Worked all day in my alter ego; just finished training clients. Now it’s time for my workout, then dinner. Can’t wait till I retire from my day job! The clock is ticking.
Just finished my workout. Parallettes full flow. One more day and I’ve completed the beginner’s program. Then did 3 sets of chin-ups and 3 of dips hanging weights off of me. Then experimented with 3 sets of TRX curls in a full supinated plank. Followed up with an attempt to do TRX chest presses with my feet on a stability ball. I couldn’t even stabilize the ball enough to get both feet on the ball while my hands were on the TRX handles! I would get one foot up on the ball but as soon as I tried to lift my other leg off the floor, the TRX straps would start swinging and the ball would start rolling. Definitely an acquired skill. I must have looked like a very accomplished klutz lol. As a consolation, I did push-ups on the parallette bars with my feet on the ball in a plank position. All in all a fun workout. But I gotta quit my day job; sitting down for dinner at 10:30 gets old :).
I’m going to be the early bird poster today-maybe a once and only event for me :). There’s nothing like knowing that a roofing crew will be climbing all over your house at the crack of dawn to get the ball rolling or feet moving, as the case may be! I ran three miles before they actually arrived. I commit to doing something else with my arms–kettlebell swings, 3-pt rows, and biceps curls. We have an event this evening but I’m going to do my best to be aware of what I’m eating, lol. Have a good day, everyone!
Yesterday did my dreaded 3+ mile hill workout; 5.3 this morning.
Was not good at our work party yesterday - ate all kinds of food I shouldn’t have AND had two glasses of red wine. Was definitely feeling it this morning. I need to only have two glasses when it’s the really good stuff, which this, unfortunately, was not.
Worked another long day yesterday, missed yoga and ate some chocolate I told myself I would stay away from. But I was back on the treadmill this AM and plan to go to yoga this evening. I’m working from home today so no excuses.
Sounds like a lot of us are in a bit of a slump right now. I am sitting here arguing with myself over whether to get out and run. It’s cold and dark out & my coffee is warm and delicious and there’s so much internet to read! But I remember that the hardest part is walking out the front door. Once I’m out there, I’m OK & the motivation will come. So here I go…
Today is a new day everyone - you can do it!
So there are a few extra celebrations and a few extra calories. It is what is consistently done, so encouraging all the discouraged!
I meanwhile am straddling a boat and the pier - didn’t get the job I interviewed for but being considered for another. I was wanting the job to ‘structure’ my diet and exercise regiment. The good news is that with H at 59.5, we can move some of his 401k money into a lower risk but pretty good yield investment - enjoy meeting with our financial guy Don at least twice a year (including this week) plus attend his group updates to his clients.
In the mean-time, I am loading up on various doc appts and social gatherings. At in-laws, do a long vigorous morning walk - so that probably will be my kick start to getting into a exercise regime. Next Monday should be my last appt with radiation oncologist, as I have been cancer free for 5 years, as long as this mammogram I had Monday looks good.
Fingers crossed, SOS. Sorry about the job, but it sounds like you have a plan going forward.
Short run in heavy fog this morning. Hope to do a little more after work. I didn’t sleep well- had a late (and disastrous) basketball game yesterday and wasn’t even asleep by midnight.
Fingers crossed that the setback is just a temporary thing, SOS.
Another day of high winds and relentless rain. Someone’s transformer blew up at around 2 am, and the loud boom woke me up. Argh. Treadmill tonight, I guess.
Sorry about the job SOS but happy about the 5 years cancer free - such a blessing!
The food infiltration has begun. I work for a large, very popular company and the vendor/supplier food gifts have started rolling in. There is candy, cookies, pastries etc everywhere in the corporate offices. I feel almost sick from the sugar I’ve had this afternoon just from grazing.
I am so glad that our annual Christmas “lunch-a-rama” is tomorrow and I am taking a vacation day. I enjoy holiday treats - a LOT - but I do try to keep it to the timeframe from about 12/23 or so until New Years. Even with just a week to 10 days of indulging, I can inflict a lot of damage!
Just learned that someone I know that had a re-occurrence of breast cancer 10 years later and succumbed. I am even more determined to stay on the Tamoxifen - probably the rest of my life. Cannot open the door for the cancer to come back. I have four more years to get past the date that my dad died of small cell lung cancer (he would have had a chance to beat it now, as they have developed better drugs to battle it - at the time, the one drug didn’t work for him). I have too much body fat generating estrogen (my cancer was her2 positive and estrogen positive). The biologic drug Herceptin was a big factor in clearing me of cancer, along with Taxol (a drug combination still used as first line with my type of breast cancer 6 years later). They are studying the longer survival with Tamoxifen - at one time they thought being on it beyond 5 years hurt instead of helped, but they are re-examining with long range studies.
Jobs can come and go. My talents just have to be recognized with the right employer/right job. If I was in a larger city, would have a job more easily. Or maybe I just manage our lives at home, despite my underutilized abilities and desire for getting 6 years of paid employment and boosting my SS numbers.
