My knees have long been dodgy, now joined by feet (MTP joints), knuckles and wrists. Left shoulder felt left out, so has recently joined the party. Arthritis sucks the big one. I built a house with zero stairs, knowing that was in my future. Fortunately, the property has a 100m vertical from lowest to highest point, making every outdoor activity away from the house yard an exercise in climbing / descending. It exacerbates the pain but increases the strength of the muscles around the joints. This, and life in general, is a double edged sword. For every Elmo, there is an equal and opposite Noam.
Yeah I hear some of the more popular gyms now offer a discount on memberships where you can just pay a special year's membership that is equivalent to a month and you don't have to show up at all.
my knees shake when the word stairs is mentioned :) . . . . .to be serious, not really that bad. We recently moved from a flat home to one with stairs and its helped. When bushwalking and i come up against NPWS stairs, my right knee eventually hurts on the way up and my left a bit sooner on the way down. Knee braces have been helping though. Plus side is that the mandatory stairs to get into work dont take my breath away anymore (they are only short, but steep, and perplex everyone, even the lady who does 20km bike rides each day). I have a weird aversion to gyms. I suspect to my detriment. I say its because they are too expensive when i can do it for free, but i think its because they are a totally alien space (my argument falls down when my partner says we can use the free work gym)
I have the good (?) fortune of having some stairs (maybe ten sets of 4-7) in one of the local parks and have seen some women up and downing them. Walking up all of them in one hit is enough for me at the moment; maybe I should include them as part of my daily walk.
My knees have long been dodgy, now joined by feet (MTP joints), knuckles and wrists. Left shoulder felt left out, so has recently joined the party. Arthritis sucks the big one. I built a house with zero stairs, knowing that was in my future. Fortunately, the property has a 100m vertical from lowest to highest point, making every outdoor activity away from the house yard an exercise in climbing / descending. It exacerbates the pain but increases the strength of the muscles around the joints. This, and life in general, is a double edged sword. For every Elmo, there is an equal and opposite Noam.
Yeah I hear some of the more popular gyms now offer a discount on memberships where you can just pay a special year's membership that is equivalent to a month and you don't have to show up at all.
my knees shake when the word stairs is mentioned :) . . . . .to be serious, not really that bad. We recently moved from a flat home to one with stairs and its helped. When bushwalking and i come up against NPWS stairs, my right knee eventually hurts on the way up and my left a bit sooner on the way down. Knee braces have been helping though. Plus side is that the mandatory stairs to get into work dont take my breath away anymore (they are only short, but steep, and perplex everyone, even the lady who does 20km bike rides each day). I have a weird aversion to gyms. I suspect to my detriment. I say its because they are too expensive when i can do it for free, but i think its because they are a totally alien space (my argument falls down when my partner says we can use the free work gym)
If you've got knee pain, you try using a tibialis bar at home. No need for a gym.
I have the good (?) fortune of having some stairs (maybe ten sets of 4-7) in one of the local parks and have seen some women up and downing them. Walking up all of them in one hit is enough for me at the moment; maybe I should include them as part of my daily walk.
You should! But maybe not every day at first.