When I homogenized my leg skiing ( an impacted fracture of the femur—the broken bones smooched together about an inch or so), the doctor told me that I had a one in ten possibility of losing the leg. I tried to be polite, but asked, “How do I improve the odds?”
He said, “That was decided when you hit the ground…”
That doctor’s successors told me to avoid putting any weight on the leg for six months or so, which I kinda did, but I also had a life to live. So I learned to walk on crutches, and only took the Vicodin at bedtime because it compromises one’s thinking during the day. I also resumed weight training without telling the doctor nor my wife.
There are a remarkable number of things you can do while sitting in a chair: curls, lifts, bent-over rows if you’re careful, most triceps exercises, crunches and crushes, and so forth. The important thing is to listen to your body…if it hurts a little bit it’s probably okay…if it hurts enough to interrupt a conversation then you should probably back off for a while.
Now I’m way better except that the titanium bolts in my leg are annoying sometimes. I’ll probably never be one of history’s great lifters, but I’m still having fun.