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April 29, 2005
Lunging-Disabled
Some people look so athletic and strong and in control when they are lunging. They are holding free weights and lunge, go upright, switch legs, and lunge again. They look so powerful.
Not me.
This was the first time I ever tried lunging. At first I held free weights but I quickly abandoned them. I was literally in the middle of a doorframe while I lunged so I could hold on to it with two hands and ease myself into the lunge position. In my own defense, I don’t know that I NEEDED the doorframe. It was kind of a comfort thing so I wouldn’t lunge too far and cause pain-which was a distinct possibility since I had so little control.
The rest of the knee exercises I have all done before. However, I have not gone through them since last summer and they brought back all of my memories from my first time through rehab. At the time I was backpacking through Europe-yes, with my ankle weight. The metal bars in the weight showed up whenever my luggage was x-rayed and constantly got me tagged for more thorough security searches. I was also staying in hostels (one with 22 people in a room) and I had ZERO privacy while I did my strange-looking exercises. This was the most amusing I am sure for my roommates in Amsterdam, most of whom were enjoying the numerous “influences” the city had to offer. Doing the exercises in my apartment is much easier on my psyche-but SO MUCH less interesting. This is hands down the most boring form of exercise I have ever done.
Today I ran for 26 minutes along my regular fall/winter route. There are no T stops along it, but it was nice to be back. I think I had the patella strap in the wrong place. It was on my upper arm above my elbow. I brought it with me in case I needed it but I wanted to try running without it. I actually had no knee pain and I was not that surprised. The last time I did the knee exercises they helped after one day-the day after I started doing them was the first day I walked around without pain in months (I was way worse off that time). I don’t know that muscle can really develop that quickly-but something happened last night. My quads were tired when I was running which is good. It means I succeeded in doing a good knee/quad workout.
I did my knee exercises again after my run, iced (my knee, calf, and bunion), and took some more ibuprofen. Now my sedentary life resumes for the rest of the day.
Posted by Audrey at April 29, 2005 12:08 PM