LaoDan
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[USER=524245]@LaoDan what are those beasts? They look pretty complacent?[/USER]
Huge monitors, the big one is almost the size of a komodo dragon. It’s pretty hard to get them to move out of their sunny spot lol
[USER=524245]@LaoDan what are those beasts? They look pretty complacent?[/USER]
Lots of sympathy as I suffered from pf for years and understand HOW frustrating it is. I'm not sure how or why it went away in the end. If it ever starts to come back, I'll be consulting the Youtube physios Bob&Brad. I find them very helpful with other problems, as well as being funny and unassuming. They have done a whole series on pf:wow that's impressive! I've always liked to walk but do not like high intensity anythingI've got a twitchy plantar fasciitis aggravated by carrying anything! I can do 3miles (very easy terrain) no worries but not sure where i should go from here, any suggestions?
But did these tactics work? They didn't help my pf. I'm not sure what did, apart from the passage of time. When I do Bob & Brad's exercises for my bad lower back, it is transformed for the better. When I neglect to do them my back deteriorates fast. I would therefore consult B&B first if, heaven forbid, I developed pf again. However, imo no-one gets everything right, (just as even Hitler didn't get EVERYTHING wrong, so I might be disappointed. It is fashionable nowadays to recommend strengthening as well as stretching exercises and they have certainly helped me. I just wish I could get myself to do them more regularly!the only two things I was taught-- the runner-type standing calf stretch, and the rolling your foot over a soup can or water bottle, preferably frozen.
But did these tactics work? They didn't help my pf. I'm not sure what did, apart from the passage of time. When I do Bob & Brad's exercises for my bad lower back, it is transformed for the better. When I neglect to do them my back deteriorates fast. I would therefore consult B&B first if, heaven forbid, I developed pf again. However, imo no-one gets everything right, (just as even Hitler didn't get EVERYTHING wrong, so I might be disappointed. It is fashionable nowadays to recommend strengthening as well as stretching exercises and they have certainly helped me. I just wish I could get myself to do them more regularly!
Another strengthening pf exercise is to walk a short distance on one's toes. But maybe that will also cause discomfort for you. One piece of advice B&B repeat over and over is, if their recommended exercise hurts, DON'T DO IT! Good luck finding some helpful back exercises. The barre ones sound great - lots of stretching and strengthening in one, I imagine.I just remembered another PF exercise; I think my brother may have told me-- scrunching up a small towel with your toes
Another strengthening pf exercise is to walk a short distance on one's toes. But maybe that will also cause discomfort for you. One piece of advice B&B repeat over and over is, if their recommended exercise hurts, DON'T DO IT! Good luck finding some helpful back exercises. The barre ones sound great - lots of stretching and strengthening in one, I imagine.
Me too!I was born tight and inflexible,
@zauberflote
Do you have to have a barre at home to do your classes?
And does she charge?. They sound very interesting
It's a pandemic version of a regular class. So no, you need no props, but you can use soup cans for weights, a chair for a barre, and a rolled-up towel for various things. Yes, the special internet live stream pricing went away as soon as the ballet school where she teaches opened for Summer Intensive school. So there is a $22 single class fee, and various packages. I use the one that gets class price down to $10-- it's an all-access monthly pass for $160. On this pass You may take as many adult ballet, tap, modern, movement, and barre classes as you like, in studio when offered, and/or streaming when offered. So I get 4 barre classes/week which is about my limit. None of the ballet classes are livestreamed, because that would be pointless after the barre section was over!
How to take: acquire the MindBody app. Search for Richmond Ballet, Richmond Virginia (US). View the schedule. Purchase classes! Now I am not sure what MindBody does about foreign currencies....Then you will need Zoom to stream the class, which you probably already have.
A word about the class-- it is NOT a clique of ponytailed skinny 20-somethings. It is real people, mostly women, but most of us are confirmed "barre rats" and do wear ponytails. The classes are very impossible to keep up with if you've never done organized movement before, and even if you have decades of ballet classes under your belt the first dozen classes are impossible to follow. But nobody cares because it is all so much painful fun! The instructor, Lauren Fagone, is a former principal dancer at Richmond Ballet, she knows her stuff, is fiendishly inventive, and never stops talking you through what you're supposed to be thinking of in addition to what you thought you were supposed to be doing
Have I sold you yet? Hope so!
Let me guess! Walk started in the middle of the top "line" of the "rectangle", the amble is the "toe of the boot", and you got on the train at the tip of the "N" in Beckenham? Sounds like a happy-making day.
Just about! There’s a small walk between the 2 trains - the tiny L-shaped squiggly bit between the 2 straight lines. Lots to follow as today is my last day of work until 1st September. Yay!