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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fitness
  • Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:46:38 -0500

Jeanne; the hills here have done wonders for my knees, too. I dislocated my knee when I was a child, and it's been a problem ever since. When I lived in the city, it would become dislocated every couple of years, despite therapy, etc. I'd be in an immobilizer for weeks. Since I've moved here and walk up and down the hill (up to the mailbox, down to the barn) I haven't had any problems. And I live a much 'rougher' lifestyle, carrying heavy things and being push around by large animals. My sheep have tried their best to dislocate my knees, but haven't succeeded.

I have to tell you, though, my biggest weight-loss secret. I got rid of my husband...besided losing his useless 280 pounds, I lost almost 40 pounds of my own without even trying.. I'm a 'normal' weight for the first time...maybe in my life. As Gene said, the body responds to and reflects our happiness and unhappiness.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeanne Driese" <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fitness


Using the walk away the pounds DVDs has let me lose 42 pounds in 10 months but I had to limit my calories to 12 to 15 hundred a day. As we age it takes way less food to maintain our weight. At 73 you don't have to ask me how I know this!!! One of the things that has kept my arms in pretty good shape is having to carry EVERYTHING up my hill using 47 steps each time I go up or down. The last two years a fifty pound sack was to much for me to carry without doing serious damage to my back so my local farm store puts the stuff into 25 pound sacks for me. I will say that my knees improved a great deal when I went from 217 to 174. There are some days when it is a BIG effort to do stuff, but those steps make it something I have to do if I want to get to my bed to sleep or my kitchen to eat or the food in the house. Average during the winter is two to three trips up and down in a day, in the months I am working in the garden and flower beds it can be between 5 and 10, but let
me say that 10 is pushing the knees to the limit.
People who are 40 years younger ask me how I do it!!! They are huffing and puffing by the time they get to the top. It is about 110 feet up the steps and when I get to the top I can see way over the roof of my friend whose property I have my house on.
So far I do not have to take any medications except a natural thyroid and my turmeric for the bad knees. It is my plan to live to be 100 and still be able to get up and down the steps.
Way to many books to read and flowers to plant to go any sooner!
Jeanne
tnhillwoman
North East TN zone 6
----- Original Message ----- From: Lynn Wigglesworth
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fitness


> I really just need the flexibility and strength building stuff,
>with some calisthenics like sit ups or leg lifts thrown in.

Bev; I understand completely. There isn't enough heavy work in the winter on
a homestead to keep in shape. Yeah, I haul wood every day, but that isn't
enough, with all the extra sitting around. As we get older, it's more
important to stay in shape so we don't hurt ourselves when the work DOES
come. I was concerned to find that I couldn't lift a 100-pound feed sack out
of the truck last summer. I could never fling one over my shoulder like the
guys at the feed store, but I could move it to where it needed to be...I've
got to get that back.

I do the Walk Away the Pounds videos. The 4 mile is a nice one, but it takes
an uninterupted hour to do. She uses weights in the others, but not in the 4
mile for some reason, so I added the weights to that one; she uses 3 pound,
I use 5 pound hand weights. That's no where near enough weight training to
be ready for...oh, say, pulling a 300 ewe out of the mud (which I've had to
do more than once), or other everyday homestead tasks. I'd like to add more
weight training, but don't have a weight set....is doing lots of reps with
smaller weights as good for building muscle?

Lynn Wigglesworth

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