<p>Ouch. Just looked at the HR data. 87% of my max on tonight’s workout. Looks like it was the step ups. KB swing finisher got up there, too.</p>
<p>NM, sorry about your knee!
If I recall, you do have a pool, right? I know you said if you exercise in water it still swells up, but do you have an aquajogging kit or have you seen the video? Since its also designed for rehab, they talk about how to eliminate pain when doing a workout (smaller movements or change the exercise) but they give lots of “options” to try that seem to work well because of the design of the belt.</p>
<p>Since I have a trick knee (in addition to the back, but in my case the back is more limiting and ergo gets more of my attention) I do know that its possible to cause the knee to flare up in the water if I over work it. But if I feel myself doing it, I switch over to something like leg scissors with arm work etc. yesterday morning I mixed my routine between jogging and doing some of the different exercises and actually felt it a bit today, so it is possible to really engage muscles/tone in the water in terms of beneficial work but to entirely avoid joint flareups.</p>
<p>Here’s the link for aquajogging gear – in my experience, I like the heaviest resistance hand weights/floats, and instead of their shoes, I’m really liking watersoes add by AQX that have little gills for extra resistance. If you call them, they’ll help you figure out the best belt for your body type.
[AquaJogger®</a> | Official website for AquaJogger® water fitness equipment](<a href=“http://www.aquajogger.com/]AquaJogger®”>http://www.aquajogger.com/)</p>
<p>AQX [AQx</a> Sports Inc. - Intelligent Training: Just Add Water!](<a href=“http://www.aqxsports.com/]AQx”>http://www.aqxsports.com/)</p>
<p>Some poeple, eg those used to running for miles, find it boring, but since I enjoy my poolside scenery and music, I just crank it up and enjoy. I use a timer to signal me when done, and I don’t worry about “miles” – that’s part of what runners don’t like – not knowing their speed or distance.</p>
<p>In your case, you’d likely want to avoid the full on running anyway (which if you’re not a runner, takes a while to nail the proper form/gait in water…basically, upright with about a 3 degree tilt forward and keep feet flat on downward stroke as if you’re “landing” on something flat in the deep water…doing Nordic ski movement instead would likely not engage you knee but will really work your core and glutes, believe it or not, especially if using the heaviest “weights”)</p>
<p>The other thing my knee likes better than regular land impact is the airdyne – even though going full on gives incredible resistance, my knee never acts up - so a lot of fat burning bang for the buck.</p>
<p>In my case, even though I do have arthritis, the combo of weightloss and uphill snowshoeing has actually dramatically improved it. I used to be pretty much addicted to aleve, and I don’t even have em in the house now.</p>
<p>That said, my mother has had both knees replaced now and we’re pretty much twins in such things, so there but for the grace of god, etc.</p>
<p>Hopefully this gives you some ideas. Remember that to a point, weightloss is just calories in and out and can in truth be achieved entirely without exercise, though obviously there are benefits to same…including extending the life/function of the knee itself. When mom was going for replacement, I’d read a lot of the Johns Hopkins white papers about it, and they mostly advocate the “use it or lose it” notion.
So between a pt, a checkin w your doc, and maybe some aquajogging gear and water workout videos for rehab, maybe you can get in front of ths thing.</p>
<p>Hope that helps. Sendin ya the light!</p>
<p>NM, no advice but so sorry your knee is still giving you so many problems. </p>
<p>The humidity here has been unbelievable. I have managed to stick with running, though, but some days are much slower going than others. This has been a difficult month with diet/exercise. I am eager to complete my “streak” and be done with it. No danger I’ll be following in MOWC’s footsteps! Hope today’s race goes well for you, and eagerly awaiting a report. </p>
<p>iDad, great TED talk. I really enjoyed it.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info kmc. I don’t have a pool, just a hot tub. Guess I could try some exercise in there! 
