<p>Haha I am not fond of the smell of chlorine and it burns my eyes too. I did like swimming very much when I was pregnant. The feeling of weightlessness was wonderful!</p>
<p>Whatever floats your boat, as they say!</p>
<p>^Yes, there were couple of very fast pregnant women in my pool! They also look so great. One of them has actually delivered already. She said that she swam on the day of delivery! Seh also said, that this continue to be her personal, completely disconnected (no phone) time away from the responsibilities of a new mom with 3 months old baby. She swims only for about 30-40 min., I can imagine that she cannot afford more. There is no way anybody would tell that she had delivery 3 months ago, there is no sign of it on her body whatsoever!!!
They both faster than many men.</p>
<p>I like to sweat and pound. Although, rather than “pound” I like to think that I glide lightly across the pavement! :)<br>
55 degrees this morning. Birds chirping. Did I sleep through winter or something? 3 miles closer to 2000 miles for the year.</p>
<p>So much easier to get out this morning in 50 degree weather instead of the 20’s that will be here shortly. I am very excited about having beat my previous personal best in the local 5K Turkey Trot - I ran it in 28:35, about a minute faster than my previous fastest pace. Of course to put it in perspective, that time put me about 500th out of 2400 overall. I guess there is something to be said for being a newbie runner at age 58: I should be able to get a few more medals for fastest in my age group going forward, even if my time is not otherwise very impressive! I am choosing to ignore the negative running articles posted above…</p>
<p>Keep on gliding, ladies! :)</p>
<p>We have a reprieve too - 54 degrees and sunny though a bit breezy. I have an appointment for a crown in an hour. I hope to be able to get in a run later this afternoon.</p>
<p>I did a stretching workout in the basement this morning. It’s nicer to workout down there when it isn’t cold. My little ceramic heater lost a plastic safety shutoff part so it won’t turn on unless I stick something inside to close the circuit. Too bad that a cheap plastic part with a spring is preventing its use. I may pick up another one from Home Depot while I look for a safe way to fix the old one.</p>
<p>dstark! Fantastic. 22 pounds in 9 weeks is quite an accomplishment. I bet your wife is right – you must look great.</p>
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<p>Yeah, quite the little weather reversal. 54 degrees in NH. Alas, everything is wet and muddy. Saturday was great. Our first really treacherous roads. An inch or so of snow on glare ice in the parking lots. The first time it snowed when my daughter was learning to drive, I took her to a big empty parking lot and had her practice sliding, and spinning, and slamming on the brakes to feel how the car behaved. </p>
<p>Never having driven an all-wheel-drive car with traction control, I figured I better do the same, so I found a big empty parking lot near the grocery store and did a little ice practice. Accelerating, turning, and stopping on glare ice where there was nothing to hit.</p>
<p>I love Global Warming, I do not care what caused it, I hope current winter will not be any worse than previous. The funny part of "Global Warming’ is that it is NOT Global at all. We just tend to think that USA is a whole Globe, but in some other parts of the world, surprise, there are other parts on Earth inhabitted by humans, they just wished to have a bit warmer summer in 2012, no such luck! Just regular rainy coller temp., nothing on a “warming” side. Yes, we should be happy with every day that we got this year, very nice! Walking in a park is just gorgeous even without leaves for the most part.</p>
<p>It’s good experimenting with AWD as it is different from both FWD and RWD. We normally go grocery shopping early Sunday morning but we kept waiting for the weather advisories to clear. They finally did late morning.</p>
<p>There was an accident and one injury and death in Nashua on Saturday - on a street near a school where we used to play tennis. A car hit a tree - probably lost control on slippery ground. There were some serious accidents in MA too. I figure that there’s no sense in taking risks in iffy weather.</p>
<p>Son got his first quasi-winter electricity bill - $43. His Boston apartment has electric heat so that isn’t bad but I expect it to go up to $100 in January or February unless we get a winter like the last one.</p>
<p>Went to the dentist and they did the prep work for a crown, then put in a temporary and sent out two impressions to the lab for the real thing. I was disappointed that they couldn’t do it in one appointment though this tooth has been problematic in the past.</p>
<p>Weights today, 24 min run yesterday. So far I’m keeping up with my 10k training plan (of course, it’s only been one week, so that’s not much of an accomplishment :)).</p>
<p>dstark, I’ve had that same thought in the back of my mind for years. I don’t know if I’ll ever actually do one though. Right now I’m thinking about trying a half marathon sometime in the late summer or early fall.</p>
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<p>Sure is different. These parking lots were very slick. Just touching the brakes triggered the ABS. I would start from a dead stop and accelerate while turning in a big circle. In a RWD car, the back end would try to swap ends. In a FWD car, the front end would push. In this car, nothing…the car just accelerated and turned. If I really got in the gas hard, the car would accelerate while the whole thing drifted sideways, but always pointing in the right direction. Kind of amazing. I had driven a rear wheel drive car with traction control on ice before and didn’t like it at all. This was great.</p>
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<p>Headed to the basement. New Rules of Lifting for Life. I’m glad that the ladies here “glide” when they run. This ol’ (formerly) fat guy is decidedly in the “pounder” camp when I “run”. :)</p>
<p>Cannot WAIT for summer and swimming in the sun outdoors.
