At 10:53 AM 10/29/99 -0400, Elaine Harmon wrote: >On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Kirk Olsen wrote: > >> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999 LIZCSTM_at_aol.com wrote: >> >> > Everything feels wonderful >> > until I try to stand up and exit the kayak. Then the hours of inactivity >> > (for my lower half, anyway) take their toll. Nothing wants to work. >> >> As you head in for shore try shaking your legs around inside the boat. >> For me "flapping" my legs back and forth quickly gets the blood to at least >> start flowing. > >I find it helpful to form the habit of doing little "isometrics" from time >to time while paddling. Tighten up the gluteus Maximus and backs of the >thighs 10-15 times about every half hour and maybe more often when >approaching takeout. I also, while I'm thinking about it anyway, do some >forward-and-back curving of the lower spine, too. I think that helps. e > > >Elaine Harmon - eilidh_at_dc.seflin.org - eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu > Gee whiz all this time when I have been paddling and pumping my legs with each stroke and braceing I could of just left my legs still and let them go to sleep? Really I do use my legs a lot when I paddle and they always go to sleep after 5 or so minutes any way. I think the main reason is pinching the main artery in each leg when you sit in that position to long. It happens to me when I sit on the floor. Do you think the BIG beer gut has anything to do with it, naw couldn't have, and I am young enough to be yalls kid, he he :) Dana *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Oct 29 1999 - 16:05:06 PDT
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