I finally got around to trying out the exercises I had dropped last year once my shoulder flared up. The good news (if more exercise is good news) is that I can go back to doing everything I had stopped doing. The movements hurt a bit, but a little pain is to be expected. Based on my tentative experiments last night, nothing related to resistance-band exercise is prohibitively painful, so starting this coming week, I'll be back to doing biceps curls, shoulder raises, triceps pulldowns, and chest presses. I'll also continue with some limited free-weight exercises using my 10-kilo dumbbells, and I'll continue to work the core with leg raises.
The real question relates to expanding my repertoire to include pushups and pullups. For the moment, I'm going to hold off on those, but much depends on whether my frozen shoulder starts to thaw later this year. I'll do therapeutic exercises for the right shoulder, and I might add other basic exercises recommended by experts: abdominal crunches, burpees (what we used to call "squat-thrusts" in PE class; neither designation sounds all that appetizing), and a few other things. Jump rope will continue. Slowly. I'm still an uncoordinated mess with those.
So that's the plan for now. Things may change as circumstances change.
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