Diet/Exercise/Health/Wellness Support Thread

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<p>Shoveling decks is a good workout. I felt winded and sweaty afterwards. That’s all I did today. Snow was heavy and a little icy. I just want it to go away. My gym was closed today. I’m working with my trainer tomorrow at 7 pm.</p>

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<p>Well, I did it. Didn’t want to. Wasn’t pretty, but I lifed heavy things and put them down.</p>

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<p>What good is this thread without pictures? :)</p>

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<p>Pictures? Of the snow? Or our “cute” workout outfits? :)</p>

<p>As far as snow, I really can’t believe how deep it is. The yard lamp on the tall 6 foot pole towards the end of the driveway is now buried completely by the snow – it’s on the downwind side where I’ve been blowing the stuff from the driveway. Tje mountains lining the street are six to ten feet tall. It’s really getting ridiculous.</p>

<p>As far as cute outfits, there was nothing photogenic about my workout today. It was tough. I just had to get started and plow through it. Every single exercise was hard, expecially the split squats with a 40 pound dumbbell and the push ups in the TRX suspension straps. Actually, I take it back. The warmup was pretty good!</p>

<p>I can barely wrestle a 40 pound dumbell up into a goblet position under my chin. To do that six times and each time doing a dozen split squats, knee all the way to the ground, on one side. Yeow. That is a hard exercise.</p>

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<p>The cute workout outfits. The snow I can see on TV!</p>

<p>Hot yoga at lunch. Very hard. I can only pull this off at lunchtime because I have VERY short hair.</p>

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<p>OK. OK. Here’s a picture to make all of us snowbound workout warriors sick. Zuzanna does sandbag rows on a pristine beach on the Indian Ocean last week:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.bodyrock.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/row1.jpg[/url]”>http://www.bodyrock.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/row1.jpg&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.bodyrock.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Row2.jpg[/url]”>http://www.bodyrock.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Row2.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>That’s what I was thinking of while doing deadlifts today. Just trying to visualize the warm ocean breeze and smell of salt water in the air.</p>

<p>Speaking of which, I wonder how NMINN is doing?</p>

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<p>My fav’</p>

<p>[Front</a> foot elevated split squat](<a href=“Goblet Front Foot Elevated Split Squats - YouTube”>Goblet Front Foot Elevated Split Squats - YouTube)</p>

<p>One of Mike Boyle’s guys doing the goblet squat that’s been killing me. Counting the dumbbell and the weight vest, he’s doing it with 135 pounds, which makes me look like a piker with 40 pounds. But, then again, he’s not an ol’ (formerly) fat guy and I’m using a taller step!</p>

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<p>idad, never never never compare yourself to anyone else!! Just keep going for your own personal best. They call that “progress.”</p>

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<p>We’ll see if he’s still wearing that weight vest on the split squats when he’s 57 years old!</p>

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<p>Just wanted to share this:</p>

<p>[No</a> More Crunches? Abs-olutely!](<a href=“http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/training-day/201102/no-more-crunches-abs-olutely]No”>http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/training-day/201102/no-more-crunches-abs-olutely)</p>

<p>Although I think I’m preaching to the choir. :)</p>

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<p>One lesson I learned quite well in Hot Yoga is that I can’t look around and compare myself to anyone else or I’m likely to take out a whole row when I fall!</p>

<p>Went to PT this morning and he is really pleased that I’m going to Hot Yoga. I showed him some of the postures that are hard for me with the injury. He said it is going to be really good for me. (i.e. I finally did something right…) He also said that he only wants me to run NOT MORE THAN 4 times a week. This is the first “real” instruction I have been given, so I plan to obey it!</p>

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<p>Awesome, MOfWC! I too think you will be fine with 4 days of running. My marathoner friend started doing the the same thing (after dealing with knee injury), and still performs just fine.</p>

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<p>Hi everyone! I’ve been reading here and there but haven’t posted here in a few months.</p>

<p>I’ve finally figured out a gym schedule that works for me this semester and I’m actually <em>gasp</em> enjoying it? Seriously, what’s up with that?
I’ve been going to the gym on campus MWF mornings, 20-25 minutes on the elliptical and then about 20 minutes strength training and another 5-10 stretching. Mornings are good, there’s no one else there at 9 AM on a Monday.
I also joined a sports team and we have practices Tues, Thurs and Saturday for 2-3 hours each. I’m not sure how committed I’m going to be to this, and the captains already know, because once the semester gets underway it’s probably going to interfere with my theatre schedule.
I’ve also been trying to get to yoga once a week and pilates once a week minimum in these drop-in classes offered at the gym.</p>

<p>Turns out the exercise is the easy part of the equation. Giving up food I love when it’s always right there in the buffet…not so much.</p>

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<p>Yeah. That is a really tough challenge in a college dining hall because, half the time, the stuff that tastes the best is the crap food – like the pasta bar. I think I would try to approach it by just cutting out one or two of the worst offenders. Limit pasta and desserts or something like that.</p>

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<p>LOL. That’s an awesome feeling, isn’t it?</p>

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<p>Well, that was a fun workout…NOT. Shovelling about 2/3 rds of the deck, after a quick jaunt with the snowblower to clean things up after an inch fell overnight. The amount of snow is just ridiculous and this was some seriously heavy snow. Too heavy to throw it over the rail. Had to carry it shovelful by shovelful. We need a few days without snow and a little melting.</p>

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<p>i-dad, how many times did you shovel your deck this year? :eek:</p>

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<p>My workout today was digging out the fire hydrant that the plow kindly completely buried in ice last night. I also took what would normally be a 20 minute walk, but it took almost a half hour with all the ice.</p>

<p>I did my first full New Rules workout, except I don’t have any equipment for doing inverted rows and I can’t figure out what I could work out at home. Maybe straps attached to the ceiling in the basement? Our basement is a pretty nasty place to exercise though… I do pull ups and regular rows at the gym and assume I could do inverted rows with something there, (though I don’t think there’s a “Smith Machine”), so I think I’ll just do them when I am at the gym.</p>

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If a deck is built to code it should be able to hold a normal snow load for that area. (Around here that used to be 45 pounds/sq ft though it got changed to 30 with the last code books.) So for normal snow you don’t normally have to shovel, but you can definitely get in trouble when you get sleet and ice on top of snow.</p>

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<p>I’m not worried about weight on the deck. My grill is out there and the only way I can use it before spring is to shovel a path to it and the only way to shovel a path to it is to keep it shoveled after each snow because, after a few freeze and thaw cycles, you can’t shovel it.</p>

<p>Actually, I’m glad I’ve kept it clear because, otherwise, the snow would now be at least thrree feet up the sliding glass doors and over the railings.</p>