<p>BCEagle–Yep, the downside to losing a lot of weight after a certain age! Your double chin turns to a turkey gobbler flapper, your upper arms flap…everything flaps. :D</p>
<p>Over the weekend I dug one hole to plant a butterfly bush, then I got smart and asked son to dig the other two holes. THIS is why we pay landscapers big bucks! It’s supposed to be 89 degrees today…I’ll have to do something inside.</p>
<p>Yep, 90 forecast here today. Might venture inside for a treadmill run.</p>
<p>Wow, great posts over the weekend. Nice “refresher” for all of us! Thanks in particular to iDad and kmc. </p>
<p>Happily the scale registered lower today even after the weekend that included beer drinking and three restaurant dinners but a heck of a lot of walking. I was very happy to get out with sabadog for our usual walk this morning and enjoy some coffee and a hard boiled egg. Not sure what other exercise is on the agenda for today.</p>
<p>I am still getting used to running in the heat - 75 and extremely humid this morning (thunderstorms on the way) and I really had to push myself to finish 4 miles. I felt like the humidity was weighing me down. We made a quick stop at a friends house to spray ourselves with her garden hose - which helped cool us off for a few minutes at least! My next race is a local 5k on June 1st and I am aiming for 28 minutes: hoping the weekly interval training we started will help (I know that number is not very impressive for a lot of people, but it would be a new PR for me and place me pretty well in my local age group). Hydration is an issue for me, so I brought a giant covered cup filled with ice water (and a little Crystal Light - I don’t like plain water and a little flavor helps) to the office, which I will drink through the morning.</p>
<p>My wife is back to a semi-normal schedule. She still sleeps somewhat during the day and goes to bed late and gets up early but she made me oatmeal and tuna/tofurkey (we’re out of eggs). The oatmeal is for running and the protein for after workout. I think that things will be back to normal after another week.</p>
<p>Edit: For anyone like me who is interested in using the McMillan training paces to do intervals on the treadmill, I just found this site online which makes it easy to convert numbers.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.machinehead-software.co.uk/bike/speed_distance_time_calc.html[/url]”>http://www.machinehead-software.co.uk/bike/speed_distance_time_calc.html</a></p>
<p>Went to vacation home this weekend and walked two trails I hadn’t been on since last year, which was fun. Completed a spinning class this AM. Haven’t done much spinning (spending more time walking to train for 3-day walk), so the first 10-15 minutes were a challenge, but I finished the class, burned calories, and got my HR up!!</p>
<p>I am taking a day off from running… weights and core stuff are in the plans. My lawn needs a little bit more TLC, so that will keep me busy in the evening.</p>
<p>Think i will take off running as well. Going to chiro tonight for some ART treatment</p>
<p>This is a nice story:</p>
<p>[Wife</a> Surprises Army Husband With 100-Pound Weight Loss](<a href=“Wife Surprises Army Husband With 100-Pound Weight Loss”>Wife Surprises Army Husband With 100-Pound Weight Loss)</p>
<p>Well, that was fun…</p>
<p>New month of workouts from this random internet workout video series I’ve been doing :).</p>
<p>New warmup. New strength workout. Most of it was familiar stuff, but a core exercise I haven’t done before, demonstrated in this video by Neghar Fonooni’s partner in crime. I wasn’t getting as low as he does, but I did OK for the first time through:</p>
<p>[TRX</a> Anti-Extension Fall Outs - YouTube](<a href=“TRX Anti-Extension Fall Outs - YouTube”>TRX Anti-Extension Fall Outs - YouTube)</p>
<p>Power exercise was DB push presses. I did it with two 30 lb DBs</p>
<p>Strength was squats with 1 DB at one shoulder, then the same reps with the DB at the other shoulder. Killer core stability challenge. Then, 1 arm DB rows with 1 arm on the weight bench and the feet extended back in a plank position. Killer core challenge. Then single leg deadlifts. The, TRX pushups. Very reminiscent of that random ABS workout book 
I did a while back.</p>
<p>Finisher was forward lunge to backward lunge to forward lunge to backward lunge non-stop for 20 seconds then hold where you end up for 20 seconds then rest for 20 seconds. Repeat for a total of four rounds. Yeow, Talk about some hunka hunk burning legs…</p>
<p>This workout should be called Squat Til You Drop…</p>
<p>Just under an hour. I might have to try on that slinky black cocktail dress after this one to see if fits yet…</p>
