Three new at-home workout plans
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Jonas Colting has been an endurance athlete most of his life. He’s won six World and European medals in the triathlon, has been competing in the sport since 1991, and has won the Ultraman World Championships in Hawaii twice. He once swam nearly 400 miles in six weeks, averaging 10.5 miles per day, from the Swedish cities of Stockholm to Gothenburg. He did this in order to raise $100,000 for the charity WaterAid, which helps provide clean water and support for underdeveloped parts of the world. He is a well-known Swedish author, podcast host, and fitness personality. He lives with his wife, son, and two dogs in Borås, Sweden.
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If you click the gold button, one of the options is for those with limited movement. While you may not be able to modify all of the exercises, there should be options for you there.
From Amazon: Get Fit While You Sit Torkelson – This book contains exercise routines that can be done
while holding on to or sitting in a chair. There are also books with strength-building exercises that can be
done while lying in bed.
I went to a private trainer and only after 14 sessions my knee pains disappeared for ever. She used similar exercises but gradually made it from very easy to more and more challenging. You need to strengthen muscles above your knees to make your knee muscles work less. Exercise with a well educated trainer will give your youth in your body and mobility back.
We do not have a plan for water exercise at this time.
Jonas includes scaled exercises for all mobility levels with each session.
I can relate. Although I'm not 62, I am 51 and I had a stroke at the age of 7, and have no use of my left hand and limited use of the left arm. My left leg is not as stable as my right. Also, in 2020, I tore my right meniscus and it is still not 100%. I do deal with some low back pain as well from 4 herniated discs in my early 30's when I was going to the gym and doing crazy cardio.
-- What I found that works best for me is to just modify the exercises.
Walking= I will walk a little slower, and gradually my walking improves over time.
Squats= I have to be super careful with it so I will cut the movement in half and not go down only as far as I am comfortable with so I do not cause my right knee more problems.
Lunges= I do not and will not do lunges at all but I do the squats again, with lunges, it involves a lot of the knee.
Hip thrusts= I modify these and do not lift up off the ground much at all (because of my lower back).
Push-ups= I can do them, it took me a long time to be able to do these because it involves the left side of my body so much.
-- My knee pain was really intense until I made my quads stronger. And If I skip my Celebrex, I can forget about moving at all. Eventually, I would love to not have to rely on the Celebrex as much, and in the meantime, I just modify exercises to my own capability. Cutting the movement in half is not a big change, heck even Jillian Michaels has her workouts modified. It took me 20 years to realize I do not have to torture myself with exercise. And at our age, we should be kind to our bodies. Do what you feel safe doing without injuring yourself.