Lets Post our Daily Exercise
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Yeah new to this, hi all
Today was first attempted return to disc golf! My throwing is awkward and way over par, but that is not a new issue lol
I am recovering from back surgery corpectomy and fusion because of mets to the spine. I was numb from my toes to my ribs and lost a lot of motor control of my legs. It has taken months to just walk almost normal. My forefeet are still sort of numb and my legs have slow internet, but it's a lot better than before.
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Mkestrel, great pic! Welcome and hope your internet speeds up soon.
It was cooler today so I ventured into the gym. Renewed for 3 months. I'm not that confident they won't close down in the fall again. It felt really good: 25 minutes running on the treadmill, then pushing and pulling on various machines and some stretching in the end.
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Welcome, MK!
Went to Pound this morning and will do Barre later. We had an interesting Doggie Obedience session last night. Along with doing group and private lessons, the teacher trains guide dogs. We will be doing home after lunch! Here's Bruno and the other student in our private class. Our next door neighbor (and his girlfriend) Ivy.
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Awww, Ruth, it's like Lady and the Tramp but with a stick instead of spaghetti.
Welcome MKestrel!
Walked yesterday morning and again today. Got great news yesterday: a job offer - part time as I wanted, helping the state spend a boatload of federal stimulus money. I will work from home, no need to commute. I start next month and will work half-time for a year.
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Sounds like a perfect fit, Badger!
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Welcome MKestrel.
I've been MIA as I was working on 2 special education cases for work since June 6th and finally today was the last meeting. I put in just over 100 hours since June 6th. Lots of comp time for next school year. This week wasn't so bad, but the previous 2 weeks were all consuming!!
DD#1 surprised us with a visit. She arrived this morning and is her till Tuesday afternoon. We knew she was coming since Sunday. It's 20 months since we last saw each other. She left her husband at home!
Submitted our paperwork to the consulate to visit younger daughter next month, but even if we get permission we might cancel as Covid Delta cases are on the rise in the past 4 days and quarantine restrictions are getting stricter. Hoping over the next couple weeks, things will settle down and cases decrease. Not spending all that money to be quarantine half the trip - and they are very strict about it - in your room and no one else allowed near you - food brought to your room door etc. Oh well, it is disappointing, but that's life during a pandemic.
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I hope you can finally have some summer relaxation, Karen! Enjoy DD's visit!! Traveling internationally is still dicey at the moment (my friend hasn't seen her daughter who lives in Australia for two years so could commiserate with you!).
My Barre class was canceled so I have to decide if I want to go to Yoga instead (I should, but it's later in the evening and I'm feeling kind of lazy).
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Ruth, one word I would never ever use to describe you is lazy.
Got in three and a half mile run today--it's incredibly muggy here and I was lucky to fit in any run between all the thunderstorms.
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It was raining this morning then turned muggy (dew point is 75 yikes) so did 30 mins on the dreadmill.
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It's been raining since about 4:00 or 4:30 this afternoon and doesn't look like it is stopping any time soon. Took my daughter bra shopping and it started to rain a block before I got home. Thankfully I grilled the chicken thighs this morning.
Cool week-end - 70s with rain, but I'm not complaining.
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badger: Congratulations on your new job. It has your name written all over it! So happy for you.
Ruth: Bruno and his gf are precious!
Welcome MKestrel!
saltmarsh: Hope your dog is feeling better today.
edj: Always love to read about your activity!
Karen: I was wondering where you've been. Enjoy your dd's visit!
LB: Where are you?????
Hi Everyone! Been walking/running. It's been so dry here that we haven't had to mow much. As a matter of fact, we have only mowed 2 times this month. We need rain!
I had some old rocks that needed to be painted so I did.
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Didn’t do much today except for a few light chores. After dealing with tendonitis in my right leg for the last two weeks, the pain finally died and I was able to get some decent exercise yesterday when I mowed the lawn.
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Hi Wonderland, I like your rock paintings.
I walked around the park and played more disc golf.0 -
Wonderland is our resident artist!
Bruno and I did our 15 minute 'homework' training walk this morning (after-which we went to the Dog Park so he could run wild). I worked in the yard most of the afternoon. It was raining (yea) this evening. I was going to get on the treadmill but it made a screeching sound and quit. I didn't have time to mess with it so did an indoor walking DVD instead. Tomorrow I will do an early morning Zumba class & then head south for an hour to go to the 45th Wedding Anniversary of an old friend & her DH.
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Wonderland, your painted rocks are beautiful. There is so much detail in your work. You are so very talented.
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Wonderland, so pretty! You have a good eye for color and form.
