I'm having a low energy, blah type of day. Dog walk of 2.8 miles, I need to figure out a new route for days I need to stay off the off road paths(because of rainy days), the last 2 days I hit too much school traffic. The sound of cars for too long just makes it so unpleasant for me. I then tried KCM Plateau Buster premix, I did it for 20 min and just decided it wasn't what I wanted, finally decided on a Pilates reformer 60 min workout. I'm just proud of myself for sticking to it and doing something, many times I wanted to crawl back in bed and cover up my head and....(you finish the tune).
Ronne, I haven't been to the movie theatre in ages either, I'm so much more comfy at home so wait for it to come out on DVD. MY DVD player is on it's last legs and I better replace before I Run into what you did. I went to press the open/close and felt a click, now I have to press it with my fingertip to make sure it works, I can just see it stopping to work and here I am ready to go! Yes, early in my recovery I couldn't hold my head up without causing pain later when in the bike leaning on the bars, and the standing drills was too much for my neck, but it's ok now, the only thing is I STILL can't have the fan on me, if it blows on my left shoulder it will hurt the rest of the day no matter what, and I hate being hot! Massage lady thinks that might not get better and I'll have to deal with it.
Mary, I was actually not as sore as I thought I was (and normally am) for my massage, she said the neck was really good. No knots in left shoulder blade but extremely tight (and sore feeling to me). The other day when I did bi/tri, my head from bottom of skull to 1/2way up hurt on the back of head, I finally figured out it was from attempting incline curls on the ball (I only did about 5 before I gave up). I am getting there! I told massage lady how I busted out in tears at my birthday dinner when I was trying for a speech but ended up crying at the point when I turned to DH to tell him I never would have made it through everything without him. There were times I didn't think I'd make it to 50 and other times I didn't want to make it to 50. Massage lady said what I went through is a 10 on a scale of 1-10 (I always wanted to be a Bo Derek 10
), she said she would put a hip replacement at a 5 from her point of view. Anyway, I never would have made it without DH, my family, friends and YOU ALL!
Murphy (and all), massage lady said women can build strength with light weights... we build more strength in the tendon where it inserts into bone (and hence will help with osteoporosis), whereas men build more in the belly of the muscle. And not surprisingly, you get more strength on the eccentric (the one going down) doing it slowly. Hope that makes sense.
