<p>Wow, now I am worried. But I promises the goosebumps I feel are emotional. Like the kind I get when reading a poem or listening to a song that exactly fits my mood. Does that make sense?</p>
<p>Have never gotten chills with any high intensity exercise, have puked though. What does that mean? It is like my stomach cramps up and then I vomit. </p>
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<p>That’s good! Chills from a good song on the iPod while running are fine, I think! </p>
<p>I used to occasionally get the chills playing tennis is hot weather in Georgia. It’s a sign of real trouble, as in stop immediately, get to the air conditioning, and drink some fluids. I don’t recall ever reaching that point exercising in the last years. It takes being too dehyradrated to sweat and I don’t exercise long enough to reach that point. I did get dehydrated a few times on long hilly walks (over an hour) on hot summer days, but just minor dehydration. I’ve gotten slightly light-headed at the end of some hard-core Airdyne bike interval workouts. Not so much anymore as I’ve gotten in better shape and learned how to do workouts that are challenging but not brutal.</p>
<p>Congratulations on the big first week weight loss. That’s a big number and a terrific motivational boost to keep going!</p>
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<p>One of the real shortcomings of the BMI index for anything but population studies is that it doesn’t have any kind of age factor. It’s calculated the same for an 20 year old and her mother after childbirth and her grandmother after menopause. Pretty discouraging for geezers.</p>
<p>It’s just meant as a rough guide and a guidepost for most of the population. Gross measures are useful for measuring broad populations but they have their weaknesses in sub-populations.</p>
<p>Geezers can get to those BMI levels but it’s a lot more work.</p>
<p>My wife is 20.4 and was 19 when we got married. She is exercising (my daughter told me that she does some odd exercises) though I don’t know if she is exercising effectively. I would like her to use heavier weights but that would either mean buying more individual weights or adjusting our dumbbells all the time. Right now, they’re setup for the guys in the house and we don’t change them (though my son complained that the barbell feels pretty light).</p>
<p>Just checking in to let you know I am attempting to channel you all on this vacation to stay on track: bceagle daily on the courts, idad at the buffet, have passed up the French pastries, multiple fresh baked breads, and all of you in the daily workouts: alternating 10k training on the dreadmill with nrl4a weight workouts. Want to be able to show my face on this thread when I get back ;)</p>
<p>It’s good that you can keep up with the workouts while on vacation. I think that I’ve given up hope on Hotel treadmills.</p>
<p>I noticed you are not channeling ME, Jane! 
I haven’t done so well food-wise, and today there are SIX BOXES of dunkin’ donuts outside my cubicle. I had one (so far).</p>
<p>Pouring rain this morning and it was my one shot at running today. I bagged the planned 4, put on my rain jacket and went out for a mile just to keep the streak going and actually wound up doing 2.2. I’ll call it a rest day. The rain wasn’t actually that bad with the rain jacket. The rain jacket is interesting- a high end Asics. I think it might be Goretex and isn’t very breathable (despite its claims). I bought it a few years ago when I was going to be really bad-ass and run no matter what the weather. Therefore, it works best in a really cold rain, and I rarely run outside in a really cold rain. Catch 22.</p>
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<p>One donut or one box? With runners, you never know. I figure that I’ve had a net calorie deficit of about 1,000 calories per day for the last month. That’s a lot of donuts.</p>
<p>Okay, just checked out the Dunkin Donuts website. Their donuts range from 250 to 570(!) calories. Still, that’s four donuts per day.</p>
<p>There has been very little free food around here lately though there are Godiva chocolates today. I’m staying very far away.</p>
LOL. Very true. One donut. They are going fast. Someone told me there is a huge amount of food around here during the holidays, and yesterday there was a big announcement of hitting a very large net sales target (a record) for the year. it’s sort of fun to be somewhere that is doing well.
