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January 28th, 2008 at 9:30 am (Strength Training) · Digg! this story.

I woke up this morning and could feel my left knee was achy.  I was pretty frustrated, to say the least.  Of course, I am still not in ‘pain’ and really only notice it slightly now if I get in the right position, but I am so worried that all the time, money, and effort (not to mention loss of running stamina!) in physical therapy will yield no results. A friend of mine that is a physical therapist says I shouldn’t worry, and that I have been diligent and so everything should be fine.  I hope she is right, and that my ortho appointment in the morning somehow confirms that, because I just can’t reconcile with the idea that I should have knee trouble at my age when I am working so hard to make sure the surrounding musculature is in tip-top shape.

On the positive, because I went to PT, I have found that I enjoy lifting weights and thus have been more motivated to work out in different ways.  At least I can see that there is something other than running to do for physical activity that I will enjoy!  (But, I still want to run again… and hopefully run far again.)

So, my reaction to the morning stiff/achy knee was to PT the living @#$% out of it!  I went to the gym, warmed-up 10 minutes on the elliptical, stretched, did a slew of PT exercises, stretched, went home, did the rest of my PT exercises, and stretched again.  I wish it was prudent to run again, because it’s still warm out.  Patience.  The nice weather will return!

Workout:

• Type: Strength Training
• Date: 01/28/2008
• Time: 09:30:00
• Total Time: 1:05:00.00

@ the gym:

Hip machine side raises - 3 sets of 10 each side @ 50 lbs
Hip machine kick backs - 30 each side @ 90 lbs
30 step over and backs each side
30 side dips off step each side
2 sets of 12 squat rows @ 42.5 lbs
20 each direction each side balance with low pulley @ 10 lbs
3 sets of 12 single leg hamstring curls @ 20 lbs
2 sets of 12 and 1 set of 15 leg presses @ 50 lbs
30 single leg standing calf raises each side holding 30 lbs

@ home:

30 each side -
Abductions @ 5 lbs
Adductions @ 5 lbs
Glute raises @ 5 lbs
Straight leg raises @ 5 lbs
Quad sets
Bridges with kicks
Squats
Side steps with band

Followed with long hamstring stretches.