Yet another record holder in an upper age category:
https://cyclingtips.com/2018/03/robert-marchand-106-years-old-and-riding-strong/
An older powerlifter:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-35505803/meet-the-world-s-oldest-powerlifter
It’s great to see older people hitting their stride in competitive sports later in life. I’m not sure I would want to live to be that old though!
I’ve been sticking with my easy workouts yesterday and today - split lower body/upper body. I am seeing improvements in the weights I’m able to work with, which is good. After each weight session, some time on the elliptical. I’m going to try and get a run in tomorrow morning and that will probably be it for a while. Eating has been going well, I’ve been able to stick with my habits of eating slowly to 80% fullness with lean protein at every meal. We weigh and measure every two weeks and after my initial drop, I’m down a total of 6.6 pounds and 5 inches, so that has slowed but that’s okay. Another good thing is that I’m exercising smarter, not harder, and it’s more diverse than just running.
Goal for today is to plan out some workouts I can do at home in the event I can’t get to the gym for some time or can’t access workouts online. I’ve been anxiously watching the weather but it’s going to come, no matter what, so just need to be realistic and prepared.
The hurricane? Are you in an area susceptible to flooding?
I’d be anxious too. Tornadoes (Midwest) are bad enough!
Yes, our friend Florence is on the way. I live in western VA - we’ve had a really wet summer and ground is already saturated. I’ve seen estimates for rainfall from 6 inches up to 20 inches. The forecast seems to change every time I look at it so I need to stop!
My lower leg/ankle is still bothering me, so I made an appointment with my PCP. I did go to the gym this morning - just couldn’t do side shuffles. Everything else felt OK, although I’m appalled that I had so much trouble doing situps!! Oh, well, back at it…
Glad you’re getting checked out, ML. I am doing this exercise called “wall press abs” and it doesn’t look that difficult - unless you’re doing them correctly. I think I’m doing them correctly because the struggle is real!
Hopefully, Florence will deteriorate before it hits land. Good luck. I also had to google “wall press abs.” I like learning new stuff. 
I don’t like doing regular situps on the floor. For whatever reason, it hurts my tailbone when I do them. I have to find other ways to work my abs.
Sunday was terrible. Bad allegies curtailed my attempt at running. No lung capacity, so I had to shorten to almost nothing. And I don’t like to take medicine. Anyway, I can never find it when I need it.
Yesterday was a very good day. After warmup and a 1/2 mile run, I went thru progressions of both front squats and “hang cleans” (hold bar at hips, dip and flick bar up to shoulders). The HIIT was a combination of running 400m and max pullups. Repeating for 20 minutes. The workout resulted in 7+ rounds or almost 2 miles of running plus the pullups.
I have no energy today. I was going to lift, but I took the dog for a second walk instead. Work is still too much.
Sore knee is a little better, so I am back to running. Waiting to hear if my 8K will cancel on Saturday as some other local (NoVA) races have. I’ll run in the rain unless it’s pouring.
Hope you’re able to get your race in, @FallGirl - our forecast has improved substantially, thank goodness. This morning I had an easy 3 mile run in the neighborhood. The university’s ROTC does training runs through the neighborhood and I encountered them this morning running the hill that leads to my street - I managed to pass quite a few of them. I got a “Good morning, ma’am” and then had the satisfaction of hearing someone say “that woman is kicking our a**!” Got my day off to a great start!
^ love that “woman kicking…” remark!
And I bet you were!
I am feeling a lot happier and physically better with shorter distances. Now I must add that the folks I passed were not candidates for Rangers but they were 30+ years my junior. This is a route I run regularly AND I was finishing up so I’ll always push harder there. Still felt good. Given all of the other activities I enjoy doing, I just don’t know that I have the time or interest in the longer runs you need for the distance races. I felt like I was always in recovery mode but never quite recovered.
@sabaray - what you do is great and if you are enjoying it and it works for you that’s all the better. I see so much emphasis on long distance running lately and if that is someone’s thing I think that’s terrific, but it’s not for everyone.
I’m currently training for my first 10k and while I enjoy running ( though not really enjoying racing) , I’m not sure about going farther. Still contemplating a 10 miler someday, but between the training time etc. not really even sure about that. I could find the time by cutting out other things I enjoy, but don’t want to do that.
