Listen to your body?…I cant take the noise!!

They say to “listen” to your body, well my body is definitely making a lot of NOISE.

The morning started out beautifully with our yoga flows, so wonderful…then it was time for the deep seated squat – ut katasana (something like that) and the soft creaking in the right knee began, I was hoping not to distract anyone. As we moved on to our weight work and we were holding on to our light weights sitting at the end of our bench and raising our arms up and down the Crackle, the POP, POP,POP in my arms was quite frankly, embarrassing!! Why is my body creaking and crackling like that is there anything I should do to lower the volume?

I know certain things probably come with age, Im 42…and I take glucosamine every day (almost). Any other suggestions?

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