<p>Over Thanksgiving my exercise routine was extremely…varied. With travel, some days were spent in a car and the only exercise was chasing my grown son around the gas pumps (seriously, we do this. DH just stands there.) We also sat around the table and exercised our jaws. ;)</p>
<p>A couple of mornings I used the hotel fitness room, and one lovely day we all took a 4 mile hike up and down hills at a state park I hadn’t been to since I was a young Girl Scout. We were pushing the pace cause we had to be someplace else at a certain time, so that was a pretty good workout. :)</p>
<p>And the ability to hike with younger folk into my upper years is what keeps me going. :)</p>
<p>Was doing Dips On Parallel Bars after some push ups. Could be dipping too fast - felt a very sharp pain from the top of right shoulder. Immediately stopped and then went to other machines/exercise. It became too painful just to lift the arm. So I went on to do 40 minutes of power walk with 6.5% incline.</p>
<p>Icing it with some Ibuprofen got me throuht the night. Looks like getting to a beachish body by Dec 18th is out of the window - this thing could take a while to recover. Do not want to rush it.</p>
<p>I spoke to a co-worker wearing an arm brace yesterday. I asked her what it was for and she said that she had had rotator cuff surgery. She hadn’t been in the office for a while. I asked her the cause of the injury and she said that she didn’t know but suspected repetitive strain. She does a fair amount of weight training at home.</p>
<p>I’d look up Rotator Cuff exercises to make sure that you’re doing stretching and some weight training (after you recover) - it’s a maintenance area that is very easy to overlook.</p>
<p>“Over Thanksgiving my exercise routine was extremely…varied. With travel, some days were spent in a car and the only exercise was chasing my grown son around the gas pumps (seriously, we do this. DH just stands there.) We also sat around the table and exercised our jaws.”
-Will do lots of the same in a period from Christmas to New Year, including going out. So, Thanksgiving is never a time when I gain, not my favorite food, except maybe for pie, but before January 1st, I can forsee at least 5 lbs or more. Well, will have about 2.5 months to loose them before March vacation (and a chance at about 7+lbs, this one is definitely guaranteed, done it for the last 15 years or so)</p>
Heal up, DadII! Can you still do your running? That beach body will be there!
I have a good friend who had rotator cuff surgery 9 months ago and he is really disappointed with the weakness he still has post-surgery. He is a runner, cyclist and does a lot of weights. He can barely pick up a bag of chips with the bad arm…
<p>A guy I play tennis with has had rotator cuff surgery twice. Once for tennis. The second time for a construction injury. He was back to playing in about six months and I haven’t seen any lingering problems. So it can work extremely well. It’s definitely not something to mess around with.</p>
<p>I did some serious damage at Lululemon this past weekend. I bought one thing for my daughter, one thing for my husband, and a lot of pretty fluffy yellow things for myself (jacket, gloves, tops, headband…) $$$$$$$ I even got this adorable puffy (fake down) little (and I do mean little) skirt to wear over tights. Could be running or casual. The line is called “What the Fluff”. Turns out the new Lulu in my town is a “warm” store and to get the colder weather specialty items I have to go to the Nashville store. Ugh. I did it, though.</p>
<p>Dad II,
Who said that only “beach body” people enjoy beaches? “Beach body” is very optional in life, so your goal has shifted, it is OK, join the other crowd and I am sure that you are still a stand out anyway.<br>
My solution to any pains (I have them often, I discovered that most are coming from the night, not being in the correct position all night long, good thing, I do not sleep much), anyway my solution is stop using painful part as much as possible. My right arm has not been OK 100% for awhile. It is not too bad, but sometime it gets much worse, I just have to be careful. it will go away at some point in a future, sometime it takes few years. Just be patient, let it rest.</p>
<p>Miami, U R right - everyone should be able to enjoy beaches regardless of their body shapes. It is just that we are going as a group and I don’t want to scare the kids. </p>
<p>I am going to take it easy for a couple of days to let this thing heal. Don’t want to let it last “few years”. </p>
<p>Here is a graph I found showing front (anterior) Deltoid in a dipping exercise.</p>
<p>“I don’t want to scare the kids” - you will not, I guarantee,…just try to stay under water…just kidding, but this is my trick, mostly snorkeling. Some were surprized how pale I was after 2 weeks in Mexico, all of it, almost every single minute on a beach in swimsuit. Well, if you stay under water (under under pier where soup of fish lives), you do not get much sun even in 2 weeks. Planning to do the same in March as years before, and eat and eat, and drink and eat again, and so beach life goes! Have a great vacation too!</p>
<p>Ouch. Not that it’s any consolation, but shoulder DIPS are among the execises that Coach Mike Boyle will not use, specifically because they result in so many injuries. I’m lucky to have pretty good shoulders, but the percentage of older men with shoulder problems is very high. Like nearing universal territory.</p>
<p>I do these scapular wall slides as a regular part of my warmup:</p>
<p>I was talking to my sports medicine doc at the health club and he commented that crossfit and other programs like it have been “good” for his business!</p>
<p>Have you gone full metal yellow yet? Yellow puffy down jacket, yellow mittens, and yellow headband? I’m really missing the pictures option here at CC! :)</p>
<p>I would melt like the wicked witch of the west running in a down jacket. I wore mine for my midnight shopping run Thanksgiving night and just about roasted. The thing is so comfortable, though. It feels like a million bucks. Your new yellow puffy jacket must be sweet!</p>
<p>Comforters and sleeping bags really have to be done in large commercial laundromat machines. But small stuff like your jacket and gloves should work just fine in a home machine on gentle.</p>
<p>I doubt I’ll run much in the pullover, although it is VERY light down. Mainly for casual wear. I’ll see. I put it away with my Christmas presents for now. </p>
<p>I did not get out and run this morning. It was gloomy, damp and cold and I made a decision to stay in bed. That means a cold, dark, gloomy run after work with the headlamp and knuckle light. It’s actually sort of peaceful and nice. I do it on the way home from work, or else it wouldn’t happen!</p>
<p>ID–I was introduced to scapular wall slides by my PT for neck & shoulder issues. The guy in the video makes it look easy, but my shoulders are not quite so flexible!</p>
<p>As I understand it, many (if not most) older folk literally can’t keep everything in contact with the wall while doing the wall slides. Shoulders just don’t have the range of motion.</p>
<p>I’m lucky. I can do them pretty easily, but it’s still a great way to warm up/loosen up the shoulders before a workout. </p>
<p>I don’t do dips, or lateral raises or anything else that puts a lot of stress on the shoulders. The shoulders get plenty of workout doing push ups, pull ups, and various dumbbell presses and rows.</p>
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