Week 2 Update

I must confess I’ve not been working as hard at the exercises given to me by the physio as I perhaps should have been. I am on annual leave, and I’ve been finding it difficult to muster the enthusiasm to do anything if I don’t want to do it. Like college work. Or renewing my car insurance. Or exercising.

Since I last updated, I’ve been to the physio twice and played three games of five a side football. I’ve done virtually no stretching or core work, something that I’m annoyed with myself with. My excuse is that I’ve been busy watching Euro 2012, writing my JuNoWriMo entry and trying desperately to unwind while I’m off work, but I suspect that doesn’t carry much water.

At our session last week, the physio suggested my quadriceps are stronger than my hamstrings, but my hamstrings are less tight than my quadriceps. What I know about the human musculoskeletal system could be written on one of my finger tips, so when a health care professional suggests my hamstring and quads could be causing my knee problems, I have to take his word for it.

He also noted my discomfort in bending and straightening my right knee, and gave me an exercise for that as well, observing that the pain would get worse before it would get better. It’s another exercise I haven’t really been doing, but hopefully I will develop more of a regime when I return to work properly on the 25th of the month.

I have been studiously recording my calorie intake however, using the Livestrong website and app. Since I started observing how much and I eat and my weight, I’ve apparently lost 5lbs. I would ideally like to get down around 210lbs, or 95kg; that’s 27lbs/12.5kg away. Again, because I’m off work, and because of my knee, I’m not doing a huge amount of exercise right now, but that will hopefully change next month.

Finally, I hope to have reached an understanding with my bicycle over its continual mangling of inner tubes. I’ve bought a new, Kevlar-laced, puncture resistant tyre (£25), and at some point in the next few days I’ll put the wheel back on the bike. And then sometime after that I might actually ride it.

I may not update again until the 30th of June; by then I may have fallen back into some semblance of routine.