Stuck On The Toilet Exercises

I go to see a trainer twice a week to have her basically work on all the muscles that I don’t use walking. I know that it is not enough time to really counteract my walking muscles, but it is about all I can afford with time and money. Walking nine miles a day just takes a boatload of time, not my first choice of words to describe it.

Tiffani, my trainer, yes she is young, is constantly trying to get me to strengthen my glutes to counter act the “walking group.” I thought I was using my butt when I walk, but apparently it is just along for the ride. This week Tiffani had me do some exercises to strengthen my IT bands. I have no idea what those are, but what I do know is that the inside of my thighs hurt like a “Rhymes with witch.”

I know that I need to work on all my muscles, so doing one exercise to extreme can have bad consequences, but whatever I am doing to help that is causing me to almost not be able to walk at all. How can this be good?

Actually these IT bands have practically disabled me from getting on and off the toilet. I am sure you agree with me that is extreme. If walking too much is bad for me and doing exercises to counteract that bad thing hurts me so badly that I can’t walk I guess it is working to keep me from walking too much.

I am wondering if there is some exercise where I lie on the bed and move my fingers and toes and nothing else, that actually burns some calories? I have lived a long time without actually knowing the names of all my muscles and tendons and been just fine with that. Knowing what something is because it is killing me is not something I need to do.

From years of working out with trainers I have learned that exercising the muscle that hurts often helps relieve the pain, kind of like a hair of the dog thing, but I have not found an exercise I can do for these IT bands while I am stuck on the toilet. So all you experts out there let me know if you have the answer. I am sure that toilet-sitting exercises could be the next big thing. I just don’t want to be the person that demonstrates them. Oh yeah, remember to add the problem of having your pants around your ankles, for demonstration purposes you could use a band around the ankles if you don’t want to demonstrate pant less.