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lifting_heavy_things2016-02-19 04:10 pm
commodorified) wrote in lifting_heavy_things2016-02-19 04:10 pm
So...
What if I were a 46 year old woman who is both active (bikes, swimming, hiking, snowshoeing) AND somewhat disabled/in chronic pain (scoliosis and a dodgy shoulder at the top of my back and hyperflexibility/sciatica/bursitis at the bottom) AND I'd tried doing weights (machines, largely, due to a horrid fear of breaking myself through incompetence if I tried free weights except for curls) and then got bored and stopped doing it ...
And I suddenly decided that I wanted to be able to pick up my own weight (190, +/-) and hold it over my head and put it down again?
Where would I start? Should I start? Is there some other goal I should consider first or instead? What kind of time/money/energy commitment am I looking at here?
My local community centre has a good weight room and my favourite trainer in the world works there and I can afford to buy some time with her. So there's that.
And I suddenly decided that I wanted to be able to pick up my own weight (190, +/-) and hold it over my head and put it down again?
Where would I start? Should I start? Is there some other goal I should consider first or instead? What kind of time/money/energy commitment am I looking at here?
My local community centre has a good weight room and my favourite trainer in the world works there and I can afford to buy some time with her. So there's that.
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For some reason I cannot explain, this urge was triggered partly by the snowpocalypse, digging us out of which has done truly brutal things to my shoulder.
ETA I think what I will do is see my trainer for a program, then take what she gives me to my physio and hand him a red pen. As it were.