<p>I am taking a drug for blood pressure and another one for allergy. Don’t know which one is the problem, I just don’t have any legs to run. Tried twice tonight - ran 1 miles and had to stop, the second restart only went for 0.60 mile. </p>
<p>At this time, lowering the BP is priority #1. So I will try to do as much exercise as possible.</p>
<p>Anyone in the group have a goal kilt? No?</p>
<p>Rest day, but I did get the backyard mowed and tackled the weeds.</p>
<p>ETA: Dad II, I’m sorry to hear you were feeling low energy today. Allergies take their toll on a lot of people this time of year.</p>
<p>I have done some researches. Apparently a great majority of the long distance runners in US are white. </p>
<p>The Chinese culture is against running such an extreme distance. DW found many “experts” on various TV programs stating there are too much harm than benefit from running marathon. May be they are right.</p>
<p>Deb, can you do my weeds tomorrow - and the rest of the week? Yeah, that many…</p>
<p>Well, I said I was going to go to the gym and use the dreadmill since its so hot. That would mean I had to give up 45 mins of gardening. So I waited till almost dusk and headed out - still 84degrees! Crazy. But feeling very accomplished with 2 miles done in the heat! Really, sweat is sweat - it helped to at least not have sun beating down on me.</p>
<p>Week 8, Day 1 is done. I sped through my workout this evening pretty well sticking to the same weights throughout. That’s okay, I felt like I had accomplished something when I finished :)</p>
<p>Had interesting conversation in the gym this morning with a bunch of older members talking about diets and exercise, etc.</p>
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<p>I feel like I’ve done that workout before ;)</p>
<p>Gym Day
Pilates/core
whole bunch of stuff, most of which I know I have forgotten, but what I remember are kb swings, goblet squats, one armed jerks, BB single leg Romanian deadlifts, OH snatches, TGUs </p>
<p>Stick a fork in me…</p>
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<p>Did it look like this? </p>
<p><a href=“https://twitter.com/riffeh/status/336335954681929730/photo/1[/url]”>https://twitter.com/riffeh/status/336335954681929730/photo/1</a></p>
<p>dadII:</p>
<p>Sorry you are wrestling with blood pressure. I’m not a doctor and there are many potential causes of high blood pressure, but one avenue to consider is that high blood pressure is one of the components/symptoms of [Metabolic</a> Syndrome](<a href=“http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NgAimLpmY4gJ:www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HighBloodPressure/AboutHighBloodPressure/High-Blood-Pressure-and-Metabolic-Syndrome_UCM_301801_Article.jsp+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us]Metabolic”>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NgAimLpmY4gJ:www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/HighBloodPressure/AboutHighBloodPressure/High-Blood-Pressure-and-Metabolic-Syndrome_UCM_301801_Article.jsp+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us).</p>
<p>This is, in short, a group of health issues that are all markers for and/or related to insulin resistance. One of the easy ways to see if you are insulin resistant or have metabolic syndrome is to look at the triglycerides and HDL readings from a cholesterol test. Ideally, you want a 1:1 ratio – for example, triglycerides of 60 and HDL of 60. A ratio of 3:1, for example 120 triglycerides and 40 HDL is an almost certain indication of insulin resistance.</p>
<p>I bring this up because, to the extent that someone is insulin resistant, you can improve all of these issues, including blood pressure, by cutting way back on sugars and grains. Several of the top low carb doctors (Eades, Westman, etc.) have to monitor their patients’ blood pressure and cut back their blood pressure meds pretty quickly with diet changes.</p>
<p>Just something to look into a little further if you think it applies in your situation.</p>
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Deb, can you do my weeds THE REST OF THE SUMMER?</p>
<p>Don’t worry about the zombie mosquitoes…they’ll follow me up the hill. And through the forest. And along the trail.</p>
<p>In fact, even if I’ve slathered my self in picaridin and treated every inch of my clothing with permethrin, they’ll be busy finding a way under my clothes or into a spot on my ear I missed.</p>
<p>I seriously do not want to forfeit what has now become my (unintentional) “run” through the forest…but I seriously also think statistically I’m pushing it when it comes to west Nile.
My reasoning for the continued am hikes is the habituation of the uphill exertion which I can’t recreate on the treadmill. But right now a treadmill/airdyne/swim combo is looking pretty good. Ah, decisions! I don’t even feel like putting on my shoes!</p>