<p>Glad H is going to be okay, MOWC. Very scary. </p>
<p>teriwtt, that’s amazing that you were able to do that hike! How cool to do it with BB (and the Hs, of course). </p>
<p>MOWC, glad to hear your husband escaped with minor injuries. Was it a “right hook” ( car traveling in same direction) or a “left hook” (oncoming vehicle). Either way, he is fortunate. And yes, I do understand the serious intent of the statement that his bike is ok. The brain synapses of cyclists fire in some strange ways and I’ve been known to throw my body between my bike and the asphalt on occasions that I’ve crashed. Second Skin bandages heal all road rash, but needing to get my bike repainted or, god forbid, needing a frame tube replaced, I couldn’t bear it :).</p>
<p>Fast treadmill Tuesday. 3 miles. 2nd mile 5:45!</p>
<p>teriwitt:</p>
<p>900+ feet of elevation gain will make anyone stop and rest. Doing that fresh after major surgery and complications? Awesome.</p>
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<p>Basement for me. Rear foot elevated split squats (foot in Jungle Gym strap). Chin ups. Kettlebell swings. Alternating DB bench press. I’m up to 60 lbs on the split squats which is really a challenge for me. I’m at the stage where increases in weight are slow coming and slow to consolidate.
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<p>Right hook- same direction. He’s bandaged up but seems OK.</p>
<p>“900+ feet of elevation gain will make anyone stop and rest. Doing that fresh after major surgery and complications? Awesome.”</p>
<p>Yup! And that was just one of the several hikes Teri and her H did in a week or so! :)</p>
<p>Weights and my hilly course with obstacles, i.e., puddles generously provided by Mother Nature, are my small contributions to the thread.</p>
<p>Here’s to a quick recovery from road rash by FOWC!</p>
<p>teri, just got back from vacation and the first thing I thought of is to ask what meds you are on. Seven of my ten meds (mostly cardiac) cause dizziness. One or two of them wouldn’t bother me – with all on board, I can’t look up in the sky without getting dizzy. Dancing or anything involving changing my head position relative to the ground is a disaster waiting to happen for me. Hope you and your doctor can fine tune things!</p>
<p>Vivofit question – how can I calibrate this thing? Two miles on the treadmill at cardiac rehab = 2.18 on my Vivofit. When we were on vacation, I was racking up more mileage on the trails than the trailmarkers indicated. (SAme thing happens when walking in the house. Lots of steps, lots of mileage, but it feels way off.) </p>
<p>That said, I broke 10k every day but two, and hit 20k+ eight days. Only gained three pounds, which is really good for me since it is hard to find my feed on the road and DH eats junk all day long. It feels much harder to walk two miles on the treadmill vs. walking four miles in the woods.</p>
<p>Back to good habits and keeping up this kind of walking.</p>
<p>teri – if your hemoglobin is low from the sepsis, that could make you feel fatigued/dizzy, too.</p>
<p>You can’t calibrate. The fitness trackers are not at all accurate for mileage. That’s why you go by steps with them. They are almost all way over actual distance. You need a GPS for outside distance. </p>
<p>Supposedly you can adjust step settings. I’ve never done it</p>
<p>Go to to your garmin connect app. User settings . Custom stride length. Follow the instructions for entering a custom stride length for walking or running</p>
<p>Funny, my Fitbit undercalculates my mileage. I obviously take much longer steps than is average for my height. </p>
<p>@CountingDown - yes, when it was pointed out that my symptoms might be due to orthostatic hypotension, I looked it up and found that two of my meds can cause it. I’m also really trying hard to get more hydrated in the mornings since my workout times are 11AM (Wed) and noon (Sun). Am gulping as I write this to see how my experiment works today.</p>
<p>Regarding the iron - I do take an iron supplement, and I’m pretty sure my numbers are OK. If it’s not, I usually notice other symptoms, such as restless legs. Even the restless legs can come when my iron is just borderline low.</p>
<p>Bought a Mio Link a couple of days ago and am waiting for it to come in the mail. Hopefully this morning will be my last workout wearing the chest strap!</p>
<p>48 hours ago I ran in mid to upper 70’s degree weather. Shorts and a drenched tshirt. Today, Capri leggings, and if hands n the finger holes of my 1/4 zip. Welcome to fall!!! </p>
<p>To the basement. Did my little KB circuit with a 35lb KB: Four exercises on left, four on the right:</p>
<p>Single arm deadlift
KB Snatch
KB front squat
KB push press</p>
<p>I did four sets and all four sets non-stop with the four exercises on both sides with two minutes rest between sets… These sets usually take me 3+ minutes, but I was cranking them out in 2:45. Saw a heart rate of 90% of my max on the fourth set.</p>
<p>Great little 20 minute workout. The push presses at the end are always brutal.</p>
<p>Killer indoor cycle class today–average HR 83% and highest HR–98%.</p>
<p>Screw 4 wheels - I’ve got 2 legs! Walked 2 miles instead of waiting for my bus. I’m amazed how heavy my 20 lb bag feels. Not so long ago, I was hauling extra 25 pounds on my body every day! Every time I pick up that bag, it serves as a reminder why I do not want those pounds back. :)</p>
<p>Sounds like a great class Bromfield. Was it at an all purpose fitness facility or an indoor cycling studio? If the latter, which one? I also did an indoor cycling workout tonight. 60 minutes consisting of a warm up followed by 40 x 30 second intervals at 120% of my FTP wattage (lactic threshold) with 30 seconds recovery between each work interval, ending with a 4 minute cool down. It was kind of interesting because my leg muscles felt it more than my cardio system.</p>
<p>So when I was recently rebuilding my home gym into a functional training studio, I thought it would be cool to have plyo boxes. Rather than get a set of multiple boxes of different heights, I thought it made space planning sense to get a single box with different height, depth and widths so that by choosing which side to place it on, I could adjust the height. Great concept but imagine my surprise when I tried some plyo jumps only to discover that I had to duck to avoid hitting my head on the basement ceiling. I’m such an idiot, it never even occurred to me that head room would be an issue notwithstanding all the time I spent making measurements to make sure various pieces of equipment would clear the ceiling. I’m such an idiot lol! Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to resign myself to doing upper body plyo medicine ball drops and throws.</p>
<p>mkat:</p>
<p>Yeah. I’m limited on box jumps in my basement. That’s OK. My 60 year old shins don’t need me going for world record box jumps!</p>
<p>And, DB snatches, which I have to do by the basement stairs where the ceiling is a little taller. I removed a ceiling tile by the chin up bar so my head can go up between rafters (on the successful reps when I actually get my chin above the bar!)</p>
<p>I keep trying to brush my head into a ceiling tile on squat jumps, but, so far, no luck!</p>
<p>I had the same problem with positioning things so that on pull ups a person’s head will go between the rafters. On top of that, I had to account for various conduits, pipes etc, all of which are exposed. It got a bit complicated!</p>