<p>Okay, so when I said I was faster on my hill this year, I didn’t mean THAT fast 
but I’m guessing y’all knew that!</p>
<p>I was going a little too fast yesterday though…the end of one of my adjustable poles flew off after a speed tangle with a vine :)</p>
<p>MOMWC, sending ya hugs and light and some quiet self-nurturing mojo.</p>
<p>Thanks, kmcmom. Going to be a tough day tomorrow, but we’ll get through it. I didn’t get up and run this morning, so if the streak is to live on, I’ll have to run this afternoon in PA. We went to the Michael Buble concert last night as guests in a suite, which made for a late night but was awesome. A rare foray for me outside of country music! :)</p>
<p>Safe travels and best wishes for some comfort and good memories celebrating your mom’s life with friends and family, MOWC.</p>
<p>For the people who like to “look GOOD” while exercising (this references running, but applies otherwise too I think) check this out:</p>
<p>[RunKeeper</a> (Gear. It?s a hot topic amongst us runners,…)](<a href=“Track your Run - ASICS Runkeeper Running Tracker App”>Track your Run - ASICS Runkeeper Running Tracker App)</p>
<p>Aerie and Forever 21!!! Even for young people, wouldn’t guess these to be frontrunners!!!</p>
<p>kmcmom:</p>
<p>I hate when a hiking pole gets tangled with a root or stuck in rock. Just waltzing along and everything comes to a screeching halt. Just like [url=<a href=“American Graffiti (8/10) Movie CLIP - Pharaohs and the Cop Car (1973) HD - YouTube”>American Graffiti (8/10) Movie CLIP - Pharaohs and the Cop Car (1973) HD - YouTube]this[/url</a>]. :)</p>
<p>30 minute home workout</p>
<p>side leg lift variations
side lying clam (2 x 15 each side)
side leg adduction (4 x 20 each side)
hip lifts (3 x 20)
stability ball deadbug (2 x 8 each side)
stability ball hamstring curl (2 x 10)
stability ball stir the pot (2 x 20 turns – 10 to the right,10 to the left)
stability ball toe touches (2 x 8 each side)
stability ball jackknife (2 x 10)
pushups (12)
planks w/elastics rows
pallof press (2 x six 10 count held forward and six 10 count held up)
superman
leg swings (5 each side)
reverse lunges w/rotation or arms up (6 each side)
quads stretch
single leg deadlift (6 each side, nearly invisible weights)
goblet squats (8)
heel raises (6 center, 3 toes pointed outward, 3 pointed inward)
pushup position t-rotations (6 each side)
bicep curls (3 x 8 each side, 8# db)
military press (3 x 8, first set both dbs, second and third sets either side, 8# dbs)
benchless bench press w/dbs (2 x 8, both 8# dbs)
tricep kickbacks (3 x 8 each side, 8# db)
rows (3 x 10 each side, 8# db)</p>
<p>2.6-7ish (best guess) combo of loops around the track and dreadmill…</p>
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<p>Ouch. Those things are so aggravating. Hope it’s feeling a little better today.</p>
<p>Wow, Deborah. Good workout and good remembering what you did! :)</p>
<p>D and I ran 2.2 mikes here in chilly, windy PA this afternoon. The streak lives on. We made a Lululemon run on the way in from the airport!</p>
<p>Nothing like a little Lululemon therapy! :)</p>
<p>Thanks, MOWC. Most demanding part of this was the core stuff. I have the pushups written down in the wrong order. I’ve switched to usually doing them before stability ball exercises. More enjoyment, less suffering that way.</p>
<p>There wasn’t any stylin’ Lulu for this workout. A tee my husband brought me back from a business trip to San Antonio and a pair of Brooks shorts that even kind of match. ;)</p>
<p>I’m going to make a crib sheet from your workout, Deborah, as something to aspire to. Wow. </p>
<p>6.36 indoor miles on the treadmill. Cold and windy here in Virginia. No Lulu here either. Gray tee, black Nike shorts. I need to buy new running shoes soon. I have a pair of lightly used Saucony but I don’t like them as much as I thought I did. I think they’re destined to be dog walking shoes.</p>
