<p>Two successes at the school yesterday…</p>
<p>Convinced football coach (AKA head strength coach ;)) that mini-bands and monster walks should be included in workouts. Purchased lots of minibands last night.</p>
<p>Gave one of my wrestlers a tabata workout on the AirDyne. He didn’t think the workout I gave him would challenge him much, but he was huffing and puffing when he was done!</p>
<p>Ugh, I twisted something in my side/back while checking measurements on a deck and have the heating pad on it. I’ll do the minimum hops routine if it’s not painful. (Tried a goblet squat which was fine.) Still putting off the other.</p>
<p>Ouch. I think HOPS would give an injury exemption for the kettlebell swings with an injured back! </p>
<p>Back guru Stuart McGill is right. The back injuries never occur when you are lifting something heavy. It’s always tying a shoe, or twisting, or rolling over in bed the wrong way… His theory is that we tend to be braced when we actually go to pick something up. It’s when we aren’t prepared that the tweaks occur. When I get one, I can never figure out when or how it happened. I just wake up that way…</p>
<p>The front of my leg between ankle and knee hurts lot. Is this a shin splint? Couldn’t keep of with the neighbors this am.</p>
<p>Sounds like a shin splint. There isn’t much of anything else in that area that should hurt.</p>
<p>Yep. Sounds like a shin splint. I don’t really know if the term “shin splint” means much other than a pain in the front of the leg between the ankle and the knee, though! There are lots of injury terms that aren’t much more specific than “my leg hurts”. 
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<p>I think that’s typically an overuse injury. Aren’t they all, at our age? :)</p>
<p>My experience is that shin splints means that the area is undertrained - I haven’t had those in many years and it’s usually due to inactivity. If I start using it again, it gets stronger and I don’t see them again.</p>
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<p>How many rounds did he last?</p>
<p>I’ve only tried regulation Tabatas on the Airdyne once, just to say that I had done them. I did one 8 interval round. 20 seconds hard, 10 seconds rest, repeat 8 times. I couldn’t go all-out on the 20 second intervals, though, so it was a pretty sorry excuse for Tabatas.</p>
<p>20 seconds is a tough interval. It’s short enough that you feel like you should go hell-bent-for-leather, but it’s long enough that you really can’t go max effort. And, the 10 seconds of rest is just a cruel joke. Someone described it as trying to outrun a train on a long bridge, jumping to another track just before you get run over, only to find out there’s a train coming on that track, too!</p>
<p>Well, thanks guys. I am taking advil and not running. I think it was the running in the 20-degree weather that did it. I’m about to be 54 and that just doesn’t work for me at this point.
Couldn’t be the ballet? Yeah, right.</p>
<p>If you are doing anything on your toes, that could certainly do it. I know you aren’t toe dancing, but if you are getting up on your toes for some exercises, that could hurt your shins.</p>
<p>Or is it just ol’ age?</p>
<p>To set the stage, I have my workout each day printed out on an 8.5 x 11 page. Actually, I’ve got a stack of them for whatever program I’m doing and I just shuffle to the the next page in the stack when I go to the basement. Right now, I go back and forth between Workout A and Workout B.</p>
<p>Everything is listed in order. All the warmup exercises. The core exercise. The power exercise. And the five strength exercises. All I have to do is go thru the list, do the required number of sets, and move on to the next section.</p>
<p>So, what other explanation is there? Today I found myself halfway through the strength section before I remembered that I had forgotten to do the core and power!</p>
<p>So I did my workout bass-ackwards. After strength, I did core (twisting side plank with DB) and power (DB snatches). Boy, those are tough at the end of an hour workout. Yikes. Then, of course, I had to finish with the HOPS challenge. 10 squats, 10 pushups, 10 swings, non-stop with a second round 2 minutes later. I only made two rounds.</p>
<p>Thank god for lots and lots of football this weekend. I need a rest day…</p>
<p>This is why I like doing videos. You just do what the person in the video is doing. If you need to pause, you pause and restart later.</p>
<p>3 miles under time pressure. I was going to knock off another at the Y because it is so warm out tonight but I decided to bag it. I have tennis tomorrow and I’m going to try to run before I play.</p>
<p>resting day today. Had three bowls of fly rice tonight. </p>
<p>Debating if I would join the biggest loser program again. It starts Mid Jan so I have time to gain 10 lbs. :D</p>
<p>What is fly rice? I had a rice bowl for lunch which had pineapple, eggs, veggies and a little spam.</p>
<p>I did exactly four of everything - pushups were fine, squats almost fine, but yeah the kettleball swings probably need to be skipped for a few days. Someday I am going to learn not to reach forward and twist at the same time - I do this to myself about once a year.</p>
<p>Crossfit- the best thing that ever happened to me!</p>
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<p>Fran would kick my butt…</p>
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<p>3 rounds. 5 minute warm up, 1st round, told him to walk around and get some water, 2nd round, told him to get more water, 3rd round. 5 minute cool down. He tried skipping the cool down, but I made him do some walking to recover a little bit. </p>
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<p>“Shin Splints” really is a BS name. It’s a catch-all phrase used by doctors who don’t have a clue and don’t care. It has since been adopted by the general public along those same lines. It has been my experience most people who complain of anterior shin pain are dealing with a tight anterior tibialis muscle. This muscle is responsible for dorsiflexing your foot (bringing your toes toward you). It originates off the lateral aspect of the tibia and runs down and crosses over into the foot.</p>
<p>iDad, have you received your copy of Lustig’s new book yet? I am curious to know if you think it is worth a read. I saw it at our local B&N but am sadly too impoverished to buy it given the approach of our last tuition payment (which is something to celebrate). </p>
<p>Beautiful day here, but will be the usual exercise around the neighborhood with sabadog. We may even make it to the park as the temp should be close to 50!</p>
<p>Been doing Hops KB swings, goblet squat and push-ups for three days. Started with 5. Finally feeling healthy-plan on walking with friends this afternoon. It’s in the low 30s now–hope it gets a little warmer in the afternoon.</p>