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<p>How do you do the TRX single leg squat? Do you just grab the handle and lean back a bit against the strap? I’m going to crank up my efforts to do that squat as part of my single leg jihad. Boyle’s trick of bodyweight squatting to a box and back up seemed to be working the last time I tried it.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - TRX Single-Leg Squat](<a href=“How To: TRX Single-Leg Squat - YouTube”>How To: TRX Single-Leg Squat - YouTube)</p>
<p>I don’t get quite as low but this is similar to what mine look like…</p>
<p>It’s 10:22PM here and it’s still 88 degrees outside. Heat index: 110.</p>
<p>OK, got it. I’m going to have to try that one.</p>
<p>I hope the AC in DD’s room is not broken. :eek:</p>
<p>Ran 4.2 miles (tired as a dog because I only had 5 hrs of sleep last might), then fixed grilled steaks and a humongous Greek salad. I planned on making a grilled eggplant dish, but someone on the other thread mentioned feta cheese. … Mmmm… Feta is pretty low calorie as far as cheeses go - only 70 calories per ounce.</p>
<p>Not off to a good start today. Ran out of luck with the steroids and was awake most of the night. Decided against getting up for the 7 mile run (81 degrees at 5:30), but got out the door at 6:30 (85) for 3 awful, slogging miles. Then had a mishap with red Gatorade (I’m sure it was on sale at COSTCO which is why H bought RED!). THOUGHT The lid was on tight as I carried it, my white sweater and gym bag down the stairs. Dribbled it all over the carpet and the white sweater. Great. 91 degrees at 8am driving to work. Brought steroid pill bottle to take one at lunch (swelling from bug bite almost completely gone) and it rolled under the passenger car seat and I had to root around in the dark parking garage to find it. Uphill from here I hope???</p>
<p>Hate days like that MOWC. Watch that bug bite–I kept scratching a bite on my ankle and next thing I knew it was swollen and red and infected. </p>
<p>Left our summer place to help my youngest D move yesterday–it was 90-some degrees in the Boston area. The good news is that she didn’t have much stuff. She’s doing a summer theater program for the next six weeks. </p>
<p>I’ve taken a week off from exercise–the longest I’ve gone in the last 18 months. It feels awful, but I really want to make sure my ankle is OK. Don’t want to get the hardware in there infected again. Plan to go out for a fast walk on Wed. morning.</p>
<p>Warm up:
2 rounds
1 270 m lap
10 pass thrus
10 lunges
10 push ups
Hip Mobility stretch</p>
<p>Workout:
21-15-9 reps
Kettlebell thrusters 2 x 20 lb.
v-ups
Burpees</p>
<p>1 lap</p>
<p>Time: 14:34</p>
<p>My wife was out very early this morning. It was uncomfortable at 5:30 AM and was in the low 80s and humid when I left for the office. I prefer having to deal with the snow, ice and cold in the winter than the triple-digit temperatures that the south gets in the summer. It looks like we may get triple digits here but that’s fairly rare.</p>
<p>Not sure if we’re playing inside or outside today but I have three bottles of water in the freezer to bring along. I added a little orange juice to two of the bottles. I generally just bring water as the damage is minimal with an accident. I haven’t had Gatorade or any other sports drinks in quite some time.</p>
<p>For me, good preparation makes the workout process and dieting easier. When I wake up, it’s nice to have clean clothes waiting for me to pluck (or better yet - put them in my bag the night before), shoes in the bag if running, extra plastic water bottles for tennis, and a selection of low-carb foods in the fridge or already packed in small containers. I usually have about four to six 1/2 cup plastic containers with nuts in the dining room. They either have pistachio nuts or sunflower seeds. The almonds are kept in the freezer so I have to get those in the morning if I want to bring them to the office. I have a few big glass containers for frozen veggies that I microwave.</p>
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<p>We have a bicycle for arms at the new YMCA and at the office. It’s basically a rehab device. I’ve seen one of our disabled workers using it to get exercise (he’s wheelchair-bound).</p>
