Workouts You Can Still Do With A Broken Foot – Health Digest

Swimming is a true anomaly of workouts. It’s considered one of the best workouts you can do to exercise your entire body because you have to move tons of muscles to work your way through the water. Yet, it’s also one of the best for your joints because it doesn’t cause an impact on your knees, feet, and ankles like other workouts do.

Because you don’t need to stand on your feet when you’re in the water, swimming may be an ideal workout to use when you’re waiting on your broken foot to heal, barring that your foot is in a cast, of course. In fact, swimming coach Megan Lassen told U.S. Masters Swimming that once her broken foot was cleared to be in a boot, she immediately got back in the water when her doctor said she could remove her boot to swim.

Aqua jogging could also help you get a good workout without doing more damage to your foot. This exercise requires you to mimic the motion of running in the water without letting your feet touch the bottom. Therefore, there’s no actual impact to your injured foot, but you still get the benefits of an excellent water workout (via Runners Connect).