Guest guest Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 Thanks for the suggestions Kat! Dana Re: exercise and bad knees Dana, check with your local hospital, they might have resources where you could get reduced or even free entry to a pool for excerise... also some area WMCA's do ablitity to pay fee structure. just some thoughts.... Kat BM aka MommaKat ebay : http://www.stores.ebay.com/midnightkatproductions website: http://www.beadfix.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 Yes Amira, it's the pressure on the knees that hurt. I've tried the stationary bike before but I didn't like it because I got bored. Dana exercise and bad knees In a message dated 01/21/2004 9:55:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, Serious-Weight-Watchers writes: exercise and bad knees Does the pressure of walking hurt your knees? Do you just need something where you wouldn't put impact on your knees? If so, would exercise bike work .... of course you'd be bending/working your knees; however, you wouldn't have the body weight on them .... seems like one of my customers who has bad knees .... her doctor mentioned that method to her .... Amira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 Yes Amira, it's the pressure on the knees that hurt. I've tried the stationary bike before but I didn't like it because I got bored. Dana exercise and bad knees In a message dated 01/21/2004 9:55:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, Serious-Weight-Watchers writes: exercise and bad knees Does the pressure of walking hurt your knees? Do you just need something where you wouldn't put impact on your knees? If so, would exercise bike work .... of course you'd be bending/working your knees; however, you wouldn't have the body weight on them .... seems like one of my customers who has bad knees .... her doctor mentioned that method to her .... Amira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 24, 2004 Report Share Posted January 24, 2004 Yes Amira, it's the pressure on the knees that hurt. I've tried the stationary bike before but I didn't like it because I got bored. Dana exercise and bad knees In a message dated 01/21/2004 9:55:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, Serious-Weight-Watchers writes: exercise and bad knees Does the pressure of walking hurt your knees? Do you just need something where you wouldn't put impact on your knees? If so, would exercise bike work .... of course you'd be bending/working your knees; however, you wouldn't have the body weight on them .... seems like one of my customers who has bad knees .... her doctor mentioned that method to her .... Amira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 25, 2004 Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 You would need to call and ask if that's allowed first. A lot of public pools will not allow you to swim in " street clothes " . At least our parks & rec pools here don't. They won't even let you go in the pool with a t-shirt over your swim suit. As far as being seen in a swim suit I wouldn't worry to much about it. I was freaked out about going to water aerobics when I was fat and pregnant (my MIL talked me into taking the class with her) and was surprised to find that most of the women in the class were also very over weight. No swim suit models in our class ) I think that if you are very heavy it's one of the few ways to exercise without any impact on already strained joints. Kris _____ From: Tory K Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 5:27 PM To: Serious-Weight-Watchers Subject: RE: Re: exercise and bad knees > I've thought about water aerobics and I may go to that at one > point. Right now I don't have a bathing suit and can't > afford to get one. Plus I really don't want to be seen in > one right now either! You can wear shorts and a one-piece and I bet you can pick one up at a thrift store. Hey, don't let a little thing like this get in your way! It's so easy to talk ourselves out of things that will benefit us and make us feel WAY better in the long run. Just push the excuses out, and start listing reasons how you CAN do this and why you WANT to do this. Heck, even at my small size (down from a very very large one) I don't look that great in a swimsuit, but I'm not letting that get in the way of doing a triathlon this year. Am I nervous about it? Yeah, you bet I am. Do I " want " to get into a swimsuit with my saggy thigh skin and traipse into the pool? No. Will I let that get in my way? NO WAY! I know that I'll have beat a personal demon every single time I put on the suit and get into the water. _____ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 25, 2004 Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 Thanks for the encouragement Tory! Dana RE: Re: exercise and bad knees You can wear shorts and a one-piece and I bet you can pick one up at a thrift store. Hey, don't let a little thing like this get in your way! It's so easy to talk ourselves out of things that will benefit us and make us feel WAY better in the long run. Just push the excuses out, and start listing reasons how you CAN do this and why you WANT to do this. Heck, even at my small size (down from a very very large one) I don't look that great in a swimsuit, but I'm not letting that get in the way of doing a triathlon this year. Am I nervous about it? Yeah, you bet I am. Do I " want " to get into a swimsuit with my saggy thigh skin and traipse into the pool? No. Will I let that get in my way? NO WAY! I know that I'll have beat a personal demon every single time I put on the suit and get into the water. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 > > I've thought about water aerobics and I may go to that at one > > point. Right now I don't have a bathing suit and can't > > afford to get one. Plus I really don't want to be seen in > > one right now either! > > You can wear shorts and a one-piece and I bet you can pick one up at a > thrift store. Hey, don't let a little thing like this get in your way! > It's so easy to talk ourselves out of things that will benefit us and > make us feel WAY better in the long run. Just push the excuses out, and > start listing reasons how you CAN do this and why you WANT to do this. > > Heck, even at my small size (down from a very very large one) I don't > look that great in a swimsuit, but I'm not letting that get in the way > of doing a triathlon this year. Am I nervous about it? Yeah, you bet I > am. Do I " want " to get into a swimsuit with my saggy thigh skin and > traipse into the pool? No. Will I let that get in my way? NO WAY! I know > that I'll have beat a personal demon every single time I put on the suit > and get into the water. I completely agree with Tory on this. As I have said before, I teach water aerobics and I teach the 8:00 am class, so more than half of my class are elderly, or have weight issues, or are " challenged " in some way with bad knees or hip replacements or other. Before I started teaching the class, I was just a member who was looking for another type of exercise and found that the water ex is great. If " feels " easier than it is. The resistance of the water is wonderful and you really get a full body workout. Even tho I am physically able to do a lot of forms of exercise, I choose this as my primary form, and then do whatever else I have time for. PLEASE to not let your size or look in a swimsuit stop you from doing this for yourself. I love all the people in my class, they are so loyal and dedicated. They each do " what they can " . I do try to give a " challenging " class and they like it because it pushes them a little harder, but they know to slow down if they need to and nobody, but nobody makes any judgements. Every day I give them all an " E " for effort rather than excuse. Terri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 Hello everyone, I joined your list a couple of weeks ago. I'm one of those folks Terri mentioned who go to a water exercise class twice a week and I had a hip replacement a little over a year ago. I'm happy to report that after years of pain and limping around I have no more pain from the hip and the work out in the water keeps me a lot more flexible than I would be without it. I don t even think about how I look in a swimsuit...and no one else in our group does either. I'm more concerned at finding a well built suit that will last for more than a couple of months and that fits well...(Lands End does it for me and they have on line sales that really help the budget) I bought a Weight Watcher scale from the WW site and got it a week ago Saturday. It's a great electronic scale and my first week back on program I lost two poumds...unfortunately I didn't do as good a job of staying within my points limit on the second week and gained 1 1/2 of those pounds back. I m trying to do better this week, but at age 66 it's just too easy to give in to the old ways of doing. Glad to be hanging out with some serious weight watchers. Ev ewilliam@... =========================================== teach water aerobics and I teach the 8:00 am class, so more than half of my class are elderly, or have weight issues, or are " challenged " in some way with bad knees or hip replacements or other. Before I started teaching the class, I was just a member who was looking for another type of exercise and found that the water ex is great. If " feels " easier than it is. The resistance of the water is wonderful and you really get a full body workout. Even tho I am physically able to do a lot of forms of exercise, I choose this as my primary form, and then do whatever else I have time for. PLEASE to not let your size or look in a swimsuit stop you from doing this for yourself. I love all the people in my class, they are so loyal and dedicated. They each do " what they can " . I do try to give a " challenging " class and they like it because it pushes them a little harder, but they know to slow down if they need to and nobody, but nobody makes any judgements. Every day I give them all an " E " for effort rather than excuse. Terri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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