MNK - been going to spinning classes the last 2 weeks. I’m trying to remember if you thought that rapid jumping up and down out of the saddle was a good thing or not? I resisted this move since it was something I would never do outdoors? Plus within one segment the instructor had has going up two levels 6x. I was on a M3 bike and started at my flat level 12 which would have put me at a 24 resistance level which I could barely crank. I think the instructor was upset that I pretty much did my own thing after that. But my biggest complaint was the high pitch screaming voice. Need ear plugs for future classes.
Oh,Ohio- I hear you! That is my issue with spin class. The screechy aerobics instructor voice on wheels! And, no, the jumping up and down is not a good thing. It makes me (and my cyclist husband) crazy. Do your own thing. I’ve said before on here- in Dallas I was so fortunate to have a world champion track cyclist (Nick Chenowth) as my spin instructor. He was the head of the EDS sponsored national cycling team until he was indicted for financial fraud and went to prison for almost 2 years (long story). He was so awesome. Our classes were completely cycling oriented and not aerobics on wheels. We did “distance” and sprints. I still hear his voice in my head even when I run. When we would climb a hill in spin class he said “And you can’t even SEE the top!”
Ohio, ditto what MOWC said. Rapid jumps in succession are asinine as well as asking for knee injuries if not done with loads of control. They have no value for cycling training and promote bad form. The best thing todo if you find yourself in a class like that is to sit on a bike in the back row and do your own thing.
It’s funny though. In the world of indoor cycling there is an ongoing philosophical dispute between the cycling “purists” who insist that indoor cycling should only replicate outdoor riding and those who insist that indoor cycling must be viewed as a form of entertainment to attract the masses. Like most extreme’s the answer probably lies in the middle. Movements should never be done that compromise form, biomechanical functioning and safety. On the other hand, not everyone has the same objectives for indoor cycling so classes that throw in light dumbbell work or other non-traditional stuff can be appealing to some and if it induces them to participate in a class, so much the better. When I ride at home, I’m all cycling purist business. When I go to classes, I enjoy classes that are very structured to achieve a defined workout goal. There are times though that I go just to enjoy the music and camaraderie. But if the instructor happens to call out something I think is unsafe or notbiomechanically sound, I just sit back and spin unobtrusively. If the instructor calls me on it after the class, I explain (politely unless the instructor is an ass) why I did what I did. Some instructors just don’t know any better. (And don’t get me started on the vagaries of the spectrum of “certifications” out there 
).
Need to rant for a moment.
There is a wonderful boulevard close to my house with a wide grassy median with a dirt running path and bike lanes alongside the driving lanes. I love to run, walk and bike here.
I subscribe to a local list serve for neighbors, and drivers are now complaining about us runners. One person called for “more enforcement of common sense actions by joggers.” He or she suggested that the cops should “ticket irresponsible runners,” saying that running or biking after dark without lights should be an offense. Even worse – people jogging pushing baby carriages!
Another person said the bike path, with its strollers and joggers, has detracted from “the charm of our city.”
This is where I twice came within inches of being hit by texting drivers.
First, pedestrians have the right of way here, whether drivers like it or not. (Yes, they complain that they almost hit a runner who was already in the intersection. If someone is in the intersection, the driver needs to stop!)
Second – sure, let’s discourage walkers, runners and bikers in favor of drivers (said with great irony). Let’s keep on getting fat and relying on foreign oil.
Third – what a waste of police resources. Ticketing joggers? Really?
Boy, fireandrain. That is really obnoxious! What are people thinking? Detracting from the charm of your city??? Wow. Rant away!
Oh wow, fireandrain. What a terrible, idiotic idea and what a bunch of losers. I think that if a cop is assigned to a busy 4-way stop with the goal to ticket jaywalkers, she or he will find more drivers to ticket than pedestrians.
fireandrain, I can empathize with your rant! Even in my neck of the woods, where the Pa Vehicle Code has extensive provisions protecting the rights of cyclists to share the road and the behavior of drivers towards cyclists is heavily regulated, where multi-user paths, striped bike lanes, sharrows and Share the Road signs abound, there is still quite a bit of resentment of drivers towards cyclists. I encounter it almost routinely on many of my road rides. Part of it is driven by a sense of entitlement on the part of car drivers, part by the impatience of our culture, part by a basic lack of civility and, unfortunately, part of it is caused by cyclists who want the same rights as cars on the road but don’t want to follow basic rules of the road that cars must follow and which equally apply to bicycles as vehicles. There’s a lot of education that needs to be done to change people’s understanding, perceptions and expectations.
In Pa, all bicycles on the road after dark must have tail lights and at least a reflector up front. As a matter of safe practices, all of my cycling pals and I use tail lights and headlights on our bikes if we are going to be riding after dusk. The tail lights are very small, light but bright and could also clip onto a running jersey with a back pocket. No doubt there are running specific products but I have not had an occasion to research them. As much ignorant uninformed intolerance as there is, all of us who use public roadways and paths must also be goodwill ambassadors. I tell myself that every time a car driver yells at me to get off the road and I stifle my initial response that they are obviously the result of generations of inbreeding. 