I thought exercise was supposed to be good for you…
No gardening this weekend due to a touch of Tennis Elbow. Must have overdone the digging last weekend, even though I thought I was taking it steady.
Jean booked me in with her Yoga tutor, who is also a qualified sports physio, for a session of sports injury massage. After I had this, it felt a lot better but the recommendation was to leave the gardening for at least a week and to regularly do the exercise she showed me. Ironic really, it’s the veg plot to her house that I’ve taken on!
I’ve since agreed to carry on with a series of exercise sessions with her which will be aiming to get my general fitness back up to speed. This should help me stay away from getting this sort of problem in the future. As I’ve done virtually no sailing over the past two years, my fitness level could certainly do with a boost. Next session is on Thursday and lets see how it goes. Update on this anon…
December 10th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
is this a family trait?
(the tennis elbow or the problems with digging)
I’m doing a bit of digging & then the exercises to recover.
Our allotment sports 50 leeks; 1.5 rows of potatoes;4 cabbages left over from last year & a cage that blew down in the gale that is supposed to be protecting the winter cabbages that the pidgeons are busy demolishing.
Managed to catch Andrew’s blog before your card came with the details, quite jealous now (but its better looking in the warm)so i’ll count my blessings
December 12th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
by the way, I have dad’s 1940 “digging for victory” text book on gardening & food production.
there is even an original slip in it offering “National Growmore” fertiliser cheap to allotment holders.
Interesting bits on composting & even 1940’s thoughts on hydroponics.