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<p>I see skinny geezers around. But the real problem with using BMI as a measure of obesity for an individual is that muscle increases BMI, but is healthy. So an athlete (young or old) may have a high BMI but low percentage of body fat, and thus not be at additional risk of obesity-related problems.</p>
<p>I think that it’s better to be non-permanent in a company that’s doing well than permanent in a company that isn’t doing well. I was working in a group that was doing very well in a company that was in a death spiral. Layoffs every other week (that’s a lot of going-away lunches), you have to buy and bring in your own supplies, no perks and benefits getting cut is not a good time and not conducive to supporting good mental health.</p>
<p>I’ve been working in a company that’s been doing well (outside of two or three years) since 1994 and it is nice. I’d be happy to work here until retirement. We actually have people working here that are well past retirement age. I’d be happy to do that too.</p>
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<p>Unless the guys are champion powerlifters, shouldn’t the women be capable of working up to the same weights? Of course, that may mean counteracting the apparently common (especially among women) myth that lifting weights heavier than 1 pound dumbbells will instantly result in becoming “too big”.</p>
<p>I’m on the second one. Pumpkin cake (it’s a vegetable, right?). I have to say- it is REALLY good. 8 miles tomorrow…</p>
<p>I think BMI is bogus. It can really be misleading for a lot of old or tall people. Mine is 19.2 (before the donuts)</p>
<p>It’s just that I’m going to need benefits at some point. I’m still getting COBRA paid by the last company, and then I can pay it myself, but it would be nice to have it paid.</p>
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<p>I often end up doing more exercise on vacation than at home – e.g. swimming in the ocean, walking around tourist attractions, hiking in the woods, etc. – without doing much, if anything, in the hotel gym.</p>
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<p>Son curls 32.5 pound dumbbells. I curl 20-22.5 pounds - I don’t see myself getting to 32.5 pounds in the next year if ever. I use his 32.5s for the bench press and I have one dumbbell set at 20 pounds (I use the 22.5 pound dumbbells in the office). The barbell is set to 57.5 pounds. I find it easy for squats but it takes a little effort for the military press. The last time I got my daughter to try using the barbell, I had to take all of the weights off of it so that she could do the military press. My wife has never used the barbell and uses 1-pound and 2-pound weights. It would take a considerable amount of time for them to work up to where the current weights are set. We do have rubber-coated dumbbells up to 10 pounds and they could use these if they were so inclined.</p>
<p>The problem is in that working up to our weights would mean that we’d have to change the plates all the time which isn’t a lot of fun - especially on the barbell. The weight caps are screw on - the barbell is threaded. You have to screw the caps off about 1.5 feet and then screw them back on again - it’s a real pain. Certainly not quick-release.</p>
<p>Yes, the barbell is very, very long which I like.</p>
One donut = 2.5 miles.
One of the things I like about Trader Joes is the samples. Yesterday
it was these little pastry shells with caramelized onions inside.
Sometimes it’s ice cream or something sugary. I always go for the
samples with zero guilt if I know that I’m taking care of business
elsewhere. 1,500 miles = 150,000 calories = 600 donuts so you should
be all set.
Companies that are doing well can usually better afford to hire people
part-time. One of my friends was a contractor on a project her for
quite some time (he’s in his 50s). He went to work for another company
that went bankrupt and was then hired here as a permanent employee
because the people here knew his work. Good timing and good contacts.
<p>I can only dream of lifting as much weight as women lift:</p>
<p>[double</a> 32kg 1leg DL - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hwa5TDp8nJs]double”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>This is two 70 pound kettlebells. The most I’ve ever done with this exercise is one 50 lb DB and that was too much for good form (although I might be able to do it now).</p>
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<p>I hear ya on changing DBs around. I’ve got three pair of handles and like to have three pair of DBs configured, but I’m now at six 10lb plates on the heavy pair and I don’t have enough plates for three pair. I’d really like a pair of 35s, a pair of 40s, and a pair of the 65s. Next time, I’m near a Dick’s Sporting Goods, I need to pick up four more 10 pound plates. As it is, I’m just using a pair of 35s for most stuff and the pair of 65s for deadlifting, single arm rows, farmers walks, etc. </p>
<p>I need to bump the bench press stuff up to 40 lbs pretty soon.</p>
<p>^^SO glad that I do not have your problems. I’m perfectly happy with my 15-lb free weights. :)</p>
<p>I’ll be using my 15 lb gray metal “prison dumbells” this afternoon for Turkish Get Ups. I’m so lousy at them that there is no point loading heavy weight on bad form!</p>
<p>I haven’t done them in a while, but 10 or 15 pounds would be all I can handle on lateral arm raises, reverse flies, T-pushups, and so forth.</p>
<p>The weight is just a number. It really doesn’t change the exercise whether it’s 10 pounds or 100 pounds, as long as it’s a weight that’s challenging on the final rep of each set.</p>