This Bed-Dancing concept often gets a few chuckles but I want you to stay with me on this one as I explain exactly what it is (and isnt) and how you can incorporate this in your exercise routine today.
Ill begin by expressing how essential Bed-Dancing was in my life right after I had the RNY gastric bypass bariatric weight-loss surgery: VERY ESSENTIAL. Thats shooting straight from the hip!
Definition of Bed-Dancing: the exercise activity that incorporates established exercise movements while positioned on your back in the bed to minimize the stress and strains on joints and muscles when a person is morbidly obese. This is the best brief definition I could come up with since I am nowhere near a Webster genius.
Right after my surgery, I knew that it was important to MOVE MY BODY and begin to exercise. The biggest benefit I saw at the time was that it increased my blood circulation that was necessary to help my surgical wounds to heal. This was my main motivation. And when I weighed 317 pounds, there was no way I was eager to incorporate an exercise routine because my body was so large, and my arthritis so painful, I just could not bear putting such...