I've got another month of activity tracked and logged. I'm happy to finally get consistent with getting my 10K steps everyday. I'm eating better and that always seems to go hand-in-hand with my motivation to get my walks in each day.
I'm also pleased with my weight lifting progress. The sore shoulder from a few months ago has healed up, so I'm moving up in weight. I'm now doing 3 sets of 175 pounds on the free weight bench press. That is significantly more that I could do 10 months ago when I first started being consistent with upper body weight training 2+ times per week. I have Kelsey to thank for this. She has become quite the 'gym rat'. She loves pumping iron. Weight lifting is not my favorite thing. I'd rather just walk. But Kel has motivated and pushed me to get stronger. It's working. I've hung up my jogging shoes for the time being. I have some weight to lose and jogging tends to make me more hungry. I think it is actually counter-productive for me when I'm trying to lose weight. More and longer walks will be the trade-off. I enjoy walking more anyway. |
Date ---- Steps -- Other Activities
------- - -------- - ------------------------------ Mar 01 - 13,542 Mar 02 - 15,645 - UBWT Mar 03 - 15,804 Mar 04 - 12,620 Mar 05 - 17,359 - UBWT Mar 06 - 12,868 Mar 07 - 13,461 - UBWT & Leg press Mar 08 - 10,276 Mar 09 - 18,938 - Mixed Upper, core & leg weight training Mar 10 - 14,010 Mar 11 - 15,407 - UBWT Mar 12 -- 9,856 Mar 13 - 10,714 Mar 14 - 12,906 - UBWT Mar 15 - 10,986 Mar 16 - 15,538 - UBWT Mar 17 - 11,941 Mar 18 - 13,689 - UBWT Mar 19 - 17,878 Mar 20 - 17,044 Mar 21 - 11,000 Mar 22 - 12,681 - Tweaked my right knee while hiking. Mar 23 - 13,759 - UBWT Mar 24 - 10,293 - Keeping the step count minimal Mar 25 - 10,646 - to allow my knee to heal Mar 26 - 10,792 Mar 27 - 15,060 - 3.5 mile hike Mar 28 - 10,827 - UBWT Mar 29 -- 8,647 - Knee still sore Mar 30 -- 7,514 - UBWT Mar 31 -- 5,794 UBWT = Upper body weight training LBWT = Lower body weight training Floors = Flights of stairs on the Y's Step Climbing machine March 2021 Summary Total Steps: 397,495 Total Miles: 199 Average Daily: 12,822 Miles Bicycling: 0 Miles Jogging: 0 Avg Daily Floors Climbed: 12 |
Serious Right Knee Injury
Date ---- Steps -- Other Activities
------- --------- ------------------------------- Apr 01 -- 6,292 Apr 02 - 10,157 - Hike to Humpback Rocks was a bad idea. Re-injured Knee Apr 03 -- 1,516 - Recliner bound. Apr 04 -- 2,913 - Less pain & swelling. A bit more mobile Apr 05 -- 2,471 - More progress. Healing this one will take weeks or longer Apr 06 -- 6,291 - UBWT - Walking with a limp, but retired the cane. Apr 07 -- 5,221 - Knee still swollen & sore. Apr 08 -- 6,443 - UBWT Apr 09 -- 3,930 - The knee pain is slowly subsiding. Still noticeably limping Apr 10 -- 4,106 - The plan is to rest the knee as much as possible Apr 11 -- 4,502 - through April, then start some rehab exercises. Apr 12 -- 6,484 - UBWT Apr 13 -- 7,753 Apr 14 -- 3,441 - Knee feeling much better. Apr 15 -- 3,997 Apr 16 -- 4,658 Apr 17 - 10,016 Apr 18 -- 5,941 - UBWT Apr 19 -- 4,571 Apr 20 -- 5,736 - UBWT Apr 21 -- 5,960 Apr 22 -- 5,325 Apr 23 -- 4,298 Apr 24 -- 2,599 - Resting the knee as much as possible Apr 25 -- 4,738 Apr 26 -- 6,265 - UBWT Apr 27 -- 5,247 Apr 28 -- 5,520 - UBWT Apr 29 -- 4,483 Apr 30 -- 4,708 UBWT = Upper body weight training LBWT = Lower body weight training Floors = Flights of stairs on the Y's Step Climbing machine April 2021 Summary Total Steps: 155,583 Total Miles: 78 Average Daily: 5,186 Miles Bicycling: 0 Miles Jogging: 0 Avg Daily Floors Climbed: 5 I've made great progress with the knee that I severely injured on a hike on April 2nd. I had to use a cane for the first week. I took the elevator instead of the steps at the Y for the first 3 weeks. Now I can finally climb up steps without pulling myself up with the handrail. I still don't trust it going down stairs without the rail. It still feels a little weak & wobbly. On a scale of 1 to 10 the pain has gone from 10 to 2 in this 30 days. That's progress. My protein was high all month, mainly due to my adding collagen & beef broth supplementation morning and night in hopes that it could help me heal faster. I don't know that it helped, but I am healing. So I'll continue consuming both supplements daily through May. I stayed off my feet as much as possible in April. I averaged only 5K steps per day. On May 1st I got in 8K steps and the knee still feels good. This coming month I'll start rehab exercises and increase my walking. I've never injured my knee like this before. I'm having to figure this out as I go. So far so good. |
