kathryn
Cathlete
Cathe-
I recently got the new DVDs---what fun! I haven't had time to do them all yet, but I've been previewing like mad. While I was shlumping on the couch watching you do some "plunge-lunges", my leg muscles started twitching, raring to go. This is just what I needed! I've been in a slump (some unavoidable, some just bad habits) for months. In the spring, I took a sabbatical (lots of reading and researching, often late into the night, then too late to exercise ;-(), then decided to go to physical therapy for knee pain I've had off and on for years. To make a long story short, the first PT I had was very conservative, and made me lay off ANY exercise but the machine work I did with her 3x/week. The second PT (who fired the first because they had differing philosophies) decided to put me on a diagnostic machine, a isotonic? machine that did some more damage to me knee (crack and pain when doing extensions against resistance, for the third time, with the PT saying "keep on going"--they kept showing me articles later that said there was no way I could have injured myself on the machine---ha!). I stopped going to that PT soon after, went to another one who is more into "at home" exercise. (This isn't ending up very short, is it??? ;-(0 Anyway, months without regular aerobics, weight gain, having to go back to my "fat pants" (we all have those, don't we??) which are also a bit snug, and thinking I'll never get back into it. After watching the new DVDs, I decided I'm not quite up to all of them yet, but I did decide to do the "lean legs" with very light weights (and 1/2 of some of the sets, etc.). Now I've got that "sore/tight" feeling in my lower body, that feels very familiar ;-) I'm planning on doing an every-other-day rotation of lean legs and circuit max (for upper body and aerobics--with whatever modifications I need. I think I'll be using a puny little 4" platform and baby weights for a while--;-). On "days off", I plan to do lots of stretching (part of my knee problem, according to the first PT, is a flexibility problem in my left hamstring).
I know this ended up being long, but I just wanted to say "thanks" for re-motivating me! It's nice to see you again ;-)
I recently got the new DVDs---what fun! I haven't had time to do them all yet, but I've been previewing like mad. While I was shlumping on the couch watching you do some "plunge-lunges", my leg muscles started twitching, raring to go. This is just what I needed! I've been in a slump (some unavoidable, some just bad habits) for months. In the spring, I took a sabbatical (lots of reading and researching, often late into the night, then too late to exercise ;-(), then decided to go to physical therapy for knee pain I've had off and on for years. To make a long story short, the first PT I had was very conservative, and made me lay off ANY exercise but the machine work I did with her 3x/week. The second PT (who fired the first because they had differing philosophies) decided to put me on a diagnostic machine, a isotonic? machine that did some more damage to me knee (crack and pain when doing extensions against resistance, for the third time, with the PT saying "keep on going"--they kept showing me articles later that said there was no way I could have injured myself on the machine---ha!). I stopped going to that PT soon after, went to another one who is more into "at home" exercise. (This isn't ending up very short, is it??? ;-(0 Anyway, months without regular aerobics, weight gain, having to go back to my "fat pants" (we all have those, don't we??) which are also a bit snug, and thinking I'll never get back into it. After watching the new DVDs, I decided I'm not quite up to all of them yet, but I did decide to do the "lean legs" with very light weights (and 1/2 of some of the sets, etc.). Now I've got that "sore/tight" feeling in my lower body, that feels very familiar ;-) I'm planning on doing an every-other-day rotation of lean legs and circuit max (for upper body and aerobics--with whatever modifications I need. I think I'll be using a puny little 4" platform and baby weights for a while--;-). On "days off", I plan to do lots of stretching (part of my knee problem, according to the first PT, is a flexibility problem in my left hamstring).
I know this ended up being long, but I just wanted to say "thanks" for re-motivating me! It's nice to see you again ;-)
