Easter

The only excercise I have been doing this Easter is walking with my little dog,- I still have the cold and caughing 😞
But the snow is gone and Dennis and I have had some nice walks! I always have my Nordic poles with me and then I can walk for longer walks.

There are lots of things to see in nature now:

These are some of the first flowers we can find in Spring :-) Blue Anemone

There is still lots of ice on the water, but it is not safe to walk on! You can find lots of nice patterns in it 😊 I found these beautyful stars.

Hopefully I can go back to the gym in a few days! This winter has not been good to my body 👎 So I have lots to catch up! I have made some goals for this summer too,- one is the same as last year just to see if I am better now!

In this photo I am really tired and you can easely see my angelwing (right shoulderblad sticking out)

 I hope you all are doing fine? Have you had Eastervacation? In Norway shops are closed for lots of days during Easter, life "starts" again the 18. of April.

I really hope we are getting warmer weather soon, I have to have fire in my fireplace and outside I use woollen clothes.

And this was what we had this morning 😞

My dog is originally from Tibet (Himalaya) so he loves snow

This early in the spring I allways buy flowers that can take some snow and minus degrees

My gym :-)

This is my gym, it is not very big but very nice people working there 👍 And it is not only people with big muscles working out in front of the mirror,- we are older people and handicaped,- a good mix!

I did almost mye whole program today too,- I am getting there 😊

I use this with one hand at a time now to train my left hand. Today I could increase the weight from 2 to 4! On my right hand I do 6 now. When I could use both at the same time I used 10 or 11.

(Photo over and under text) This is where I do rotations, my weight is only 25 but the most important is to rotate my body.

Leg press. Before I broke my hand, I managed 65 and 75 kg. Now I do 55.

I like this one! It feels like I get a strech at the same time as I have to work for it :-) I do 47 kg

After the training I went to town,- silly me! Back was not ok when I got home. Better after a rest and some food 😏

We have spring here now and most of the terrible ice is gone! Waiting for the flowers to get out of their sleep 💚

4 years ago I was interviewed in a Norwegian paper about my life with scoliosis, nice respones 😍

I hope you are ok? 

Almost all excercises!

Today I managed almost all of the program! Because of my hand I have to have not so heavy weights, but I managed 💪
This is what I did today:
* Treadmill -  11% increase, 5 km speed, only 15 minutes this time but it is ok 
* Rowing - one hand at a time (normally I use both at once) Left hand: 10 X 3 at 4
                                                                                               Right hand: 10 X 3 at 8 and 7
* Pulldown - one hand at a time Left hand: 10 X 3 at 2
                                                   Right hand: 8 X 2 at  7
* Backextension - 10 X 3 47 kg (the only divice I did as earlier)
* Manuals - 2 kg 10 X 3 both ways

* Pectoral fly - 10 times 5 kg, 10 times 12 kg, 10 times 5 kg
* Torso rotation - 10 X 3  25 kg
* Seated leg press 10 X 3 55 kg

I love colours when I am at the gym so today was a lot of pink/red 💕

Hope you all have a nice evening/day 💓

Finally at the gym again,- will I get back to the shape I was?

As you know this winter has been troublesome for me 😠 2 big falls on the ice (forehead first time and broke my wrist on the second fall). Winter can be ok,but not like this winter with lots of pure ice! 

I think this will be my next outfit  for winter ;-)

Last week I tried to start at the gym,- it was superhard!! Both because I was not as fit as in November, and because the vrist was not good. So my physiotherapist suggested we should find some excercises that is good for both my back and my vrist💪 It is very important that I do not forget the rest of my body because of the vrist!

Today our main goal was to check out my vrist and excercises for both the vrist and my scoliosis. First I tried manuals on the left hand. O'boy! It was hard! My tears flowed. We found out that max is 2 kg at first. As usual 10 X 3 times.

2 kg

 Then I tried some other devices to train my arm muscles because they are worse after the accident.
I also learned how to use the old devices for my back,arms and legs with lower weight than earlier as long as the vrist is not healed. It was hard,- 
            
                                                                BUT

the hardest was to use lower weight than I had reached in November 😢 It felt really like a defeat, and I hate it!

WHY?? Is my selfconsious SO low? 
Lots of people tell me: remember,- you have been hurt! It takes time! I know but it is hard to realize in my heart.


