Howdoyoulikeyoureggsinthemornin ·
03/11/2025 21:06
Hello.
I have arthritis in both knees and find exercise very painful. I recently researched suitable exercises and found aquafit was suggested, low impact due to water, lots of upper body movement for core and arms- great I thought! I was excited to see our local swimming pool had several on a week. I researched it online and saw some fantastic class workouts.
Fast forward to this evening, attended and it was in the deeper end of the pool. This didn't bother me at first as I just thought it may be to warm us up against the pressure of the water. However, the class resulted in us swimming up and down the deepest end of the pool using a pool noodle and then swimming and pushing the pool noodle under the water. Nothing as advertised and seen on lots of other classes I'd seen online.
After 25 minutes my left knee was in bits from the swimming, I'd gone so slow as best I could that they were asking if I was able to actually swim. I felt so embarrassed and was already in so much pain. I explained I had arthritis and was instructed to do arm work outs but still wanted me to swim lengths up and down the pool. I got out after half hour and my knees are swelling up. I feel so embarrassed and disheartened.
I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for low impact exercises on the knees that could keep me in some form of shape please? They get worse this time of year due to cold weather so would also need to be indoors. Sorry for the waffle and thank you for reading.