Date ---- Steps -- Other Activities
------- --------- ------------------------------- May 01 -- 8,099 - UBWT May 02 -- 5,096 May 03 -- 4,449 May 04 -- 9,813 - UBWT May 05 -- 6,690 May 06 -- 8,262 - UBWT May 07 -- 5,123 May 08 -- 7,659 May 09 -- 9,070 - UBWT - Added some light knee rehab May 10 -- 4,623 May 11 -- 5,662 May 12 - 10,320 - UBWT & knee exercises May 13 -- 3,593 - Just plain lazy May 14 -- 8,072 May 15 -- 4,438 May 16 - 12,020 - UBWT May 17 -- 5,634 May 18 - 11,237 - LBWT - starting out light & easy May 19 - 12,302 May 20 -- 5,351 - UBWT May 21 - 13,792 - 4 miles of walking :) May 22 - 16,117 - UBWT & LBWT 3.5 mile walk :) :) May 23 -- 8,765 May 24 - 10,211 - The knee feels 90% healed. Needs strengthening May 25 - 13,071 - Starting to get daily walks in. 2.5 miles walking. May 26 - 12,029 May 27 - 12,447 - UBWT May 28 - 16,119 May 29 - 12,296 May 30 - 11.571 - UBWT May 31 - 17,644 - 3.5 mile midday walk and 1.5 mile evening walk. UBWT = Upper body weight training LBWT = Lower body weight training Floors = Flights of stairs on the Y's Step Climbing machine May 2021 Summary Total Steps: 291,587 Total Miles: 145 Average Daily: 9,406 Miles Bicycling: 0 Miles Jogging: 0 Avg Daily Floors Climbed: 5 Not quite a 10K step average for the month, but this was a whole lot better than last month. I've made a lot of progress towards recovery. |
Glad to hear that the knee is much improved. Hopefully by the end of May it will be close to completely healed.
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Great news about the knee, how quickly it's healing.
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Thanks for the well wishes Wban & Ambulo. This knee problem really has put a damper in my active lifestyle. I don't think that I've had a month were I didn't average 10K steps since 2014. It seems to be healing well. I just hope that it isn't anything permanent. I'll be rather disappointed if I can't get it back to 100%.
I'm sure that my weight bounce after reaching goal was a contributing factor to the injury. I'm working on that. If I can get my weight back down to 200 pounds (or so) that will take a lot of pressure off my knees. |
Date ---- Steps -- Other Activities
------- --------- ------------------------------- June 01 - 12,123 June 02 - 12,681 - UBWT June 03 - 11,228 June 04 - 11,414 June 05 - 13,172 - 4 mile walk in the sun June 06 - 15,719 - LBWT June 07 - 12,860 - UBWT - Strained muscle in left shoulder June 08 - 12,169 June 09 - 10,025 June 10 - 11,447 - UBWT June 11 - 10,661 June 12 - 14,041 June 13 - 13,719 - LBWT + bench (shoulder still sore) June 14 - 11,694 June 15 - 14,214 - LBWT + light bench June 16 - 13,226 June 17 - 13,160 June 18 - 15,599 - LBWT June 19 - 15,639 June 20 - 12,559 June 21 - 10,122 - UBWT June 22 - 13,617 June 23 - 10,152 June 24 - 11,772 - UBWT June 25 - 15,506 June 26 - 21,329 - UBWT & 6 mile walk June 27 - 16,959 June 28 - 10,747 June 29 - 13,168 - UBWT June 30 - 11,811 UBWT = Upper body weight training LBWT = Lower body weight training Floors = Flights of stairs on the Y's Step Climbing machine June 2021 Summary Total Steps: 392,543 Total Miles: 183 Average Daily: 13,084 Miles Bicycling: 0 Miles Jogging: 0 Avg Daily Floors Climbed: 7 |
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Hey Ken, so sorry to hear about the knee injury. I hope it heals quickly for you. I'm sure it has slowed you down - I always get disappointed when something like that happens. Too busy for downtime! - Kat :) |
I managed to get 10K steps in everyday last month. :thup: The knee healed to about 90% rather quickly and it appears that the regular activity may have helped. I only did some rehab type exercises. Most of my activity was simply walking - with a little easy hiking here and there.
