Calisthenics to make me harder, better, faster, stronger
At the recommendation of my surgeon, I started doing calisthenics this week in an effort to stretch my healing back and start building my core (so my lower discs don’t have to work so hard). I also need to lose more weight — I currently weigh 212 lbs. Not so fun fact: I weighed 185 at my wedding five years ago. But I digress.
After almost three months of atrophy, I’m amazed how quickly the human body becomes unfit. I’m breathing like crazy after only 10 push ups, whereas three months ago I was in the best shape I’ve been since high school. But I must say, the stretching and light work outs alleviate the lingering pain in my leg caused by a once flattened sciatic nerve. Is nice!
I’m anxious to get back to running, but have to wait another month before doing so. So have you been exercising? Tsk, tsk.
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pullups are very good for your core, because they need to stabilize your body while doing them
i’d reccomend that
What are the specific calisthenics that you are doing? What the routine/program? I need to strengthen my core to make my lower back happier too. I’ve been searching for a good stretching routing but my google searches turn up funny named stretches like “cobra” and “the cat.”