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July 17, 2005
Lazy-ish Day
I gave myself the day off (sort of). Slept in, played on friendster went to the gym, read, wrote, watched Bend It Like Beckham. I love that movie. It's such a great story.
I started my new exercise routine today at the gym. I get to move sideways now (that was approved on Thursday), so along with the 35 minutes on the bike and the 20-30 on the stairmaster and the 20-30 minute run 5/walk 5 combo and the weights and the lunges and single leg squats, I now also get to do figure eights on the basketball court to get my knee used to turning again and I get to do the grapevine and sideways step-y thingies. And to jump forwards, backwards and sideways.
I also started jumping onto the Bosu ball last week. I've been using it for balance and standing on it to do upper body work. It's a good allover workout, trying to balance works the legs and the core, and the arms get the free weights.
As far as the jumping goes, I have to jump on and stick. Then I step off. The therapist explained it and then showed me how and it still took me a couple of minutes to get my legs to jump. It reminded me of right after the surgery when I would think, "Okay, right leg, lift," and my right leg would do nothing at all, regardless of how hard I thought at it. This time it was more psychological than physiological, but my legs still didn't want to cooperate. "Jump on that thing? And land? With this knee? Are you high?"
She wasn't, and I did it, and survived with new ACL and bone grafts intact, but it still makes me nervous. I never did that sort of thing before the surgery because it seemed like a bad idea. And now I'm required to as part of my rehabilitation? Okay, but people get hurt doing things like that. It seems like a good way to lose a knee.
Posted by sally at July 17, 2005 10:24 PM
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