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Keeping Fit

mdgoonah41

goon wrote:
Running absolutely kills my joints, my ankles and knees are in pain within mins despite having good footwear. Even on the treadmill my knees struggle.

What’s a good cardio session for bad knees? The cross trainer works for me and that’s about it.

i have bad knees too, but i use a spinning bike with a 45 pound fly wheel. i have it at my house so i dont need to go to the gym. i find its much easier on my knees because there is no impact.

Claudius

goon wrote:
Running absolutely kills my joints, my ankles and knees are in pain within mins despite having good footwear. Even on the treadmill my knees struggle.

What’s a good cardio session for bad knees? The cross trainer works for me and that’s about it.

One option you have is to do functional training. I’ve found those are my favorite workouts. You hit every part of the body and it’s intense. I do these hard for about 50-60 minutes rather than a machine.

Something like this.
https://www.polar.com/blog/functional-training-what-why-how/
Throw in lots of abs stuff

goon

Thanks Claud, will have a read later.

Though I did do quite a bit of functional training (mostly using my own body weight) at home a while back quite intensively, I think that's how I ruined my knee in the first place, possibly with bad squat posture but also shit like split jumps, which put me off it completely. Maybe I'll pick it up again and focus more on the core/abs as you suggest.

HomeSteak

I got a 53,2 km race in 3 weeks, 2250 m+ altitude, really exicted as it's the longest I have ever done. But scared at the same time, as it's a trail run and those have always been hard for me, and also has to be said I have not trained as I should have. Just want to finish really, don't care about the time.

KingslandBarge

That is awe inspiring Homesteak, right on! I am sure you have it all prepped in detail. Do you meditate at all? Might be a good means of just flossing mentally, conceptualizing the task, calming your emotions and facilitating a good nights rest. Whats the altitude of the start point?

HomeSteak

KingslandBarge wrote:
That is awe inspiring Homesteak, right on! I am sure you have it all prepped in detail. Do you meditate at all? Might be a good means of just flossing mentally, conceptualizing the task, calming your emotions and facilitating a good nights rest. Whats the altitude of the start point?

300 meter is the start. I do yoga & meditation every day. The cut off time is 9 hours, I should be able to finish easy. But let's see. I will do it in my Arsenal kit :john: .

QuincyAbeyie

What's the race called? Sounds like something that'd kill me. 😆

HomeSteak

primavera trail run 😆. it's not big.

HomeSteak

How do we keep fit at home guys?

KingslandBarge

Recommend this for the more athletic battle-hardened users on here.

Kel Varnsen

Resistance bands, body weight exercises and running.

Asterix

I did 12 push ups and 12 sit ups this morning. I am not fit, but with the family all at home we are embarking on skipping, some free weights, push ups and sit ups.

Coombs

Can't run as we're buried in snow, but body weight routines with the kiddo (4) has been pretty fun.

Daz

Went for a run in the state forest (at the end of the road where I've just moved - sweet!) with my daughter, then finished off with some push ups, sit ups and short weights session.

HomeSteak

The gyms are still closed here, but it's ok to work out at the bars in the park now and as I got bored with running, today I did my first ever Murph. It's hard as hell, the rain did not help, but I got it done. Not a fan of cross fit but I did enjoy this.

Daz

What's Murph?
I splashed out on a new mountain bike a few weeks ago so I've been getting into that. Good fun and a better cardio workout than I thought it would be.

Claudius

Challenged myself to close all my Apple activity rings last month. Managed it by running every day. This month going to focus on getting some speed into my old legs. By the time lockdown is fully lifted I can partake in some coronafest 10k races.

MistaT

Daz wrote:
What's Murph?

1 mile Run
100 Pull-ups
200 Push-ups
300 Squats
1 mile Run

100 pull ups no joke....

Daz

Yikes. I pity the fool...

MistaT

Here's what I'm doing through June:

Running 12 miles per week
-- 3 mile, fast as possible (<22 mins)
-- 4 mile, with interval training (mixing in sprints)
-- 5 mile, however, ideally with vertical gain)
-- 2,000 meter vertical running challenge (tracked across all of my runs)

100 push ups per day
-- with a push up board that helps you target different body parts (chest/shoulder/back/triceps)

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