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annathepiperFor the first time since well before I broke my arm, I have completed a weights workout using the list of exercises out of Weightlifting for Dummies that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kathrynt gave me. I have determined that I can with varying degrees of ease do all of the exercises on the list except one, which is Back Extensions. Or, as solarbird and mamishka have been known to refer to it, Carpet Swimming. This involves lying face down on the floor, with your arms stretched out in front of you past your head. You lift your arm and your leg on the same side to stretch your back muscles and alternate sides. I could get into the position to do it but could not lift my arm. Oh well! No Back Extensions for me for a while!
The rest of the exercises went well enough, using two-pound weights. Some of them I was easily able to make 40 reps on, some I couldn't manage any more than 12. But Dara says that if you can make 12 reps you probably want to go up a weight. So I'll be trying the three-pounders next time. I need to start doing weights more regularly again, even though I am getting in a good hour's worth of walking every day during the week.
I've been typing two-handed pretty much exclusively now. I still periodically need to stop and flex my right hand some, but for the most part unless I am really tired I am back to the two-handed typing. And I'm getting my arm around my guitar more easily now. Which is a great comfort.
Liz working with stretching my arm in certain ways during my last massage session helped a LOT, as I've mentioned, and I had the satisfaction of showing her when she came over Friday night for the Movie Night Meems was hosting. So I'm definitely going to have her do more of that next time. My nerve healing seems to have hit another lull, but it seems to really be making my muscles happier to stretch them out this way and that.
I am getting really close to feeling normal again. I am hoping that by the end of the year, I will. And that when Dara and I go to Kentucky to visit my brother and his family over the December holidays, I will be able to entertain his children with tales of how I broke my arm. ;)
kathrynt gave me. I have determined that I can with varying degrees of ease do all of the exercises on the list except one, which is Back Extensions. Or, as solarbird and mamishka have been known to refer to it, Carpet Swimming. This involves lying face down on the floor, with your arms stretched out in front of you past your head. You lift your arm and your leg on the same side to stretch your back muscles and alternate sides. I could get into the position to do it but could not lift my arm. Oh well! No Back Extensions for me for a while! The rest of the exercises went well enough, using two-pound weights. Some of them I was easily able to make 40 reps on, some I couldn't manage any more than 12. But Dara says that if you can make 12 reps you probably want to go up a weight. So I'll be trying the three-pounders next time. I need to start doing weights more regularly again, even though I am getting in a good hour's worth of walking every day during the week.
I've been typing two-handed pretty much exclusively now. I still periodically need to stop and flex my right hand some, but for the most part unless I am really tired I am back to the two-handed typing. And I'm getting my arm around my guitar more easily now. Which is a great comfort.
Liz working with stretching my arm in certain ways during my last massage session helped a LOT, as I've mentioned, and I had the satisfaction of showing her when she came over Friday night for the Movie Night Meems was hosting. So I'm definitely going to have her do more of that next time. My nerve healing seems to have hit another lull, but it seems to really be making my muscles happier to stretch them out this way and that.
I am getting really close to feeling normal again. I am hoping that by the end of the year, I will. And that when Dara and I go to Kentucky to visit my brother and his family over the December holidays, I will be able to entertain his children with tales of how I broke my arm. ;)
