Skipped three days but now am back

I hurt my lower back playing bball three days ago, so I had to skip the last three days of egoscue. But tonight I started back on it and all is well. Just couldn't do Hand-Leg Opposite Lifts.

I'm still quite glad to be back on egoscue. My creaking seemed to increase during those three days, no kidding!

Ankle Cracks and More

Today made three days of Egoscue in a row after taking a month's vacation from it. The first two days I did Menu 5, and today I did Menu 4. I think they both take me about 35 minutes, which is a good length for me. I also jumped on the tramp and of course did my five shoulder-cracking pushups a few times today. You'll be happy to learn that I can do these five pushups a bit faster now than I could four days ago. I only go down halfway (if I touched my nose to the ground I would not be able to pull myself up) but hey it's better than not doing five halfway pushups at all. No motion every day = dysfunction and death.

Another goal I have is to get up off the floor from a cross-legged position with flair and abandon, unlike I do now (I look like a sedentary old person using her hands and elbows and all her might to push herself on her legs to stand up. Okay not that bad but close.)

The video below is my left ankle. It only cracks a little here but I took what I could get for this video. Do you like how I cut off the top of my foot? I hope in a few months from now I can show you a quiet Supine Foot Circle and Point/Flex. I bet I can.

My body feels good after doing my ecises and I am glad to be back on them. I know they are helping me.

I Started Up Again!

I am very very glad that tonight I started Egoscue back up again after not doing it for a month. I could tell a positive difference in my body after the first exercise. And then even more so after a couple more. It just makes my body feel right, letting me know how not right it was before. This past month I was just getting creakier and older feeling. And now thank God I've finally seen the light that yes I DO need to exercise every day and yes I DO need to do Egoscue to make my body feel the best that it can. I think in the back of my mind I was thinking that I don't need to do anything because I've always been tall and slim and muscular but here I am, at a bloody creaky 40, realizing that I must use it or lose it.

So today I jumped on the trampoline for twenty minutes, and did some pushups on the pushup bars (left shoulder creaking the whole time), and then tonight my fifth menu of Egoscue for the first time. I am very grateful to be back.

Awareness Brings its Own Action: Moving the Body

So basically for the last month I've not been moving my body. I sit at my computer and work, I go to the bathroom, I go back to the computer, I make a meal, I go back to the computer, I go to bed. Where is the walking outside, the Egoscue exercises, the jumping on the trampoline...? They've not been happening. But today I realize something, yet again, that I already knew quite well: I have to move. Especially if I want my creakiness to go away!!

So today I did five push-ups. And I jumped on the mini-trampoline. And I'm going to set my computer clock to ring every few hours and say: "okay time to move!" And I'm going to take my printer in to get fixed so that I can print out Paul's Fifth Menu. And work up the courage to start back on the routine.