Squats to get fit

@rakski great idea! I did squats while the keurig was brewing my tea. I was able to do 30 while it brewed. I was starting to get faint so I was glad when the Keurig was done .

@shaggin that's great.i will try that also

We don’t have any chair with arms. I loved my old kitchen chairs they were sturdy and 50 years old. My husband didn’t like them as they didn’t have very high backs so he couldn’t lean back comfortably. So he bought different ones. My kitchen is small so I bash my elbows off the top of them all the time when I walk by. One broke and had to be glued and bolted together. Junk compared to the good old solid ones I had. If you ever got stuck down in your couch you may be able to lay down on your side and roll off. After my c-section my muscles were weak and painful so I had to roll onto my side and push up with my arms to get off or bed.

@DaddyEvil pink is my favorite color but I know my husband would not want that. With animals and kids darker things are better anyway. I use my chairs to climb often as well. Oh gosh you are lucky you didn’t get hurt helping get him up off the couch!

@shaggin I have rolled off the couch before but couldn't get up off the floor without help. Luckily, the workout bench was close enough I could climb up it to get to my feet. My first wife hated all my furniture and gave it away when we moved in together. I didn't like the furniture she bought... (It was all pink!) I had to buy all new furniture after we started getting divorced. Pretty and I left our kitchen table at the last house we had. I had to make a choice, have a kitchen table in this little house or keep my houseplants. I chose the houseplants and brought one of the kitchen chairs with us. I put the chair at the back of the kitchen so I could sit and read while waiting for things like pasta to come to a boil. (Pretty uses the kitchen chair to climb up to the top cabinets in the kitchen.) When the OACAC representative came to inspect the house, he started to sit on the couch (He's even bigger/heavier than I am.) I told him the couch was really hard to get out of once he sat on it and asked if he'd like to sit on the workout bench while talking with us. He said he'd be okay. Then, when he tried to get up off the couch, he told me he saw what I meant about not being able to get up again. I pulled him up off the couch.

@snowy22315 I think holding a low squat is supposed to be really good for our bodies. Maybe that would be better for you than squatting up and down which seems to trigger pain in your knees. Not all exercises work for everyone . I can’t do sit ups I have a raging headache immediately afterwards. I used to do a ton as a teen but as of about 10 years ago the headaches started.

@mayka123 I always enjoy your thoughtful comments. “hearing your name repeated so many times—it’s like a mini workout in itself!” You are so right on that . Do you have children? Yes slight soreness can be a good sign . Makes me feel a little more fit already.

@shaggin I have two kids who are married now. And grand kids too. Whenever they visit they keep me on my toes.

@mayka123 aww thats wonderful. I have a 20 year old, 17 year old, 3 year old and an 18 year old stepson.

@id_peace I understand how your mom must have felt. If only we could earn money from it.

@shaggin Hahaha I would glad help to earn that money to get macdonald

@sallypup does it work well to do them in the pool? I’ve never tried it to know. My mom does exercises in the pool too but I’m not sure if she does squats or not.

@shaggin The pool water helps to not have pain when you move muscles and joints that don't want to move. I can walk much faster and longer in the warm water than I can on land. I'm glad your Mom exercises in a pool.

@GardenGerty I usually catch up online at myLot etc but my body is important as well and not having to buy new clothes will be good so exercise instead of online will have to be the choice I make more often.

@shaggin So, you're having coffee flavored milk?

@BarBaraPrz yep with 3 big teaspoons of sugar in it too

@Barbaraprz a lot I’ve never measured but probably 3/4 of a cup. I love leg lifts. I do them more often over the years than squats.

@allknowing so that’s one of the exercises they think will help?

@shaggin No squats I meant doing physiotherapy exercises.

@Rebeccasfarm thank you! My little one had a notebook she was drawing on then ripping the pepper apart and said she wanted to make a fairy door and that she needed glue and glitter. I gave her the glue and she added the first piece of ripper paper and wanted my help so I glued the rest on into a house shape and drew a door. Then have her stickers and she decorated the rest. It reminded my son and I of a gingerbread house .

@wolfgirl569 yes they are beneficial for many things. My pelvic floor is weak after having my youngest. My first one tore through my bladder which started the issues but for whatever reason this last child was what made things the worst. Maybe just age or maybe because I gained more weight or maybe it had something to do with the c-section with this last child which I didn’t have with my first two. Anyway squats are supposed to be helpful for the pelvic floor so I’m hoping they help with that as well as so things stop jiggling so much .

@andriaperry hmm I hadn’t really thought of that. I probably bend over to grab things in public a lot less often than bending down to grab things off shelves though. It’s hard to picture as I usually rushing around and don’t pay much attention to how I’m standing.

@Kandae11 I always feel like I have no time to exercise but I even put in a minute to do some it’s better then none at all

@grenery8 thank you! I will although I didn’t get any exercise in at all today.

@shaggin your body is getting adjust to the exercise already.

@Judyev my husband does that too instead of just coming to find me and ask me a question