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dancerjodiI decided this morning that I am going to sign up for our gym at work. I had forgotten how good the extra strength was for my upper body.
Stuff about former injuries and gym experience
You see, I used to hurt myself A LOT before. I'd sleep the wrong way and get a crick in my neck that would hurt for a week and prevent me from turning my head to the side. I'd pick something up the wrong way and something would twist, scream, and I'd have a similar pain in another nearby place (upper back, shoulder, whatever). When it really hit home how screwed up my upper body was when I was being measured for a dance costume one fall and Peggy told me to stand up straight, and pushed down on my right shoulder. Looking in the mirror I could see that my right side was very noticeably higher than my left. I could only carry things on that side, and that's the one I ended up hurting all of the time. Its gotten better since then, but there is still an identifiable difference.
An aside: A year or so later I had a friend give me a professional massage, and she attributed it to my whole right side being thrown off - she said that my hip wasn't entirely in its socket (yet the tissue had kind of grown up around it to support it). If I walk for a very long time my right hip gets very sore, and I have problems with my right knee and ankle from time to time. This is why I'm trying to make an emphasis to get strong and healthy now (and at some point to set up a time to do regular massage, at least 1x a month, so I'm aware of what's going on in my body that I may not be feeling). I'm a dancer and kind of beat on my joints, and I don't want to be one of those women that needs hip replacement surgery when I'm 50!
So back to my screwed up shoulder revelation: I stopped carrying purses and backpacks on that side and would either carry in my left hand or would wear backpacks, and all of this helped. And then Brian got a job in Unicorn Park and started taking my car to work (we only had 1). He'd drop me off in the AM, head to work, and I'd have an hour or so to kill at the end of the day before he picked me up. That's when I joined Fitcorp on Wyman Street (when I still worked for THP). Once I got into the habit of going I really looked forward to it. All of a sudden one day I was all cut and muscular and stuff. I'm in awe now of what I was lifting then.
At some point all of that fell away. I moved, I was laid off, found a new job, was in grad school, tried other gyms in other places, danced all over, and now things have settled into a somewhat normal routine again. Though my body is stronger than it was way back then its not as strong as it was at its best, and I still hurt my neck, shoulders and whatever sometimes. This morning I felt a tightness in my shoulder blade and when I stretched to try to work it out something went PING and the familiar pain set in. Oh right, my body is too weak that sleeping on it a funny way is enough to throw it off!
So there you go. If I put $50 down its only $18 a month and I need to commit to 8 months. That works out to an average of $24 a month for those 8 months, so that's not bad at all. After that I'll only be paying $18 a month for a gym that's next door, and that's not bad at all either. I'll just need to get in the habit of either coming in earlier, spending part of my lunch hour there, or staying later. I need to do this for me.
Of course, I have dinner plans at 5:30 tonight, won't be in the office tomorrow and are working a 1/2 day on Friday. I'll see if I can sign up and at least get in there on Friday and take it from there.
Stuff about former injuries and gym experience
You see, I used to hurt myself A LOT before. I'd sleep the wrong way and get a crick in my neck that would hurt for a week and prevent me from turning my head to the side. I'd pick something up the wrong way and something would twist, scream, and I'd have a similar pain in another nearby place (upper back, shoulder, whatever). When it really hit home how screwed up my upper body was when I was being measured for a dance costume one fall and Peggy told me to stand up straight, and pushed down on my right shoulder. Looking in the mirror I could see that my right side was very noticeably higher than my left. I could only carry things on that side, and that's the one I ended up hurting all of the time. Its gotten better since then, but there is still an identifiable difference.
An aside: A year or so later I had a friend give me a professional massage, and she attributed it to my whole right side being thrown off - she said that my hip wasn't entirely in its socket (yet the tissue had kind of grown up around it to support it). If I walk for a very long time my right hip gets very sore, and I have problems with my right knee and ankle from time to time. This is why I'm trying to make an emphasis to get strong and healthy now (and at some point to set up a time to do regular massage, at least 1x a month, so I'm aware of what's going on in my body that I may not be feeling). I'm a dancer and kind of beat on my joints, and I don't want to be one of those women that needs hip replacement surgery when I'm 50!
So back to my screwed up shoulder revelation: I stopped carrying purses and backpacks on that side and would either carry in my left hand or would wear backpacks, and all of this helped. And then Brian got a job in Unicorn Park and started taking my car to work (we only had 1). He'd drop me off in the AM, head to work, and I'd have an hour or so to kill at the end of the day before he picked me up. That's when I joined Fitcorp on Wyman Street (when I still worked for THP). Once I got into the habit of going I really looked forward to it. All of a sudden one day I was all cut and muscular and stuff. I'm in awe now of what I was lifting then.
At some point all of that fell away. I moved, I was laid off, found a new job, was in grad school, tried other gyms in other places, danced all over, and now things have settled into a somewhat normal routine again. Though my body is stronger than it was way back then its not as strong as it was at its best, and I still hurt my neck, shoulders and whatever sometimes. This morning I felt a tightness in my shoulder blade and when I stretched to try to work it out something went PING and the familiar pain set in. Oh right, my body is too weak that sleeping on it a funny way is enough to throw it off!
So there you go. If I put $50 down its only $18 a month and I need to commit to 8 months. That works out to an average of $24 a month for those 8 months, so that's not bad at all. After that I'll only be paying $18 a month for a gym that's next door, and that's not bad at all either. I'll just need to get in the habit of either coming in earlier, spending part of my lunch hour there, or staying later. I need to do this for me.
Of course, I have dinner plans at 5:30 tonight, won't be in the office tomorrow and are working a 1/2 day on Friday. I'll see if I can sign up and at least get in there on Friday and take it from there.
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Random question
Date: 2006-06-28 02:06 pm (UTC)We found out recently that breech babies, especially breech girls are more likely to have hip joint problems.
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Date: 2006-06-28 03:21 pm (UTC)Re: Random question
Date: 2006-06-28 05:04 pm (UTC)I actually have only had hip problems for the last 8 or so years (and it was soon after that the massage friend mentioned that it was out of its socket).