<p>Interesting article on sodium and potassium. It appears that the research is in and that sodium is a problem on this long-term research study. I’ve gotten a much better handle on sodium thanks to LiveStrong.</p>
<p>[Medical</a> News: Salt Risk Is Real, This Week - in Primary Care, Diet & Nutrition from MedPage Today](<a href=“PRIME® Continuing Medical Education”>PRIME® Continuing Medical Education)</p>
<p>On average, men had an estimated daily sodium intake of 4,323 mg a day and a potassium intake of 3,373 mg day; women had intakes of 2,918 and 2,433 mg daily of sodium and potassium, respectively.</p>
<p>Regardless of sex, sodium intakes on average were higher than the recommended 1,500 mg a day and potassium intakes were lower than the recommended 4,700 mg daily.</p>
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<p>I have no idea as to how much potassium I get per day. My Emergen-c supplement only provides for 200 mg - no idea how you get to 4,700 daily.</p>
<p>Okay, found some good K foods - Potatoes (I guess that they are good for something), spinach, cantaloupe are way up there. I seriously don’t see getting up to 4,700 mgs per day without supplements though. That’s five cups of spinach!</p>
<p>The coconut water is good for potassium.</p>
<p>How in the world do you get 4000+ mg of sodium??? Some prepared foods (frozen dinners) have 1000+ mg and taste very salty to me, so I avoid them. Do some people (no wait, the average person) eat those 4 times a day?</p>
<p>MOfWC, sorry to hear about your Gatorade disaster. That would throw my entire day off! I hope the red dye can be dicolored with Oxiclean. There is a reason I do not buy colored Gatorade anymore… There is nothing good about food dyes. Basically, they are toxic molecules that are structurally modified in a way that our bodies flushes them through the gut without absorbing much of them.</p>
<p>BC, getting to the 4.7 g (4700 mg) of K+ is easy. You are probably getting enough of it with the diet, but since you run, you might need to make some adjustments.</p>
<p>Here is a very comprehensive K+ content of foods put together by the USDA:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR17/wtrank/sr17a306.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR17/wtrank/sr17a306.pdf</a></p>
<p>Melons have some of the highest K+ content.</p>
I bet that you find that you are totally refreshed and strong when you crank it up again. I need to force myself to take a break every so often.
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<p>I probably average close to that. Livestrong says that I averaged 3000 last week and I don’t track the spice blends and the pinch of salt/pepper I use in cooking.</p>
<p>I will eat a can of Progresso soup today for lunch, with fresh veggies added. Prepared soups like that have 2000+ mg of salt.</p>
<p>Well, it turns out that the shoulder pain I’ve been having seems to be the result of a bone spur – a “subacromial” spur that is impinging on the rotator cuff, as well as some bursitis. I’m going to try a round of PT. The doc says that he does tons of these de-burrings and that they’re very straightforward. Anyone had any experience with this?</p>
<p>This is an interesting example of how medical research gets miscontrued in the media. From the headline of BC’s link, you would think that researchers have found new evidence that salt is horrible for your health.</p>
<p>But, look at one of the bullet points in the actual findings:</p>
<p>Sodium was not significantly associated with either cardiovascular or ischemic heart disease mortality.</p>
<p>What? Salt is not signficantly associated with the risks “they” have been saying salt increases for all these years? Shouldn’t that be the headline? Isn’t that the news here?</p>
<p>Basically, what the study found is that the people who self-reporting eating a lot of potato chips, salted peanuts, and margharitas tended to die (from any cause whatsoever) a little more often. I could have told you that! Guys who eat a bunch of salty stuff probably drink more, ride motorcycles more, and do a whole lot of things that increase their death rates in ways that have absolutely nothing to do with salt.</p>
<p>I-dad, I respectfully disagree. The very first sentence of the article linked by BC states:</p>
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<p>So in a nutshell, table salt is horrible. I do not see anything miscontrued here.</p>