I recharged the battery in the Garmin GPS. It's been that long since I've been able to ride, must be 4 months now? Oh I can walk and climb stairs but sitting knees up in the saddle seemed to aggravate my weak leg, weak knee. A real pisser!! Chiro, useless this time, Physio, next to useless. I didn't consider the GP as all they do is tell you it's arthritis and give you a bottle of pills. Or want to do a Hip replacement. Then I find this little Asian guy on youtube ranting about how useless the doctors are and how it's never Arthritis but just weak muscles around your knee and hips? Ok, I'll try anything once (except incest or country dancing)
So I start doing these isometric exercises where I stand and lift one lower leg back and hold it horizontal till my friggin hamstring is cramping. Again and again, left leg right leg. Then I lift the knee to the ceiling, hold it, 10sec, 20sec, 30, until it burns. There are other ones too where you lift and rotate. Well Bugger Me! Three days later and I'm seeing improvement, HUGE improvement. I sat on the Busa after 5 days, all hunched up in the riding position for like 10 minutes with no discomfort, and then went to lift that right leg. No worries, no weakness, and importantly, no limping on a weak leg when I got off.
I'm a convert, I'm a Believer Brother! And it all makes sense too! I was walking around behind lawn mowers all day for a quarter century, cycling 25km a week, my main muscles were a strong as buggery But! Only within a certain range, and more importantly, all those little other ancillary muscles had atrophied. Like the ones you employ chasing a soccer ball across a field, all those delicate off-axis movements so to speak. Anyway, not gonna analyze it, just gonna do the isometric exercises, and perhaps, buy a soccer ball.
