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If you have injured your ACL ligament, but you don’t want to fall behind in your fitness goals, there are a few methods that you can use that will combine rehabilitation with your workouts. However, it should be noted that a torn or strained ACL is a serious injury. If you do not follow your doctor’s advice, you could end up with permanent damage. You will need to weigh your options and find a workout routine that will allow you to completely heal.

The best alternative in this situation is usually swimming. You’ll be getting the benefits of an aerobic workout without any impact. However, this may not always be possible, and you’ll need to find ways to swim without stressing that ligament. Such as a swimming bouy. Check with your doctor before attempting any new exercise.

If you are given a brace to help with rehabilitation, this will give you a few more options when it comes to working out. Your brace should protect your ACL and allow you some freedom to keep doing light exercises. However, you should not be bending your affected leg, or overexerting it. At the end of the day, it comes down to recovering for a few weeks without exercise, or taking months to get better.

Once you are cleared to start rehabilitation, you will be able to start on a light fitness program. This usually entails walking on a treadmill or using an elliptical machine, and a few weight bearing exercises. Ideally, you will do these exercises with a physical therapist, but if that is not an option, you’ll need to be as careful as possible.

The key to staying fit during the recovery process is choosing the right activity. Listen to your body and don't push it until you are cleared to do so by your physical thearpist and your doctor.

Once you have injured your ACL, chances are high that it will happen again. This is particularly true for those that are involved in a host of sports that involve contact and running while chaning directions. You will likly need to wear your brace during these activities to reduce your risks of hurting your ACL again.

While some people are able to fully recover from an ACL injury without surgery, it may be necessary in some cases. If your doctor does recommend surgery, you are going to need to allow for enough recovery time before jumping back into sports or your workout plan. Always discuss your options with your doctor so that they can work with you to develop a recovery plan that will factor in your active lifestyle.

An ACL injury is serious and should not be treated lightly. With the right recovery techniques, you can be assured that you will be able to resume most activities in just a few months.

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One of the latest crazes in the exercise world is functional training. If you're not familiar with this, it targets what you do, and helps you do exercises that will make you better at it. This is a great way to lose weight, since you'll be able to incorporate these exercises into your every day life. Functional training has many purposes, and when used correctly, can be a great way to lose weight.

In order to start functional training, you'll need to focus on what you do. If you are a stay at home mom, chances are you probably spend a good chunk of your time cleaning and running around. This means that aerobics and running are the best matches for your functional training exercise plan.

If you work as a construction worker, or other profession that requires a great deal of physical strength, than weight lifting or strength training is the perfect fit. Another great example is for those in high stress jobs that don't really require a lot of physical prowess. It can seem as though there aren't any exercises that would benefit this line of work, but yoga is actually quite useful in functional training.

As you can see, these exercises are designed to help you do what do you better. If you're trying to diet, adding exercise is essential if you want to keep losing weight. Why not pick exercises that will actually help you with your current line of work? This gives you not only the added benefit of losing weight, but you'll be more fit and capable of doing your job.

If you don't have a gym in your area that offers functional training, you may have to just take that initiative on your own. Try to put together a plan that targets what you'd like to be able to do better at your job or at home. For example, if you want to be able to run up the stairs to check on the kids without being out of breath, you can add some time on the stairmaster or the treadmill.

If you want to be able to hoist girder beams around a lot easier, add some arm curls into your weight lifting routine. If you find that you are frequently stressed out, add in yoga techniques that require a lot of deep breathing. You can put all of these techniques to work for you outside of the gym.

Functional training can be used by absolutely everyone, even if you don't have an actual job. We all have things that we'd like to be able to do better, even if it doesn't necessarily mean doing physical labor. The key is that functional training can also be used to bulk up your brain. You'll be getting the benefit of increased circulation with your exercises, and your brain will be able to handle stress better and stay on task. In addition, that discipline that you learn at the gym will follow you to all the other corners of your life.

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The holidays are coming.... The goose is getting fat... Please takes some pounds of my fat. This holiday season we are going to lose weight not gain.

I am excited and proud to announce the first ever Carnival of Weight Loss... Next week's Halloween edition will be hosted here, but if you are interested in hosting an upcoming edition please email me at kevin at Weightladder dot com... While there was some spam submitted, The quality of the submissions was outstanding...

Welcome to the October 25, 2008 edition of carnival of weight loss.

Editor's Picks:

FitBuff presents 8 Healthy Eating Tips to Survive This Holiday Season posted at 3rd Chance Fitness Blog, saying, "If you can remember to stick to these 8 simple healthy eating tips, especially during the holiday cheer, then you just might end up..."

myln presents 9 Benefits of treadmill training posted at ManageYourLifeNow.com, saying, "If your goal is good health, fitness and weight loss, then running on the treadmill is no disadvantage. When you burn a calorie on the treadmill is the same as a calorie your burn in any other activity. Your cardiovascular ability is improved at the same pace regardless if you are running on the treadmill, outside in the street or in the arena."

