Broken toe and recovery help

Basically, aquajogging is the best thing you can do. Keeps and builds your fitness, Vo2 Max, etc., and you work all the same muscles you would if you were running.

I didn't have that luxury when I broke my big toe a few years back, and I basically went 60 minutes every day on a stationary bike on high resistance and almost as hard as I could. Didn't heal fast enough to make it back in time for districts, but I definitely maintained some of my fitness.

Interesting article. Are thenparticular aqua jogging and biking workouts that I can do to help keep me in shape the best? I just started biking again today and it didn't seem like it did too much, but idk

I ran on a broken toe by just taping it to my other toe. Is it the big toe if not tape it up and keep running. If you cant go fast go slow and swim workouts. But i ran on mine and it was painful but didnt hurt it anymore.

Yeah it's my big toe, and just don't want to hurt it any worse cause it's my senior season and I want to be as good as possible

I broke my big toe on a trail run during my freshman year of college soon before the indoor track tryout for walk-ons (and took me out of that race). Biking would help with keeping your aerobic strength up a bit, but you'd have to do a lot of biking to get that benefit. I tried aqua jogging and found it really difficult to tell if I was maintaining anything or not - in retrospect I probably wouldn't have even done that because I found it so difficult to tell if it helped.

You could try swimming too of course, but if I could go back (or recommend to you) I'd say just consider yourself a cyclist until you can run again. Love the bike, let your mind recover running-wise until you can run again. Aqua jogging took a bit out of me mentally because I had to work so hard in the pool yet still couldn't tell if it was really helping much. Sure it probably did a little, but for all the work I did in the pool I don't think it was worth it.

How much fitness will I keep? I want to run sub 16 and I am basically biking for 3 weeks mid season because of this

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Have you seen a doctor?

I neglected it, it seemed to get better, but had bone fragments floating around in the joint. Everything was great for about 2 years. The bone fragments were eroding the cartilage which was not an issue until there was no cartilage left, then bone on bone rubbing. Had I had it taken care of, it would have been a quick joint clean out and a few stitches. Instead, I ended up with a chilectomy with resection, a couple of screws and in 3 months I was able to wear a regular shoe.

Yes I saw a doctor and they put it back in place, I'm down to about a week left without running and I just need to stay in shape as best u can, does anyone have any bike workouts that would help my running?

Bumping this because I was curious how the recovery went and if you had any advice or suggestions. I just broke my big toe trail running.

It ended up pretty well, just ran in my second meet with a 16:40 so I'm in my way. And as for tips, if you're liking to keep fitness I would suggesting biking like crazy for the next few weeks and staying off of it as much as possible. Depending in what teo it is, recovery may be different.