It was sprinkling when I woke up but it stopped long enough to get in a 30-minute walk. It's been raining on & off all day. No complaints, we are still in a rain deficit and can use the moisture.
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I am new here, diagnosed with DCIS last month. Preparing for double mastectomy in about a month. Every surgery I have ever had the doc always had recommendations for specific exercises before so recovery would be easier. Are there any sites where I could see pilates or yoga in prep for breast surgery?
Initially, I thought I would reconstruct, now I am really leaning toward going flat. I have been pretty flat all my life, wouldn't know how to act if I had to wear a bra all the time. Thoughts?
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Imhere - welcome - sorry that you have to join this club but glad you found the group.
Enjoying having DD#1 here. Visit to DD#2 is probably not going to happen as Covid Delta cases are increasing and they are getting stricter and stricter. We will wait another week or so to see what happens before we cancel, but as of now its not likely as if anyone on our flight tests positive for Covid upon landing the whole flight has to quarantine for 10 days - no reason to spend all that money to sit in an Airbnb, not being able to go anywhere and not really getting to see our daughter. Unless, I take time off from school around the holidays, which is tough to miss two weeks and it is high price season, it will be winter break. Sad and disappointed but know that it is best. Third trip that we are missing.
Nice weather today - blue sky and about 70 - think we are done the rain after 2 days - good rain though as it was slow and steady - great for the trees and plants. Edit - we had a huge downpour for about an hour around 4pm
Have a great Sunday
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Oh, goodness, people! I go offline for two nights and I miss all of this!
Badger, congrats on the job and thank you for making me chuckle. I guess we feel roughly the same about treadmills...
Ruth, I second Edj3 -- I can't imagine anyone accusing you of laziness!
Wonderland, those are beautiful!
Imhere, welcome. Sorry you have to be here but welcome! I don't know about exercises for beforehand -- many docs don't even prescribe PT for afterwards. I'm doing it and it's really helping, so I find that pretty puzzling.
As for me, I tried to go camping with my DH and DS at the ocean this weekend. It started out great and we had friends staying at three sites near ours, so that was fun. Unfortunately, through a set of snafus (a half-full, but suddenly broken sunblock canister that wouldn't work, a beach cabana with a pole someone broke and packed back up without mentioning they'd broken it, and failure to secure more sunblock in time), after less than two hours at the beach, most of which I was in the shade and wearing SPF50 clothing for, I've got a really bad burn. I 'd have stuck it out and just stayed in the shade, but then my son's only friend on the trip had to leave early because his mom hurt her shoulder and couldn't imagine sleeping on the ground with it like that. So we headed home, my kid, the dog and I, and let my DH have a night with jsut adults and doing his own thing, which he loves anyway.
So, on the up-side, I got in a couple lovely walks at the beach with people! On the down-side, not only did I not get nearly as much exercise as anticipated this weekend, but I'm gonna be sidelined for a few days because it hurts to move. I have just dropped what feels like a small fortune on a couple pairs of sun pants and sun shirts in order to try to stay safe for the rest of summer.
Don't be like me! Stay safe out there!
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My exercise for today was putting away some laundry and giving my hubby a hair cut. Too stinking hot and humid to do anything else.
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Hi Imhere, I don't know about any specific exercises, but the fitter you are going into any surgery the better. Being in shape should help with a quicker & smoother recovery, plus you have a good base to build back up from once restrictions are lifted. Ask if your surgeon has a list of post-surgery exercises for you and/or see if you can hook up with a physical therapist who can guide you. This link is very old, but may be helpful. http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BreastCancer/MoreInformation/exercises-after-breast-surgery
Several dog walks, Barre Sculpt & Yoga for me today.
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Exercise for today is finish the laundry.
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Wonderland, your rocks ROCK! Badger, congrats on the new job! Karen, enjoy DD1's visit! Imhere, never had to wear a bra in my life before BC. Didn't do reconstruction but was not too fond of the asymmetry so started wearing a prosthetic bra after a while. With a double mastectomy, you'd be able to get away with no bra! Lilacblue, where are you?
Went on a hike with the dog who was very useful pulling me uphill. So instead of 3 hours we made it in 2 hours. I'm just a lazy bum, needing electric- on bikes or dog-powered assistance on hikes. What's more I did a 24 hour fast in the midst of all that. I am hoping I got some serious senescent cell killing done.
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It has been beyond toasty here so thinking that swimming will be it today. Congrats on the job, Badger. Headed into the office in a bit as they have AIR CONDITIONING!!! The good news is that today is the last brutal day with 100F temps. No walk this morning for some reason. - Claire
Celebrating with a taste of four different sparkling wines at the wine bar Friday evening while not quite that hot.
