Working on an exercise plan

[unixronin]

I’ve always had trouble maintaining a regular exercise plan ... and frankly, it’s mostly because I find exercise so damned boring. So to try to work around this, I’m going to try to remember to do some work with the hand weights while I wait for the espresso machine to warm up and build steam pressure, which typically adds up to about fifteen minutes that I’m usually not doing anything anyway.

Today I started with thirty each front and back forearm curls, wrist spins, inward/outward double blocks, outside raises to overhead, and half-circle sweeps at shoulder level, all left and right together, then finished up with fifty alternating full-speed karate punches, all with three-pound hand weights. The last had me coughing a little — I’m still clearing the last of the crud out of my lungs from a rather nasty cold — but not enough that I couldn’t finish the set.

Hopefully I’ll remember to do this every day until I manage to form a habit. I need to dig up my PT notes and see whether I missed anything, and figure out a good time to fit in the leg exercises too. I just wish there was some way to get my left foot and ankle fixed so that I could run again. I probably won’t ever get back to the physical shape I was in before Splat Day, but I should be able to get significantly better than I am now if I can just manage not to let it lapse out of boredom.

Comments

[kayre]

Could you maybe try biking? That was actually recommended to me to help rehabilitate a messed up ankle, years ago.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I have been getting out my mountain bike a little now that my knees are more or less up to it. But that's not going to rehabilitate my ankle. We're at the point where the consensus medical opinion on my foot and ankle, given the current state of medical technology, can be summed up in three words: "Sorry, it's fucked." There's nothing significant they can do, barring breakthroughs in regeneration, except amputate and fit me for a prosthetic.

On the other hand, I'm already signed up for one of the regeneration research programs for when they're ready to start clinical trials in humans.