Calisthenics to make me harder, better, faster, stronger
At the recommendation of my surgeon, I started doing calisthenics this week in an effort to stretch my healing back and start building my core (so my lower discs don’t have to work so hard). I also need to lose more weight — I currently weigh 212 lbs. Not so fun fact: I weighed 185 at my wedding five years ago. But I digress.
After almost three months of atrophy, I’m amazed how quickly the human body becomes unfit. I’m breathing like crazy after only 10 push ups, whereas three months ago I was in the best shape I’ve been since high school. But I must say, the stretching and light work outs alleviate the lingering pain in my leg caused by a once flattened sciatic nerve. Is nice!
I’m anxious to get back to running, but have to wait another month before doing so. So have you been exercising? Tsk, tsk.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
What are the specific calisthenics that you are doing? What the routine/program? I need to strengthen my core to make my lower back happier too. I’ve been searching for a good stretching routing but my google searches turn up funny named stretches like “cobra” and “the cat.”