I’m trying hard to give my knees the necessary rest between runs. But it’s hard!
🏃🏻♀️So I ran yesterday, which went fine. But by the evening I was missing my time in the living-room workout corner. 🧘♂️
🕠The evening between 5 and 6 pm nowadays feels like it’s sort of my time still, having just come down from my work office with a commute of one flight of stairs 🖇 (!), stiffly-tired and bleary-eyed 🤪, and the rest of the family still dispersed throughout the house waiting to gather again in the time before dinner. 🥘
💪So yesterday I couldn’t help myself and did a foam rolling stretch-y kind of knee workout, but by bedtime 🥱 I could tell I should have given my knees a rest, just like I had originally planned! 😩
📝So I need to tweak my plan a bit more, in order to give me more motivation to give my knees some rest but still give me my workout-corner session, even if just a 15 min. So my week has to now be able to incorporate 3 runs, and 2 knee-focussed workouts (still uncertain about when in the week) and.... I’m so desperate to continue to do my 3 body workouts, which recently were generally made up of 2 Pilates and one of Laura’s Strength & Flex. But I think I got to take it slow with my knees at the moment, by doing knee strengthening workouts whilst keeping to knee-rest days.🦵
💪But there might be short workouts I could do that don’t put any pressure on knees and can count as knee-resting days?
❓So the question for me was how to do workouts not putting significant pressure on my knees. Additionally, having sat all day in front of the computer, how to find workouts that are not sitting as well, but do allow knees to rest (so no child’s pose or downward dog) 🧎🏼♀️
🪑So I started searching for various upper body workouts, possibly also chair-based workouts, but today I found a great one for this purpose.
🙆🏼♀️🙅🙆🙅♂️🙆♂️🙅♀️Say hello to Cassey Ho on FitOn, who does a 15min arms only workout “Workday Arm Sculpt“ which is surprisingly taxing, and very enjoyable! She suggests one can do this workout either standing up or on a chair (during work), and I found doing them standing was a fabulous remedy after a day’s work of sitting in front of a computer. And easy on the knees with now downward dogs in sight!
📱FitOn is of course an app, able to downloaded for free and all the body workouts are free. (Recipes and planning is behind a paywall)
🙆🏼♀️🙅🙆♂️🙅♀️🙆🙅♂️🙆♂️🙅🙆So I certainly have enjoyed its offer and one can search for all sorts of workouts. But I will have to consider making a list of upper body workouts to give me my workout-corner fix!
Happy working out everyone!
A couple of strength workouts to do at home with minimal equipment 😊
