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| # Posted 2009-07-02 09:42:46 | |
| KPittman: | Try jogging in place in water up to your shoulders. Wear some water shoes to protect your feet. You don't have to get your HR way up. You just do this to maintain your fitness while you're injured. I hope you get better soon. |
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| # Posted 2009-07-02 09:50:32 | |
| Bash: | Sounds like a job for your new Vibram Five Fingers! |
| # Posted 2009-07-02 12:44:02 | |
| kwilliams: | Hope your ankle gets better soon! See if you can find a pool where you can at least people watch - OR - get some maps and aquajog with them, going over old courses, or training your eyes on high detail, etc.. Should be good test of ability to focus and make decisions when you are also focusing on your body motions. As I wrote to Sandra, I was out for months once with a stress fracture, which meant lots of pool time. It gets better. |
| # Posted 2009-07-02 19:56:08 | |
| maprunner: | Can you find a pool with a diving well? I find it better to jog around and around in the deep end, instead of back and forth in a lane. Keep your arms moving faster than usual, to keep your HR up. (However, your HR will always be 10-20 beats lower than on land, due to buoyancy and cooling effect of the water). Try to mix it up during jogging: different strides, different speeds. It can be boring, but it does help maintain fitness. Hope you heal quickly. |
| # Posted 2009-07-02 20:40:55 | |
| Bash: | I once did a deep water aquafit class that was much less boring than I'd expected. It incorporated things like "cross-country skiing" with full arm and leg motion, jumping jacks, etc., so that lots of different muscles were used. |
| # Posted 2009-07-02 23:41:38 | |
| LKohn: | The class situation would at least give you someone to talk to, even if they are over 80. I tried the water thing once...lasted about 10 minutes before I went to the hot tub. |
| # Posted 2009-07-03 00:07:17 | |
| Bash: | I think the over-80 crowd prefers the classes where you can touch the bottom. The deep water class seemed to attract a younger crowd - although Cristina would still have been at the young end of the range. One thing that surprised me was that the little flotation belt didn't keep my head above water unless I was actually doing something. Needless to say, that was excellent motivation! |
| # Posted 2009-07-03 02:36:54 | |
| mm-ha: | Aquafit classes in deep water can be real good training for the whole body. I startet one this year because a friend of mine didn't want to go alone and I thought: OK, could be nice for active regeneration on a rest day. But it turned out to be real training, if you take it serious. Especially with our instructor, who prefers some smaller floating devices like a noodle or a small disc for the hand instead of belts and likes saying: and now put it out of the water over your head. Then you have to work real real hard, even with spare kilos of body fat to help the flotation ;) |
| # Posted 2009-07-03 02:38:46 | |
| peggyd: | I used to visualize orienteering courses. Usually I "saw" myself passing other women going up hills or reaching the control first. My pools have areas (one is an area, the other is a lane) set aside for deep-water running, which is nice until the people who don't read jump in and swim there anyway.
I find it very boring. At least on a treadmill you can read something. |
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