exercise regimes

[femur]

I know this hasnt been talked about in a couple months, but i also use to run. I played soccer my whole life. I was training to go into the sheriffs dept when i was in my accident and told i could never run again. That was three years ago.
To this day i still cannot run and even if i try i am in so much pain later, with the whole schin splints pain also.
I just was at the doc not to long ago and he said if i want to spare my knee for the long run than i can only swim laps ( boring) and ride a bike. Oh and i cant also run laps in the pool.
so i have been riding a bike and noticing a differance, but i still dont get the same feeling as if i were running.
basically we need to act like we are 80 years old to save our knees for when we really are 80.
good luck.

[NikkiE]

Hi all

rru2s - I have heard of the Pose method, did you learn from a book/off the website, or did you actually attend a workshop. I think Dr Romanov is coming here to Austarlai in the near future, but the workshop is quite pricey.

Femur - that's what grates: having to act liike an eighty year old!! Anyway i'll just play devil's advocate here and say: How do we know we'll live to 80? And hopefully by then they will have worked out how to cure it!

[mystified]

I just want to put a plug in for cycling and swimming.  If you work on your technique in swimming, you can join a club, etc., it's truly a fantastic, superhard workout; or alternatively you can get in a groove with your stroke and completely zone out - I think it's because of the ways in which you have to coordinate your breathing.  And while I also find cycling indoors a bit tedious, it's totally fantastic outside.  If you were willing to run in snow/terrible heat, the same can be true for bicycling.  I'd rather keep my own knees as long as possible and enjoy two new sports.  After 3 years without running, I'm thinking of upgrading my bike and maybe even buying a triathlon wet suit so I can swim outside into the fall/early in the spring.

[aliasgrace26]

How is everyone doing with their exercise regimes? I continue to go to PT for my chronic issues, and also go to aqua aerobics classes twice per week, and altnernate b/w low resistance stat. bike, rowing machine, and elliptical. OH! And I tried kayaking for the first time last weekend. It's so nice to know there are some things I can do strictly for the upper body to give my poor knee some sort of break...
How do you all get through the pain while exercising on 'bad' days?

[jb-knee-geek]

take a poll: http://www.kneeguru.co.uk/KNEEnotes/node/464

thanks