Latest Pictures - Fifth Batch

12.21.09

Here are my fifth and final (for the money I've paid thus far) pictures. I was trying to stand up straight here, unlike in my fourth batch of pictures. I think I look straighter in the side views. The front view still throws me because of my twited ribcage - I guess I never knew it looked like that! It's the result of a spinal fusion done for scoliosis when I was 14 years old.

Here are Paul's comments on these photos:

Alternate this menu daily with your last menu. Looking better than the last "relaxed" photos in the side views. Hips are staying underneath you much better. The shoulder rounding is still something to work on - taking breaks as needed with your busy work-schedule. Still need to get more of the torsion out of your hips-knees-feet to affect the noise in the knees. If you'd like to, let's get on Skype to discuss any of the e-cises. Keep up the consistency.

And here is my fifth Menu to start on:

#/Sets/Duration/E-cise

1. 1 25 Standing Elbow Curls
2. 2 40 Standing Arm Circles
3. 1 0:01:00 Standing Overhead Extension
4. 1 40 Supine Foot Circles & Point/Flexes
5. 1 00:01:00 Supine Calf & Hamstring Stretch
6. 1 0:01:00 Assisted Hip Lift
7. 2 10 Hand-Leg Opposite Glides
8. 1 10 Hand-Leg Opposite Lifts
9. 1 00:02:00 Static Extension
10. 3 10 3-Position Toe Raises
11. 1 0:02:00 Airbench
12. 1 0:05:00 Wall Drop


To be honest, I have not done any Egoscue ecises for a WEEK! I just got this menu three days ago, and tomorrow I will start back on my daily ecise-ing. My heel pain has increased during this break from the Egoscue, so I look forward to seeeing that diminish again. We'll also find out if my left foot will ever come back in to center!

Still alternating third and fourth menus

12.15.09

Been alternating third and fourth menus for the last three weeks, every day. I sent in my fifth and last batch of pictures and am waiting to see what Paul says. I still like the fourth menu. My knees still creak going up the stairs, my right one especially. I must be patient.

All this time I was doing Floor Block wrong, trying to lift my arms up over the blocks (paper towel rolls - now stacks of books for more height). Just leaving my arms there doesn't feel like it's doing anything.

As for Standing Quad Stretch, when I try to tilt my butt under, it doesn't move much, but I think I'm doing it right. I feel it in my stomach muscles a lot, which are trying to pull in my butt (and I feel it in my knees too).

I've also been working like crazy at my job (at the computer) so it would behoove me to do more ecises during breaks, which I haven't been doing.

The funny thing is, I can't even really tell how I'm progressing when I look at my own pictures. When I look at the front view all I can see is my twisted ribcage, that looks a bit scary, but I need to get over myself. And accept. And keep trying. I'll post those photos next post.