Monday, October 13, 2008

Balance and Leg Strength Conditioning

I have about 2 more weeks of physical therapy left.

The goals of the next 2 weeks involve the improving following two areas:

  1. Balance (my balance stinks)
  2. Leg strength (my legs feel like jello after walking up a flight of steps)


To that end, we have been tweaking my exercises as follows:

  1. I do a higher level of resistance on the bike (level 8)
  2. I do a 3 second hold on my wall squats.
  3. I now do my BAPS board by standing up on it (this is ridiculously hard for me)
  4. I now do sets of 15 leg presses (three sets with one foot, three sets with both feet)
  5. I have to play catch with a heavy ball by bouncing it on a trampoline-like contraption. I do this while balancing on one foot.
  6. I now do a higher level of resistance bands for my side-step exercises and ankle exercises.

Hardware comes out on November 18th. I'm excited to have it out!

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