<p>BCEagle, there must be gyms near you where the older women go. She might be more comfortable there. Also, it’s possible that she’s imagining their attention because she’s self conscious.</p>
<p>idad, that’s great news about your daughter. Let her do her own thing and wait for her to ask you. She’s your daughter – she’ll figure it out on her own, just as you did.</p>
<p>I went to a Gold’s Gym out of town once and they had a separate women’s exercise room. You didn’t have to use it, but if you wanted to work out away from the men, you could. It wasn’t as well-equipped as the main gym, but it had plenty of cardio machines and weights in there.</p>
<p>We have a family membership at the Y and I’d rather not add another membership and additional travel time.</p>
<p>Guys do stare at her. It’s just biology.</p>
<p>If I try to keep up with my young ladies, I will die. One is training for her first marathon (after placing in the top 20 in her age group in a fairly major local half marathon :eek:), and the other plays water polo and some similarly bruital sport. DH and I prefer to keep exercising at our own pace.</p>
<p>I will be wearing my trusted 2 inch heels and a dress for the “exercise session” tonight if DH has any energy to go out. :)</p>
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<p>I dated one in high school. Well, she became a skinny little brunette Vandy undergrad.</p>
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<p>Thanks. That’s probably good advice. As they say, “the best exercise program is the exercise program that you will actually do…” Up to a certain level of fitness, it doesn’t matter what you do. It all works if the diet is right.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t know if she could even do the workouts I do at her gym. It is a major DC-area chain, huge place. Obama has worked out at her gym. Those places are really set up to “spent a half hour on the elliptical and do a few machines”. That’s fine. The author of New Rules of Lifting has said he’s having a dickens of time doing the workouts at his gym because people keep bumping into him when he’s trying to do a one-leg deadlift or a plank or whatever. I suspect that my daughter may end up prefering to workout in the small private gym at her new office building. She’s checked it out.</p>
<p>The irony of the being hesitant because of the guys in the weight room: any woman who walked into the weight room and said, “I want to learn how to do a squat. Somebody show me a goblet squat…” would have plenty of coaches – even if the only thing they know how to coach is bicep curls in the mirror!</p>
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I don’t know about Thailand, but I know I’d be hard-pressed to walk into a Chinese restaurant (in China) and find a gluten-free dish. The Chinese department held a belated Chinese New Year party tonight, and we had to cook a separate dish for a friend with gluten allergy because EVERYTHING except the dessert contained soy sauce (which apparently is made with wheat).</p>
<p>My exercise yesterday was lifting bags of concrete mix (80 lbs each), mixing it with water (which takes a lot of effort), and filling holes with concrete for some one else’s Eagle Scout project.</p>
<p>That is seriously hard exercise. Mixing and pouring quickset concrete is definitely for young limber-backs. Ol’ (formerly) fat guys need a lot of dead lift and squat workouts for that.</p>
<p>Did weight machines at the YMCA last night. Then I slept for about 10 hours last night. A very rough week. My ankles and knees should be in good enough shape by tomorrow so that running and other stuff is doable.</p>
<p>10 mile training run with my daughter. Very nice. She ran with little effort and pulled me. It was a little faster than I should have run, but I did OK. I was apprehensive about it, but am not enjoying the post-long run high. I am definitely far from 100%, but I CAN RUN!!!</p>
MOWC, that’s great news. It’s been a long time coming.
Idad: I finally got to see the photo of you in the fat-boy pants. WOW! You should (and you obviously do) feel very proud!
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<p>Trust me. I have to pinch myself to see if I’m dreaming every time I do a burpee or a t-pushup or a TRX suspension trainer side plank. I mean, I did 64 reps of split squats with 50 pounds of dumbbells yesterday. When you look at the jeans I was wearing a year ago, how crazy is that? :)</p>
<p>I just had to start the ball rolling. It’s easy to stay motivated when you are experiencing those kinds of results.</p>
<p>MOWC – that’s great news. Congratulations.</p>
<p>Thanks! It makes me really happy to see my daughter enjoying and having success with her running. She had a rough time growing up being a musician in a household with 2 regionally ranked running parents and a state multi-record holding younger brother. She’s always maintained her fitness, but these distances are rewarding for her. AND- her husband is doing well with it, too, and he was also not at all athletic growing up. She also appreciates the values we passed along with respect to fitness, even if there were times when we (especially me) were a little over the top. Her birth announcement was a picture of a running baby and had vital stats (made up) like VO 2 Max, % body fat etc. Running was a religion in our household AND in our social network, and it was not something she always appreciated.</p>
<p>I think it’s great that she and her husband are both enjoying fitness together. That kind of mutual support has got be very helpful over the long haul. Having it be a routine part of their daily lives is such a huge plus.</p>
<p>It’s great that you can participate in their journey, too.</p>
<p>Great the you finally got to run, MOWC! Also nice that your D could run with you too!</p>
<p>BC: I’d second MOWC’s advice. The gym where I train is pretty much a place for suburban stay-at-home moms. If your D finds a place like this, I can guarantee that during the morning (not early) and afternoons, there won’t be more than 3 or 4 guys under 60!</p>
<p>Too bad there aren’t more gyms like Rachel and Alwyn Cosgrove’s place. [Results</a> Fitness](<a href=“http://results-fitness.com/]Results”>http://results-fitness.com/)70% of their clients are women and they specifically market to women with their olympic weightlifting, squats, deadlifts, ropes, TRX straps, and stuff.</p>
<p>They also have completely eliminated one-on-one personal training at their place. All they do is semi-private (groups of four or so training at at a time) and classes.</p>
<p>“Metabolic Intervals” today.</p>
<p>Each set lasts five minutes:</p>
<p>*20 seconds: 10 swings with right hand (30lb dumbbell)
40 seconds: rest
20 seconds: 4 burpees (w pushup)
40 seconds rest
20 seconds 10 swings with left hand
40 seconds rest
20 seconds: 4 burpees
40 seconds rest</p>
<p>60 seconds rest*</p>
<p>Repeat for a total of five sets. 100 dumbbell swings, 40 burpees. 25 minutes.</p>
<p>Had to go all the way to the third page to find this thing! I just thought I’d bump it back up… Back at it tomorrow…</p>