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<p>BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. My athletes hate the AirDynes, but that’s what I make them use when I do rehab with them at school.</p>
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Take a warm bath in a steamy room & drink tea, then have your H do some cupping massage on your back & maybe on your upper chest if it feels good.
It helps loosen mucus.
[Tapotement</a> massage explained for those wanting to learn massage online.](<a href=“http://www.learn-massage-therapy-online.com/tapotement-massage.html]Tapotement”>http://www.learn-massage-therapy-online.com/tapotement-massage.html)</p>
<p>I had my nuclear stress test today- it went very well, I was concerned about the effect of meds used, but I didnt notice anything except a bad taste in my mouth.
But it did take three hours, with clinic staff who must be adapted to working with those who have limited communication skills, because they treated me like I was 30 months old.
( for instance when I was lying on the scanner table, the tech kept telling me I was doing a " good job holding still!," every 4 minutes for a 12 min test.
That part was pretty depressing, because I have known older folks, in their last days and some are still very much present, even when they cant feed themselves, or talk.
She also didn’t offer me any stickers!;)</p>
<p>I guess I will tweak this running on the treadmill…</p>
<p>I guess because I have been sniffing for 3 days, I have been fighting a cold. A couple of friends had a cold, and I thought, “Why you going to the gym and spreading your cold around?”. I guess I am doing the same thing.</p>
<p>I think a gym is a place where germs can be spread pretty easily. </p>
<p>I have to get my running up to speed fast, before flu season really gets going.</p>
<p>Ballet class today. I’m determined to keep leaving the floor when we jump. The other stuff is going surprisingly well. Have always been limber and do fine with extensions, turnout, plies. It’s the darn jumping and memorizing really quickly the combinations that throws me. I think the issue with jumping is sinking low enough prior into a bent knee plie to get the spring.</p>
<p>Ballet sounds fun, sewhappy. I have to concentrate on exercise where I am literally just putting one foot in front of the other. Has anyone ever done the purebarre classes? D and I would both like to try them but I’m afraid I’d injure someone. </p>
<p>Beautiful morning here - sabadog and I had our brisk 30 minute run around the neighborhood - he’s ready for a nap now. Work party was dreadful - mishmash of terrible food so it was easy to resist. Funniest part? There was a cupcake tree. Every grossly overweight manager was getting a to-go box and filling it with cupcakes. One couple took 2 dozen cupcakes home!</p>
<p>roamni,
“Honestly, sweets and cookies and all that stuff has never appealed to me. I don’t like chocolate (now I’m allergic but I wasn’t when I was younger- still didn’t like it), I don’t like cookies, etc. People think I’m weird.”
-Sorry as you brought it up, not me, I would be one of these people. How in a world one can live without chocolate, beats me? Chocolate is my every day first breakfast and is also in my coffee in large quantities (although, it is pure cocoa poweder, no additional ingredients). I rather not have meat ever in my entire life. Now you can call me weird also. But passing by a cookie is NOT possible, period, altough it is better be “oatmeal raisin”.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s particularly helpful to label individuals as weird on the basis of their eating habits, particularly here on the “Support” thread. Dietary preferences are personal - let’s try to be supportive of each other’s choices unless it involves eating rocks or some other non-food item. I can’t imagine doing without fruit or chocolate; there are others here that have eliminated or reduced both from their diets and I haven’t been called weird.</p>
<p>^Well, it depends if they label themselves. I have labeled myself and another person has done the same, neither of us has labeled somebody else. It is up to a person to decide if he/she is weird. I believe that my love of sweets and dislike of meat is weird. Somebody else who have the same taste might not feel that they are weird. Are not we free to express whatever we feel about ourselves? I also have lots of fat on my belly, so I can label my belly “fat”, is that also wrong? What else is wrong, who set those rules? It is apparently OK to say that our expression is limited here.</p>
<p>Miami,
Romani said <em>other</em> people thought she was weird for declining cookies or chocolate. She didn’t call herself weird. </p>
<p>You have referred to yourself as fat, lazy and heavens knows what else in some of your posts on cc, but it would be declasse’ for us to all affirm that in a post to you, wouldn’t you think?</p>
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<p>OK…I’ll call you weird.</p>
<p>BUT more important…different strokes for different folks. No need to be critical of others.</p>
