Today I did Raw Kickboxing #3, 41 minutes, 208 calories, heart rate 129/174, 2,524 steps. I also did today's CDorner Full Body Stretch using a strap or towel for some of it, 31 minutes, 48 calories. Some of the stretches were timed for one minute hold. Total time 72 minutes, 256 calories. I had to stop and loosen my watch strap because 12 minutes in I was still not getting anything above 99 heart rate. Not sure why, but it picked up after it was pretty loose. I woke in the middle of the night with my whole upper back and ribs hurting. When I got up this morning and got going it was a bit better, but now my low back hurts.
I have been doing lots of reading on exercise, arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, to work out a plan. Consensus between most is to keep working out around most situations, maybe ease up on a flare up or an individual area that is hurting too much. Sort of what I knew anyway. One said maybe on shadow boxing, another said no power moves whatever that means. I saw a group of workouts in a plan for arthritis on arthritis.org that has some shadow boxing in it with tubing which I thought was different.
So, here is a plan I have worked up following Mayo Clinic suggestions and
www.arthritis-health.com.
My plan is to do Raw Fine Tuning once a week
full body weight workouts twice a week (unless I need to avoid a body part with too much pain) Thinking STS 2 full body workouts, but maybe a little lighter on the weights right now.
low impact cardio around 4 days a week (one item suggest most days.
mobility or stretching most days
fit in some balance work once a week (Raw Fine Tuning does some balance on leg work and there is another balance workout she has with weights that I might consider) I figure Cathe's new workouts will come in handy.
Debbie, nice work on Raw Heavy Bag/ Boxing with Zach. I am happier picking and choosing my workouts by how I feel than pushing through a series. I like the Raw Stretch flow workout a lot too. I also rather like her Yoga stretch that is 14 minutes. The timing is often good, for stretching everything and some movement when short on time. What I do not like is stretching my wrists with my hands facing my body. It sets of the pain in my wrists which are somewhat off already. Chris did that today and I just slightly stretched and then did wrist circles. I did the Raw Fine-Tuning Saturday and tried to describe the movements. It is in the other category on the Raw channel. I need that scapular work and scare crow. I did scarecrows when doing PT.
Jolie, that would be really disturbing having the fires headed toward you. I am glad it switched directions. I hope you have a good weight workout tomorrow. At least you were able to get the pup out for a 3 mile walk today. I posted my plans for working out for a while. I have had so much bad pain lately and I think I am going to have to accept that the arthritis as it progresses means I need to not push so hard. Hopefully it gets better, and I can reconsider. Yes, the workout from STS was from STS 2 abs workouts. It uses 5 and 10# weight plates and is all standing moves, that gets the heart rate up.
Belinda, nice work on the walk and STS 2.0 Upper Body 1 today. I am sure seeing the dunes gone and things changed was a disappointment from what you were expecting. Being able to stay at RV parks on military bases is a nice perk. Getting a nice park can usually cost quite a bit.
