<p>sewhappy I’m with iDad you should feel good about what you are doing. I think eventually you might want to do a bit more strength training since it’s supposed to be good for our bones.</p>
<p>I have to admit though that this thread has gotten me to crank up my workouts a little. I’m doing intervals on the ellipitical, paying more attention to my heart rate and mixing it up by doing some workouts with dumbbells at home.</p>
<p>With ararab lifting 50 pound DBs and chintzy deadlifting 70 pounds, I’m gonna have to step up my game!</p>
<p>I am feeling pretty good about doing 3 unassisted chin ups in each of two sets again today. Three unassisted, with the third one being glacially slow and grinding. Then, five quicker assisted chinups to complete the set. The band assisted chinups feel like a million bucks after grinding out a few unassisted.</p>
<p>I-dad, at least you don’t have to worry about me - I’m still working out with my 15-lb p-orbitals and have no desire to increase the weight. :)</p>
<p>Ran for an hour (7.1 miles) and felt pretty good about it. I think cooler weather does help. Saturday forecast calls for mid-seventies, so I will have to get up for my run .</p>
<p>The variety of the exercise styles and approaches of the posters make reading the thread interesting and exciting to me (especially such stuff as CJane’s tennis adventures ;))The world would be a very boring place if we all were training for marathons … :)</p>
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What are these p orbitals of which you speak?</p>
<p>7 miles in an hour is quite the pace, especially just for a training run. Impressive.</p>
<p>CJane, I had to runfast - my hungry husband who wanted to eat dinner ASAP was my motivatior. :)</p>
<p>Oh, and these are the orbitals I was talking about (scroll down to the “Orbitals Table” - do they look familair?):</p>
<p>[Atomic</a> orbital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital]Atomic”>Atomic orbital - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>^lol</p>
<p>Scrolling down the page I began to have a small panic attack fearing there would be a pop physics quiz :eek:</p>
<p>I’ve had a hard time getting out for exercise this week. I’ve had some kind of respiratory thing going on and today might be the day for a trip to the doctor. Heat, humidity, pollen- all could be the culprits. 6 AM and it’s already 74 degrees. My weight has continued to drop, which is a good thing after a few slips. </p>
<p>D has requested a juicer/extractor for her apartment. I can look up the reviews on Amazon, Consumer Reports, etc., but does anyone have any personal experience with owning one? I would like to buy a relatively inexpensive one initially (think $200) to see if she sticks with it.</p>
<p>Hey everyone! Not sure if this is the proper place to talk about this but oh well! I’ve recently begun to have a high protein, high carb diet to gain weight and have been lifting weights a LOT. I was already starting to feel better before my doc put me on adderall for my newly diagnosed ADHD-I (Yes, at 17). Since I’ve started a few days ago, my appetite has decreased significantly, I’m often dehydrated, and have headaches. However, the drug has worked so well otherwise I can’t see myself stopping for those reasons. But now it’s incredibly difficult to work out with so much less fuel! I think I’m going to really try and have more protein shakes/bars/etc. </p>
<p>Figured I’d post here to vent/talk it out since it looked proper :p</p>
<p>I was sitting on the recumbent bicycle at the gym (well, more than just sitting; I was pedaling very fast) when someone I casually know told me I was sitting in the grandma’s seat. 
While the recumbent bike isn’t as kick-@$$ as the treadmill or the stairmaster, I was feeling pretty darn good about myself until then.</p>
<p>@SeanPM: Give it a good month or so. Things should level out. In the meantime, force yourself to eat lots of protein and high-calorie snacks.</p>
<p>sewhappy- I think you are doing great. As you go along, you will tweak a few things. Maybe do a few more upper body exercises that you will discover on this thread!</p>
<p>To me the point is that we all do what we can do, and it isn’t the same thing. I may be a good distance runner, but I had to learn (largely from here) how to strengthen my glutes and balance things out to try to avoid injury. I was injured for over a YEAR this time (still not 100%). Also, I need the reminders about healthy eating.</p>
<p>VeryHappy…I love the recumbent bike because it loves me back! If I don’t pedal away my knee screams at me. I do walk but that makes my knee swell. Do what feels right. I have recently added the water walking to see if that would help my knee. Who cares what you’re doing as long as you are moving and it feels right for you!</p>
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<p>Speaking of which, iPod nazi is killing me with yet another crazy hip lift variation. This one is pretty simple. Shoulders and head on a stability ball, feet on floor. Drop the hips and then squeeze the glutes and press the hips up towards the ceiling. So far, so good. Now lift one leg and extend it straight out parallel to the floor, forming a straight line from your shoulders through your hips, to the knee, and foot on that side. Hold for two seconds (yeah right) and bring the foot back. Drop the hips, press up again, and extend the other leg for two seconds. Staying on the ball is nearly impossible. The only way to do it is to fire the glute on the side with the foot on the floor like crazy.</p>
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<p>I’m making real progress with the standing on one foot miniband around the thighs exercise. I’m up to eight reps (front, side, back – eight times) on each foot without stumbling. There’s a real strength component as my leg is really feeling it after eight reps. As I get tired, the balance diminishes. I really appreciate your linking to this exercise because it’s been fantastic for me. All the yoga folk would probably laugh at the travails of the ol’ (formerly) fat guy trying to balance, but these sorts of simple drills are doing me a world of good. These are not advanced exercises. I could have started doing these at 250 pounds and been ahead of the game. The minibands are so cheap that it almost seems like they should be in everyone’s toolkit, from ol’ fat guys to NFL players to runners. We all benefit.</p>
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<p>I just placed an order for one in each resistance level the other day. We had been using Therabands tied in a loop until I brought one of my mini-bands into the clinic one day. The PT wanted me to order them. $12 and free shipping absolutely! :)</p>
<p>“We all do what we can.”</p>
<p>I was thinking of this during my aerobics class which is rediculously easy and fun (the steps are easy, the balancing etc. is easy) for ME. Some people who can run marathons would have trouble with anything resembling a dance step. :)</p>
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<p>I take a peek at the dance classes at the Y sometimes (big glass walls visible from the lobby). I’ve never seen a guy in one of those classes. So yeah, probably 50% of people probably don’t do dance aerobic classes.</p>
<p>Hey, I wonder if there’s a market for “guys only” dance aerobic classes? Guys might want to do a class that’s fun and gets your heart rate up at the same time, but feel intimidated by women who have been dancing since they were 3. Or feel the moves as they are presented are a little too “girly.”</p>
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<p>I see the guys doing formal martial arts classes in the same room at different times.</p>
<p>I don’t think that you’re going to get a lot of guys doing aerobic dance classes in a room with glass walls.</p>
<p>SeanPM – try loading up with a really big breakfast, which should be well before the Adderall kicks in. If your doctor started you on a moderately high dosage, you can also see about dropping down a notch (from 15 mg. to 10 mg, for example) to see if that gives you more of an appetite while still helping you with your symptoms. Some of the other drugs don’t have as much of an appetite depression effect from what I’ve read. </p>
<p>You may also find that some of the nutrition bars (not the low cal ones, obviously) are pretty dense and you can just push yourself to eat one mid-day. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>idad – try focusing on really keeping your deep lower abdominals tight too – I’ve done these and without really tight lower abs I really lose my balance. I find that if I lose the ab conraction that I have to go back to the start, regain the ab contraction, and then tighten the glute. I can’t seem to tighten the deepest ab muscles very well once my glutes are loaded.</p>
<p>Hmmm… in my area there are always guys in yoga and aerobics classes, and it isn’t all young guys by any means.</p>