Fat Loss -- injury cuts back my weightlifting. Double up on Cardio????

[emulatorloo]

Hello -- delurking to get your great advice, if you are willing to give it to a lurker!

50, male, three weeks in to trying to lose 20lbs of fat while keeping as much muscle as I can.

I am on a "cutting diet" along these lines (although I am not a vegetarian):

http://ksteveh.tripod.com/cuttingdiet.html

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So far I have lost about a lb a week.

However I have a bad shoulder that has suddenly flared up and I have to cut back on my lifting.

Prior schedule -- 5 day split - Mon Chest, Tues Bis and Tris, Wednesday Shoulders, Thurs Back, Fri Legs
Cardio -- MWF -- 30 to 45 minutes ellipitical / TTHSat - 20 minutes HIIT cardio

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Because of the shoulder injury I must drop == Chest, Shoulders, Bis and Tris.

To replace these should I:

-- Double up on cardio on those days?

or

-- hit back and legs twice a week?

or something altogether different?????

Thanks for any advice!

[MissMillie]

1. make sure you have that shoulder looked at

different injuries have different solutions. If you have bursitis, the LAST thing you should do (according to my doctor) is to not use it. Keeping the joint mobile is imperative to proper healing. If you don't move it, it will freeze and that often requires surgery.

You may not have bursitis... I have no idea. I'm merely suggesting you see your doctor. Avoiding the weight lifting may be wise, but you may need to find a way to keep that joint in motion.

[emulatorloo]

2. thanks you are right re shoulder injuries-- I am seeing a doctor and doing rehab exercises for it

You are absolutely right -- Shoulder injuries are definately not to be taken lightly.

It is a long-standing thing -- some bursitis but mostly there is a spur on one of my bones that is scraping/shredding the tendon. It will have to be corrected by surgery, but I have been putting it off, and sorta had it under control until this Saturday


So I will have to eventually have surgery on it. In fact one of the reasons I am so obsessed with losing this fat is that I want to have the surgery in the fall or winter and will have to be sedentary for a few weeks so I want to be as lean as I can be!

[emulatorloo]

3. kick n/t