edk
senior
I'm heading for a TKR (one knee) 4 Mar 08. My problem is I have low HDL and
heart disease and the only way I can get my HDL to a reasonable level is by
exercising out the wazoo. Unfortunately, my exercise of choice has been stairmaster.
I couldn't jog cause of my bad knee and about anything else (swimming...) I
couldn't get my heart rate up enough to make it quite a workout. I see on the
surgeons dos and don't after surgery was that stairmastering was not recommended.
One of the reasons it doesn't bother me all that much is it isn't pounding but its
smooth pressure. And, since one can climb stairs afterwards, whats wrong with
climbing lots of them? Seems going down stairs is the bad part.
heart disease and the only way I can get my HDL to a reasonable level is by
exercising out the wazoo. Unfortunately, my exercise of choice has been stairmaster.
I couldn't jog cause of my bad knee and about anything else (swimming...) I
couldn't get my heart rate up enough to make it quite a workout. I see on the
surgeons dos and don't after surgery was that stairmastering was not recommended.
One of the reasons it doesn't bother me all that much is it isn't pounding but its
smooth pressure. And, since one can climb stairs afterwards, whats wrong with
climbing lots of them? Seems going down stairs is the bad part.