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Hello Happy Feet members!
We are so excited to start the Happy Feet program: Resistance Training to Build Strength, Endurance, and Balance this Thursday, 9/12/24.
I encourage you all to use this forum to post your exercise-related questions. My team and I will answer questions 1-2x per week so please feel free to post any day of the week. To be able to provide you with the best answers, I recommend providing as much detail as you are comfortable with to help give us a more comprehensive picture of your health history, exercise goals, and/or issues you are trying to resolve.
Please keep in mind that some of you may have similar questions, so if you don’t see an answer to your question, please read our other responses as they might end up addressing your concerns.
Looking forward to the next 7 weeks!
Dr. Melanie PotiaumpaiWeight bearing and strengthening exercises for osteoporosis and for lower back degenerative disk disease.
Since my diagnosis, I have been exercising almost daily (with weights once a week), doing Yoga (albeit slow Yoga) twice a week, Tai Chai (once a week), Zumba, once a month. I still feel pain in the joints and still feel pain in the lower back from time to time. I don’t feel like I am progressing and get to a point where I just want to not do it. But I know I should. Lately, I have been slipping.
Anything you can recommend would be great. Thanks.
Khatmeh
Good morning Khatmeh!
Thank you so much for feeling comfortable to submit a question. I would definitely recommend trying some more water-based aerobic activities like swimming or water aerobics to substitute some of the Zumba or Tai Chai. When you’re in the water, it helps take a lot of pressure and weight off of your lower back, and it may help subside some of the pain when you are out of the water. Activities in the water are less weight bearing, which could overall help how you feel when you complete strengthening or weight bearing exercises. I would recommend these water-based activities (2-3x/week) in addition to body weight resistance exercises (only using your body weight about 2x/week on days you are not doing any aerobic activity). Hopefully this will help take some of the pain and pressure off of your back.
Please let me know if you have any other questions!
Adeline Farrington
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