Lindsey Vonn isn't letting her injuries stop her from getting back in the gym, just weeks after she broke her leg in a horrific crash at the Winter Olympics.
The 41-year-old champion skier shared an update on her recovery on Thursday, revealing that despite the "hard times," she is already working on getting "healthy" again.
Posting a clip on Instagram, Lindsey shared a montage of herself slowly working through her rehabilitation.
Lindsey can be seen lifting weights and carefully performing exercises to strengthen her core and regain mobility in her leg, before standing from her wheelchair unaided.
"Definitely some hard times but still thankful… still working hard. The only goal is to get healthy. One day at a time," she captioned the clip, adding the hashtag, "icandothis."
Lindsey was airlifted to a hospital in Treviso, Italy, after she crashed just 13 seconds into her run in the women's downhill ski event on February 8.
She stayed there for two weeks while she underwent four surgeries to repair a complex tibia fracture, but after she was released, she revealed her injuries were far more extensive.
"I'm finally out of the hospital!!! After almost two weeks of [lying] in a hospital bed, almost completely immobile, I'm finally well enough to move to a hotel. It's not home yet, but it's a huge step!" she wrote on Instagram after her release on February 23.
© Instagram"Now I will focus on rehab and progressing from a wheelchair to crutches in a few weeks. It will take around a year for all of the bones to heal, and then I will decide if I want to take out all the metal or not, and then go back into surgery and finally fix my ACL.
© Getty ImagesIt will be a long road, but I'll get there. At least I'm out of the hospital." Lindsey explained that, as well as her tibia bone being shattered into pieces, doctors also had to contend with her compartment syndrome, which is a painful buildup of pressure around the muscles that can cause permanent damage.
© InstagramHer doctor performed a fasciotomy, which helped release the pressure and saved her leg from being amputated. Lindsey spent extra time in the hospital as she had lost a lot of blood during the surgeries, needed a transfusion, and had also broken her right ankle in the crash.
"It's been really hard, and this is definitely not the way I wanted to end my Olympics, but it's been really inspiring to watch my teammates," the Olympic gold medalist said as she teared up.
© Instagram"No regrets, and I just appreciate all the love and support. It's been really amazing, overwhelming to an extent. I wish it had ended differently, really, but I'd rather go down swinging than not try at all," she added.
"And I think what I was able to achieve was more than anyone expected to begin with."
