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Jul. 19th, 2013 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI'm still doing Sit and Be Fit most week days (only missing when things like dental appointments intervene). I'm working on getting back to using our treadmill most days. Cordelia is using it, too, and that helps. I go down to the basement with her, keep her company while she walks and then stay down there after she goes upstairs. It didn't happen this morning, but it has happened other mornings. My walking goals are modest-- half a mile at about 2.5 mph, a quarter of a mile more at increasingly slower speeds if I can manage it. Eventually, I'd like to be able to walk a mile at full speed. Being able to manage that on the treadmill doesn't necessarily translate to the outside world (which has hills and weather and other people), but I like to think that increasing what I can do with the treadmill will increase what I can do when I go downtown or maybe make it possible for me to go along on one of Cordelia's class field trips next year.
I am trying to figure out how to do exercises on the floor. Sitting or lying on the floor hurts so much (which made floor based PT really interesting when I was doing it for the piraformis syndrome a couple of years ago), and being on my hands and knees is much worse. I need some sort of large, thick, soft padding to make it possible. Does anybody know-- Do they sell such things? Where might I find them?
I suppose I could improvise with one or two of our large blankets. I don't know. I can't fold most of those unassisted, and whatever I do has to be something I can manage on my own and put away in no more than five minutes. I do have a yoga mat, but it's not thick enough or soft enough to help. I can do some stuff on my knees if I fold up a towel three to five times and put it under my knees, but that throws my balance off and doesn't help if I need to lie down or sit down.
Basically, there's an exercise program on just before Sit and Be Fit, and I'd like to try some of the exercises (Some of them would injure me, so I'd have to be very careful). About 85% of the program is down on the floor, however, and I can't even try it. I'd also like to try more yoga. Right now, I'm limited to standing poses.
(All of this makes it sound like I do a lot of exercising or want to. I don't really tend to. I find it tedious at best. I just know that not doing any is a sure way to end up able to do even less than I can manage now. I count myself lucky that there are forms of exercise that I can manage without hurting myself.)
I am trying to figure out how to do exercises on the floor. Sitting or lying on the floor hurts so much (which made floor based PT really interesting when I was doing it for the piraformis syndrome a couple of years ago), and being on my hands and knees is much worse. I need some sort of large, thick, soft padding to make it possible. Does anybody know-- Do they sell such things? Where might I find them?
I suppose I could improvise with one or two of our large blankets. I don't know. I can't fold most of those unassisted, and whatever I do has to be something I can manage on my own and put away in no more than five minutes. I do have a yoga mat, but it's not thick enough or soft enough to help. I can do some stuff on my knees if I fold up a towel three to five times and put it under my knees, but that throws my balance off and doesn't help if I need to lie down or sit down.
Basically, there's an exercise program on just before Sit and Be Fit, and I'd like to try some of the exercises (Some of them would injure me, so I'd have to be very careful). About 85% of the program is down on the floor, however, and I can't even try it. I'd also like to try more yoga. Right now, I'm limited to standing poses.
(All of this makes it sound like I do a lot of exercising or want to. I don't really tend to. I find it tedious at best. I just know that not doing any is a sure way to end up able to do even less than I can manage now. I count myself lucky that there are forms of exercise that I can manage without hurting myself.)
