The TFP Health Club

This is what I do.

 

Yoga. Look up lower body/standing postures. They will also give you better balance and correct imbalances in your legs and hips. Plus they are low-impact, which is better for your pre-arthritic condition.

Standing Yoga Poses - My Yoga Online

 

Dudes, chill out. I got this.

To be fair, what I didn't tell you guys is that I have a bad knee. It's sufficiently fucked up that running is sometimes not possible, so putting a lot of heavy weight on it for resistance training is not a fantastic idea. Sprints build strength (the runner dudes were totally just talking about that like two pages back in this very thread) so I'll start where I'm comfortable. If/when I start to feel like I'm not getting enough from that I'll work my way up.

And for the record, nothing short of heavy chemical intervention will ever give me a body like Stallone. Seeing as how I already found a woman who's willing to fuck me just as I am, it's not a priority. I'm all over being healthy. Looking better, if it happens, is a happy accident.

Rumour has it I was pretty fit before illness laid me low. I'm trying to get back to where I was, and I had pretty good success getting there before. Let's just all assume that I've probably already looked this shit up, hmm?

 

At the same time, what did you expect posting where unsolicited advice runs rampant?

I haven't squatted in years. (I don't even lift.) But, damn it, my legs are in pretty good shape.

 

Well, I was intending to be somewhat polite about it but to be perfectly blunt about the matter, you really don't have a hell of a lot of choice. If I do feel like I need advice on how to train, the internet is not going to be my first stop. In the mean time (and let me emphasize this again) I'm going to do what's comfortable for me. To be honest, that probably won't involve a lot of running, though I really enjoy running and if my knee is up to it, I probably will go for a run in nice weather now and again. It's mostly going to be cycling and, if I can get my hands on one, time on an elliptical. I might work my way up to some lower body strength training, but that's not something I'm about to dive into -- frankly, I don't know right now what my body is capable of. I'm feeling that out, but without the benefit of a trainer or a lot of equipment or even a spotter, it's going to be a slow process. I'm working my way up to where I need to be, and I'm going to do it in the way that I'm most comfortable with and judge to be least harmful to myself, and my Martian joints.

arkana I love you brother, but sometimes you need to realize that other people are entitled to live their lives how they want to live them, even when that involves making decisions that you don't like or agree with. Show a little trust in my ability to understand my own body and what I need to do to get/keep it well, please. Or if you can't do that, at least give me room to make my own mistakes.

 

Body weight exercises helped out my knees a lot--as well as a foam roller and yoga. They're doing much better than they were and I was impressed with their ability to hang in there in Toronto.

 

Walking stairs is a great exercise in an of itself. When I worked in Boston my office was on the sixth floor. I walked up and down at least twice, occasionally three times, every day.

A personal trainer friend stressed that walking down the stairs was just as important as walking up, (and in that way better than a stair machine) and to not use the hand railing for support, only if needed for balance. Move up the stairs quickly, walk down slowly to work the quads.

End result was lean thighs, tight glutes, and a light butt.
As far as doing my partner right... I've never done squats. Except cock squats.

 

Vive la Résistance!

 

Today my exercise is carrying a 15-lb baby up and down the stairs while dizzy, for a cup of vegetable broth. I feel pretty dang accomplished considering I have the flu.

 

I love that my lifting routine makes me feel amazing in 15 minutes flat. It also encourages me to exercise at other times of day. Body weight exercises here, stretching there, yoga, yoga, and more yoga.

 

I'm feeling the ~100 burpees from last night.