I was doing the water walking at the public pool. </p>
<p>I got up early this morning as H’s snoring was driving me crazy and went back to basics with idad’s Ipod nazi exercises. Started back with the beginner abs routine and bodyweight exercises. Very interesting (and inspiring!) to go back and read the beginning of this thread! Then used my 7lb DBs for a few more upper body weight exercises…lateral shoulder, triceps, biceps, overhead raises. Going to try a very short slow walk today and see if I can make it with no pain or swelling. </p>
<p>Good Luck MOWC!!!</p>
<p>Have missed you sabaray! Good luck with your streak! You can get through this crazy summer.</p>
<p>1.13 miles, dips, pullups, curls, dumbbell squats. My schedule is causing me problems on getting workouts. I did a little this morning and that always helps.</p>
<p>iDad’s workouts are incredible.</p>
<p>Senior Olympics DONE! Silver in the 10K. I did better this morning. Still slow- but it was really hot and humid and it felt like more of a tempo run since I wasn’t near anyone for a lot of the race. Just under 61 minutes, which I’ll take for today. I beat someone (not in my age group) that I wanted to beat. Got by her at 3 miles and beat her by about 2 minutes. Someone they took a very flat bike path and made a somewhat hilly course out of it, too. Very convoluted. At work now. Breakfast was some grapes, cherries and 2 Fig Newtons that someone brought. I’m not hungry yet. Still recovering.</p>
<p>Yay, MOWC!</p>
<p>You must have a pretty big stash of race stuff.</p>
<p>Congratulations MOWC!!! Fabulous finish!</p>
<p>Congrats MOWC. Got a temporary cap and cracked tooth turned out to be a cavity. Haven’t had one in 20 years. </p>
<p>Raining off and on outside–decided to workout in the gym–elliptical, treadmill, and 30 minutes of weights/core exercises.</p>
<p>Congrats MOWC - did you get a nice BSO!</p>
<p>Way to go MOWC! Have a couple more Fig Newtons this afternoon!!! :)</p>
<p>What’s a BSO? </p>
<p>I’ve done really well about sugar except for the Fig Newtons and except for yesterday when there were bags of candy piled in the break room and I had a couple lemon drops and a couple of those non pareils- remember them with the white sprinkles? The lemon drops were great.</p>
BSO -> Bright Shiny Object
<p>3.3 mile walk with 7 minutes of running. Daily planks & some girlie push ups.</p>
<p>Great running MOWC! </p>
<p>ohio, aren’t your races coming up soon?</p>
<p>BSO is bright shiny object.
Blankmind I have my state senior game races this Saturday. The level of competition and quality of BSOs will determine if I run between 1 and 6 events! I’m really trying to decide if I should run everything for a serious workout or just concentrate on my main event for a lower time.</p>
<p>YES! Another silver BSO medal! They are actually pretty nice. I wish the t-shirt was better. Boring, white, man-cut t-shirt. But not to complain… A man on a walker admired my Nuu Muu!</p>
<p>kmc:</p>
<p>I had not thought of the Airdyne for nminn’s knees, but come to think of it, it probably would be worth hunting one down somewhere and trying it out. The resistance is so smooth that it is extremely low impact. Worst case: you could prop the injured leg up on the footpeg and still get a heck of a workout with one leg and two arms.</p>
<p>Speaking of bikes: my new doc is training for a [24</a> hour mountain bike race](<a href=“http://www.24hoursofgreatglen.com/]24”>http://www.24hoursofgreatglen.com/). Four man teams, riding in 1 hour shifts, for 24 hours. Yikes.</p>
<p>Mountain biking in the dark sounds like my idea of hell!</p>
<p>Good job,MOWC…I think silver is prettier anyway:)</p>
<p>Speaking of pretty…got a great deal on a liquidation sale at Running Warehouse. Got Mizuno Wave Riders for $53. with a 15% discount for liking them on FB. The best part is they are purple w/ red soles! Love purple. Looking forward to first run in them.</p>
<p>Have biked 32 miles in the last three days and kayaked for an hour or so on the river (fighting some fierce summer storm winds).</p>