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[quote=Anonymous]All injuries suck but you're lucky to be full-weightbearing the entire time!  I had 8/12 of the weeks working up to that.

You can do every upper body exercise seated or standing.  Depending on your comfort walking with a heavy weight you may need someone to bring it to you.  If you don't have dumbbells or a barbell and plates, heavy bands are easy to find and not expensive and def order some.  Of course there are a ton of bodyweight upper body exercises on the internet and those apply to both healthy and booted people the same.

You can do every ab exercise on your back on the floor.  If you can't pistol squat down on your good leg, you can sit in a chair and use it to help you lower yourself to the floor and get back off it.

A lot of people only think upper body but 6 weeks is a long time off for your lower.  If you're full weight bearing the only thing you can't work is your calf, every other muscle is possible with some creativity and dumbells or bands.  All of these were possible in a boot at full weight bearing:

--banded side-lying or seated hip abduction exercises (or fire hydrants from your knees) for gluteus medius
--deadlifts (make sure you have a lift on your other shoe to even you out) for glutes and hamstrings
--single and double leg press lying on your back with bands for whole leg strength
--banded donkey kickbacks for glutes
--elevated single leg hip thrusts for glutes and hamstrings
--seated banded leg extensions for bad quad
--pistol squats (or easier progressions) for good quad
--If you decide to go to a gym when they reopen, the leg press machine was possible in a boot.

If you make the exercises hard and heavy enough you will get out of breath and sweaty enough.  Start light and quickly ramp up to where it's heavy and challenging if you don't feel pain.  You'll feel way better than if you sit and wait for 6 weeks and recovery will be easier.  I got in great shape in my boot and kept it up since with heavier weights.  Good luck!  [/quote]

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