Dear readers, if you posted a comment last week, I may have lost it. If I did not reply to your comment, or if you don’t see it, please feel free to post it again. I updated the infrastructure for my blog, and I believe I have lost several comments. Sorry about that. Look for a […]
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During one of my workouts with Bill, my trainer, I was having trouble with something. I said, “Let’s do it again. I’m too stubborn to give up.” I was talking about doing leg lifts or some such. He said, “You’re the good kind of stubborn, the kind of person who grows from your stubbornness, not
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On Friday, I graduated from physical therapy for my knee replacement. I did all my exercises, showed my therapist how well I could walk up and down the stairs, and said goodbye. It was great. This doesn’t mean I’m done with my knee. I’ve transitioned from my initial rehab to ongoing strength training and remaking
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I’ve been working with a new trainer since my knee replacement, Billy. Today, several great things occurred. When I got on the bike, my rpms started in the 60s. That’s faster than I’ve started yet. When I did my squats to build my hamstring and glut strength, we added a ten-pound weight. And, we started
I’m in Toronto today, experimenting with a new vertigo treatment, called the Brainport. It’s teaching my tongue to learn where I am in space, to relearn my proprioception. Why am I in Canada? Because the FDA hasn’t approved it for use in the US. And, I suspect that the FDA non-approval has a lot to
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Thomas Edison said, “Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.” In order to become adaptable, you’ve got to practice. And practice and practice and practice. When I was doing vestibular therapy, I had many eye exercises to train my ocular reflex to retrain my brain so I wouldn’t feel the vertigo. The therapy
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