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25 Friday Aug 2023

Posted by azahar in health, health & happiness, pilates, yoga

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cardio, fitness, pilates, yoga

more workouts

Since I started doing chair yoga and chair pilates I have since discovered a whole whack of different workout vids by this woman. They vary from quick 10-minute stretch/strength videos to 35-minute cardio ones and there’s lots of variety. The good thing is that there is never any excuse not to do SOMETHING each day, though I try to fit in at least half an hour, and obviously you can mix and match them. Some of them are quite challenging and, as you can see, I am also getting out of my chair (!). The whole point of starting with the chair stuff was to avoid having to sit or lie on the floor (knees! back!), so the standing ones work just as well for me. My goal is to also start fitting in some of the shorter ones (that don’t make me all sweaty) during the day, just for a bit of extra movement. Have to say that my back, and even my knees, are feeling much better.

aaarrrrgh! (again)

08 Monday May 2023

Posted by azahar in casa azahar, health, home

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back, health, ouch, yoga

yoga back

Yep, happened again. On Saturday morning I bent over THE WRONG WAY and a sudden intense jolt of AAARRGH⚡⚡⚡ left me in serious lower pain. This hasn’t happened in a long while (last time was Sept 2022) but it’s something I’ve been plagued with since a tobogganing mishap when I was 19. The first full-blown sciatica didn’t start happening until my mid-twenties, and back then it used to happen more frequently. Just awful. But lately, if I’m lucky, I get one or two episodes a year and, while I am much older and fatter, I’ve also learned how to “nip it in the bud” so to speak, so that I haven’t actually had sciatica since… don’t even remember when. Though the lower back pain on its own is excruciating enough. Anyhow, the damage has been done, so now the goal is to not damage things further, be careful … and keep moving.

Worst thing you can do when you have back pain is bed rest.

Meanwhile, this popped up on my Instagram feed today (wow, internet spies everywhere, haven’t even mentioned my back on Insta) with a sponsored ad suggesting 7 yoga postures to relieve back pain. And this was one of them…
😅😂🤣

ouchity-ouch

20 Sunday Nov 2011

Posted by azahar in health & happiness, rants

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back pain, ouch, yoga

Well dammit! After a week of not-so-subtle hints my back finally gave out this morning. I suppose I shouldn’t feel so put out about putting my back out, as it’s been over two years since the last serious episode, but it’s always so frustrating, not to mention IT REALLY HURTS.

Weird how you can feel it sneaking up yet it’s almost impossible to do anything about it happening. Though I must admit I haven’t been doing my “cobras” on a daily basis. From now on I will. I promise. Because this hurts like fuckity.

I have slathered on the BioFreeze which, thanks to Sledpress, I still have in supply. And am now considering opening a bottle of Botani, both for medicinal purposes and to celebrate Sled’s birthday.

In the end I blame myself and will no longer leave my bed in the morning without having done at least three cobras. Heck, even the cats don’t get up without stretching first…

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