<p>Amazing!</p>
<p>Here’s another one. A 90 year old geezer doing chinups:</p>
<p>[MOE</a> CARSON BREAKS THE RECORD.iso - YouTube](<a href=“MOE CARSON BREAKS THE RECORD.iso - YouTube”>MOE CARSON BREAKS THE RECORD.iso - YouTube)</p>
<p>Another good day in the gym for me. Recumbent, pushups and weights. 90 minutes total. Tried the leg extension machine at low weight. Want to see if it aggravates or helps the bad knee. Stay tuned.</p>
<p>Okay, so all the links to the amazing olds are actually kind of a downer for me today, due to a disastrous work out. Don’t need the nonagenarians rubbing it in 
(said jokingly, actually I find such stories so inspiring)</p>
<p>I definitely did not fuel this workout correctly. I had to bring some one away before my workout this morning, so just had my tea with some almond milk and neglected to have anything else. I started out strong and then just fell apart come med ball burpee time.
Fell apart, as in light headed, fluctuating between passing out and throwing up.
I ran out of class and grabbed a gleukos drink, which helped a bit, but I just gave up on trying to do any of it for time and just ground the exercises out. So it goes some days.</p>
<p>Dynamic Warm Up
world’s greatest, plyo hand walks, seated stretch</p>
<p>2 rounds
1 minute push ups
1 minute squats with 12 kg kbs high pull
1 minute plank</p>
<p>I did more reps with higher weight on this one versus just 2 weeks ago.</p>
<p>Here’s where it got ugly</p>
<p>as fast as possible, 5 rounds (did not complete all 5)</p>
<p>20 air squats
60 yard sprint
20 overhead med ball (14#) slams
60 yard sprint
20 med ball burpees
60 yard sprint</p>
<p>Final challenge was just a simple hang, which I normally am okay at, this time I didn’t even make 30 seconds. Just totally out of gas.</p>
<p>As to the 100 year old marathoner…he did it in a turban!
Although I do have Sikh friends who have drifit type material sports turbans, and some girl friends who have sport hijabs, anything like that would drive me crazy. I have to have the right kind of running cap/ my ponytail secured just so, or it’s a problem.</p>
<p>Loved his t-shirt! I suspect his longevity has something to do with his great sense of humor (in addition to his 10-mile walks). :)</p>
<p>CJane, I agree - a turban on my head would drive me bonkers. :)</p>
<p>CJANE: </p>
<p>Your workout would leave me in shambles. For example, I am totally gassed after 12 overhead med ball slams, and that’s with the 8-pound ball that Mike Boyle recommended. Five sets of 20 would kill me. I can’t even imagine trying a set of 20 burpees. I do sets of six. I could probably do 10, absolute max, but I highly doubt I could do five sets of 10.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think most people would respond to that workout pretty much the same way.</p>
<p>CJane- what iDad said. It sounds impossible to me.</p>
<p>Today might be the last day of summer. 78 degrees. Ran in sports bra and skirt. Good sun. Very dry so it felt like Colorado and the heat didn’t bother me like I thought it would. Easy run turned into a temp run. 4.5 miles done. Nice to be able to run mid-day. Hopefully, that option ends soon!</p>
<p>I’m right there with CJANE tonight. <i>New Rules of Lifting for Abs</i> workout kicked my butt. Good workout. Felt strong. But these are challenging exercises and I’m getting up to heavy enough weights that three sets of 8 reps, especially on stuff that is 8 reps per side, is a grind. </p>
<p>The core stuff in this workout is really brutal: </p>
<p>a) Valslide painful pushaways (12 per side)
b) Stability ball mountain climber knee tucks (12 per side)
c) Half kneeling resistance band chops (12 per side)</p>
<p>I’m excited that I can do the Painful Pushaways and Stability ball mountain climbers for realz now, with a good strong core, but – man – do they set the abs on fire.</p>
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<p>Not quite celebration time, but I’m officially down four pounds as if this morning (156 lbs), so I think one more five pound party is at least in the realm of possibility.</p>
<p>Thanks for the kind words, guys, but I have no doubt y’all could do these workouts given the stuff you are currently doing.</p>
<p>I saw some people using the slider jobbies at the gym today, I may have to check them out. All of the stuff idad did today I should be doing, too --resistance band work, valslides, etc.</p>
<p>Maybe that’s why he is losing the weight that I am supposed to be losing ;)</p>
<p>Actually, every time I come on here and complain of lack of progress on the scale, it proceeds to go down just a smidge, like this a.m., so you have been forewarned!</p>
<p>MOWC- my goal is to run sometime in a sportsbra and skirt. This is not a look that I will be inflicting on the general public soon (plus the weather isn’t exactly what you described), but I have a sun vacation coming up in mid-December, where my runner sister will be joining me and your outfit is my (not so secret) goal.</p>