I know I have to get back to 3 days a week at the gym again, and I have to realize that I have to start lower than in November, and in some weeks/months I will be on the same level again! And in the summer I will go for long walks with my dog again and use my bicycle + going to the gym and be much more healthy than I am right now 👍



Do you experience the feeling of defeat too? How do you beat the feeling?

This small ball is my trainingdevice at home. It is soft but hard enough to give my muscles resistance.

I wish you all a nice day! Hopefully your back (and the rest of your body!) do not give you much trouble 💓

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL MY TWISTED SISTERS AROUND THE WORLD! 
WE STILL NEED MARCH 8.!

 

Another pause from the gym

3 weeks ago today I fell on the ice one more time 😢 This time I got a bad fracture in my left wrist and had to get surgery.

 https://goo.gl/images/5RRSF6
(Photo of the same plate, screws and pins I have)

So now I have titanium in my hand. I did not get plaster, only bandages,- luckely! 
Because of this I have been able to move my wrist a little all the time and now I am able to do almost  "everything" with my hand again 😊

The doctor removed the stiches on Monday and it looks very nice!

2 1/2 weeks since surgery

 Hopefully I can start in the gym again next week! I really needs it now! I have to be careful with my left hand but have lots of things I can do 💪

My little dog is with his extrafamily because it has been hard for me to live alone and only one hand I could use. Miss him and look foreward to get him home again 💘

Hope you all er doing fine? Do you have winter with snow and ice like me or do you have "summer"?

Art weekend and new excersises in the gym

This weekend I have been taking a class in Vedic art,- any of you have tryed it?
It is exciting, because you paint from your heart and do not learn tecnics 😏
This is one of my paintings:

To me this painting means a lot 💗 Under the heart I made a drawing of my brace, but over I pianted a heart with a tear for the sorrow the scoliosis has given me and a heart for the pleasures  it has given me. In between is a S spine. Hearts and text and ribbon for the love of my severe curves 💗

It was an exhausting weekend (because we where sitting all day),- 3 days with learning and drawing/painting. But my back is pretty ok today and I am so satisfied after the weekend 😊

I am not an artist, but it is important to do some creative work anyway 👍 

Today I got new excersises from my physioterapist, he want me to do more excersises without the devices. Because then I have to get to know my muscles better and use my own body as weight.
I started with the Treadmill to get warmed up: 15 min, 11% increase, 5 km/h
And then Pulldown : 10 X 3, 30 kg

Starting to do a sort of plank. Hard to keep the hip and back in correct position!

 

I need to strengthen my stomachmuscles too 😉

The 2 excersises shown by my physioterapist is to strengthen my backmuscles. (Looks like we are outside, but it is just a poster 😏 )




I will not do all the old excersises now, I will not do Seated leg press, and only one of the armdevices. We are not bothering with my breathing now since it is hard to make the loungefunction better because of my curves.

We have lots of fun because my musckles are responding "a little" different than in normal bodies💪 So when he ask me which muscles do you feel  now? I very often feel that other muscles than he expect are working 😉 That is ok!

I think maybe I will feel this in my neck and head tomorrow, but I don't give up! 

I hope you are all doing fine? Hugs from Norway 💖

Finally back to the gym :-)

6 weeks since I was at the gym! 
First because of the fall on the ice,- a miracle that I did not get more hurt!
Then I had 3 lovely weeks on Gran Canaria, my paradise island <3

This was my view :-) I lived up on the hill so I had a long hill to climb + a lot of stairs,- but I noticed the benefit of my excercise :-)
Lot of walks, nice food and wine, old friends and nice conversations. I miss it allready!

I was back in Norway 24. of December, the most important day of Christmas in Norway. I had several invitations but was too tired so I enjoyed some time alone with tapas (see photo) I brought from the island :-) Listening to a choir singing Christmas carols.
On Thuesday evening I got food poisening so I was not able to go the gym, actually I have not been well enough to start until this Monday :-(




But finally Monday 9. of January I started again! My physiotherapist told me to start gently. He obviously don't know me well ;-) I started almost like I used to do in November, I had to check out if I could!

I DID IT! WOW! I did the treadmill and all of the program! Amazing after 6 weeks!

Hehe, I was "punished" ! Thuesday and Wednesday I could hardly walk ;-) I send a text to my physiotherapist and his answer was:"That's good! One normally gets stiff after so long time. That means the load(?) has been good. Well done!" He also said that maybe it is time to increase the time and load......

New shoes in fresh colour is an inspiration ;-)

I was so proud of my self <3 And today the program was a little bit better again,- maybe I will increase some of the devises next week?



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