The only exercise that is fun for me. </p>
<p>Oh well, on my way to SWEAT on the elliptical now.</p>
<p>I did my gliding yesterday. Now today I went to the gym and biked for a while, then moseyed on over to the weights, and last but not least, gave the treadmill a go. Initially I thought I’d just trot along for awhile, but I couldn’t resist adding in running segments. Click, click, click – ramp up the speed. Click, click, click – bring it back down. The lady walking along at a steady pace to my left was probably thinking, “WHAT is she doing and why did she have to choose the treadmill next to me?” ;)</p>
<p>Got a good one tonight… We finally got our power rack into our gym here, but we’re still waiting on the bumper plates. But I busted out the kettlebells tonight.</p>
<p>-6x12 (6 per arm) Single Arm Swing (20# KB)
-6x6 Kettlebell Swing (40# KB)</p>
<p>-3x6 Snatch (75#)
-3x6 (each side) TRX Lunges</p>
<p>I tried to set up the TRX Lunge with the box tonight, but about did the splits instead. Boss had waxed the wood platform so it was a little slick and so when I hopped up onto the box, it moved on me… I had one foot on this 4" high box that was sliding and the other foot already in the TRX straps…</p>
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<p>In New Rules lingo, that would be double instability – the hardest level!</p>
<p>Thank you for getting me to try the [TRX</a> rear foot elevated split squat](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RrT25YBSK0]TRX”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RrT25YBSK0). I had always been afraid to try, figuring that I’d fall over and tear an ACL or something. But, at least with just bodyweight, it was suprisingly comfortable. I only did a few reps (wasn’t in today’s workout) for kicks and giggles, but I really liked it. I guess to do it weighted, I’d have to set up two DBs on stools so I can get in position and then grab the weights.</p>
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<p>Back to the basement for me today. Good solid workout. Swiss ball mountain climbers. Squat jumps. Single leg deadlifts. Alternating DB bench press. Walking lunges. Chin ups. And, for the combo move of the day: curl, squat, press. A 12 rep set of those gets just about everything burning.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s why I use kettlebells when I choose to load these. But you don’t need to load them too often. The back leg floating around is normally enough for me!</p>
<p>Found out this afternoon I will probably be teaching some sort of fitness class next year. We’re guessing it will be either a kettlebell class or a TRX class…</p>
<p>That doesn’t look that bad. At least you don’t have to be quite as careful judging distance as with the split squats. I usually take about 15-20 seconds to get the distance right. Too far away and your foot goes down.</p>
<p>I did those TRX split squats last time I was in a gym with the equipment (Labor Day). I had the hardest time getting my foot into the loops. The directions didn’t say that part of the secret was to hop forward to a better position!</p>
<p>Yeah. I struggled a little getting my foot in the stirrup today – and the Jungle Gym handles are way easier for foot placement than the TRX. Fortunately, in this case, I have my straps hanging from the chinup bar, so I could grab the bar with one hand while positioning my foot in the other. I’m hoping it gets a little easier with practice!</p>
<p>I’m still waiting for us to get a VersaClimber. Our boss has talked about it a few times and told us it was going to happen, but I asked him tonight about it. He told me we’ve been slow lately (in therapy) so the money isn’t there at the moment.</p>
<p>Just trying to turn this facility into an all-out performance center ;)</p>