<p>No power for 15 hours is brutal. We had it for two days last year. It was getting pretty desperate. The temp had droppped into the 40s in the house. I was getting ready to drain all the water out of the plumbing and heating sytems and pack up to start driving to find a motel when the power came back on. The only saving grace was that the McDonalds a couple miles away had power so at least hot coffee was available in the morning.</p>
<p>Dh came with me to my bootcamp workout this morning. The ladies and I had talked about bringing the husbands while we were on break and I guess I’m the only one who remembered! My goal this year is to workout 4 days a week instead of 2. Right now, I’m maintaining but haven’t lost any weight.</p>
<p>iDad- sounds like any of those things could have caused your injury. I hope it rights itself quickly. Are you taking Advil or anything for inflammation?</p>
<p>It was -2 degrees this morning when I got up and about 0 when I started my run on the trail. My fingers got cold at first and then they got OK and my toes were cold, but by 2 miles I was OK. I did 5 crawling miles with the YakTraks and warm running stuff on terrain ranging from smooth snow pack to rough pack to slippery icy stuff. It takes a long time to do this low HR stuff at 9200 feet. I am SO ready to be back at sea level and warmer temps.<br>
After breakfast we went snowshoeing for 3.2 miles which was DAMN hard! It is sort of like walking in sand- even on the snow shoe trails. But gorgeous. </p>
<p>I also caught my daughter’s cold and feel miserable. Really dreading the next 2 days of driving home. I am trying to streak again (which is stupid) and I’’ have to go out at 5am to do a mile before we leave. Stupid.</p>
<p>Once we lost power for six DAYS. But we are in Western WA - it never got colder than just a couple of degrees below freezing during that time. I’ll take that over losing power for 15 hours during a blizzard on the East Coast :eek: Stay warm and healthy, my CC friends!</p>
<p>Hubby and I just finished our beer and edamame dinner and will be hitting the Beer Trail again in a couple of minutes. 
H is seriously considering racewalking back to the car bcause it is getting rather dark. Lol!</p>
<p>I’m not familiar with that injury but it sounded like mine until I read a detailed description of it. I’ve had that feeling on the inside of the ankle but it felt lower and to the back, not near the protrusion on the inside. At any rate, I had one flare up of it today (usually happens throughout the day) and did run today and everything felt good - knees, ankles, etc. I did the military press and that was fine too. Stuff is slowly getting better as I’m getting a fair amount of rest between workouts. Going to the Y with my son tonight but I think that I’ll just relax there.</p>
<p>It’s hard to pin down this pain because it’s clealy a nerve issue, so the pain can’t be located to a particular muscle or tendon. I’m not sore to the touch anywhere. It feels more like an tingly electrical shock. I haven’t been able to figure out exactly what movement triggers it. Bending at the waist seems to do it, but I think it’s from stretching the leg at the heel. Doing a split kind of motion also seems to do it. It doesn’t hurt at all until I “catch it” with just the right movement, then it feels like being stabbed. As soon as I get off that movement, it doesn’t hurt at all. I’m leaning towards anything that stretches the Achilles tendon as being the culprit.</p>
<p>If I had to guess, I would say that I inflammed some muscles or tendons doing rear foot elevated split squats – front foot on the floor, back foot up on a bench, shoe laces down. I just started doing them with dumbells for the first time last week (on Friday and again on Sunday) and I was definitely feeling it in the legs.</p>
<p>Only times I’ve had that symptom is when something fell asleep or a whack on the funny bone. The former happens to me a few times a year. The latter happens maybe once or twice a decade.</p>
<p>The ankle is really complicated and I usually don’t try to figure out what the problem is there as usually any problems short of a sprained ankle heals up in three days.</p>
<p>^^^
I’m expecting this to clear up on its own with no intervention beyond a little rest. I’ll probably lay off the rear-foot elevated split squats this week.</p>
<p>idad, congrats on hitting 70 pounds lost! Hope your mystery injury resolves. I’m still dealing with high hamstring/glute pain. Took a week off from running, went back out on Sunday (I had to try all my new gear!) and am sore, sore, sore. Yuck.</p>
<p>Bromfield, congrats to you too–46 pounds is awesome. Like you, I don’t push myself; I don’t know what I’d do if my trainer left!</p>
<p>Feels good to be back in my routine again. Lifted weights and biked today. The only glitch is my throat is tightening up and I am a little sniffly again! D2 has a head cold so I probably picked up her junk. I have been meticulous about wiping down the machines before I use them at the gym and washing my hands immediately after I am done working out. I do not want to be sick again!</p>
<p>I gave up trying to reboot my computer – it wouldn’t go into safe mode; it wouldn’t go into any mode. I just ordered an $800 Dell laptop which is not going to thrill me terribly – I would have much preferred the MacBook Air – but it cost twice as much as the Dell. Not only that, Santa just brought DH a $2,000 iMac (to replace his 10-year-old one), so the coffers are somewhat depleted. Dipping into savings for all this stuff.</p>
<p>S1 had successful nose surgery yesterday – the second (planned) operation to repair a badly broken nose from last June. (Rugby. Stupid sport.) He’s eager to be able to work out hard again, which he should be able to do in about three more weeks. </p>
