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

[rbos.livejournal.com]

Speaking of somewhat dodgy treatments, have you ever heard of Prolotherapy? It refers to the practice of injecting saline into key areas to provoke swelling (and thus increased blood flow) to an area, promoting the regeneration of tissue.

I've been looking at it pretty hard, and there are apparently some supporting medical studies, but the only practitioners I can find with casual looking are the homeopathy-and-crystal crowd of woo-peddlers.

[rbos.livejournal.com]

Also, you find quite a bit of supporting anecdotal testimony.

It seems to fit into a category of "doesn't hurt to try".

I've got a back injury that might respond to it. :/

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Having looked at it, I don't know that it would be applicable. About the one thing we know for sure is that my foot is full of scar tissue. Even if this does stimulate healing, it's really not going to achieve a thing without getting all the scar tissue out, and then there's atrophied muscles and nerve damage and ....

"Sorry. It's fucked."