Originally Posted by: Online Community MemberI agree you don't, strictly speaking, need a gym. I'm thinking more of the motivational aspect.
Somebody mentioned chair sit ups. I read somewhere that this is an excellent exercise so I've been doing some of these. The technique is to get up and down with your arms folded so only your leg muscles are doing the work.
Unfortunately I've developed a bad back and these have become very painful so I'm just doing the light weights for now. Pretty sure I heard Michael Moseley say, in one of his many programmes, that you could either do fewer reps using a heavy weight or more using a lighter one.
I'm doing 2 sets of 20 with 3 kg dumbells. At the end of the second set my arms are feeling it. Debating whether to increase to 3 sets of 20 reps or just to add a rep at a time to the existing sets.
Even though these are light weights (I started with 2 kg dumb bells) over the past 2 years I have developed noticeably bigger biceps so something is working.
I join an online class for prostate cancer patients, at least it's been online since April - used to be in a couple of gyms in Reading - part of the Reading Prostate Cancer Support Group. We do an hour every Mon, Wed, Fri, at 2pm. I already had quite muscular legs from cycling, but I'm surprised how much it's improved by biceps and triceps, just using 2kg hand weights (well, 2 litre pepsi bottles filled with water). The class is open to any patient who is interested. There's a small charge because we forced the teacher to charge us, as she no longer gets paid by the gyms, and none of us are interested in going back to the gyms at the moment. PM me if you're interested - we've had a few patients join us on Zoom from out of area, including one from the US.
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