Pat’s Polemics

A few weeks ago I took the plunge and started yoga. Fortunately I seem to have found an excellent instructor. One lady said she has (Continue Reading)

Hernia surgery yesterday. Out patient. Easy as pie. Almost no pain. Plenty of uninterrupted reading time as I recover. (See What I’m Reading Now category) (Continue Reading)

A pause in my exercise program. I got a diagnosis yesterday of hernia and I’ll be called today to schedule surgery. I have no idea (Continue Reading)

Say what? Well, it’s a bit like a sore ass as pronounced down south but it is a core muscle I did not know about (Continue Reading)

Recently I switched from random exercises divided pretty much between heavy lifts and more body weight or lighter exercises to focusing on one or two (Continue Reading)

My work on the assisted pull-up rack at the gym paid off. Yesterday I got 3 sets of one, and good ones. My program for (Continue Reading)

After a long break, eleven days, I went back to the old workout where I could not complete the final set of incline bench press (Continue Reading)

Sent to a friend just before my appt with the doctor last Friday, 4/27. Tomorrow I see my doctor’s PA. Here’s my dilemma. The doctor (Continue Reading)

Last week I went to 3 appointments, the first for my skin and the doctor gave me a clean bill of health; the second for (Continue Reading)

I always say I never get sick. Scratch that. Last week I woke up with a stiff neck. By Monday I could barely move so (Continue Reading)

I’ve moved from the pool to dry land with my new set of exercises last night. They are the same as in the pool: ski, (Continue Reading)

In March I got a bilateral total knee replacement with recovery rated as phenomenal. Then I got vertigo and realized my go-to physician, a cardiologist (Continue Reading)

I got dizzy yesterday morning when I got up. That seldom happens and it passed. But then I went into the gym, feeling great, lay (Continue Reading)

On my tenth day off the pain killer vicodin/oxycodone, I went back to my doctor for relief from withdrawal symptoms. He said my recovery has (Continue Reading)

Today marks the first day I’ve really seen progress in dealing with the issue of pain pills. The big test comes tomorrow when I go (Continue Reading)

I was shocked just now to see that I had placed next to nothing on my blog since my surgery. It has been over 2 (Continue Reading)

This week was my last week of gym workouts. Tomorrow I get both knees replaced. Plenty of physical therapy will follow and I intend to (Continue Reading)

My wife has always suffered from insomnia. The pattern was to go to sleep as late as possible, 11 or 12, so as to sleep (Continue Reading)

After being on a program for several months where I did each muscle group in rotation, covering about 5 or 6 days with body weight (Continue Reading)

A couple of weeks ago I was working my way through my program for arms under some time constraints. After the first two exercises, I (Continue Reading)

For some reason, negative chin-ups with one arm crept into my thoughts. I spent about one tenth of one second lowering myself from a chin-up (Continue Reading)