Note to Self
Feb. 5th, 2014 07:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chomijiSelf, although you identify strongly with the 20-something guys in your favorite reading material (of various types), you are actually a 55-year-old woman who has been off her game for the past few months because of health issues.
This means that if you are suddenly struck by the fact that there is a waist-high counter in front of the primping mirror in the women's restroom at work, and there is absolutely no one around, and you wonder whether you can still clear that counter with a front snap kick, your body is not going to appreciate it when you try it to see.
The ligament on the lower inside of my left knee (the medial collateral ligament, I think, from the diagram I found online) is only just a little bit sore this morning, although I was hobbling for a bit last night. (And yes, I did clear the counter with my kick. Go me — you silly person you!)
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Date: 2014-02-05 02:37 pm (UTC)I am pretty sure that move would leave me with just as much damage without nearly as much success, and I am 20-something. So color me impressed.
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Date: 2014-02-06 01:22 am (UTC)To give my legs their due, I think they're still stretchy enough (I stretch every morning), but that abrupt reversal of direction that makes it a "snap" kick was a little too much after more than 20 years of not doing it!
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Date: 2014-02-05 04:38 pm (UTC)To be fair, it probably would have killed me, too, and I think I still qualify as "twenty-something" - for another couple of years at least.
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Date: 2014-02-06 01:24 am (UTC)I was actually hoping to give my friends a good laugh, or at least a smile, so your reaction is perfect!
I know many people do martial arts at my age, but they keep up with it! It's been more than 20 years since I set foot in a dojo. That's probably the limiting factor, more than the age itself.
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Date: 2014-02-06 06:44 am (UTC)Glucosamine-Chondratin supplements are supposed to help. I'm not sure how much you need to take or for how long, though.
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Date: 2014-02-06 09:19 am (UTC)