trainer session

I had my free half-hour training session this evening. The fitness manager had matched me with Emilie because I mentioned I was having joint issues; it turns out she's also very interested in balance and proprioception. I did almost no exercise: she did massage-type stuff and had me try out walking after she did things; she encouraged me to stand with my feet positioned differently than I normally do; and she showed me a thing involving lying on my side, one leg extended and the other folded in front of it, rolling my hip forward and back on a cylinder (about 15 cm diameter?), and another exercise for the foot that involved standing/pressing down on a spaldeen, to massage the foot.

Her theory is that my knee problem is the result of foot, posture, and leg muscle issues; what she did worked well enough that my knee felt much better afterward. She also did things that helped my left elbow and my right shoulder.

I have scheduled another training session (this one officially a full hour, which is about as much time as she took with me tonight), and paid for a bunch more beyond that; the hope is twelve weeks or so, starting with an emphasis on more massage/PT-type stuff, and moving gradually to her teaching me more exercises to be done without machines. She says those are better for balance than working with the machines. (Not exercise machines=bad, but that working with machines doesn't do as much good.)

This did my knee enough (I also 15:21 of cardio bike as warmup)