Walking Rehabilitation Equipment: Gehbarren




Take a look at my Gehbarren. To my knowledge there is no English language equivalent, except "parallel bars", but that's just confusing. This will be the focus of my personal training sessions from now on. I have some problems remaining with my cane walking, but all of them can be traced back to my fear of falling. So, the hope is that walking every day with this will help to build muscles and stabelisers which would get ignored otherwise.

While I'm at it, this is my (recumbent) exercise bike, that I use most days in my cardio training in the gym in Reha Hamburg.



Here's a recent landmark:



That's a resistance of "10" by the way. Which means nothing to me but it reminds me of a related anecdote. During an early cardio session, I had just strapped myself in and started cycling, when my neighbour, clearly alarmed by the beeping coming from my bike, and noticing that I was struggling said "do you know you're doing that?" . I had, with my right hand, which should know better, been, unbeknownst to myself, increasing the resistance, which had reached the gruelling max level of 25 "It's OK, I meant that" I unconvincingly uttered. I had to, of course, stick it out on 25, for 5k I think.

This is what I use to warm-up my legs, 15 minutes on the motomed:



In conjunction, I do single (my left leg, 45kg: 3*15) and regular (105kg, 3*15) leg presses, followed by  abductor presses  (45kg 3*15). I received my rollator on Friday, so, when I inevitably leave Reha, my hope is that I can continue personal training with the Gehbarren, including joining a local, Bergerdorf gym to continue my cycling and weights training. Hopefully, eventually I will be able to rollator, by myself, to the gym.

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