All right, I am finally realizing I gotta exercise. Problem is a bad hip. I won't moan and cry about how bad it hurts, but ...it keeps me from doing a lot of things. I can RIDE a bike; but I can't get ON a bike. If I had a helicopter to lift me up on it, things would be cool.

Walking any distance is out of the question -- even with my cane, it hurts. bad. I am good for the first 5 minutes, then fuggetaboutit.

I can't be the only one on here with a bad hip....so what do you all do for exercise??

I don't have a bad hip but wanted to suggest a recumbant bike for exercise

So, telemetrynurse...tell me what is a recumbant bike?

A recumbent bike is a low bike with back support.




It might be a lot easier for you to get on and off of since the seat is about at chair height. Do you belong to a gym where you could try one out?

How about some aqua-exercises...like water-jogging etc...?

My left hip gives me trouble...has since my early 20s. Deep stretching is the only thing that helps me. I'm virtually hip pain free when I deep stretch it through yoga positions focused on the hip. I do light stretching nearly daily and try to do a 30 minute, hip focused stretching session about 2 times per week. I don't know what your hip problem is, so this may not help you.

Swimming and water aerobics are great ideas. I enjoy both and neither bother my hip.

Good luck.

Yeah, the water thing (swimming) would be good....if I had the nerve to get into a swimsuit!!!

And the recumbent bike, I don't think I could get on that, unfortunately. I have arthritis in my hip, and it really limits my movement.

Mudbugs - just about everyone in the water aerobics class at my gym is much larger than you are! You'd feel totally comfortable in your bathing suit there and I'm sure it's true at every other pool and class. Maybe you could go watch a class first and check out the other people in it? You might feel a lot more comfortable once you see that there are people of every shape and size!

Mudbugs - I don't know about hip issues, but I do know that you shouldn't feel nervous about your body in a swimsuit. No one but you will care. I don't know what yours in like, but my local pool has ladies only sessions. Something like that may make you feel more comfortable.

Last time I went to an aqua-aerobics class (some years ago now), I went with a friend and we both wanted to lose only 14-21 lbs. We were the thinest in the class by a long way, and we were also the least fit!

Oh thanks you guys for the recommendations.....Meg, I know there are people who are "fluffier" than I am at the pool...I just don't have the guts. If I could swim in a bikini top and a pair of sweat pants, I would feel like TOTALLY self-confident.

I think I have a real problem with body image-- gotta work on that.

Mudbugs, I used to feel like a pile of poop in my bathing suit - black with a skirt, of course. Then someone (a 3FC?) told me to just pretend I was a fashion model carrying a long-stemmed rose and walk out of the dressing room and into the pool with my head held hight. It works. Just DO it! You will feel so good in the water and it will do your hip (and the rest of you) lots of good.

You can also get DVDs of "chairobics" that will give your upper body some working out and could raise your heart rate enough to be counted as cardio. I'd have a look through Amazon - I think that's where I saw one.

Now now, thats no excuse LOL, here' a swim suit I think you'll like. It covers alot. I have a suit that covers my thighs... it looks like a skirt, really cute.

Here's the link.... surf the web, there's so much out there its mindboggling.

http://www.junonia.com/thumb-5-Swimw...uits-False.htm


COOL HUH !!!!!

Look at all the pretty skirt type suits here... oh they are darling..

http://www.roamans.com/roamans/layou...&rootdept=610&


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