[Gemme]

Originally Posted by randrum

Like you said, no shocks to the body. Elliptical, no arms, would work. And lower body works, squats, lunges, etc.

Balancing could work, same with the resistance bands. Not sure all what the gym I go to has available. I don't have any in-house, but maybe my gym has stuff or I could go buy a few things.

I got a bunch of stuff on the cheap from Wally World. Resistance bands, videos, balance balls, yoga stuff, etc. I even found a strap specifically designed to help with stretching. It's got loops for toes and fingers, etc. Kinda nifty.

I had to go online to get the half noodle that my PT had me use during my sessions with her and I haven't used it nearly as much as I probably should but it's an EXCELLENT core and balance exercise with little impact (only what happens when you fall over from losing your balance....ha!).

Originally Posted by Kelt

Yes I'm quoting this post AGAIN, because when the Gemme is right, she's right.

The last couple of days I've been playing catch up on yard work since I was out of it for basically a month. I have lawn guy, but the flower beds and gardens kinda went to hell.

Stuff grows fast here. So the last two days were weeding and that was a lesson in how weak I really got. It amounts to a bunch of air squats and whatever I'm doing to get the jurassic, two foot tall hummers out is really working my upper back and lats. It's good, because it's just sore muscles and there's plenty more to go around, but I am in no way ready for lessons yet. I'd just hurt myself. So, there are very good instructional videos for the basic crossfit moves and I will be practicing them in the yard for the next week or so first, even if I have to re-learn things later.

<< Apparently likes the taste of crow for dinner.

No crow. I've just been there. Several times.

I've been away from the routine for a while and now I'm going to have to start building myself back up too now.

*grimace*

Learn from my mistakes, grasshoppah.