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Relieve Joint Pain and Restore Joint Mobility
Joints begin to ache as we get a little older, or not so older in the case of aggressive athletes, who often hurt as much as someone three or four times their age. Nagging pain day after day coupled with decreasing range of motion equals just plain old bad juju that’ll ruin your life.
It may amaze you to discover those daily pains can be fixed, and pretty darn quick, too. Since your choices are getting a new job once you can no longer do the old, go on pain pills, like, forever, or even submit to surgery that may or may not work, you owe it to yourself to dedicate a few weeks to joint mobility to see if you can fix the aches that ail you.
Sick of regular, low-grade pain, the mobility program I picked is Scott Sonnon’s Ageless Mobility, a one-on-one workshop DVD that takes 75 minutes. The dvd arrived three weeks ago, has been through our player a grand total of six times, and already the difference is remarkable. I’m hooked, as well as committed, because I can tell this effort will pay off for the forever years.
Scott writes, “The best way to oil the rusty “tin man” joints is with the body’s natural lubrication. Our connective tissue doesn’t get any nutrition from blood flow after puberty except through movement (the exception is the jaw - which we tend to flap the most anyway.)
Add to that the compressive nature of weight lifting and you see the ’squeezing out’ of this natural lubrication and nutrition.
Ten to fifteen minutes of dynamic joint mobility exercise will transport the nutrients of the food you’re ingesting to the places where it’s needed — your joints. It will also wash the joint capsule with lubrication, smooth off the bony profiles of any build-up of joint salts and calcification to abate arthritis and offset osteoporosis, as well as release adhesions and restrictions to movement.
It will also decrease your recovery time between your workouts to give you pain-free mobility, lessen and prevent delayed onset of muscle soreness, so that you can more enjoy the fruits of your muscular labor.”
Watch a few minutes of his presentation at the Active Aging Festival for a taste of what’s in store for your joints. (The full dvd class takes 75 minutes and moves from the neck down to the ankles.) Even this small segment of the live demonstration — just the neck work — has proven beneficial in three short weeks: I can see over my shoulder better when driving.
To keep you busy while you’re waiting for your new dvd to arrive, here’s more from Scott on back pain relief, and his commentary on the difference between joint mobility and overall flexibility, often confused but are not the same.
Let me add a tiny caveat: If you’re not committed to regular sessions in front of the tv, this isn’t the program for you. While this is educational, the point is the effort a few times a week. Watching it once and never again is like paying $24.95 for a trip to the theater, without the expensive popcorn.
Laree Draper
on December 20th, 2007 at 7:59 am
I’m tired of taking asprin all the time. Took your suggestion and ordered the DVD today. Will let you know how I do with it. Thanks for the recommendation.
on December 20th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
I am a 65 yr.old lifter with years of benching. After a 5 way heart by-pass I still feel i like to lift heavy
my best bench now is 320 raw but my elbows are hurting. Will this dvd help.
on December 21st, 2007 at 9:40 am
Larry, you asked if this mobility dvd will help with elbows. My first guess was no, because there’s not much attention to the elbows in the work. But then I realized there’s a lot of indirect elbow work, and of course if your elbow problems stem from shoulder tightness, the dvd will definitely help.
Are you taking fish oil a couple times a day? I’d sure be doing that if I were you, for the cardiovascular system as well as the joints. Whatever caused the arterial blockage needs to be addressed so it doesn’t happen again; I’m sure you’re already attending that.
on December 22nd, 2007 at 7:39 pm
I am interested to know if anyone has tried Chi Kung exercises to help solve the probem of joints and mobility.
2 years ago I started investigating this ancient Chinese system, which is related to Tai Chi by the way, and have found it to be a total solution. Have retained virtually full mobility with regular practise of the movements - about 20 mins a day 3-5 times a week depending upon how I feel and always after exercising - weights, running etc.
My MD has been sufficiently impressed during my annual medical checkups that he asked me to put together a programme for his less mobile and mostly older patients. I suspect that the movements on your DD are not dissimilar.
Hope these comments will be helpful.
Oh yes, I weight train in the gym twice a week, jog/run around 6 miles early most Sunday mornings wearing a weight vest and will be 71 years of age in 4 weeks time. Happily I am not on any medication, have no health problems at all and take no special supplements. I do enjoy a sensible diet, take no more than 10 units of alcohol a week and I live about 8 miles from the North sea, here on the East Coast of England - (means very bracing weather throughout the year!)
on December 23rd, 2007 at 10:03 am
Dave, your training sounds fabulous. Future readers will appreciate your Chi Kung ideas. We’d love to hear more about it in the IronOnline group discussion forum, where you’ll get more responses.
on January 22nd, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I love your stuff -
on January 29th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
That’s a good point about the compression squeezing it out. In that case, wouldn’t mobility exercises by the most effective while under traction? Inversion seems to do this very well.
I think I’ll learn these standing movements, and then attempt to translate them into something done on gravity boots.