Cooling off. A very popular spot for some reason. Water is still high from the snow melt, and just warm enough to be refreshing. To strong a current to swim across as I would normally do.
$5 flowers from the market, plus a dinner of cold poached salmon and potato salad. Fresh beans from the market, the first of the season. The salmon is super simple to make and I used a frozen side of Keto from Chile which is not at all expensive. Delicious warm or cold.
Same dinner with salad variant of cold cooked vegetables with homemade aioli (garlicky mayonnaise). Just wonderful, and I have enough left over for tonight! Everything other than the tomatoes from the farmers market where I overbought as usual.
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Yum, Claire! And the water looks very inviting. Your hot weather is heading our way, so it will be a toasty 4th of July around here.
Pound this morning, Zumba tonight. I'm having a bunch of people over for a picnic in my shady backyard on the 4th, so I HAVE to start getting organized!!
Heidi, I rely on big dogs pulling me up steep hills too. In fact, I warn whichever one I'm walking NOT to stop and sniff anything on the way up or I will tumble all the way back down to the bottom!
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Welcome Imhere! FYI, BCO has a yoga page, here's a link: https://www.breastcancer.org/treatment/comp_med/types/yoga
I own two yoga DVDs: one by Denise Hopkins and Kate Lubensky (Yoga for Breast Cancer) and one by Rodney Yee (AM/PM Yoga). There are tons of on-line videos on YouTube (Johns Hopkins has several). Pick ones that are GENTLE or RESTORATIVE yoga and always follow your doc's orders for when you are ready and how much you can do. It was about six months after bilateral mastectomy (BMX) before I felt ready. I started a yoga practice with a Yoga for BC survivors session by a WI non-profit called Breast Cancer Recovery. Is there a similar group near you?
Here's some info from two BCO members about yoga:
1. From faithandfifty: check out the pix of her yoga practice with an instructor who also had BC. https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/64/topics/755918?page=1
2. From NatsFan: info on exercising safely while reducing your risk of triggering lymphedema (LE).
If you have nodes removed, here's a link to some good info about exercising safely while reducing your risk of triggering LE. There's general info, then a special section for yoga. http://www.stepup-speakout.org/Handout%20doc%20for%20SUSO-040113.pdf You may want to avoid poses like downward dog and plank (and push ups for that matter) that put a lot of stress on the arms and shoulders until you've built up quite a bit of strength - like over a period of several months. A good instructor can help you develop alternate poses that provide almost the same benefit as the poses that stress the arms and shoulders, but without the risk of triggering LE.
Here's a handout specifically for trainers, with a special section for yoga instructors. It lets them know you may need certain alternate moves, especially in the beginning as you build up strength. You can just print it out and give it to your yoga instructor - saves you from having an embarrassing, hurried conversation with the instructor about alternate moves you may need. http://www.stepup-speakout.org/Trainer%20doc%20for%20SUSO-040113.pdf
I had BMX without reconstruction in 2010 and have gone flat ever since. It was the best decision for me.
Walked this morning in a fine mist.
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M0mmyof2, if your laundry pile is anything like mine was last Friday, it really will be a workout!
I got the beagle out for a 0.5km walk at 5:30 this morning. I let her sniff around tied up outside while I made coffee, and now we are both back in the cool house. I just did my brain exercise for 45 min. -- beginner French -- and am about to go start my PT exercises.
Have a great day and stay hydrated, y'all!
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Storms seem like they will never leave our area. I got in a 3.6 mile run this morning; while I beat the lightning, I did not beat the torrential rain.
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Regarding Israel, we will wait till the 9th to cancel as a lot can happen between now and then. Sending our daughter the required paper work to go to Misrah Hapanin (Ministry of Interior) tomorrow to apply for our Ishur (permission to enter). I applied last week to the LA consulate. Better to have it and change our mind and not travel, rather than not apply and things get better. Had a nice visit with DD#1 - she heads home on a 6 pm ish flight to Buffalo then will drive the 1 1/2 hours home at close to midnight (can you say worried mom)!
Weather was nice yesterday - blue skies and no rain and only 73 - slowly warming up but not too quickly or brutal - only 80s
Stay cool and safe
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Geez, the weather all over the country has gone crazy. We worked out in the yard until about 9:00 last night to try to get as much done as possible before the next heat wave gets here.
I'm off to get a happy haircut in a few minutes, followed by an expensive shopping trip. I want to get most of my groceries for the weekend bought before the end-of-the week rush. I will also have to do a serious house cleaning before the 4th of July. For exercise, I plan dog walking, Barre Sculpt, & Yoga.
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