January 22, 2020 Sick, spent most of evening sleeping Did wake up and do some medicine ball stuff What I call them Around the world pole to pole Around the Equator Lay on back throw and catch standing bounce catch Then...more sleep
Previous post was dated incorrectly, that was January 21, 2020 January 22, 2020 Evening Exercise Bike Stretching - Legs Total Gym Shoulders and Arms Dumbbell work Stretching - Arms Shoulders I think the Exercise bike is irritating my knee. I have noticed that before the bike my knee is either feeling a bit better or bothering me a little bit. After the bike I am limping and sitting with a heating pad on my knee. Think I am going to remove it for now and see what happens.
January 23, 2020 Nothing, dang knee issues January 24 2020 Sun Taijiquan Short form Cheng Manching form January 25 2020 Morning Knee Exercises Evening Cheng Manching form Sun Short Form Traditional Yang Form Total Gym Core work
January 27, 2020 Total Gym Back and Chest Dumbbell work Stretching MD Appointment 28th, he thinks I have torn the meniscus in the right knee now. MRI Friday
January 28, 2020 Sun Taijiquan short form (Knee pain shut everything else down) January 29, 2020 Cheng Manching Taijiquan Sun Taijiquan Yang Taijiquan (Traditional) Total Gym Shoulders and Arms Dumbbell work Stretching - Arms Shoulders Got and tried a new style knee brace, a Donjoy Webtech knee brace. I was able to do all the above taijiquan forms and the workout with this brace and was not in anymore pain after my workout than I was before, when I took the brace off
January 31, 2020 Sun Taiji short form Cheng Manching form Traditional Yang form February 01, 2020 Cheng Manching form x2 Sun short form Traditional Yang form Total Gym Core ALSO: My daughter took her first adult class test in Aikido today and she is now a 4th kyu
I have been dealing with a stomach bug so pretty much nothing was done on Feb 2 and 3 Have been reading about exercise, diet and geezers such as myself and it appears I should be eating more protein to reduce, prevent muscle loss as I become more geezerly February 04, 2020 Total Gym Back and Chest Dumbbell work
February 11, 2020 The results are in; Left knee that I had surgery done on last June is currently inflamed, likely do to snow removal. Ibuprofen and it will recover Right knee, the reason I went to the Doc; torn meniscus and a stress fracture of the Tibia Surgery, on a rather apropos day..... April 01, 2020...April Fools day in the good ole USA. Did the seminar on the 9th, it went well, wore knee braces on both knees, taught introductory push hands and worked on applications of the 13 postures with counters
With another round of knee surgery on the horizon I have been trying to figure out some type of exercise program to do while recovering. Last time I mostly sat and that was only for 1 week, this time it is 2.5 to 3 weeks. What I have so far Been working on a chair yoga routine and a seated dumbbell routine After this round of surgery I want to get back to a whole lot of taijiquan and possibly a return to xingyiquan and I need to lose weight too
Not really keeping this up like I should, but then I have not be training like I should either, dang knee is getting annoying Thursday, February 20, 2020 Seated Dumbbell routine Seated Yoga Cheng Manching for 1x Saturday, February 22, 2020 Cheng Manching form 1x Sun short form 2x Beijing 24 form 3x followed by 60 minutes with heating pad Sunday, February 23, 2020 Cheng Manching form 3x Sun short form 2x Beijing 24 form 2x followed by acupuncture of the knee and 60 minutes with a heating pad
Well, no surgery so I have to do something March 23, 2020 Total Gym Rows Cross Cable Rows Surfer Press Chest Flys Pull ups Wu Wei Standing Baduanjin Short Sun Form x2 Cheng Manching form
March 24, 2020 > Actually figured out a short (30 minutes), low impact aerobics routine. Wore knee braces but so far today (03-25-2020) my knees feel ok > Baduanjin
March 25, 2020 Total Gym Rows Cross Cable Rows Surfer Press Chest Flys Pull ups Curls Knee Bends (will not do again, they really irritated the knees) Wu Wei Standing Baduanjin Short Sun Form
March 26, 2020 30 minutes low impact aerobics Baduanjin March 27, 2020 Worked from home today so... During the day Wuji Standing Baduanjin Cheng Manching form x2 Sun Short Form Xingyiquan Piquan (actually got through without knee pain) TotalGym Medicine ball workout In the Evening (not the Led Zeppelin song) Wuji standing Chang Manching form x2 Traditional Yang Long Form Wuji standing Sun Short form x2 Some light bag work with Peng, ji, An, Zhou, and Kao from Taijiquan 13 postures Both knees started to bother me so I stopped
March 28, 2020 60 minutes low impact aerobic workout (knees did not like that much) Light dumbbell work on arms and back Sun short form Cheng Manching form Yang Long Form x2 Baduanjin March 29, 2020 Yang Long Form x2 Cheng Manching form x2 Sun Short form x3 March 30, 2020 (sent home due to possible Covid 19 exposure) TotalGym Medicine Ball workout light dumbbell work on back Yang Long Form Cheng Manching Form x2 Sun Style shortform x2
March 30, 2020 30 minutes low impact aerobics Knees did not like it tonight so instead of a lot of Taijiquan I got a lot of acupuncture
March 31, 2020 30 minute cardio Yang Long Form Cheng Manching form Sun Short Form April 01, 2020 TotalGym Medicine Ball workout Sun Short Form x2 Cheng Manching form Yang Long Form April 02, 2020 30 minutes Cardio Sun Short Form x2 (knee pain nothing else) April 03, 2020 TotalGym Medicine Ball workout Sun Short Form Cheng Manching form light heavy bag work (Xingyiquan strikes) [Dang that felt good] Told today to continue working from home, if they need me they will tell me
April 04, 2020 35 minutes aerobic exercise work on core Sun style short form Cheng Manching form also raking the yard
April 05, 2020 Work on Abs Sun Short Form Cheng Manching form Yang Long Form Knees are not happy, especially the knee they did surgery on last June. Decided to do the regular acupuncture that Mrs Xue wants me to do...to see how that goes. Since she is from Beijing and a TCM doctor trained in China, who was acting head of the acupuncture department of Beijing hospital, I might as well take advantage of it on a regular basis. I currently have needles in my knees as I type