@FallGirl I think if you can run a 10K, then you can run a 10-miler.
I’ve never practiced for runs of 10 miles or a 1/2, but I’ve entered and finished races of 10 miles and a 1/2. I think your body can do more than what your mind will tell you. I think I read somewhere that you body can perform an addtional 40% beyond what your mind tells you that you can do.
More recently, my “long distance runs” have just been 5K’s, but I will typically run our local 10K Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving Day morning. My issue is that I always train (CF) on Saturdays, so my legs are never fresh on Sundays. Meaning, my 5K or 10K “race” times stink. :))
Yesterday, was a decent day of training. Worked on “snatches” (lift barbell from floor to overhead in one motion) and then the HIIT was a 15-min combo of rowing, toes-to-bar and light snatches. Tonight appears to be deadlifts (including single leg DL’s, rope climbs, jump rope and my least favorite, burpees. :-q
I’m not on a weight-loss diet but my mom, about to undergo knee-replacement surgery, could stand to lose weight (her BMI is 40). I’d be interested in tips people share here.
We have a Weight Wacher thread going. http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/2054086-trying-again-a-weight-watchers-thread.html I have lost 20 lbs so far.
I am on a weight loss plan and I’m glad you started this thread to talk about diet. We do talk a lot about exercise over there! It wasn’t always that way. Hope it’s okay if I chime in here. I am following an online coaching plan. The focus is on building habits slowly so weight loss can be gradual and you develop a lifestyle that allows you to maintain a healthy weight. Maintenance has always been my problem. I lost over 100 pounds through calorie counting but the same 20 pounds would cycle back on and then off. I really wanted a change as I’ve followed probably every diet imaginable except for WW and Whole 30.
I weigh and measure myself every two weeks. Every four weeks I add photos. Taking photos of yourself in a swimsuit along with your measurements can be very motivating.
On Sunday I do a lot of meal prep. I plan the meals for the week ahead. I chop vegetables, I put together some mason jar salads, I prepare several crock pot items, I cook grains and proteins ahead of time, I’m ready to put a variety of meals together during the week without having to think about it. I eat whatever I want - no foods are restricted.
I eat whole foods. I don’t eat processed foods unless they’re minimally processed - like frozen fruits and vegetables. I really like Michael Pollan’s “Food Rules - An Eater’s Manual” as a guideline.
Eat slowly so you can recognize when you’re actually full. Once you’re doing that, think about eating until you’re only 80% full. Your body will adjust. At every meal, I have a palm sized serving of lean protein, at least a cupped handful sized portion of vegetables, and a thumb sized serving of fat (avocado, nut butter, olive oil).
I’m doing the program for a second time. The first time I lost around 20 pounds but 18 inches of “girth” if I’m recalling correctly. I’ve been able to maintain that loss but I’d like to lose an additional 15 pounds.
Oh come on! Burpees are fun. Beats the rope climb every time.
There is a wonderful and long thread on diet and exercise that seems to currently focus on almost exclusively exercise. I would like to have a thread about dieting/weight loss that talks more about the challenges of improving healthy eating/meal planning/losing weight.
I have lost 23 pounds since July and my goal is to lose 25 more in the next 8-10 months. I have lost weight through good old fashioned calorie counting with an emphasis on healthy eating. I have told no one in real life that I am doing this and with my clothes being baggy and having a ways to go, no one has seemed to notice yet. I’m happy keeping this to myself in real life but don’t mind sharing it here. I have never really lost weight before but now in my 50’s I feel like it’s time to try.
I am doing what I consider a “modified” weight watchers plan, using what I consider the best of the plan (portion control especially with higher fat/calories food) without what I consider some of the parts of the plan that don’t work for me (there is no need for me to work to get healthy oils in my diet when I eat salmon 4-5 times a week, say my doc.) I started on WW but quickly found some of its rules didn’t work for me so I went to calorie counting.
I’m wondering if anyone else is in the middle or starting a weigh loss plan and how you are doing. Do you weigh yourself all the time? At regular intervals? never? Have you completely cut out foods? And if so do you like doing that or is it a big sacrifice?