11-06-19, 09:38 AM | |
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: oklahoma
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today - callanetics express total body + 16 min karen voight cardio
ebianco - charlene did a tv show on canadian television and those episodes got packaged onto vhs/dvds. She's fully retired and her website just gone. The nice thing for me was getting a DVD with like 10 low impact workouts on it. here's a youtube link, someone posted a bunch of her episodes - some are low impact, some are step, some are weight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isd2mRML6G4 but I like her low impact. Glad you are feeling better and I hope the PT is great. I've had Physical therapists I like, could hardly stand or thought were great. Hope yours in the third. hi Buzzer! |
11-08-19, 11:21 AM | |
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: USA
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Happy Friday everyone,
Okay, so I saw the PT and I really like this place, the therapist spent a lot of time working with me one on one and the facility is much smaller than the other one that had a wait until December, they only deal with maybe 4-5 patients at a time whereas that one probably had 15 at a time. This one is clearly going to be worth the investment. The PT told me that she can see my muscles are pretty developed already (and my flexibility is so good that she's not even going to bother focusing on that LOL ) however, my outer thigh/glutes are much more developed than my quads/inner thighs, which is causing a muscle imbalance, and my joints are "loose" which is a common problem with women and can't be changed but isn't helping the situation, and that my knee cap is tracking outwards, and if I can develop my quads/inner thighs, then that should be able to help alleviate my symptoms...in 6-8 weeks. One of the exercises she had me do and asked me to do at home is the second one on this link (https://blog.fitbit.com/osteoarthritis/) where you have a towel under your knee and your knee is slightly bent, and you straighten it. It is like a cheese grater in my knee joint, and feels both nauseating (with the crunching/friction) and unpleasant. She would press my knee cap towards the inside of my leg to help, and said I could do that at home, but I felt like it was worsening my knee pain so I just stopped doing it. She also wanted me to do bridge with a playground ball squeezed between my knees, and basically an inner thigh leg lift with ankle weights, which I am doing no problem. I'm also considering just a quad/inner thigh boot camp with Barlates, I can do some of her 15-20 minute workouts that just work one muscle group that I usually avoid, but would be great for this situation. It's really more my quads even than my inner thighs that need the strengthening. My "inner quads" she said. Then yesterday I went to my regular doctor for my physical. We spent most of the time discussing my knee She was somewhat skeptical that the PT would be that effective and told me I should ask the orthopedic if I can get a steroid injection, if the PT is fruitless. I'm going to do more research, but I really don't want to get the injection. Both because I'm a big baby and also because I've heard the injections are just a bandaid. But, I've been doing more research and it sounds like the first injection is usually the most powerful, and injections are generally more effective when you're younger (below 40) and she said it may help my inflammation go down and by the time the injection wears off, I would be past my current flare up, and thus the problem would be resolved. So a lot to think about. I also got my bloodwork done. The good news is I finally resolved my PCOS, a hormone imbalance from my early 20s. That is fantastic news! The bad news is that my cholesterol is WAY bad, my LDL is 183 and my HDL is down to 60 which is a general decline from the high 80s from 2015. It gets lower every year! I'm not surprised it's low right now from lack of activity, but it makes my good/bad ratio much worse. My LDL now is even worse than in 2017 when it was extremely bad (179) and I managed to get it back down to 120s with diet. I did a lot of reflection and my half and half with my tea every day, and duck eggs which I've been eating with abandon (and have WAY more cholesterol and saturated fat than chicken eggs...whoops) are not helping. So I agreed to get it rechecked in three months. She's pushing the statins again, and I adamantly do NOT want to go that route, I am willing to modify my diet, again. Diet helped the last time, but then I found new outlets for consuming the saturated fat ugh. My staycation blew by, I actually don't go back until next Wednesday and I got a lot done, but also disappointed I didn't do more? My knee was feeling MUCH better until a couple of days ago when I was cleaning and brought a big bag of trash down the stairs, and then with that PT exercise it's been mad again. I just started using this anti-inflammatory lotion that got big raves on amazon, to see if that helps, but have been trying to taper off of the anti-inflammatory medicine so I guess I'm feeling a little frustrated. Eventmom Thank you for the link, I'll check it out! Buzzer Speaking for myself, getting married packed on about 15 pounds over the years for me, of which I've been able to get 5 off, but can never seem to get that last 10 off. I've also wondered whether the huge variety of workouts and dabbling with many forms of exercise (and thus lack of focus) has hindered my weight loss efforts too, although I also have to acknowledge that different things worked for me in my 20s vs my 30s. But I often think if I had less choices and had to stick to something more focused, would I also be more motivated and not suffer from analysis paralysis or always wondering if I'm doing the 'right thing'. LOL Chalene definitely wore kooky clothes in the CLX workouts!
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