<p>Some wisdom I want to pass on to all you great people here on this thread- Even a short, slow New Year’s Eve run is NOT a great idea immediately after a Pei Wei dinner and a glass of wine!</p>
<p>I never run after dinner! :)</p>
<p>hops:</p>
<p>That’s some workout!</p>
<p>I hope you are enjoying the front squats more than I am. I’m still doing 12 rep sets with 55 pounds. I’m doing 12 good ones, but I can’t say it’s much fun.</p>
<p>Here is my newest challenge in case anybody is interested in joining me…</p>
<p>Start the New Year off right. </p>
<p>-Kettlebell Swing
-BodyWeight or Goblet Squat
-Push Up</p>
<p>January 1 you start with one rep of each. You add an additional rep each day. You can do as many reps as you want on a given day, but you CANNOT “catch up” or “get ahead.” So on January 31 you have to do 31 reps of each exercise. We’ll continue this as long as we can and see how far we get. Can we get to 365? :)</p>
<p>So who is with me?</p>
<p>Is there a minimum weight for the kettleball swing?</p>
<p>Nope. Exercise is too individualized for me to care! Do what you’re comfortable with!</p>
<p>Reaching out to you running experts. As I mentioned yesterday, I finished C25K. I am setting a reachable goal of miles to run in 2013. Looking for an app that will allow me to log in my hours after incomplete my runs and tally them for me. I use my iPhone when I run for my music so I want to log miles in immediately after completing a run.</p>
<p>I know I could just keep a running log on “Notes” or something, but I like the novelty of an app. :)</p>
<p>I use a LibreOffice spreadsheet on my Mac to keep track of my running. I save statistics including weekly distance, minutes per mile, miles per minute, miles per year, and miles on the current pair of running shoes. I have several years of data so it would be a nuisance to load it into an App. I can also do charts.</p>
<p>After a run, I email the data to myself on my phone or put it in a Note if I don’t have net access. On outdoor runs, the data is saved in my Garmin and uploaded to their site when I get home so that I can grab the data off the website.</p>
<p>On the Livestrong website you can track your exercise, but I don’t know if you can track by hours or miles - on mine all I see is calories burned when I’m trying to measure over a certain time period (i.e., Jan. 1 2012- Dec. 31 2012). It looks like there is an app associated - Nike+Kinect but I’m not using it so can’t speak to whether it’s good or not. And I am definitely not a running expert. :)</p>
<p>abasket:</p>
<p>I’m not an expert, but I’m pretty sure there are GPS apps for the iPhone that turn it into something like a Garmin GPS watch. The data collected by my Garmin would generate a report with total mileage and total time. I would just have to tag the workout as “Running” so I’ve got some way of separating them out from other kinds of workouts.</p>
<p>That kind of iPhone app would be the best bet because it tracks distance for you.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine doing 31 pushups at once, but I ought to be able to do them in three sets. Worth a try anyway. I might forget before I get home to my kettleball tonight, but otherwise I’m in.</p>
<p>Trouble is (as far as I understand) if I run treadmill that doesn’t teach on GPS - and our roads/walks are currently snow- ice covered so I sadly won’t attempt outside till they clear up.</p>
<p>I have a pedometer app that has a great GPS on it but also haven’t figured out the history keeping on it.</p>
<p>Just found 2 apps - anyone have experience with RunKeeper or iRunner???</p>
<p>I think my son has used runkeeper. I log mine on runningahead.com It syncs from my Garmin.</p>
<p>Started the new year with an 1 1/2 hours of stretching/strength. Then ran mile warmup, 5 x 400s at :75 and then a mile warmdown. Surprising low turnout at fitness club today. </p>
<p>I’m always surprised by the number of magazine readers on the recumbent bikes. I know something is better than nothing, but the fitness gain/calories burned is minimal for the hour invested.</p>
<p>That’s a great start!</p>
<p>My strength workout for today was clearing ice off the driveway.</p>
<p>Ran 4.1 miles. It’s nice when there’s less schedule pressure.</p>
<p>I think that the goal for this year is 700 miles. That’s less than 2 miles per day which should be attainable.</p>
<p>sewhappy, we’re a family that has made huge changes as a result of H’s heart disease. He has never been obese, and we had always eaten what I still consider to be a relatively light, vegetable heavy diet. But then, DH had a heart attack. Genetics were certainly a factor, but I believe diet didn’t help. I love to cook (and eat!) Changes adopted include eliminating almost all refined grain foods–dinner rolls, white rice, white flour pasta and substituting whole grain equivalents; eliminating almost all red meat and the parts of white meat that have the most saturated fat; ditching almost all white sugar; cooking almost exclusively with olive oil; adding lots of beans, fruit, veggies, veggies, veggies; quitting most salt and processed foods containing salt; using low or non fat dairy in moderation; adding plenty of nuts, lots of fish…I cook almost everything for us now from scratch, including the whole wheat bread. What was most helpful in the first year, was sticking to the healthy food only rule, without exception, and not eating too much…except when we went on one vacation, a cruise, and we were careful there as well. We did this not to lose weight, but to give my husband the best chance to heal his heart. That was key. We exercised, too, usually twice a day. Nothing too hard–a walk, some weights, an exercise bike…Over about six months, DH lost 40 plus pounds, I lost about 25. I was at a very normal weight before, and now am probably on the low side of normal. I can’t emphasize enough how the motivating factor was not appearance, but health…</p>
<p>On the subject of iphone apps for tracking distance, I like one called GPS+ pedometer. There’s a free version, and a pay version which will map for you. A friend of ours likes GymHero for keeping track of weight reps…</p>
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<p>Great! You can break this up into as many sets as you need to.</p>
<p>Snow shoeing at the Audubon Center on Lake Massabesic. Got a late start and didn’t get there until 2:30, so I knew I had to book it to be back at the car by sunset. Did 5K out an back to the point. Just spectacular. Blue sky. 30 degrees. Very windy, but most of the walk is on a dirt fire road thru the woods and protected from the wind. 3.13 miles in 1 hour 35 minutes.</p>
<p>Lots of people there, snow shoeing and cross-country skiing. The trail was packed enough that I could have easily walked it in hiking boots, but then I wouldn’t have been snow shoeing!</p>
<p>I pushed along at a pretty good clip. At one point, pushing up a hill, I saw a heart rate of 86% of my max. Looks like, when I was moving, I was going 2.5 to 3 mph. Including rest stops, I averaged 2 mph. That’s about as fast as I can go on snowshoes. Got back to the car right as the sun was dipping below the trees.</p>
<p>I’ll definitely go back there for more. This was pretty much the perfect outing for me at this point in time with snow shoes. I was happy to find out that I could do 3 miles.</p>
Headed to the basement to do hops workout challenge before my shower. I’m going to attack it in sets of 10 reps.