January 2007 Bandsters Excerise Challenge

[Tulip 0]

Anyone up for a challenge? You ladies & men ready to countdown to our 1 year anniversary? Most of us have about 3 months before our 1 year anniversary.

Ready to make these last 90 days count? Even thru the holiday season? Well, I am!! Who is with me? I can't do as much exercise since I am on a leg brace & crutches, however, I'm going to do whatever and whenever I can. I want to make each day count and see how much I can lose before my 1 year anniversary! So here goes day 1 of 90 -

Exercise:

Recumbant bike 15 min - I have to go really slow, still trying to get my knee to move.

leg lifts with ankle weights - I can't do weights yet, but my therapist have given my 2 lbs ankle weights and I can do leg lifts. Its a start!

Tonya, gosh, if you can find some exercise with brace and crutch, then I should find something I can do too. I guess with upper arms mostly. I have a small tear in ligament in left knee, and my doc wants me off of it as much as possible for another 3 weeks. I'm trying to avoid surgery.

Anyone have any chair exercises they want to tell me about?

[Sula 0]

I'm in the mindset already. I wasn't looking quite so far out as my 1 year anniversary, but what the hey! I am having a tough morning as I'm not seeing the scale moving and I feel like I've made the changes necessary to see some shift...so now I'm obsessed again with the gol-darn scale.

I do need to kick up the exercise but I'm swamped at work and doing some things to get ready for a hot tub!! So I'm not getting the elipital time. Next week should smooth out!!

But I'm going to be a bit further sighted!! I do so want to achieve some more weight loss on a consistent basis. I don't need another fill so I just need to get with it.

[tonya66 13]

Tonya, gosh, if you can find some exercise with brace and crutch, then I should find something I can do too. I guess with upper arms mostly. I have a small tear in ligament in left knee, and my doc wants me off of it as much as possible for another 3 weeks. I'm trying to avoid surgery.

Anyone have any chair exercises they want to tell me about?

Yes stay off your knee for sure!!!! You need to let it heal. I had two completely severed legaments (My ACL AND LCL), I also had my MCL torn, but not completely severed. I also had my cartialidge thrown into my joint and my meniscus needed to be repaired (had to drill holes in my knee for this one). So, it is NOT a fun surgery. I'm 7 weeks out and still on crutches - but I was actually on crutches 2 weeks before I had the surgery, so I've been unable to walk since August 7th, SUCKS.

So, I would take it easy, you maybe could do some arm lifts (work the biceps, triceps shoulders). But I would check with doc first, trust me, you do not want this surgery. I hate to scare you, but the therapy is pure hell, its the worse pain I've ever had to endure - and I have a high pain tolerance (had both of my kids natural - very rarely need pain meds). So, exercise could be put on hold for you until your body is ready, you don't want to push it.

[tonya66 13]

Yesterday, I did the recumbant bike, some resistant leg lifts (ankle weights).

Goal for today is do 15 min on bike - maybe 20, and then do some upper body workout.

My therapyst said if all goes well, in about 2 weeks, I might be able to get on the elliptical machine - Yay!