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- Howdy folks I'm Bob Schrupp physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck physical therapist.
- And we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- Quite humble too.
Today, we're gonna talk about five exercise options
that are easy on your joints.
We're talking about hips, knees, ankles
lower extremity joints.
- Yep, all those weight bearing joints.
We need to make them last as long as we can.
- Yeah. For one thing a lot
of times they are painful on some people
and because of it they stop exercising.
- Right.
- We're trying to keep you going
because that will be better for your joints in the longterm.
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- Absolutely Bob good work.
- All right the first one, Brad is the easiest one.
And this is something that everybody can do.
Mostly everybody can do, I should say.
- Right
- And also it doesn't cost you anything.
So we're talking about walking.
- Right.
- So what we're going to have you check
out is we actually have a person that works with us.
Jordan, she's a workout trainer.
- Yup, very professional she knows what she's doing.
- And she's got some videos on walking.
She's got one course for a mile, one 20 minutes I believe.
- I think there's a 30 minute one too.
And they're indoor walking.
- Yep, walking in place with some music.
- You go right with her. She shows you what to do.
It's so you're not walking across the house.
It's actually stationary walking.
- Marcus if you can show a sample right now
of her doing it while we're talking, you know, the thing is
that she also does workouts in the video, not just walking.
You know what I mean? She does exercises
- Appropriate exercises that are not they're, you know
they're not like 20 pushups on your one hand or whatever.
They're, they fit the whole.
- She is tough though man.
- I got to admit, she'll challenge you
but she'll do it appropriately.
And she'll tell you options.
- Right? Okay.
Number two, you've got to spend a little money
but this thing is easy on the joints.
It's a recumbent trainer. It's by Teeter.
What's nice about this.
You can adjust the seat up high, a little higher.
So it's easier on the hips because the lower the seat
is the more stress is going to be on the knees.
- [Brad] So you want to make sure it's adjusted right?
- [Bob] Uh very smooth, very quiet.
- [Brad] It is.
- [Bob] So it's very low stress
and low impact on the joints.
I mean, I, you know, I can't think of anything.
That's probably less maybe swimming.
- Well, yeah, that, that would be true.
And you could adjust their intensity right
back here very easily.
It's a, it's a nice deal, It's quiet.
And like we said, it's, you know
you could watch TV easily with this.
- Yeah. What I like about this?
A very well-made high quality commercial grade almost.
And they have one that's a little less expensive
than the LT2. This one's $950.
I hate to even quote it sometimes I'm wrong.
I mean, they change it.
- Well, Bob, it's the memory thing.
- No, it's not the memory thing.
- It's not the memory thing I'm sorry.
- It's the change thing they change it.
Or the LT one is like $750.
So it's like 200 bucks cheaper.
So all right.
My, my wife, by the way started using this,
- She likes it?
- Well for the winter months, she's got to use it.
- Oh right right.
- She does interval training,
she goes really hard for a minute.
And then she goes on the treadmill for a minute.
- Oh, a little cross training?
Absolutely. You could do this with Jordan's videos, you know
do her video and come on this.
- Yeah, there you go.
Number three, Tai Chi.
We're not experts on this by any means,
but it does, you know it's always brought up
as something that's really good
for the joints, especially hip and knee.
- Well, it's, it's gonna work your balance.
It's gonna work your breathing with strength.
I just can't say enough about it.
If you're looking for this type
of exercise that is going to allow you to relax
focus on you, you're going to get stronger
because some of the poses and the movements, and it's just.
I can't say enough about it for balance Bob.
- Yeah. I know there's plenty
of Tai-Chi videos online so just find someone you like.
- Maybe we can get one someday.
- I'd like to have someone come on.
- We'll search the world over
and see if we can get a good person for that.
If you're a Tai-Chi person and you're in the Minnesota area
and you want to come on down.
There we go.
- There you go.
- Next is the Fit Glide.
So this one, Oh boy, I got it. - Don't worry Bob, I got it.
- I'm going to turn to the side right away.
- The fit glide is a great seated exercise.
We'll show you right here.
It's very light.
It's only, it's less than five pounds.
You can carry it around with you.
- He already put it up on the stand or you
but you can start flat.
You can wear shoes or not.
But there's a little swishing sound.