<p>Today is my day off from exercise. I always feel like I should be doing something and that doing nothing is slacking, but I know that - especially at my age - I need a day off a week to rest and let my muscles recuperate. I’m currently running four mornings a week (4 miles including speedwork during the week, a 6 mile run on the weekend) and doing exercise tapes that include upper body workouts the other two days for about 40 minutes. While I am enjoying sipping my coffee, I have found that I enjoy it even more when it follows a good workout!</p>
<p>* Funniest part? There was a cupcake tree. Every grossly overweight manager was getting a to-go box and filling it with cupcakes. *</p>
<p>Love this. Cupcake tree! Have been to a few office holiday parties like that myself.</p>
<p>I promise do exercise today and do my C25K week 8 run, but can I PLEASE visit the cupcake tree!!!</p>
<p>They could do a Nalgene Bottle tree. It would cost a lot more though.</p>
<p>Our fitness center gives away water bottles from time to time. I guess it’s an incentive to work out and also use fewer of the paper cups.</p>
<p>Cupcakes were evidently $29 a dozen! I think I’m in the wrong line of work. I ate one. So yesterday I ate a salad, 10 dark chocolate covered pomegranate pieces and a coconut cupcake. Today I will be eating better. I had planned on having food options at the party like veggies; alas, wasn’t to be. I was hungry last night but I don’t let myself eat late in the evening.</p>
<p>Oh - one of those boutique cupcake places. They have one of those at the Burlington Mall in MA. I was wondering how those places could afford the rent.</p>
<p>Nalgene bottles are pretty pricey - I think that the two that I use for tennis are $12 each.</p>
<p>" but can I PLEASE visit the cupcake tree!!! "
-Got my permission (from the weird person). I would definitely join you if I could, despite the cupcakes not being my favorite desert, but better any desert than nothing. Sugar, sugar…</p>
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<p>Count me in the weird category. Other than the week after Halloween (“forgive me, father, for I have sinned”), I didn’t eat a bite of chocolate during the last 12 months. I like it. Chocolate cake is my favorite, but I just don’t eat cake and brownies and cookies. And, Robert Lustig has put me right off candy!</p>
<p>I do, however, eat a little bit of meat. :)</p>
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<p>I hear ya. You know, we joke about it, but I can’t believe how hard jumping is for an ol’ geezer like me. It’s really quite sobering – a glaring demonstration of how the fitness goes over the years. Not just getting off the ground, but landing. And, I guarantee that you and I aren’t the only two readers of CC who have experienced the shock of seeing what happens when we try to jump!</p>
<p>If I didn’t do my New Rules workout in the basement, I wouldn’t be able to do it because I’d be embarrassed. Two of the exercises in the warmup are mindlessly simple, toddler level jumping. One is jumping forward and backward across and imaginary line – 20 times forward, 20 times back. The other is jumping side to side across an imaginary line – 10 times to the left, ten to the right. NROL4ABS also had some one legged hops, but I don’t even want to think about those!</p>
<p>Anyway, when I first started doing this warmup, I was shocked at how hard a simple little jumping exercise could be. My legs got sore. It hurt landing, even though I do it on an exercise mat for a little cushioning. I got winded. But, lo and behold, doing these two drills three days a week for six months does make a difference – especially in being a lot looser when I land. It’s a great example of why I’m sold on investing the ten minutes to do a proper warm up routine several times a week and work on these basic fitness things.</p>
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<p>The other revelation, and this really blew my mind, was finding out that you don’t jump with your legs. You jump with your hips. I saw this little video clip and realized that I didn’t even know how to jump.</p>
<p>[Dan</a> John jumping demonstration](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4ym18x-Nl6Q#t=2150s]Dan”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4ym18x-Nl6Q#t=2150s)</p>
<p>Now, when I try to jump (like up to a box or doing squat jumps), I think hips, not knees.</p>
<p>Finished a TRX workout at the gym followed by 45 minutes on the elliptical. Feeling good. Will do a long walk with friends tomorrow (as long as the icy rain goes away–I barely got out of my driveway because of the ice this morning.) Signed up for spinning on Th. Making a commitment to self to do something every day until Xmas–it’s a good way for me to handle stress.</p>
<p>Sabary: my D (who did lots of dance in hs and college) does a barre class. She loves it and says it’s tough. I haven’t tried it because I’m totally uncoordinated and would probably spend more time trying to figure out what I should be doing than actually doing it. When I asked D if she thought I should try barre–she laughed. Guess I’ll stick to what I’m doing now.</p>