<p>^^ Yay on the jeans. And, ditto what the others said about your workout. Amazing.
I hope your toe gets better soon.
IDad will never go get a pedicure after these stories.</p>
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<p>Baggy jeans R good!</p>
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<p>Woah. TRX burpees. You know I’m going to have to try those. The one legged pushup with one leg in the TRX looks like it might be really, really tough.</p>
<p>I threw in a couple of the stabilty ball pushups/jackknives today, rolling the ball into a jackknife position while going down to the floor in a pushup, then coming back up while rolling the ball back out. A couple of those is plenty at the end of 10 jackknives.</p>
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<p>I’m just happy that I can see my feet again! :)</p>
<p>I may try the TRX burpee when I get to work tomorrow…</p>
<p>I’m hoping to get a TRX for Christmas, but we’ll see…</p>
<p>CJane – Geat news on the jeans front. I’ve been happy to “retire” several pairs, but I’ve avoided buying new ones quite yet – though that clearly needs to be taken care of soon. </p>
<p>I managed to pull some little muscle about halfway between my side and my backbone near the middle of my back, and it is still bothering me five days later. I finally gave up and took a muscle relaxant the past two nights, and it is definitely better today. I don’t know what I did to trigger it, but I am ready for it to be gone. Luckily it hasn’t hampered walking or a bunch of the lower body stuff. Mostly I get reminded of it when I twist.</p>
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<p>Ouch. I was sore there when I first started doing deadlifts. And then, months later, teaked it somehow and was scared to move for a couple of days. Really annoying. I think those are the “back extensor” muscles. They keep the spine from bending forwards and are really underdeveloped.</p>
<p>4.2 miles on the (made in Hometown, USA!) dreadmill. Followed by some free weights. Phew…</p>
<p>Many moons ago, while researching MRSA on the web, I stumbled upon the book titled Death by Pedicure. I did not read the whole thing, but the little bits and pieces that I did read completely killed my desire to get pedicures. So I get DIY pedicures: scrub my feet, massage them with Shea butter creams, then trim and paint my toenails.</p>
<p>CJane, put some Neosporin on that cut and watch it carefully. If it does not get better, err on the side of caution and get it checked out by a health professional!</p>
<p>I’ve read about problems at nail places in the past - types of problems that departments of health get involved in. I don’t know if pedicure places are similar but it doesn’t seem to be something that I’d care to do for hygiene reasons.</p>
<p>My feet typically have callouses and blisters and damaged toenails and don’t look particularly attractive but I always wear socks so appearance isn’t an issue.</p>
<p>Most of the nail salons are very careful and use clean or packaged tools for each person and scrub the basins. I’m not sure D’s problem was from hygiene or from over-scrubbing and breaking the skin, which then could be a problem for even normal bacteria. Who knows? It is eye-opening, though. When I paint my own toenails it looks like a toddler was finger-painting, so I’m better off at the salon. I’ve lived in climates where feet are exposed most of the year, so I’ve sort of become dependent on the salons. I’ve never had a problem, fortunately.</p>
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<p>Well, that was short-lived. I gained two pounds yesterday. There is no rhyme nor reason to these swings!</p>
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<p>I really don’t like micro-weighing myself. One or twice a week is fine.</p>
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idad- not really a consolation for you, but your weight fluctuation makes me feel better.
I was up on the scale this a.m. after yesterday’s strenuous workout, a low calorie and very low carb day. what the heck?
sewhappy is right, I should stay away from the frequent weigh ins.
<p>I’m not really that upset about it! I’ve tracked my weight every day for more than 18 months now, so I know there are plenty of unexplainable swings (in both directions). I was actually more surprised by the big downward swings over the last week. There was no reason that my weight should suddenly drop like that, just like there is no reason that it should shoot up 2 pounds overnight today.</p>
<p>I actually have added a column to my little weight tracking spreadsheet – a running 7 day average that smooths out the daily flucutations and gives a better read on the trendline. That makes it easier to ignore the big swings in both directions.</p>
<p>The daily swings have to be water weight, because there is no way on earth that fat or muscle could change by even a pound in a day. For me, it seems like the variation tends to be plus or minus 1.5 pounds from the running average. I just happened to have gone from a minus 1.5 pound day to a plus 1.5 pound day in the span of two days this week, so that’s a pretty big swing.</p>
<p>Today’s run: 3.01 miles, total time 28:54. I had to walk for 1:30 of it, I started out too fast and half way through I was a whole minute faster than usual. I blame it on the girl running in front of me :). I tried to keep my own pace, but as soon as my mind starts to wander, I found myself catching up to her.</p>
<p>Blankmind, that is awesome! If you keep your pace steady, run instead of walking, even with the extra 0.1 or so mile to run you will be well under 30 min! Yipee!</p>
<p>I looked up my 5K time from eons ago when I just got back into running - wow, even with walking up the horrible hill at the end of the race, I did manage to run 3 9:30 min miles. I think the adrenaline rush from being in a race was propelling me! You will do awesome in your race, blankmind!</p>
<p>Good job, Blankmind. You can often race a minute a mile faster than you train. You will be nicely under 30 minutes.</p>
<p>Anybody ever try Kinesio Tape? I’ve decided to give it a try… bought some tonight at WalMart and I have applied it to my knee. We’ll see what it’s like in a little bit. </p>
<p>I am hoping to try it on one of my cheerleaders tomorrow, but we’ll see what happens!</p>
<p>My PT used kinesio tape to tape up my foot/ankle when I was having more A.T. issues – it actually worked pretty well. </p>
<p>Did monster walks with the band this morning – going forward wasn’t too bad, but going backwards was tough – I’m feeling them tonight.</p>