Knee deep in exercise
Posted: March 21st, 2005 | Filed under: Health | Tags: experimental music, feathers, kilo, leg muscle, leg muscles, leg press, life sentence, metro, music link, physio, proof is in the pudding, quadriceps, sessions, thigh muscles, three times, workout | Comments Off
It’s amazing how quickly a body responds to exercise. I’ve had four 1-hour sessions at the physiotherapists’ gym, doing all kinds of leg muscle exercises. The leg press machine was one I was told to be careful with and the first three times I couldn’t really press more than 15 kilos before my knee started to hurt. Today 15 kilo felt like feathers and I had to go up to 40 before it felt right. Mr Physio said to try 50 next time and predicted I’d be doing 70, 80 soon. My thigh muscles feel a lot harder too. Just four trips to the gym, that’s all it takes. (I must confess I also do exercises in between my gym visits, on the metro! Just tightening leg muscles in sets of 5. Nobody notices.)
