Killer shin splits, please help

[boxer dude]

My shins are killing me, its becoming a real pain to do my road work and its getting to the point where jumping rope and even bouncing around on my toes while sparring or whatever is becoming rather painful, can anyone relate?? Are there any remedies to this, or do i have to just work through it??

[El Kabong]

Are you wearing new shoes? Or have you just gotten started working out again?..those were common causes when I ever had them

Although you're probably going to want to continue working out, in order to not get any stress fractures I'd stay off any training that will cause for heavy or repeated impact to your feet/ankles/shins.....ride a bike, swim, but don't want to do any running or work with the rope.

Shin splints: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

[boxer dude]

Thanks dude, and yea I just did start training again, they had gone away for a while but less than a week into training they resurected. I'll try to stay off em for a while, thanks again.

[CFH]

I have had shin splint problems for ever. Stretching is key in preventing them. Also, if you still need to do some kind of cardio, I've found the the elliptical machine is fairly easy on the shins.

[El Kabong]

I have had shin splint problems for ever. Stretching is key in preventing them. Also, if you still need to do some kind of cardio, I've found the the elliptical machine is fairly easy on the shins.

Yeah and the knees...elliptical machines are the best! I hardly ever do any running any more.

[CFH]

I have had shin splint problems for ever. Stretching is key in preventing them. Also, if you still need to do some kind of cardio, I've found the the elliptical machine is fairly easy on the shins.

Yeah and the knees...elliptical machines are the best! I hardly ever do any running any more.

I've had problems with my knees as well. Because of the type of exercises I was doing, I ended up with tendonities in both of them. The elliptical is great though, I use that, the rowing machine, or the treadmill for all my cardio.

[Chris Nagel]

It was a big problem with me. For me what helped was to gradually increase the length and frequency of my workouts. Road work, and especially jumping rope were what I had to be very careful about. You'll feel like you can do more, but you got take it easy at first and gradually increase it. For the average person, going from no running to doing roadwork on a regular basis could cause shin splints. Your body has to adapt to it. You can strike a balance for cardio by doing bicycle, rowing machine, etc. and then on other days doing road work.

For running, I found that good shoes, warming up by running at slower pace, and working on technique helped. I did a stretching program, and I think it helped a little too.

You should check around and see if you can find the RopeSport Basic video. I even found some that are available to download. Besides showing you a lot of jump rope techniques, they also show you a sort of active rest exercise where you'd stop skipping for a minute or so, and then just step forward and backwards while swinging the rope vertically from side to side, and then jumping back through the rope to continue skipping. It's a little hard to describe here, but I found that it enabled me to skip for longer periods of time without getting tight calves or shin splints.

If I were you I'd really let my legs recuperate until the shin splint feeling goes away. Do something else in the meantime, and then gradually ease back into it while being cautious about how your legs feel.