05-01-2019, 10:26 PM
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Re: Post your daily exercise routine
Originally Posted by
Surfermom
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Really good questions, Mups!
Though you asked OGF, I hope you don't me chiming in from a female perspective.
When the kids were little, I reduced my workouts and put on weight. For the first time in my life I experience back, foot, and knee pain.
Once I took up running again, all of those issues (plus a few others) disappeared. My siblings with whom I share DNA and general body type - and are not runners - have had many more problems with arthritis, going degeneration, and pain. In fact, my sister, who has spent most of her adult life at a desk is going to need knee replacement and hip surgery, and she's three years younger than I. She has never run or exercised regularly. My mother, who wasn't exercising at the time, needed a knee replacement at 55.
The research is showing what I have theorized for a long time; running doesn't cause osteoarthritis. More, it helps develop long muscles that do the work so the bones and joints don't have to - thereby protecting them. There are people who have had joint and other injuries from running, but they are likely to have been the result of years of running with poor shoes, failing to let muscles recover, skipping training, or running in poor form. All of these can be avoided with some good advice from a fitness trainer and a little research.
The clock is ensuring that I am slowly but surely falling apart, but the running isn't to blame. All the bits and parts are feeling pretty good!
Agreed; the more the merrier. Anytime someone proposes an idea or asks a question, it's refreshing. This thread is like the great outdoors - there aren't any walls and it belongs to everybody.
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Surfermom, my apologies, I have only just seen your reply, and thankyou for explaining.
I have some foot problems so running would not be for me.
I have been doing Yoga for abot 8 years now and this has kept me flexible, but doesn't get your heart pumping much, so I feel I need a different kind of exercise as well as the Yoga.
I am not a swimmer, so that wouldn't work for me either.
I think they key to doing well is it has to be something you
enjoy doing. It won't work if you hate every minute of it and have to force yourself.
I will get searching now Christmas is out the way. Maybe I will re-join the gym I left last year.
Thanks for everyone's thoughts, it is interesting hearing how you all get on, and what a nice friendly thread this is - unlike some of the others lately.