I now do a variasion of my old excersises and the new I got,- so now the training is more flexible. I still have no pain in my thighs, only my back :-)

I have taken some photoes to show what I mean about getting straighter (not in my spine,but in my body):

This is almost like I was the last years

This is me getting straighter

This is my goal

As you can see it is a big difference! I still have a long way to go, but I understand what the physioterapist is saying :-) And I feel that breathing is better!

I wish someone had told me this before I started to lean foreward,- but maybe I would not have understood what they meant......

I hope you all have a nice day :-)

O'boy!
My physiotherapist gave me some new excercises today! I did not have my phone with me so I will give you photoes next week.

First I got a very good massage, and then we went to the gym on the second floor.

The first excercise was a half, big ball with a plate on top. I shall stand on the plate, trying to balanse without holding to anything,- it was ok. I can also stand on it throwing a ball on to a small trampoline,- maybe more fun :-)

Then I had to do some bending in my knees,- 20 of them and with a straight back. The backpart was difficult. So we sat on a bench where he showed me how to sit straight,- it was very difficult, but I want to make it!

Next was a kneefall (?),- not easy and this also with a straight pose.
I shall vary these excercises.

At the end it was the Pectoral fly/ Rear detoid with no weight. On this I shall only think about pose, straight back and low shoulders.

Even without the usual excercises with lot of sweat and out of breath, I really feel it in my body! I think I will get really sore tomorrow ;-) That's ok!

I hope all of you will have a nice  weekend, and if you do work out,- do not give up!

This water is one of the places my dog Dennis and I go for walks, it is just outside our hometown,- and I think we will go there this weekend too :-) Maybe you have a nice place for walks?

Full moon today,- training was hard....... But even if I did a shorter time on the steps, I managed to do all the other training :-) Think I will write in my journal if it is full moon, maybe I can see a pattern of hard training?

Even if I do the training 3 days a week, I do not forget walking my dog, Dennis :-) The days I train we go for shorter walks, but allways 3 small or bigger walks every day.
We often go to the wood,- both me and Dennis loves it,- AND walking on the soft paths in the wood is good for my scoliosis!

Sometimes he has to work,- carry waterbottles,his poobags ++

Nice fresh,cold water

Lot of smell from other dogs,- or moose?

Friday today, no training until Monday. Strange thing: I start to think about training allmost every day! And it is only 5 months since I would NOT go into the gym! I only wanted massage from the physiotherapist!

I hope everyone gets a nice weekend, and if you want to write comments I would love to hear from you :-)

I think I will tell you a little bit about my body so you can see that it is not a super body for training,- but it works :-)

When I was 4 years old my mum thought it was something odd with my back and at the same time I was complaining about headaches almost every day ( I still do at age 61). A couple of doctors later I was sent to a hospital in Oslo (I live in Norway :-) ) who treated scoliosis. Scoliosis is a condition where the spine looks like a C or S. My spine looks like a S, and when I started treatment my curves where 40+ degrees. First I had a plasterbrace (over my left shoulder, round my upperbody and down to my right knee), it was difficult to sit and do lots of things but I learned how to use my mums bicycle when I had this brace ;-) After some months I got a Blounts brace.

After a while I got a Milwaukee brace with even more things (ring around left shoulder, a plate over right breast, and a small pelot on left hip).
After 8 years with these braces 24/7 my curves where bigger, now they where 60+ degrees. I have no idea why I did not have surgery, but I have had (and have) a great life and luckely just small pain :-)
After many years I got asthma because one of my lounges have to little space. Now I also have heartflicker, and I am a surviver of malingt melanoma.

So this is what I have to deal with when I am training,- which means  
                                WHEN I CAN, SO CAN YOU <3

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Today I started at the physioterapist where I got a massage :-) My neck muscles where sore so it was not the best,but afterwards it is ok.
We also took a Body analysis (we should have done it before I started in May but we forgot).
Nothing very surprising,- too much internal fat :-( So I need to go back to the lowcarb food if I want to see changes..... I WILL!

