Bob’s Red Mill sells flaxseed and flaxseed meal or you can grind the
seeds on your own (my wife does this).
My goal at this time is distance. It’s interesting to ramp up the
speed but that’s subordinate. At the moment, my joints are in very
good shape and the running isn’t causing any problems.
For now, it’s bump up a quarter-mile a week and that limits my speed.
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I asked our fitness center manager about the Hoist combination pullup,
dip, pushup and leg-lift machine (no moving parts - it just looks like
a big metal sculpture) and she found something similar online for $700
though not as nice. The one we have is 7 feet high and just
rectangular steel tubes bolted and welded together with handles.
I wonder if one of these could be built inexpensively with parts from
Home Depot, maybe with PCV piping.
I don’t know what kicked my ass (literally) in yesterday’s workout, but my glutes are sore as heck, last night and this morning.
Going back over the workout, I can’t figure out what did it:
a) lateral step up and down with deadlift
b) DB hang snatch (big hip thrust to get off the ground)
c) Rear foot elevated split squats
d) bench press with just shoulders and head on stabilty ball (massive glute activation to stay on the ball)
e) single leg deadlift
I suspect that the DB hang snatch was the culprit as that was the only new thing in the workout and three sets of 5 on each side was definitely a challenge while doing them.
<p>Idad – I am continually amazed at how exercises that really use the glutes don’t feel like that much the day you do them… but you certainly notice them the next day. With other muscles, getting the third set done usually means total exhaustion of the muscle, though often no particular muscle soreness the next day. Just weird.</p>
<p>Yep. I think that general post-exercise soreness is probably proportional to how little we used those particular muscles before. For example, when I started on my chin-up journey, my lats across my upper shoulders/back got sore. Those were clearly muscles I had not been using.</p>
<p>The ability of some simple, easy exercise to get the glutes sore probably just shows how little we use those muscles. I’m not sure that the two simple little glute activation exercises in the Mike Boyle warm up aren’t contributing to my glute soreness.</p>
<p>The trainer who worked with me on my running techniques showed how to activate the glutes during running and walking. I will not be able to describe how to do it, but I was able to follow the trainer’s advice and I do feel that my butt is on fire after such practices. It really does not take much for underused glutes to get super sore!</p>
<p>I made an appointment to see my doctor next week about my ankle/foot. I thought about just taking a break and seeing if it got better on its own, but I wouldn’t really know when it was ok to start back. The ankle isn’t hurting now, but I’ve noticed that the little toe that I smashed in Sept is kind of numb again and the metatarsal bone to that toe has a sore spot, and it’s near the sore ankle, so maybe this is all connected. Too bad I already paid for that 10k race.</p>
<p>When is your race, blankmind? If there are no stress fractures, you might be able to get back into running in a couple of weeks. Fingers crossed for you.</p>
<p>My race isn’t until the first week of March, but I was planning on a 12-14 week training schedule so I wouldn’t injure myself… apparently I underestimated… :)</p>
<p>3 sets of tennis, 2 hours, 15 minutes, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1. The guy that I’m playing is steadily getting better. I tried a new setup today (a bit more lead tape) and I like it but it will take a while to get used to.</p>
<p>I have an invitation to play on Sunday but I think that I’m going to relax this weekend. M-F have seen pretty hard workouts and I need to spend a little time on weights and stretching so I’ll just do those for a break. I may need to work this weekend too.</p>
<p>A whole bunch of fragile bones held together by a whole bunch of fragile ligaments and tendons. You are probably smart to be thorough in making sure that everything is checked out.</p>
<p>My only complaint is a dorsal bunion: an arthritic condition on the top of the big toe joint that keeps the big toe from flexing up. I figure if that’s the worst of it at my age, I’m doing OK.</p>
<p>Knock on wood, I think losing weight, getting in better shape, and all the single leg drills I’ve been doing have strengthened my ankles. I stepped on a rock covered in leaves on a trail in the park last week and felt my ankle start to turn. Only this time, instead of it rolling with a stab of pain and doing my usual face plant, I just stabilized the step and kept walking. No problem. Maybe just luck, but I like to think better fitness paid off.</p>
<p>Walked, then ran, then sprinted with the neighbors this morning. Oh my. I am way sore in my right hip. And my feet feel tender. My neighbors are beasts!</p>
Sounds like your neighbors ran you ragged! Be sure to take enough time off in between to let the soreness subside.
