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Anyone had experience with OsteoStrong, who is not a franchisee?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Nov 14 12:58pm | Replies (419)Comment receiving replies
Hello fellow travelers....not an easy road to walk, for sure.
I did go for my complimentary workout at my local OsteoStrong facility yesterday. I was walked through all the modalities and was than guided through a total workout..which takes about 15 minutes. I was doing the different strength loading workouts...pressing down, pulling up..leg strength as well as the vibration plate experience. It all felt great to do...watching the numbers climb and seeing my strength measured..which surprised even the ladies that were assisting me. It's true that it takes about 4.5 x one's own body weight to even 'wake up' our bone building agents...by doing these types of 'tensions' for the 5 sec. had quite an effect on how I felt afterwards. I did get up to pushing 575lbs on the arm machine..and since I weigh 124lbs...that wasn't bad at all for my first time. I have to admit..by the end of my day I was pooped!...I felt 'worked-out' for sure! More than I have in years and years of being active...I wasn't sore in any areas..just wiped out!
I went to bed early..and feel great today! I got a whole bunch of literature on the vibration therapy as well as the reasoning behind "OsteoStrongs" techniques, which I've read and better understand their goals.,now. It's a once a week program for 129 a month....a little less for families.
Because I present with such high DXA numbers...the minus numbers....I haven't been pushing my workouts as much these past years....but this 15 minute workout was like the old days..when I would work out for hours and got that 'feeling' of an all over body exhaustion....it felt great!, must say....
I am doing other modalities at this time..like collagen and more protein intake along with "GrowBone"..and will have another DXA in July. I am also getting cataract surgeries in April and May...so I need to get all of these things behind me and I just might end up scrimping on some things and going for this regime. After feeling the results of the 15min workout...
Wishing you all the best in your searches.
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@bunky44 Hi and thanks for answering. After reading about your workout, sounds like I'm not there yet, just starting PT next week to build muscle tone, posture and fall prevention after so many months of 'just resting' and the inability to do so many things. I'm a noodle at the moment and 115 lbs.—working out for hours (sans osteo/fractures) doesn't happen in my sedentary field. I've been using a collagen peptide supplement, dissolves in water—I use Earl Grey Tea to cut the chalky part—not bad! Hopefully it's doing something. My all over body exhaustion came from a PT job in a wine store yrs ago—never in better shape in my life, lifting 50 lbs to my shoulders on an everyday basis. I like built-in exercise—something where I don't realize the workout is really going on. 15 minutes, once a week, $129 a month? Seems like a lot but if it's helping, cutting corners in other ways might be worth it. I have to find one around here, check it out. At the moment I'm still in acute rib recovery so 575lbs on the arm machine doesn't seem like it would work at the moment. I need to develop more low impact strength or that could be another set of fractures for me! Thanks so much for the info, it's certainly worth a complimentary workout when put together a bit more. Many Thanks and good luck—keep it going!!