<p>The assisted dip machine at the Y has the wide handles which I use a palms out with. They also have grips that come out of the machine for a neutral grip. Those as a lot easier but I don’t use them. The palms in or away do use different parts of the arm and one may be better than the other if you have an injury on one side of the arm.</p>
<p>Played tennis this morning - I was a fill-in but they needed two so it was a set of Canadian and then a set of singles. My right knee was in bad shape so I wasn’t moving well and just let a lot of balls go by. I managed to win the singles set on strong serving though. So the main problem with tennis is the knee.</p>
<p>One of the guys that I played with this morning is a retired doctor and he’s trying to drop ten pounds. This guy has always been skinny and muscular (my opinion) and he is lightning fast on the tennis court. He’s on a low-carb diet to lose those pounds. He also uses some interesting grains as part of his diet. So basically a lot of people know about low-carb or at least have heard about it.</p>
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3x3 Push Press
3x12 Dips</p>
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<p>Up until about 1970, low carbohydrate was the standard approach to weight loss in both popular and medical literature and had been for at least a century. A retired physician would have gotten his training at a time when there was no dispute: to lose weight, reduce the consumption of sugars, grains, and starchy vegetables. The about-face recommendation to eat more grains to lose weight came later (sometime in the 1970s from the American Heart Association and in 1982 in published USDA food recommendations.</p>
<p>You guys are getting so technical I can’t keep up.</p>
<p>^^^
Eat less, move more! :)</p>
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<p>Sorry. I’ve been off on a bit of tangent, trying to decipher what this whole hypothyroid thing means for me.</p>
<p>I’ll get un-technical for you. I was on a Florida beach today and I wish I could have taken pictures. I will admit to taking one of an older man in a Speedo. Men over 50 should only wear Speedos if they are on a starting block. And the women. Oh my gosh. People need to take a small peek in the mirror. It was truly frightening. </p>
<p>Bikram yoga here was really tough. Maybe it was the humidity. The teacher was excellent and it was a pretty intense (but friendly) studio. Men in Speedos there, too.
Eating too much, though.</p>
<p>Well, that’s always been my strategy, and my mantra. Everything else is – too much information. Or, TMI.</p>
<p>Cross-posted with MOWC.</p>
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<p>What **are **they thinking? Maybe it’s Alzheimers? They forgot how stupid they look in a Speedo?</p>
<p>Frankly, I find Speedos an odd choice at any age except, as was mentioned, in competitive swimming.</p>
<p>Second workout today:</p>
<p>8 minute run</p>
<p>Ten 55-yard sprints
Before each sprint, I did 5 KB Swings or 5 Goblet Squats</p>
<p>4 minute run</p>
<p>I saw this in Oprah and tried to look up reviews on line, but all of the reviews are written by people who are selling it. Anyone try the shakeology stuff? I would just try it, but its really expensive. I know if anyone has on cc I would get the real scoop.</p>
<p>shakeology:</p>
<p>It’s a protein powder that you mix with water or milk. You can buy protein powder at GNC or probably any grocery store (I haven’t looked). It’s got some multivitamins and “proprietary herbal extracts”, yadda, yadda…</p>
<p>I suppose there’s a place for protein shakes if you can’t manage to eat adequate protein from real food. Personally, if I need to eat more protein, I’m going to have a bigger piece of steak or chicken breast or fish or an extra egg. It does seem that kids today, especially young males, have some difficulty grasping the concept of actually cooking real food, so they are probably the most likely customer for powdered protein.</p>
<p>Getting adequate protein is really important. Probably the first building block in a healthy diet. Bulidng lean muscle with resistance training and protein consumption has many benefits, including making it easier to lose body fat. A good rule of thumb is that you should eat somewhere between 0.4 and 1.0 gram of protein per day per pound of bodyweight. Towards the upper end if you are working out and trying to increase muscle; towards the lower end if you are sedentary.</p>
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<p>Endurance athletes around 1.2 grams and strength athletes around 1.8 grams per bodyweight pound.</p>
<p>I was thinking of the “Shake weight” ;)</p>
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<p>That sounds high. Are you sure that isn’t the grams per **kilo **of bodyweight?</p>
<p>One thing that I’m finding with high-protein diets is that sodium intake goes up considerably.</p>
<p>I do protein shakes a couple of times a week because I don’t eat meat. There are days and stretches of days when I know I am not getting enough protein. I can’t always control my food with the day job, travel, etc. I don’t love the protein shakes and I stick to the lower calorie ones that aren’t for body builders.</p>
<p>Cautiously optimistic- defeated the 3 "H"s this morning here in FL (heat, humidity and hamstrings) for a 6.5 mile run. Some tightness, but no pain. Flat is good. Planned to go 6 but missed a turn.</p>
<p>That was a pretty quick recovery.</p>
<p>I look at the shakes at Trader Joes - pretty interesting stuff. I can get what I need for food more or less but I might try one sometime.</p>
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<p>Yeah. Without eating meat, then it would be very difficult to get adequate protein without protein supplement like shakes. I’m guessing that most people who don’t eat meat would be well served to take a look at their protein consumption and kick it up that way.</p>
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<p>Good news on your being able to enjoy a little run in Florida. If the heat and humidity is the answer, then you should have long to wait for ideal conditions in Nashville!</p>