheduled on my calendar for Tuesday morning.
Did I break my streak and not go? Heck no, I redesigned things. I knew that my grip was compromised and I would be wasting my time to try and deadlift or have to hold on to weights and since it was my lower body day I stuck to moves like barbell squat and Smith Machine lunges… things I could do with heavy weight to push myself without having to worry too much about a strong grip.
The outcome? A kick butt workout, literally. My butt is killing me from the stupid lunges! I also did back extension and calf raises so I will be sore ALL OVER tomorrow, but it felt great.
Changing up a workout is great for not only keeping you from getting bored but for seeing results… keep your muscles guessing and not allowing them to get used to a workout keeps the results and the toned muscles coming!
Hopefully by Thursday I will be better since I don’t know if I can compromise with my workout for upper body… I will keep you updated.
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Same thing happened to me. I jammed my pointer finger pretty badly on thu playing football so I skipped my workout for thu
After reading this article I got fired up and I’m not gonna let my messed up finger screw up my workout. YAAAAHH!!!
I also have to agree that a hurt finger is not the end all of your workout routine. I slammed my finger between two dumbells and it is very tender. ( I don’t think I am going to loose the nail!! Yeah!!) Yesterday I worked out with my hurt finger and I did the leg press, leg extenstion, leg curl, calf press, wide leg smith machine squats and then some floor ab excercises. I included 10 minutes of running before and after the workout. I really don’t know what to do today.. I might try to use some of the machines and work my arms as best as I can.