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<p>I guess! Those are some seriously hard core exercises and you are doing a ton of them back to back. You are doing a very comprehensive set of core and mobility exercises. Probably the most important stuff that any of us can do once we we hit the age of 39!</p>
<p>I imagine that you are really starting to feel some results.</p>
<p>4 miles. In the snow! It wasn’t that bad. Wore my new winter running tights, patagonia long underwear and a north face fleece. Bright pink rain jacket with a hat and gloves. I was toasty warm. </p>
<p>It wasn’t the best run, fighting a bit of a cold. Which is not fun. Going on a girls weekend to Chicago. Hope I feel better, won’t be exercising but will walk a ton. Maybe it will somewhat mitigate all the food I will eat and all the wine I will be drinking :)</p>
<p>Snow! Yikes! Not sticking??? We had sleet this afternoon. Where did 68degrees go???</p>
<p>3.6 miles today…15 for the week. It was sunny, windy and cool here in NC so wore long tights and a long sleeve (but thin nylon) quarter zip. What a mistake. I was sweating bullets after a mile. I would have run further if I hadn’t been SO hot. </p>
<p>I tried the Spiderman push-ups. Did five on each side. Was surprised that it wasn’t as hard as I anticipated.</p>
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<p>Yay! I’ve done them before, I think. It’s not so much that they make the upper body part of the push up harder. It’s that they add a massive core stability challenge with a one leg pushup in combination with the extra motion of the other leg.</p>
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<p>Basement workout for me. This was the one with chinups, not pushups, so I didn’t get to try the spiderman pushups. Chinups weren’t that great today, but everything else was OK including the dreaded rear foot elevated split squats with my foot in the Jungle Gym strap. I’m up to 50 lbs (2 x 25 DBs) for 8 reps per leg on that one.</p>
<p>Hey Deborah, what are planks with elastic rows?</p>
<p>With the pool closed (yes, deb922, Egads, snow! ) I’ve moved my tiny weight/core set to “while I’m making dinner” because I’m doing hill in am and although I know its better to do the weights after a cardio warm up, doing them in the pool house when I’m not headed for a swim after seems weird, and now that its cold, I take more time hot tubbing before I do the hill. (Hey, it works just like a warm up…literally :)</p>
<p>So what that looks like is 15-20 min of:
Planks
Side planks
Bird dogs
Kb swings
Goblet squats
Kb cleans
Kb push press
Single leg deadlifts (still suck at these, and I mean SUCK)
Bicep curls etc w/hand weights
Few other moves I don’t know the name for, think heel raises are one of em</p>
<p>Depending on what I’m cooking, I only get a few sets in. But I’ve been tempted to try the hand-walk-up-down thing with the planks so I was curious about what you do with the bands, which I assume are involved in “elastic rows.”</p>
<p>At any rate, I figure the stolen cooking time is better than nothing and I’ve noticed I’ve been able at least to consistently put it in this way. Anything I can do to habituate a bit of movement in little sections of the normal day seems to help me stick with it.</p>
<p>Btw, idad, thanks for the video. That’s kind of exactly what happened to my ski pole 
except of course I wasn’t chasing teenagers!</p>
<p>Scale is starting the downward trend again; I think I’ve tamed the bread beast. Amazing what a difference eliminating bread makes. </p>
<p>These strength workouts are incredible. You all are way more coordinated than I am.</p>
<p>KMC, took me a little while, but I finally found a video. I had to figure out the right search term. If you enter “front plank & row” on Google videos, the first one it’s bringing up is in black and white, uploaded by halfmoonbayim, and is a good demonstration. We have Bodylastics here so I am able to do this attaching resistance bands to the desk leg. </p>
<p>Kudos on all the great workouts, everyone!</p>