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<p>10 bodyweight squats
10 pushups
10 kettlebell swings (44 pounds)</p>
<p>Non-stop. Toast. Gonna sleep like a baby tonight. I’d like to do three rounds, non-stop, but not after a 5K snow shoe walk. I’m already headed for rusty Tin Man land.</p>
<p>Goodnight, iDad! Good start to the new year.</p>
<p>6.2 gloomy, rainy miles after I put WildChild and his girlfriend (they may not be speaking, so not sure if she is still gf) on their planes to go back to the east coast. I don’t know how I’m going to get up early tomorrow for work. I’m out of practice…</p>
<p>Back to my orange windbreaker today. Over a tech t ski mock turtleneck and a lightweight fleece. Went with the long johns under the hiking pants. I’ve got the gloves figured out. Geezer hands get cold. So, I’m wearing a thin pair of stretchy gloves under massive winter ski mittens. That way, I can take the mittens off to get the coffee thermos or change the iPod and still have something on my hands.</p>
<p>The hardest part of snow shoeing is having to bend over and hold a toe touch while buckling four straps on each foot. That would have been a struggle at 250 pounds!</p>
<p>That’s my approach on gloves too when it is really cold out. I have glove liners which are really thin, running gloves which are a little thicker fleece and thick gloves.</p>
<p>Completed day one of the challenge. Actually completed 5 sets of 3 of each exercise.</p>
<p>5 Rounds of Circuit:
8 Steps, Lateral Monster Walks with blue miniband (each direction)
3 KB Swings (50#)
3 Push Ups
3 Goblet Squats (50#)
10 Loaded Calf Raises (135#)
10 Incline Bench Press (20# DB)</p>
<p>Bent-Over Rows
5 sets of 10 at 20#</p>
<p>5 rounds of Circuit:
10 Lateral Raises
10 Front Raises
5# DB in each hand. Supersetted.</p>
<p>10 minutes of Foam Rolling and 10 minutes of static stretching.</p>
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<p>My condolences! If I never do another lateral raise or front raise, it will be too soon. I still to this day remember the agony of dong walking lunges with lateral raises. Good lord, talk about feeling the burn… </p>
<p>I think I got up to 10 lb DBs on the raises, before I swore never to do them again…</p>
<p>I do the occasional bicep curl, but only when there’s a mirror! :)</p>
<p>I went into body-builder mode for a little bit tonight. Probably not something I’ll do often…</p>
<p>New YouTube on the food industry. 250,000 views in three weeks:</p>
<p>[What’s</a> a Food Industry to Do? - YouTube](<a href=“What's a Food Industry to Do? - YouTube”>What's a Food Industry to Do? - YouTube)</p>
<p>Not sure I agree with his proposals at the end, but it’s a pretty powerful indictment of the marketing.</p>
<p>Robert Lustig in Time Magazine:</p>
<p>[What</a> You Need To Know About Sugar | TIME.com](<a href=“http://ideas.time.com/2012/12/27/what-you-need-to-know-about-sugar/]What”>What You Need To Know About Sugar | TIME.com)</p>
<p>5 Myths about sugar</p>
<p>And a terrific magazine profiile about “the food scold and pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig”:</p>
<p>[Is</a> Sugar the Next Tobacco?](<a href=“http://www.psmag.com/health/robert-lustig-sugar-obesity-diet-50948/]Is”>http://www.psmag.com/health/robert-lustig-sugar-obesity-diet-50948/)</p>
<p>Joining in this thread. Bought a fitbit and today’s total was only 5600 steps but i did not go out, just around the house. Not trying to lose weight, only trying to increase activity</p>
<p>Got home and actually remembered the challenge. Did 15 swings (15#), one squat with 15#, and 11 pushups.</p>
<p>BTW we did go snow-shoeing yesterday. Tramped around my brother’s backyard (to be developed if the economy ever improves) for over an hour. Too many brambles have grown up where they cleared it, but it was nice in the wooded section. Saw a flock of at least 20 pheasants.</p>
<p>Hops: I’m in for the challenge. Finally over my cold/flu–so I’ll start tomorrow, but will start with 5 of each and go from there. </p>
<p>My H and I got a 50 pound turkey from our landscape guy. He has a small farm and raises these birds and gives them to customers at Christmas. He cooks the birds in a large charcoal roasting box. He brought it over today and we cooked it (really delicious). 50-pound bird was ready in four hours. We invited a bunch of friends to come over for turkey and bring a side dish. As you might expect, there was way too much food. Forty people cleaned up the turkey–not much meat is left. I’m saving the bones to make turkey stock; I sent everyone home with leftovers. Nice way to end the holiday season.</p>
<p>I’ve been reading quite a bit on the paleo diet and I’m going to try it this a try this month.</p>
<p>Synced my new Garmim watch with the GarminConnect site tonight. Saw my stats for the runs I’ve done since receiving the watch on 12/25 but didn’t see a “total miles” anywhere. Does the Garmin keep a running total?</p>
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<p>I’m currently reading the “Paleo Solution” and hope to begin incorporating some things in the near future. Gotta make a change!</p>
<p>PACKMOM:</p>
<p>Click the ANALYZE tab at the top of the screen in GarminConnect. I think that will give you total miles and allow you to export all the data to a spreadsheet.</p>
<p>All of my data is uploaded to Garmin Connect automatically, but I use a third-party program, called SportTracks. </p>
<p>[SportTracks</a> 3](<a href=“http://www.zonefivesoftware.com/sporttracks/]SportTracks”>SportTracks | Your Path to Performance)</p>
<p>The main advantage is that it is open to plug-in developers and I’ve got one that makes it very easy to program advanced interval workouts and upload them to my Garmin watch. For example, I’ve got a walk/run workout where I push the lap button on the Garmin to start each running interval and the watch ends the interval when my heart rate exceeds 90% of my max. I’ve got all kinds of Airdyne exercise bike interval workouts on my watch.</p>
<p>It was 9 degrees when I drove in this morning. I only saw one runner - a guy with a cap, long-sleeve orange tee and long tech pants. I usually see more runners out on my way in (far more female runners usually). It’s supposed to get down to 5 degrees tonight.</p>
<p>I’m running on the treadmill inside today.</p>
<p>Ballet later today. Walk/run in a few minutes. </p>
<p>Why does exercise feel harder when it is cold?</p>
<p>Ballet - how interesting!!! Have you always been a ballerina??</p>
<p>I took ballet lessons most of my life up until my mid-twenties. Apprenticed with the Joffrey back when I was a kid but one day just had the epiphany that I needed to go to college. My mom didn’t speak to me for a year, lol. The classic dance mom.</p>
<p>This is a good moment in my life to go back to it and I’m finding it really good for my upper back and overall posture. The whole yoga/pilates thing never really took with me. I like ballet for the focus on placement and carriage. Also, it’s a huge challenge to jump at this age. The flexibility, extensions, turnout all came back after decades with surprising ease.</p>
<p>It’s not too bad out there now. Practically shorts weather. 22 degrees and sunny. I’m not going running, though!</p>