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Lesson Learned: Christine and the Yard Work

Christine Hennebury
a photo of a deck/patio featuring colourful potted flowers, a chair, a yoga mat, and the view of a green lawn and an orange lawn chair beyond

I had just finished replanting the flowers on the blue table and I somehow missed the fact that the orange pot needs to be cleaned.

Given that we’ve been having a stretch of good weather lately, I’ve been trying to do a bit of extra work in our yard.

I’ve tidied up a few slightly-neglected areas, I’ve dragged some stuff to the garbage, I’ve replanted a few things, and we’ve been scrubbing our deck and our siding a little bit at a time.

Basically, I’ve been sitting/standing/moving/bending/turning in all kinds of unfamiliar ways and I don’t really notice all the different muscles I’m using until much later in the evening.

I’ve been doing a few stretches here and there but I’m still a bit twitchy as I sit down to read or draw at night and my muscles are not thrilled with me when I lie down to sleep.

Obviously, I need to do more dedicated stretching than I’ve been doing and perhaps I may even need to do a bit of a warm-up before I get started on my next project in the yard.

I find it really hard to remember to do either/both because I just want to get to the task at hand.

Do you do warm-ups and stretches before yardwork?

How about a cool-down and stretches afterwards?

I can’t be the only one who forgets all about it until much later, can I?

Anyway, here are a few videos I’m going to use throughout the summer but if you have any suggestions, I’d like to hear them. 🙂

This YouTube Short from a channel called Garden Fit is called ‘Are You Experiencing Common Gardening Aches and Pains? Try These Stretches!’ and the still image shows a woman with short white hair, wearing jeans and a green tank top, standing in front of some large outdoor plants.
This video from Sunnybrook Hospital is called ‘How to avoid pain while gardening | stretches & warm-ups’ and the still image shows a gardening trowel with a green handle lying on some soil.
This video from the Osteo & Physio channel is called ‘Full body stretch routine for gardeners to prevent injury | 12 minute routine’ and the still image features the title on the right hand side, a circle with an image of a woman in a sweater doing a neck stretch, and in the background is someone from the elbows down who is standing in a garden with a long-handled tool in their hands.
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