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@maco oh I need to get back into it and the pain that I know I'll be in is definitely making me not take the leap. Hope your body cooperates enough to let you get through a few weeks so strength and stability come! Don't give up!
@Heidiknits I am not very sore today. I guess this is like how the first time I did planks, it hurt to laugh the next day, but every time I’ve done it since…even with increasing the duration…I’m fine?
@maco That's wonderful! Keep getting stronger! 💪🏻
About 8–10 years ago, my #EhlersDanlos doctor (Dr F) told me to take up #pilates (starting with private lessons so the instructor can ensure good form since the EDS makes me more injury-prone). She said #yoga would be acceptable too (NOT hot yoga!!!), but Pilates would be safer.
In April, I was taking a #tango lesson with Germán Filipeli, and he said I needed more core strength to do volcadas and should take up Pilates.
Weak stabilizer muscles are manifesting knee pain, so I finally started.
(“Get strong” is basically the only treatment for EDS. It’s a fundamental problem in how my body produces a certain protein (collagen). It can’t be changed, but it can be compensated for, to a certain extent, with limited success depending on severity. When “get strong” isn’t enough or isn’t possible, braces, kinesiology tape, mobility aids, and painkillers are what remain.)
@maco oh, so this is why you have a cane. :/
@xabean I have 4 canes! Different fashion options. One is wooden for at SCA events.
And after I got arch supports and then later good, supportive shoes, I went from using them 3–5 days/month to 3–5 days/year.
And after I started dancing, I went over a year without using them!
And then I crashed kneecaps with another dancer and knocked over some dominoes.
@maco oh yaay! that's super awesome to hear that you rely on them less as of late. So happy for you, and I hope you're doing well friend.
@maco I got a free lifetime membership to that when I turned 40.
@vwbusguy I’m intentionally making my muscles complain about doing exercise to convince my knee to stop complaining about how weak the muscles are.
@maco I'm in a very similar proposition with my back and trying to strengthen my core muscles.
@vwbusguy Pilates is *hard core* about core muscles. You spend basically the entire hour with your abs activated and pressing back to undo anterior pelvic tilt (the usual source of lower back pain)…while doing crunches and lat pull downs and rows and…
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