<p>I could have used some external power for my dumbbells tonight. That was a really challenging workout.</p>
<p>1A) Stepping up and down on a 12 inch step while holding two 35lb dumbbells. Eight times on each leg x 4 sets.</p>
<p>1B) One arm push press (semi-squat and then press the DB overhead). 35lb dumbbell. Eight on each arm x 4 sets.</p>
<p>2A) Unbalanced DB front squats, DBs held just in front of the shoulders. I stepped this one up big time to one 35lb DB and one 25lb DB. Eight reps x 2 sets. That was everything I had, grunting and legs shaking on the 8th reps.</p>
<p>2B) Assisted chin ups, with about 60 pounds of assistance. 8 reps x 2 sets. Only got 7 reps on the second set and then the ol’ (formerly) fat guy just couldn’t go no mo’. Now, I think I’m gonna be so’.</p>
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<p>Time for my world famous Chicken Caesar Salad, slathered in extra virgin olive oil and parmeggiano reggiano cheese. Hmmmm. Hmmmm.</p>
<p>Question for the egg white eaters out there–do you use whole eggs and chuck the yolk or have you tried the liquid egg whites I’ve been seeing in the grocery store?</p>
<p>Due to various injuries, I haven’t done as much weight/muscle toning exercising in the last year as I had before. The other day, I noticed that I have definitely lost some muscle tone all over, but especially in my lower abdomen. I don’t remember it looking quite so… saggy. For those of you who have lost weight, or have started working with weights, have you found that it helps with tightening loose skin? I mean, I have had two children but it’s only recently, in my 50’s, that I’ve started to notice the sagging. I know, I know, it’s totally vain of me, I really should be more concerned with health reasons to exercise, but I would like to wear a two piece this summer!</p>
<p>mousegray–I am slender but have a little skin pouch left from 4 pregnancies and there’s nothing I can do (and friends laugh at me for even pointing it out!) I can sympathize with those who have a bigger sagging problem than I do. Exercise at least helps tone the muscles under the saggy baggy skin.</p>
<p>chintzy–new research shows that eating egg yolks does not cause high cholesterol. So enjoy!</p>
<p>I only have eggs a couple times a week, but I eat the whole thing, yolks and all. Usually with a couple strips of thick slice bacon and a piece of rye toast with butter. I’d rather do it up right when I do it up and just do it up less often! I just wouldn’t eat eggs if I had to eat egg whites. The only thing that makes egg whites edible is mixing them in with the yolks!</p>
<p>Pssh, egg whites are the only edible part of the egg. The yolks… can be endured if I must, but I’d be happier if they didn’t exist. (But still produced chickens, which are yummy. ;))</p>
<p>My recipe:</p>
<p>3 eggs from Eggland’s Best
milk
salt, pepper, rosemary, hot pepper flakes, oregano, italian herbs, onion powder, garlic powder
6 slices of whole wheat toast</p>
<p>Mix em up, put in a skillet with a little corn oil, scramble them.