<p>Keeping my fingers crossed that you will be sporting more “office-like attire” in the near future when the right thing comes along.</p>
<p>^^ Thanks. Will have to cover up the forearm tattoo until they get used to me!</p>
<p>Very naughty today. Donuts and more donuts today. DD and I craved carbs. Boston Scream, anyone? Keep your distance from Dunkn Donuts.</p>
<p>Miss my Dallas donut shops. Had an independent Asian-run donut shop every couple of miles. Nashville is lacking. We are not Dunkin fans. Only in a pinch!</p>
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<p>I always read all of your workouts and I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I couldn’t do them. I do stuff that is close enough that I can translate and see that the short rest and high reps of your workouts would kill me figuratively if not literally. I believe that there is a place for high intensity “metabolic” workouts, but in very limited doses.</p>
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<p>I think you have to commit to this core stuff as a long-term project. It’s not the kind of stuff that shows instant results, but over months and even years, it’s pretty signficant. I really like having a dedicated section of each workout dedicated to 15 minutes or so of core work. There’s so much fun stuff to do that I never run out of interesting challenges. It makes for a nicely paced workout because, for the most part, this stuff is fairly low-key. It’s not stuff that will make me pant like a dog or send my heart rate soaring. I do think it’s really important for injury prevention. I notice a big change in the way I move, both in workouts and in every day life.</p>
<p>Having said that, the ValSlide Painful Pushaways are brutal.</p>
<p>[The</a> Valslide in Action - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlysFj0UPRA]The”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlysFj0UPRA)</p>
<p>Yikes. These are like movingmen for humans.</p>
<p>CJane, I second idad - I’m one of the posters who would drop like a dead fly after what you call a “dynamic warmup”. 
With workouts like these, that running bra and skirt outfit is a very feasible goal for you!</p>
<p>Gotta go for a short run tonight. My bottom is pretty beat up from the weekend biking and glute exercises. I need a second pair of bike shorts, but it will be a challenge to find one not made in China. I think a Canadian made pair will do.</p>
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<p>Ouch. I thought I was “bad” on Friday. My wife brought a package of Trader Joe’s Portobello Mushroom Ravioli. I whipped up a topping of sauteed mushrooms, marsala wine, and butter, topped with freshly grated parmeggiano reggiano cheese and served with my legendary blue cheese salad. That was my 45 gram carb fest dinner.</p>
<p>The good news with this whole diet/fitness stuff is that you don’t have to be perfect. You just have to get back on track tomorrow and carry one. A donut splurge isn’t the end of the world, although I must say that’s one thing that I really have tried to remove from my life.</p>
<p>I can resist the Dunkin Donuts donuts, but their glazed cinnamon coffee rolls are to die for. As are their bagels. Now, when I stop to buy their whole bean coffee, I go to the drive-thru so I’m not tempted.</p>
<p>I’ve been getting my carb fix lately with apples. I slice one up so it’s like eating a massive candy bar and have that for my snack, sometimes 2 a day.</p>
<p>BTW, my wife has lost over 40 pounds. Mad props to her.</p>
<p>Wow, excellent news on idad’s wife! Very nice.</p>
<p>We only go to Dunkin Donuts when we are on the road. I have to say though I think it’s mean for Fairway to have come up with red velvet donuts. I want to try one! The one place that I really get tempted is with the apple cider donuts at our farmer’s market. I looked them up and they aren’t too horribly caloric if you only eat one. I try to get them only when the boys are home since you have to buy them in bags of six.</p>
<p>Wow on Mrs. IDad! That’s some serious lost pounds!</p>
<p>Our local farmer’s market has fresh donuts (made right there) that are worth the calories. When I was at my court required driving class last Feb I had a couple at the break. Made the class worth it.</p>
<p>Awesome job, Mrs Idad!</p>
<p>The TJ’s mushroom ravioli are really good. Not bad calorie-wise at all! H and I split a package a week ago as our fancy Friday dinner. If I have to eat extra calories, they better be very yummy. :)</p>
<p>Ran about .8 miles on my treadmill and knocked the stupid little safety piece out of its place. The run came to a screeching halt, so I had to re-start the treadmill. Ran for additional 30 min, covered about 3.4 miles. That would be slightly over 4 miles, which was more that I planned. The new Brooks shoes worked really well.</p>
<p>I discovered that Zella makes some of their sports bras and bra tanks in the US. They tend to run rather large - I had no problems getting the XS tank top on. I’m S in Nike.</p>