Then it was the normal training:
Treadmill: intervall 45 sec walking-15 sec break, 11% increase, 5 km speed  15 min X 2
Seated leg press: 10 x 3 - 55 kg
Back extension: 10 x 3 - 40 kg
Pulldown: 10 x 3 - 27,5 kg
Torso rotation: 10 x 3 - 25 kg (felt too easy but was better for my lower back)
Rowing: 10 x 3 - level 8

Body feels ok after training today, even if I am exhausted when I do the excercises :-)

One more time to excercise this week, 3 times a week feels ok. Next week I will get some new program :-)

I you would like to comment I would love to hear what kind of excersise you do and your experiences :-)

I will now change my blog to be a blog about training for an untrained lady of 61 :-)

All my life I have had severe scoliosis (my spine looks like a S where the curves are 90 and 85 degrees) and now I have asthma and heart flicker, so I had no choice,- I had to start to excersise :-) Up til 2016 my training was Nordic walking with my dog, and some small trips with my bicycle. I live in Norway, but have for some years been living in Gran Canaria during winters.

In the mountain on Gran Canaria

Poles and dog is nice training too, especially on Gran Canaria

I am lucky to have a skilled physioterapist and he understood my problem. Because of things happening in hospital when I was a little girl I hated the thought of training together with a lot of strangers.

In May (the 10.) we started. Very slow! He put me on a mashine of stairs, and I managed 250 steps with a lot of breaks ;-) I only used this machine, he did not want me to get bored.
It was a smart thing to only let me use this machine at first! 1) I could easely see that I was doing better for every time = more and more steps and less breaks, and also the level changed. It made me inspired and I felt I was in a competition with my self,- I was starting to be excited :-)
June 14th we made a test: On level 5 (I ususally use level 3) I managed 700 steps with a break for every 100. Then we found my bottom level! I was alsmost sick the rest of the day,- caughing, bad breathing, sore chest ++++ Almost like top athletes after a race. It is not dangerous but very usefull to find this level.
June 23. I managed 1000 steps on level 5 with breaks! What a development!!!

After this we started with other training too, first the treadmill so I could vary between it and the stairs. 

At this time I set my self a goal for the summer: I wanted to climb a mountain top near my hometown! I had been there many,many years ago but now it seem unattainable.

I continued to use the treadmill or the steps till July 19., then I tried the device where I push with my legs (I don't know the name in English), I managed 10 x 2 with 25 kg and the same number with 35 kg.

Then July 27., I got a whole program to work with.

The rest of the summer I trained 2 days a week with this program, getting stronger and using more weight and time :-) It was very inspiring! August 1. my numbers where:
Treadmill: 15 minutes interval (45/15) 10% rise and 5 km speed
Legs: 10 x 3 45 kg
Pull down: 10 x 3 25 kg
Back strech: 10 x 3 35 kg
Body rotation: 10 x 3 45 kg (too much = acking in my lower back)
Rowing: 10 x 3 level 6

Today (September 12.) my numbers where :
Stairs: 400 without break level 3 + level 5 200 steps
Legs: 10 x 2 55 kg + 10 à 65 kg
Pull down: 10 x 3 27,5 kg
Back strech: 10 x 3 40 kg
Body rotation: 10 x 3 35 kg ( will try 25 because of pain in lower back)
Rowing: 10 x 3 level 8

As you can see the progress is nice :-)

What about my goal for the summer? August 16., me an dmy sister-in-law made it to the top! After 2 hours of almost climbing straight up we was rewarded with a beautyfull view!

The path up

Nearly there,  I almost felt like I was dying!

Nice view for lunch

Exhausted,but proud

Normally my scoliosis do not show,but when I am tired.....

The path down was also difficult

Lunch up in the sky! Photo taken by Tone Veiulfsen Østbye

The climbing was made with a lot of breaks and some asthmamedication and lots of water. I really thought I was going to die but I managed to get all the way up!

I hope to show (with this blog) that nothing is impossible,- that when a untrained woman like myself can achieve this, then you can do it too!

I hope you will follow my journey?