Put dijon mustard and ketchup on the toast, put eggs on toast</p>
<p>Freeze or refrigerate for when they are needed.</p>
<p>No workout for me today. At least not a real one… I worked 12 hours today which included a lot of standing around and such, but no true workout. I’m sore from last night…</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot to mention that I did a Farmer’s Walk with two 25 pound boxes of cat litter from the grocery store out to my car way out in the parking lot. The kitty litter boxes have handles so they are perfect for the farmer’s walk – walking with with heavy weight in each hand. Real world strength training!</p>
<p>Decided to run a little tonight, then decided to run some more… Little by little, finished 7 miles in 1 hr 1 min. Dreadmill says I burned 685 cal. Phew…</p>
<p>Eggs are superfood. This morning I had a modified “eggs benedict”: one egg, a couple of slices of Canadian bacon, a slice of Finlandia low fat cheddar (only 50 cal!), Aioli garlic mustard on a 100-calorie whole wheat bun from Costco. About 250 calories, yet very filling and tasty.</p>
<p>chintzy: I was worried that we have not heard from you since your super walk. Since you are looking for breakfast food, I assume all is well :)</p>
<p>i-dad: LOL @ farmer’s walk! Hauling cat litter beats any kettlebell workout!</p>
<p>An hour on the treadmill is pretty impressive in my book!</p>
<p>Dan John has a dirty trick with farmers’ walks. He loads a poor kid up with two heavy dumbbells or kettleballs and sends them out of the gym with instructions to just walk for ten minutes, then turn around and come back. He laughs because he knows that, if they walk 10 minutes, it’ll take 'em at least an hour to drag the weights back.</p>
<p>I guess I could have grabbed a shopping cart, but that’s a perfect opportunity for a bonus workout.</p>
<p>I love eggs and I love bacon and I love eating them together. I think egg whites without yolks are an abomination. (I really don’t like meringue and angel food cakes are boring.)</p>
<p>I didn’t intend to start a referendum on eggs, lol! I’m not a huge egg lover, particularly the yolk, so egg whites are not some kind of diet penance food for me. If I put 2 egg whites, Canadian bacon and a thick schmear of goat cheese on an English muffin, it’s tasty and filling and has over 20 grams of protein. And it’s portable. Works for me.</p>
<p>I did some pushups this morning (haven’t done them in a few weeks) and what I found is that they’re pretty easy when you’ve been doing the bench press regularly. I do think that the bench press is a pretty useful exercise - it seems to bolster quite a bit of the upper-body.</p>
<p>In doing the pushups, I only felt a little soreness in the abs. This is due to the “L” abs workouts. I’m up to 14 seconds holding the L and it is an incredibly intense workout in a very short period of time. So basically the pushups show where your weakest links are (chest, arms, abs and back). I think that I’m going to set a goal of 150 pounds on the bench press by the end of 2011. Our young weightlifter here can do 190 or 200 but I don’t think that I can get there. Ever.</p>
<p>For me, eggs are a convenience food. I can eat the cafeteria food or get a salad, sub or gyro but I usually cook eggs, peanut butter sandwiches, jam sandwiches and other simple stuff when I’m home alone.</p>
<p>I am really struggling with getting up in the morning to run. I’m awake- but don’t want to get ready and go outside. Part of it is that I have no real goal due to the injury. I did drag myself out this morning, but not in time for the planned 6 miler. I did get 4.1 in with hills. Will do a few more after work.</p>
<p>PT and I had a talk yesterday. I am working on my back (hot yoga is good for that,too, but a lot of my hamstring weakness that I STILL have is probably coming from a nerve impingement or something in the back. It’s like I’m missing a cylinder which makes me slow and still leads to the discomfort while sitting. He thinks I can improve it, but there is a possibility that I either can’t or will need more of those epidural steroid injections. I feel like my conditioning is good, but I am not “up to speed” and the effort feels harder. That’s all from the weak hamstring/attachment. He said the hamstring took the load due to the back issue (back never ever hurt at all) until it simply gave out. I probably ran on the injured hamstring too long after it started being injured (imagine that…) which led to the severe inflammation. It is what it is, and I’m doing everything I can, but it sure doesn’t cause me to jump from the bed and go out into the cold and dark to run.</p>
<p>Just received an email ad from RoadRunner Sports:</p>
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<p>I thought - great way to get someone excited about running.</p>
<p>They do have some interesting products. That Body Glide Anti-Friction stick looks interesting. Maybe I can ditch the compression shorts with that stuff.</p>
<p>Body Glide is good stuff. There is REALLY good stuff made for biking that is female specific. It has a great name, but I would be put in time out on this forum if I write it! :)</p>
<p>Spell it backwards!</p>
<p>The compression shorts are a bit of a pain - more to carry, wash and dry, and they wear out. The compression effect can be nice on longer runs but I think that I can live without it given the inconvenience. I just ordered the Body Glide along with a dozen Nittaku 3-star ping-pong balls from Amazon. Should be here next week. One of my compression shorts tore last week and the Body Glide should be a much simpler solution.</p>
<p>chintzy…I have liquid egg whites every morning. Sometimes I pour them over extra veggies from dinner the night before and sometimes I make a breakfast sandwich with the egg whites and veggie breakfast sausage patty on a light multigrain 100 calorie Englsh muffin. Very filling and satisfying and once you add in olive/canola oil breakfast is exactly 300 calories. I try not to eat bacon because it just doesn’t agree with me and I will pay the price.</p>