It's not, whisper quiet. There's a little sound
You're going to hear if you're in the office
and somebody is wondering, what do you got
doing under your desk, but you certainly can watch TV with
- Oh yeah.
And you can talk to each other very easily.
It works very well with people
with knee problems who have difficulty walking
or like Bob said, if you're
in a desk situation where you're seated a good part
of the day, and you want to get circulation going
into your legs and look at this
we can put it up on an angle.
- And now I'm working in the quadriceps
a lot more than I was.
And if I flip it around oh thanks, Brad.
- Well, Bob, you know, I'm here.
I'm here to help you out here to serve.
This really works the hamstrings a lot more
than you would think.
Once you start doing it, you do about five minutes
on here and you'll be amazed
that you feel the legs warm up more circulation.
- It's going to be great for the hips.
You can also do it in bed.
I'm gonna lie down Brad.
- Okay.
- I'm gonna sacrifice my body.
- That's right and we're keeping it.
Are we in a good angle?
We can, we can get Bob?
Now you can do this in bed. You can do it on the floor.
Like Bob is doing we've you know
done it with people after surgery
- Right we start them on the exercise program.
Especially if people are so weak, they can't get out of bed.
- You got a total knee, total knee, total hip.
They're beautiful for that.
- You might put a towel underneath the heel.
It might be a little more comfortable
especially if they're, yeah that's a lot more comfortable.
- Yeah, it is.
It's it's a simple thing.
- I mean, you could have your shoes on in bed
too that would work.
- well we don't we don't promote wearing shoes in bed.
- My wife is probably shaking right now just
from me saying that.
Okay. That last one.
- She has tell you to take your shoes off
before you go to bed?
- No but she's got a thing about shoes.
- [Brad] Oh, I get it.
- We're gonna come over here now.
I'll go ahead and move this light.
We're on the fly here, Brad.
- Oh, that's right.
- So you can also do some resistance training
for strengthening for your legs.
The stronger the legs are, the more, less stress
they're gonna put on the joints.
- As well as the hips that all works together as a chain.
- So we got the wall anchors here.
These are the anchors
and these are our Bob and Brad exercise
bands, comes with five of them.
Also comes with a cuff.
You have the cuff on already Brad?
- I've got one right here.
I was going to show you this, that comes
with cuffs here that you can put around your ankle.
I have on the ankle.
And I like the handles.
These red handles are ours.
- These are high quality.
- You can put as much weight as you want.
And then they got our name on them.
So we're pretty proud of that.
So anyways, should I show them the cuff exercise?
- Yeah why don't you show them some leg exercise.
- So I already got one on
I'll just toss this one off to the side.
We're gonna start here.
Bob was talking about strengthening the legs.
And I would mention while the hips are really
important as well with your walking and your balance.
I'm just going to show you some good exercises for that hip.
We've got the hip adductor,
the groin muscles, the hip flexors.
Here we go. And you know, these get you tired.
And if you need a little assistance with balance
you can take a cane, a stick.
We'll use the Booyah Stick naturally.
And this one in particular working
in that hip adductor really critical.
- Really needed for balance.
- If you're going to do just one hip exercise like this
that's the one we would say.
This is a nice one to get that glute maximus working.
And again, with these anchors, it's so easy to put
on and off and get things out of the way.
Go ahead Bob.
- No, I think that's all I have to say, but you can do
squats along with it and you can even hook up the band
to the lower level.
- Oh sure.
- And do squats that way.
So yeah.
- Yeah. So, you know,
if you do want to get some anchors, you can go
to Bob and Brad and you get four of them through that
and then you can put them up different levels.
- Giving some resistance.
- And we do have some videos.
If you go Bob and Brad, YouTube banding, you'll find we
probably got 30, 40 videos with different exercises.
- Yeah resistance band or some type
of exercise for upper extremity.
Most of them are with the bands.
Yup. All right, Brad
do you have anything else to say for yourself?
- Well, Bob, once again it's getting time for winter.
We're prepared for that.
- We can fix just about anything,
- except for,
- A broken heart.
- Right and these exercises.
- They don't help.
- They're really good though, but yeah
the broken heart thing where we're still working on that.
- Easy on your joints but not easy on your heart.
- Well, we don't really know where for you don't
do very well from that area, but we're working on it.