Amber presents Girl Healthy: Save Money, Be Healthy posted at Girl Healthy.

Alan H. Wayler, PhD presents Weight Loss: Possible Explanation for Obesity-Related Insulin Resistance posted at A Weight Lifted.

CJ presents The Consequences of Emotional Eating and How to Stop posted at 143 Pounds.

Other Awesome Posts:

Eric Twitty presents The Only Diet Plan You Will Ever Need posted at You Can Achieve Success!.

Weight Loss Journal presents How to Get Motivated And Stay That Way posted at Weight Ladder, saying, "It is a lot easier to stick with a diet plan when you are motivated, but for many, that is easier said than done."

Kara-Leah Grant presents How to eat an optimum diet for maximum energy vibration | Prana Flow NZ posted at Prana Flow NZ, saying, "Explore an intuitive approach to dieting, strengthening your connection to your body's needs and honouring it's requirements."

Israel presents High Bad Cholesterol (LDL), But No Diabetes posted at Fat Man Unleashed dot com.

Eric Twitty presents Walking for Weight Loss posted at You Can Achieve Success!.

Patricia Mullan presents For Healthy Eating & Healthy Weights, Eat Fat posted at A Weight Lifted.

Carol Solomon presents EFT Weight Loss: The 60-Second Technique That Stops Food Cravings posted at Lose Weight Now . . . Stay Slim Forever, saying, "Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a natural quick technique to stop food cravings and the emotions that drive them."

Patricia Turner presents 5 Free Kettlebell Video Sites - EKG Classes posted at EKG Classes.

Margaret Garcia presents Give your Children the Gift of Good Health - Radiology Technician Schools posted at Radiology Technician Schools.

Nancy Miller presents Bitter Pill to Swallow – Antidepressants and Weight Gain - Becoming A Radiologist posted at Becoming A Radiologist.

South Beach Steve presents How Will Things Change When I Lose Weight? posted at Log My Loss.

pnreddy presents 6 Of Your Favorite Things That Are Secretly Making You Fat posted at Fitness Health Zone.com.

Aparna presents Kapalabhati Pranayam posted at Beauty & Personality Grooming.

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If you submitted a post and it is not above it was either because I thought it was spam or you submitted more than one post.  There is another carnival next week...

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Our ankles are actually pretty fragile little joints and you may not realize just how fragile until you sprain one. Nobody likes walking around on crutches, but there are a few ways that you can make sure that your ankles stay strong and that you avoid this common injury. Let's get started!

1. Always stretch first.

We can't say it enough, even though you have heard it all before. If you don't want to injure your ankles, you're going to have to stretch before you exercise. Even a few minutes will get you limbered up and will reduce your risks for spraining that joint. Take the time before every workout to adequately stretch out every part of your body, including your ankles. They will definitely thank you for it.

2. Wear the right kind of shoes.

Not many of us run on a treadmill in stilettos, but with some of today's workout shoes, you might as well. It is vital to have proper footwear that offers support. Make sure that you are purchasing the right kind of shoe to help increase your chances of avoiding a sprain. For example, a true tennis shoe is made for playing tennis - not basketball. It will not have the kind of support you need for jumping and running around like that.

If you don't want to have a whole closet full of shoes, try to find a really good pair of cross trainers that will allow you a wide variety of exercises. By getting the right kind of shoe, you'll be able to exercise longer and you won't be in pain. All of your joints will thank you for that.

There is one more thing to consider about shoes before we move to the next point. While it may not be the case 100% of the time, you do normally get what you pay for. A pair of cheap athletic shoes will not provide you with the same support as a more expensive shoe. There's a reason these shoes are so expensive. They are designed to help you perform better and reduce the risk of injury. You can look at this way, you can spend a few more dollars now on better shoes, or you can spend a lot more getting your ankle fixed after you sprain it.

3. Strengthen your ankles.

A lot of us have weak ankles, but there are some exercises that you can do to strengthen up those ankles and reduce your risks of injuries. Some of the best include resistance band flexes with your feet as well as the old tried and true heel raise. Keep at it until your ankles feel as strong as the rest of you.

4. Tape it.

If all else fails and you have very weak ankles, taping can be the answer. Never attempt to tape your own ankles if you don't know what you're doing. Have a sport's therapist train you on the right way to wrap, or you could make a sprain worse if you do get injured.   The problems with taping ankles are that it is time consuming,  incurrs on going costs for tape, you have to shave your ankles to do it right, and do even get me started on removing the tape. 

An alternative in the same vein is to wear a high quality lace up ankle guard.  This was a highly recommended suggestion on my college basketball team and something I had been doing since early high school. An example of such a high quality brace is McDavid Ankle X Ankle Brace.

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