Okay I'm back on the egoscue, as of last night before I went to bed. The whole day yesterday I had heel pain in my right heel. Not excruciating, but not fun. I find myself compensating by shifting weight to my left foot. Not an ideal situation. I haven't done any ecises in three weeks. But last night I picked up my copy of Pain Free and read the section about feet. And then proceeded to do the four ecises:
Foot Circles and Point Flexes
Supine Calf/Hamstring Stretch
Static Extension
Air Bench
and lo and behold my heel pain was gone for those last five minutes before bed. And still absent this morning. But is with me a bit right now in the late afternoon. The book says to do these four ecises until the pain is gone for 24 hours. Then continue for one week before switching to the overall conditioning program in Chapter 13. Which I might do. Or I might call Paul again and pay another $200 for the next five skype sessions/menus with him. But for now, definitely, I will do these foot ecises each day. Just fifteen minutes and my body feels better after doing them!
The book makes a lot of sense - I'm surprised the therapy is not more well-known.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
On again off again
Sorry to say this but I've slipped again. I'm not about to quit the blog, however, I hope to get back on the ecises soon. I wonder why it's so tough to keep on it!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Running and Egoscue
I don't know about other people, but it's tough for me to do Egoscue every day. I'm travelling, or I feel unenergetic, or I have too many other priority things to accomplish that day, yadda yadda. But I did do my fifth menu tonight, and this is my third day in a row back to being in the swing of Egoscue.
Supine Foot Circles & Point/Flexes - I can still only do 30. Ankles get so tired during the flexes that I have to stop at about 20 or so.
Hand-Leg Opposite Glides - takes some major coordination. Feel like I did when I learned how to play a drumset, with each limb doing something different.
Airbench - 2 minutes of it is manageable, a far cry from when I first started doing it, when I could only do 30 seconds.
I'm rereading the book about Blood Type diets and the part about exercise really got my attention this time. So much so that five days ago, in the hotel at 10pm, I ran on the treadmill in the tiny gym. Ran/walk for 30 minutes listening to music. And it was fantastic. Have run three times since and I am so happy to be back. Intense exercise makes me happy, that's all there is to it. And I have a strong suspicion that exercise like this will decrease my creaks. That's what it feels like so far anyway.
Of course my next question would be: is running too harsh on the body or not? Would love to hear people's opinions on this.
Supine Foot Circles & Point/Flexes - I can still only do 30. Ankles get so tired during the flexes that I have to stop at about 20 or so.
Hand-Leg Opposite Glides - takes some major coordination. Feel like I did when I learned how to play a drumset, with each limb doing something different.
Airbench - 2 minutes of it is manageable, a far cry from when I first started doing it, when I could only do 30 seconds.
I'm rereading the book about Blood Type diets and the part about exercise really got my attention this time. So much so that five days ago, in the hotel at 10pm, I ran on the treadmill in the tiny gym. Ran/walk for 30 minutes listening to music. And it was fantastic. Have run three times since and I am so happy to be back. Intense exercise makes me happy, that's all there is to it. And I have a strong suspicion that exercise like this will decrease my creaks. That's what it feels like so far anyway.
Of course my next question would be: is running too harsh on the body or not? Would love to hear people's opinions on this.
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