<p>I was eating taffy to work the jaw muscle, and I think I sprained my tongue. You’d be surprised how bad IcyHot tastes.</p>
<p>Swimming took care on my headache in a morning, saved myself form taking Advil. Got in to pool drained with headache, got out full of energy. I have no idea why it is so and how exactly it works. However, while my D. was growoing up as a competitive swimmer, I have noticed huge changes in her behavior between swimming season and being on break (thank goodness swimming breaks were very short, she was much harder to handle, swimming definitely calmed her down).</p>
<p>I also have special salad recipe, but it is my own, nobody will eat it, I am sure. It contains ton of fresh diced ginger and wasabi, burning so yummy in your mouth. My H. also loves it, but daughter would not touch it. But she even eats her sushi without wasabi. I eat most of my foods with wasabi, all meats, fish, chicken for sure.</p>
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<p>Sweet! Two best toys in the gym right there. And AWESOME workouts!</p>
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<p>Can’t stand the smell of it; could only guess the taste ;)</p>
<p>Good workout for a Friday. Kinda had to kick myself to get going, but then it was just autopilot. iPod nazi kicked me like a rented mule through three sets of six core exercises, but they were kind of fun in a masochistic kind of way. Ab wheel rollouts, stability ball mountain climber knee holds, stability ball prone jack knife. Good stuff.</p>
<p>Then two pairs of strength exercises. 1 and 1/4 squats paired with single leg single arm rows. Ghetto DB deadlifts paired with alternating bench press (stability ball).</p>
<p>Just over an hour. Very nice week of workouts. Improving fitness really helps.</p>
<p>I swam across a lake and back. No snakes or gross things accosted me!</p>
<p>Good to know there are still swimmable lakes out there, MOfWC!</p>
<p>I tried out the abs dolly. There was absolutely no stress on my abs but there was a little stress on my upper arms and the middle of my chest. The arms I can understand but the chest is puzzling. There must be some kind of pivot or fulcrum there. The pressure was when contracting - the equivalent motion would be lowering your hands from a raised position while pulling a pulley.</p>
<p>I went running afterwards and only managed three miles. Queasy stomach - I didn’t know if it was related to the ab dolley or if it was lack of food or if my clothes were too loose. It’s been a pretty heavy week for exercise so I decided to bag it with three miles. Heading off to the YMCA tonight for weights though.</p>
<p>No issues with my abs this evening. So the abs dolley is good for my arm and my chest I guess but I think that I’d have to use my feet for support instead of my knees to see if I can get more of an abs workout. It’s probably best to just get to the point where my arms and chest are good with it before trying more advanced stuff. In the meantime, there’s a pretty cool abs machine at the YMCA that I’ve been using where I can feel the burn.</p>
<p>BTW, I can feel it in the upper arms - was walking up the stairs holding the hand railing for support and felt it in my arm. I’ll have to see if there’s one in the YMCA.</p>
<p>5 mile hike, got the hr up on the hills. Felt good. Biking tomorrow, weather permitting.</p>
<p>5 mile hike sounds fantastic!</p>
<p>BC, the ab wheel rollouts were all I could handle today. I’m taking them much further out now (six months of inchworm three days a week will do that), but I was starting to lose the back at the end of 12 reps in each set.</p>
<p>I was really pleased with the stability ball mountain climbers. I did the full 45 seconds of those in all three sets and was actually able to focus on a strong core rather than just hanging on for dear life.</p>
<p>The ab wheel is a tough workout. I’m amazed that they can sell them on TV without a warning. I can imagine someone out of shape trying it out and winding up unable to get out of bed the next morning.</p>
<p>I found out which muscles were used - it was the triceps muscles. I went to use the assisted pullup machine and my triceps were screaming so I gave up on those.</p>
<p>The YMCA has an abs roller but I had to really look for it. It was on a stand where the medicine balls are. I think that I prefer the one in the office.</p>
<p>I use the clippy thing on my treadmill at home, too.
I have done many klutzy things on a treadmill from dumping water all over myself to lodging an iPod in the belt not once, but twice, stepping off the back when I was doing lunges, I can certainly see myself pulling a George Jetson on it one day.</p>
Got to the gym late so I didn’t get a full workout before dh called to say he was on his way home, but I got enough not to feel guilty.
<p>Ran/walked 3.25 miles tonight. Ran 8 minutes; walked 4 minutes; ran 8 minutes; walked 4 minutes; ran 4.5 minutes; walked the rest. Total time was 45 minutes. Was dripping sweat the whole time :)</p>
<p>Should this be my new diet approach? (you may have discussed this…)</p>
<p>[Twinkie</a> diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html]Twinkie”>Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds - CNN.com)</p>
<p>DH and I went out to dinner last night with S2 and his GF at a local barbeque restaurant. The amount of food they served was absolutely obscene, except for DH’s meal, which was Cajun catfish. That was a reasonable size piece of fish. But for the rest of us – ewwwwwww. Lots of stuff in the fridge now.</p>
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<p>If you have a lot of weight to lose, the first 20% is relatively easy. Clearly calories matter but if you want to get down to, say, a 32 inch waste, while staying healthy, you need to better focus on overall nutrition too.</p>
<p>I had BBQ last night, too. The last half rack of ribs from the freezer and a carb-load (for me) side of baby lima beans. I remember when I used to eat the BBQ and the texas toast. And the french fries, and the baked beans, all washed down with two or three glasses of sweet tea. The meat takes the blame, but it’s all the rest of the typical BBQ plate that did me in!</p>
<p>san-dee:</p>
<p>I listened to a podcast with the Twinkie guy. He’s not quite as whacky as it seems. He regrets ever using the term “diet” because he really looked at it as a teaching experiment for his college students.</p>
<p>9 miles in cooler temps in the Poconos, but it’s been a long tiring week and it was a struggle. Got it done, but I had hoped it would feel easier than it did.</p>
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<p>Hey, at least you punched the clock! Look at the bright side. I’m still
hoping that jogging for two minutes would feel easier than it did… 
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<p>Speaking of feeling a little easier, to any of our lurkers who find themselves panting like a dog walking up hills or whatever, it really does get easier. I checked my heart rate at my favorite tree – the one where I had to stop, bent over, gasping for air the first time I walked up this particular hill. That day, my heart rate was 99% of my max. This week, it was 72% of my max. That’s what I used to see just walking on flat ground.</p>
<p>^^^ That is some serious heart rate progress. Neat to see that. </p>
<p>I did see a lot of deer this morning, including some younguns with spots.</p>