Thu Tu’s Blog

After a shoulder surgery that impaired mobility, physical therapy was like training wheels to help me get back to my original condition. It helped me regain strength and range-of-motion that I had lost, even before the surgery because I had to prevent the shoulder from dislocating.
The thing with training wheels is that sometimes it’s hard [...]

I felt as if I wasn’t improving my running because I couldn’t finish a mile more quickly. :dunno: My friends told me to see how long I could go (endurance) instead of how little time it takes to cover a given distance (speed). Instead of 12 minutes, I gave myself 15 min to run at [...]

I saw my sports medicine surgeon today. He said my shoulder is as good as it gets and I can resume normal activities. My limitations would be motions such as the one used for serving overhand in volleyball. That’s fine, for now. I know I have a lot of strengthening to do before I can [...]

When I tell people I got a personal trainer, they would say, “You don’t need a trainer. Just watch what other people do.” I explained the situation with my shoulder rehabilitation and things then made sense to them. But even if I didn’t have shoulder rehabilitation, a good personal trainer is worth it in the [...]

Now that I’ve become an exercise junkie, I am no longer a junk food junkie. It’s not like I made a conscious effort to cut down calories to lose weight.
Some claim that exercise increases appetite and others cite the opposite. I think both is/could be true, at least for me. Overall, my appetite has increased [...]

When I signed up for 24 Hour Fitness, I had two plans to choose from if I wanted to be able to go to all the sports-level clubs. Plan A: $150 enrollment fee/$45 monthly dues. Plan B: $750 enrollment/$7 monthly. (Prices are approximate because I have a bad memory for some things, so ). Since [...]