<p>The gym this morning was crowded. Must be the New Years Resolutioners getting ready for the new year. I love to count them at the beginning of the year and then wonder where they all went as the year progresses . . .</p>
<p>Started: 12-29-2009, 10:14 AM by sabaray:</p>
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<p>THIS THREAD IS OFFICIALLY MORE A YEAR OLD!!! Congrats to everyone posting here!</p>
<p>Shall we start a list of pounds lost (like CC kiddos sometimes make lists of who got where)?</p>
<p>I will start:</p>
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<li>BB - lost 27 lb (planned to lose 15-20)</li>
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<p>It’s your turn now ;)</p>
<p>Well, if you want lots of pounds lost, you’re not going to get it from me. Since the beginning of the year, it’s only three or so. But weight loss has not been my goal – strengthening the old bones has been. And in that, I’m succeeding. Used to have osteoporosis, don’t any longer.</p>
<p>VH - I was kidding. :)</p>
<p>“Used to have osteoporosis, don’t any longer.” That is a way bigger achievement than losing a few pounds! CONGRATS!!! Way to go!</p>
<p>I know, I’m very proud of myself, as we all should be! Lifting heavy things over my head has paid off!</p>
<p>Exercise is sooooooo much better than no exercise!</p>
<p>Hmm, this looks like it might be a great book:</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> The New Rules of Lifting for Abs: A Myth-Busting Fitness Plan for Men and Women Who Want a Strong Core and a Pain-Free Back (9781583334133): Lou Schuler, Alwyn Cosgrove: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1583334130]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1583334130)</p>
<p>It’s the third in the New Rules of Lifting series from Lou Schuller and Alwyn Cosgrove, following: *The New Rules of Lifting *and The New Rules of Lifting for Women. These first two books are pretty much the textbooks for the kind of training that I have been doing: strength and circuit training for fat loss and general fitness. Squats and stuff.</p>
<p>This one is *The New Rules of Lifting for Abs *and appears to be a full exercise program centered around core training. Judging from the author’s video at the link above, this might be a killer resource for anyone looking to add these kinds of workouts. I might have to order this one.</p>
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<p>If you want to see some New Year’s Resolutions, check out the stop-smoking support sites this week. New Year’s Day is the biggest day of the year for failed stop-smoking attempts. It’s a trainwreck. The overwhelming majority will post one time.</p>
<p>The site that helped me quit got so digusted with people supporting each other in failing to quit that they won’t even allow you to join until you have been off all nicotine for at least three days and then they revoke your membership permanently (one-strike you are out) if you ever use nicotine again. No exceptions. Thus, the entire membership consists of people who have successfully stopped smoking. There are no failures. </p>
<p>There is nobody saying, “Oh you poor thing, that’s awful. Well of course you had smoke. We understand…” Which is pretty much the same thing as saying, “Oh you poor thing, that’s awful. Well of course you have to jump off the ledge of that building. We understand…” But, all next week, there will be hundreds of people on stop-smoking sites offering support to people who have decided to start smoking again, making them “feel good” about that decision.</p>
<p>What do you do for pullups? I haven’t done pullups for many months because of the tennis elbow injury but I was thinking of trying them again tonight at the YMCA as my arm feels quite a bit better?</p>
<p>I think that pullups are a pretty important bodyweight exercise that makes things stronger that aren’t normally used in everyday life. We have an assisted dip/pullup machine at the YMCA so I’ll probably go about 75% assist mode to see how my arm feels about it.</p>
<p>The pullup is usually hard to do at home unless you have some structure that’s fairly high that can support your weight. I know that there are those things that you can put over a door frame but I’ve heard of them causing accidents too.</p>
<p>The New Rules of Lifting for Abs</p>
<p>A sample chapter: </p>
<p>[Chapter</a> One](<a href=“Redirecting...”>Redirecting...)</p>
<p>Excerpt:</p>
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<p>The machines at the YMCA have directions on them but most people don’t read them. Most machines tell you how to line your body up for the machine. There’s a swirly design at the place where your belly button or shoulders should be. People eventually figure it out through trial and error or don’t and may get injured.</p>
<p>One of my favorite machines, the rotary torso, shows you a picture and tells you that your feet should be crossed underneath the machine and they should be dangling. Most people that use the machine plant their feet on the ground which I believe partially defeats the purpose of the exercise.</p>
<p>The slant boards in gyms is a big problem as it just invites people to put a ten or twenty-five pound weight on their chest to do situps when this exercise will screw up your back if you do it enough. I believe that the actual purpose of the board is for the decline chest press. When I was at Boston College, we actually had a situp board attached to a Universal Gym. It had the device at the top to hold your ankles so that you could keep your knees bent while doing situps. It attached to the cage at a variety of angles. I think that the people that do the purchasing for gyms don’t want to spend the money for a proper situp board because they think that the decline chest press board can double as a situp board.</p>