<p>Those are very close to the New Balance Vesper pants which went off production several years ago. My son loves those and he had two pairs and I had one and I gave him mine.</p>
<p>I was planning to run today but got busy with healthcare discussions with other employees and left early because of the snow (which never came) and spent a good chunk of the evening setting up a computer. I’m still setting it up - it’s about to install Windows Vista, Service Pack 2. I hope to get at least some stretching in (I got in a video this morning but more is always better).</p>
<p>Ah, all you runners in tights have it easy; how would you like to be wearing the tights us cyclists have to wear with padding that makes your butt look twice it’s size! :)</p>
<p>Thanks for the Nordstrom Rack suggestion. It’s been forever since I’ve been in one of those stores–not a fan of the hit-or-miss shopping experience (I think the last time I was there I was looking for a white blouse, of all things, and couldn’t find a suitable one) but I will check it out for running clothes.</p>
<p>TRX workout with a weighted vest last night was great. For those who do any suspension training and have lost significant weight, use of a weighted vest almost becomes a must. Body angle can only go so far in increasing resistance and there comes a point where angle can not offset weight loss and where your body weight alone isn’t enough. It also adds significantly to core stabilization demands.</p>
<p>Injury - swimming, and I thought that swimming injury is only for competitive swimmers (I practically do not know any who did not have it, since our body is not designed to use upper body as a main force in moving forward). Wrist and upper arm in my case. Oh, well, will have to adjust position of my arm / hand, I will not skip swimming, noway, nohow, too addictive, looking forward every day. It will take a while to heal, it is my right arm.</p>
<p>Target’s house brand Champion C9 tech shirts are good solid quality. I have quite a few that I’ve picked up at Marshalls for $6 to $8 each. They run just a little snug, so they make a great short sleeve base layer under a fleece or half-zip. They also are good for summer hot weather PJ tops!</p>
<p>Boy, is it nasty here today. Mid 30s raining on top of a light coating of wet, wet snow. Just cleared the snow off the car – about 2 inches or so – and shoved the deck/steps.</p>
<p>another sub 30 minutes 5K on treadmill last night. </p>
<p>There are two main reasons I have not run a 5K event yet. The first one is about $, i.e., why should I pay to suffer? For $30, I could buy a full 5 sets of shirts and pants from Goodwills 50% sales. </p>
<p>The other as about the control of the pace. I am afriad if I start too fast, I will not be able to finish the run w/o walking part of the 5K. I could run well, for the 1st mile, at 6.2, struggle a little at 6.6, and really struggle at 7.</p>
<p>Weight got again a new low in this round this AM. It is getting much harder to lost a lb. May be I would get a weight vest.</p>
<p>Hope you heal up quickly! If it hurts, don’t do it…</p>
<p>michael:</p>
<p>My TRX/Jungle Gym exercise lately has been push ups with my feet in the suspension handles. It’s my favorite push up because it requires so much core stability. 12 reps is tough enough without a weight vest.</p>
<p>I also like doing a plank sequence with my feet in the straps: 30 seconds of front plank, roll to one side for 30 seconds of side plank, roll to the other side for 30 of side plank, then finish with 30 more seconds of front plank. I have my interval timer set for 15 seconds in between to turn and get situated, so the whole thing takes about 3 minutes.</p>
<p>I am going back in few hours. I have to swim…will see, I might stop breast stroke, that is what hurting.<br>
BTW, if anybody is trying to loose, I am not one of them, but the weight is coming off automatically if you switch to swimming, you can eat whatever in whatever quantities if you are not watching other aspects of your health. However, BP is about 20 point down when I swim, everything is down, sugar also. I do not have high BP or sugar to begin with. But when I was at doc’s last time, nurse said simply, BP is low, I had to convince her that it was not for me. It was funny conversation, I bet very unusual too. But, c’mon, 102 is not low by any measure, even 90 is not, I used to have 90, it feels great! She probably meant that it was low for my ancient age, that is how I took it.</p>
<p>1:45 tennis, lost 1-6, 6-7. I was running a low fever while we were playing and my overall energy levels were lower. I probably shouldn’t have played today because I haven’t felt well this week but I thought that it would be over by now.</p>
<p>Taking the day off from working out. Slept in this morning, listening to roofers working right now, and gotta set up new computer when I get home from work this evening.</p>
<p>I have a lulelemon pair of yoga pants. They are ever so comfortable but I’ve only worn them a couple of times and they already have a snag in them. I have a pair of wonderunder tights and they the best tights I have ever bought. Not too tight and they don’t bag either.</p>
<p>The lululemon yoga shorts are extremely comfortable too. I also find that their tech fabric sleeveless workout shirts are great for wicking and evaporating sweat when I ride indoors with a floor fan blowing on me.</p>
<p>“Actually swimming is not the best thing to do when trying to lose weight”
-Works for me all the time without any trying. Just was amazed yestrday after ton of Haloween candy, I had them till i felt sick literally, I was sure to see couple of lbs on a scale, no, went the other way, I had no idea, but was pleased. For sure, swimmers who stop, are prone to gain unless they watch. They are not used to watching food intake while swimming, this would be a new skill for them, that is for sure.</p>
<p>Interesteddad, the suspension pushups are great for core work. For chest and shoulders, I find chest presses with my hands on the handles and my body close to parrallel to the floor to be more demanding but I need to use the vest to keep the reps down to a reasonable number.</p>
<p>I used to do the push ups/chest presses with my hands in the straps. They are hard as heck, probably because you have to use so much shoulder/upper body (pushing the arms together) to stabilize the straps. I quit doing them a while back when Mike Boyle mentioned that it was an exercise he had walked away from with his athletes in favor of the feet in the straps variation. I’ll have to try them again sometime. </p>
<p>I do most of my pressing with DBs and tend to use an alternating sequence most often --where I fully extend both weights, hold one extended while I do all the reps with one arm, then hold that tired arm extended while I do all the reps with the second arm. It’s killer and adds a serious core challenge to bench or overhead pressing. It’s not easy to hold a weight extended and stable while pressing with the other arm.</p>
<p>Did not walk/run this morning. Too much snow. And I noticed that I wasn’t ravenous all day. </p>
<p>Re: swimming – I try to swim twice a week for about an hour. I take a semi-private lesson with a friend and that wears me out a lot because the instructor makes me swim properly and focus on all kinds of aspects of my stroke that I’d otherwise ignore. I don’t find swimming helps me lose weight but I do find that it makes me very, very relaxed. Water is calming. </p>
<p>Although swimming doesn’t make me weigh less, I notice that it is great for streamlining the hips. It’s a good “sculpting” exercise.</p>
<p>The other thing I’m doing regularly is ballet class. What really kills me is when we jump. It’s been decades (literally) since I did any jumping. I feel extraordinarily clumsy when I jump. Humbling.</p>