Dialann - exercise, cardio and anniversaries
A year ago this month, my husband was in the hospital undergoing heart procedures - they were inserting stents int the arteries feeding his heart muscle in order to force these vessels to remain open. One major artery was completely blocked, the other was about 80% blocked. Miraculously enough, he had not experienced a heart attack of any sort (knock wood).
What with one thing and another, however, he did not feel well enough to start cardiac rehab until late October/ early November. He completed the course in February. Since then, he has been very committed to continuing the exercises in order to maintain the heart benefits. He had been, that is, until I injured my hand. I'm worrying about him. In the past fortnight, I think he's exercised 4 times (although to be fair, in that time span he's also finished trimming the hedges and weed-whacked the yard - while wearing the cardiac monitor).
Last year, on the last day of August, while dashing to catch a train to take me across Boston to the hospital where my husband was scheduled to undergo his last procedure, I twisted my left knee very badly. As soon as I was able to do so, I started my own physical therapy regime (self-prescribed). I've been keeping it up since then (if I go too long without the exercises, my knee begins to stiffen again). However, I haven't been exercising regularly since the accident to my hand - which I suspect is part of the reason M hasn't been exercising regularly. Not so much because of my bad example but because I can't work up any moral authority to persuade hime to suffer when I'm not suffering equally. And in this heat, it is suffering.
Hopefully, that will now change. I've just come up from our home gym (sweating like a stuck pig) where I did 20 min. of cycling, a full set of leg exercises, a 5 min. tai chi routine and the full set of cool-down stretches. AND I've figured out how to use the rowing machine with a bum hand (replaced the hand-holds on either side with the "pull-down" bar and drastically reduced the weight-resistance). I didn't row today because I was already mentally out of exercise mode, but I may try it this evening if M decides to exercise and I definitely will tomorrow.
What with one thing and another, however, he did not feel well enough to start cardiac rehab until late October/ early November. He completed the course in February. Since then, he has been very committed to continuing the exercises in order to maintain the heart benefits. He had been, that is, until I injured my hand. I'm worrying about him. In the past fortnight, I think he's exercised 4 times (although to be fair, in that time span he's also finished trimming the hedges and weed-whacked the yard - while wearing the cardiac monitor).
Last year, on the last day of August, while dashing to catch a train to take me across Boston to the hospital where my husband was scheduled to undergo his last procedure, I twisted my left knee very badly. As soon as I was able to do so, I started my own physical therapy regime (self-prescribed). I've been keeping it up since then (if I go too long without the exercises, my knee begins to stiffen again). However, I haven't been exercising regularly since the accident to my hand - which I suspect is part of the reason M hasn't been exercising regularly. Not so much because of my bad example but because I can't work up any moral authority to persuade hime to suffer when I'm not suffering equally. And in this heat, it is suffering.
Hopefully, that will now change. I've just come up from our home gym (sweating like a stuck pig) where I did 20 min. of cycling, a full set of leg exercises, a 5 min. tai chi routine and the full set of cool-down stretches. AND I've figured out how to use the rowing machine with a bum hand (replaced the hand-holds on either side with the "pull-down" bar and drastically reduced the weight-resistance). I didn't row today because I was already mentally out of exercise mode, but I may try it this evening if M decides to exercise and I definitely will tomorrow.