Gratuitous advice: when you get out of rehab and the prescribed exercises have gotten too easy, sign up at a weight-lifting place.
Pick one where athletes work out -- the staff will be accustomed to helping people who are working at the edge of their ability, and will know how to work out without getting hurt. Avoid like the plague any studio with decorative mirror tile instead of plain full-length mirrors for checking your form. (Good form is *very* important.) Also avoid any place where the guy who shows you around gets confused and has to start over if you interrupt his spiel. Nautilus was best when I did it twenty or thirty years ago: the machines are designed so that you can push right to the edge without going over. Of course, you can hurt yourself if you don't engage brain -- when the coach tells you to do only one repeat with an absurdly-low weight the first time you use the calf machine, believe him! -- Joy Beeson http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