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No workout for me today. I’ve definitely got a little bug. Nothing debilitating, but enough congestion and achiness to make the thought of any kind of panting cardio/intervals seem pretty unappealing. If I still feel like this tomorrow, I might actually go out for little walk walk. I’m glad I got in three good workouts on Tues/Wed/Thurs. I had a feeling that yesterday’s workout might be it for a few days.
<p>Yikes, sewhappy! Hip soreness is not a good thing. Go easy on the good old joint in the next few days. Did I ever tell you about my infamous 5k that I never trained for because of my painful hip? I think I already did. Thirty two times. I just found a couple of photos of me running that race. Ouch. It pains me just to look at them.</p>
<p>Well, today I discovered that walking with DH is worse than walking with our dog! I was hoping to get some exercise, but noooo… DH had to stop every twenty yards or so and take a picture of something. Oh, look, a flower! Oh, look, a heron! Sheesh. Our doggie made fewer stops during his walks. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>MOfWC, congrats on making 1500 (I have no doubts that you will get there in the next couple of days). When I grow up, I wanna be just like you. :)</p>
<p>I came home, turned on the computer and went to bed - body was very, very tired. I feel better right now at 1:30 AM.</p>
<p>1,500 miles for one year is hard to imagine.</p>
<p>I had some problems in the feet after our match today. Ankles were a little sore (I got a little too used to winning easily and opponent upped his game a lot), and sore toes! The sore toes are from toenails that are too long. This is a problem because I stand on tip-toes on the serve putting all of my weight on the tips of the toes. If toesnails are too long, the toes hurt from it. Simple solution though.</p>
Advil and hunter gathering exercises at the mall today. Hip is better, feet okay.
Bunsen, I enjoy my DH’s company but don’t exercise walk with him any more. We do like to hike together though. That’s a different vibe somehow. Sometimes he will do weights while I do the treadmill and that’s sort of an exercise together feel.
Lately, my DH is kind of grumpy because he’s dieting but not losing much. I have had him try the low carb approach but that doesn’t seem to work for him. He get’s too hungry. He thinks the problem is he’s in meetings all day lately and doesn’t get to pace around and noodle over stuff like he usually does.
It’s challenging trying to support someone in weight loss.
<p>It’s not even a matter of “low-carb” for your hubby. The first step, if he’s really serious about losing weight, should be to stop carb-loading.</p>
<p>The dinner you described the other day sounds fantastic, but I don’t even want to total up the carb-loading with the rice, the dried cranberries, and the pie:</p>
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<p>The pies have to go for any kind of serious fat loss effort. I would go bigger on the piece of salmon and the salad and skip the rice. For example, I’m thinking salmon for dinner tonight and will probably have a 10 to 12 ounce portion with either brocolli or salad.</p>
<p>I can understand not wanting to give up desserts and all the other sweet stuff, but along with that is the acceptance of obesity. It is basically a decision that eating pie is more important than not being fat. I would have a very hard time with this weight loss/maintenance stuff with pies and desserts in the house.</p>
<p>interesteddad – I appreciate the honest feedback. I don’t struggle with weight control and love to cook and my DH enjoys what I cook. But I do have to come to terms with modifying what I cook. </p>
<p>Salmon without rice? Oh my. I guess I don’t understand why we both can eat the same meal and he gains weight from it but I don’t. His metabolism seems to be changing. </p>