About this last 10% of the healing process... Recovery was fast at first, but progress has really slowed down. It seems to be much the same from one day to the next. I'd read that a meniscus injury can take 3 to 6 months to heal. It has been 3 months. The knee still bothers me at times. Sometimes I don't notice a thing and other times I find myself walking with a mild limp. I sometimes hear some strange crackle noises walking up steps. Other times I don't. And the knee does still ache from time to time and this is not necessarily tied to doing too much activity. In fact, moving around on it tends to loosen things up in a good way. I don't know if I'll ever get back to 100%. I may always have a level of knee problems to deal with. I hope not. Losing more weight will surely help. Time will tell. Next week I'm going on a vacation with my kids. We will do a lot of walking and some hiking. I may not be at 100%, but I'm happy with my progress. I think that the knee will be up to the challenge. |
Date ---- Steps -- Other Activities
------- --------- ------------------------------- July 01 -- 9,125 - Rain, rain, rain July 02 - 14,167 - UBWT July 03 - 10,108 July 04 - 10,523 July 05 - 17,195 - 5 mile Richmond canal walk July 06 - 12,008 - UBWT July 07 -- 4,873 - sick - (Not Covid-19). July 08 - 14,511 July 09 - 15,021 July 10 - 22,728 - Mt St Helens Hike July 11 -- 6126 July 12 - 14,470 - Pacific City Dunes July 13 - 10,673 July 14 - 11,708 July 15 - 18,606 - Deschutes River Hike July 16 - 18,003 - Smith Rock Hike - The knee held up fine :thup: July 17 - 10,675 July 18 -- 6,699 July 19 - 11,671 July 20 - 12,866 - UBWT July 21 - 11,852 July 22 - 18,026 July 23 - 11,511 July 24 -- 7,015 July 25 -- 6,548 - Lazy weekend July 26 - 11,160 July 27 - 11,306 - Finally getting over 3 week long cough/cold July 28 -- 8,139 July 29 - 11,460 - UBWT July 30 -- 7,137 July 31 - 19,465 - 2 Shenandoah NP hikes UBWT = Upper body weight training LBWT = Lower body weight training Floors = Flights of stairs on the Y's Step Climbing machine July 2021 Summary Total Steps: 375,375 Total Miles: 179 Average Daily: 12,109 Miles Bicycling: 0 Miles Jogging: 0 Avg Daily Floors Climbed: 16 |
July was a good month. I'm was a little less OCD about getting 10K steps in each and everyday, so my step count average was a little lower than June. I did get several good hikes in and I was happy to find that although the knee is not 100% back to normal it held up fine. I did feel some pain, but even some serious climbs did not aggravate the injury. I was worried that this knee thing was going to be a long term problem and might put a damper on one of my favorite activities -- hiking. I'm glad to find that this is not the case; so far anyway.
Date ---- Steps -- Other Activities ------- --------- ------------------------------- Aug 01 -- 5,284 Aug 02 - 12,264 - UBWT Aug 03 - 10,668 Aug 04 - 11,954 Aug 05 - 11,199 - UBWT Aug 06 - 10,443 Aug 07 -- 4,901 - 2nd floor Laminate flooring project begins Aug 08 -- 5,928 - I'll be trading some walking time for this DIY project Aug 09 -- 5,533 Aug 10 -- 9,273 - UBWT Aug 11 -- 6,651 Aug 12 - 13,107 Aug 13 - 11,137 Aug 14 -- 6,418 - More weekend work on the flooring project Aug 15 -- 6,298 Aug 16 -- 6,372 Aug 17 -- 5,150 - UBWT Aug 18 -- 7,014 Aug 19 -- 5,442 Aug 20 -- 8,835 - UBWT Aug 21 -- 6,083 - Weekend work on flooring project Aug 22 -- 4,796 Aug 23 - 13,835 Aug 24 - 10,378 - UBWT Aug 25 -- 6,089 Aug 26 -- 8,574 Aug 27 -- 6,978 - UBWT Aug 28 -- 9,394 - Packed up DD#3's Pod Aug 29 -- 7,121 - for her move to TX Aug 30 - 11,173 - No walk - just a busy day. Aug 31 -- 5,598 UBWT = Upper body weight training LBWT = Lower body weight training Floors = Flights of stairs on the Y's Step Climbing machine |
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