<p>I took a break from work (working from home today) and did Idad’s recommended Quadruped hip extension on elbows. I liked it - will add to my routine. </p>
<p>An unconventional exercise that I feel (could be wrong) is good for glutes is using a kickboard in the swimming pool. Anyone else try this? </p>
<p>Congrats to MSPearl. You’ve made great progress. We started the same place and have almost the same goals (my goal weight is a little higher than yours) but you are progressing much faster than I did! I am impressed! </p>
<p>Bunsenburner I am trying to feel sorry for you but I cannot - just jealous of all the snow in Seattle. Well I am sorry that it will melt this weekend.</p>
<p>There are a lot of parts in the rotator cuff and anything interfering in operation can cause pain. Also, scar tissue from a previous injury can also cause pain but massage may break it up. I have run into many people that have had rotator cuff injuries that have had to adjust their serves or give up the game and a few that have had successful surgery to repair injuries.</p>
<p>The plank puts pressure towards the back while the press is a lifting up then pushing up motion. If I knew that I had a shoulder issue, I would avoid lifting heavy things over my head out of worry that I might drop it someday.</p>
<p>Woke up at 5:00 AM to take my son to work this morning and I’m at my mother’s house so no chance for a workout until this evening - at best I can do weights. I’m not going to run today on the track. The knee is a little better and I’m wearing gel knee sleeves which should help it get better faster. I could work out but then I’d be in that vague state of it getting a little better, then a little worse, and back and forth while working out. Probably better to get it a lot better.</p>
<p>The thing that will help the most this week is not playing tennis.</p>
<p>Ms. Pearl – Woo Hoo! I hope you’re better than I am at hearing people tell you, “You’ve lost a lot of weight !” I really struggle with that – I’d rather nobody notice, or at least not say anything. It makes me really uncomfortable, and even tends to make me backslide a bit. I’m sure the psychologists would have a field day with it, but I’ve noticed that it is fairly consistent for me. I heard lots of this over the holidays, and I still get icky reactions to it. I don’t mind, “You look great,” but comments directly on weight loss and questions about how much weight I’ve lost really make me uncomfortable.</p>
<p>I just finished clearing our frozen tundra. First time running the snowblower since Thanksgiving. It was marginal – maybe two inches of light fluffy snow. Cold wind out there, though.</p>
<p>Got a chance to wear my new winter duds. New Columbia parka (minus the liner as it would have been too hot pushing the snowblower). And, the NIKE slick fabric running/wind pants that I water-proofed to do double duty as rain/snow pants over jeans or fleece. Perfect for keepng the blowing snow from getting my jeans wet and cold and to block a little wind. And, unlike snow pants or even full rain paints, these can still serve as warmup pants for a walk on a cool day. Plus the price was right at Marshalls!</p>
<p>arabrab I react exactly the same way! It seems it takes my psyche a long time to get used to a lower weight and I do backslide because of it. Too weird!</p>
I can’t do a very efficient flutter kick, so I always end up switching to dolphin kick or breaststroke kick, and neither of these engage the glutes (I can do decent breaststroke, but I’m so uncoordinated that I can’t put together a single butterfly kick). I remember my kiddo’s swim group doing something that looked like flutter kicking on the floor during their dryland routines.
arabrab, I also get annoyed at “Wow, you lost a lot of weight! How many pounds?” comments from random folks and people that I don’t get to see often.
Journey, I am going fast since December 8th, but for the month before that I slowly got rid of pop, drank water etc…So it was easy when I joined WW
Arab: I struggle too with compliments. It is nice that people notice but then they start asking questions. The main one: how did/are you doing it? When I tell them through diet and exercise some people look at me like I am crazy…or worse, that I am lying and sucking on diet pills all day long. I had one woman (when I lost weight a few years ago so, “wow, you have lost weight, they said you did.” This was a coworker and it was hard because I realized people were talking about me. I think it is the pressure I feel from others that seems to sabotage me. Main reason I didn’t join the biggest loser competition at work. This isn’t a race.
I joined a weight loss challenge 2 years ago and lost about 40 lbs, came in 1st for the women. But as soon as it was over I started to gain weight. This time I am competing against myself! My goal isn’t money but health and being able to run.
My results of my biopsy came back NEGATIVE. I feel lucky. Obesity increases your risk for endometrial cancer. Now I feel like I have a chance to correct that risk. I am so relieved and will not take my body for granted anymore.
<p>As idad mentioned it is not unusual for people to get shoulder pain. I have pain when I do push ups but I can mitigate the pain by turning my hand at an angle. I stopped bench press with a bar because you can not adjust the hand position. I use dumbbells instead.</p>
<p>If I transitioned directly from compression on the shoulder to extension (pulling the weight up), I got a little jolt of pain. If I unloaded the shoulder by transfering weight to the supporting arm before starting to lift the DB, no pain.</p>
<p>I haven’t done them in a while and I’ll have to check, but I think the pain has cured itself as I have strengthened the shoulder doing chinups and stuff.</p>
<p>DBs are alot more shoulder friendly than barbells for pressing, especially when you can use a “neutral grip” – i.e. the palms facing inwards toward each other.</p>
<p>Kickboard in the swimming pool is almost as bad as planks! When I swam for exercise I just loathed it. The only way it’s bearable is if you also wear fins.</p>
<p>Okay, we need to work harder so VH could see 1000 pages, too!
:)</p>
<p>I decided to give my old bones a good shake and ran for speed: 24:11 for my treadmill
5K. Not exactly my PB of 23:5* (forgot exactly what it was), but not too bad either. I used the last .1 mile for cooldown; otherwise, it would have been under 24. That would have been good enough to put me in the top 25 among my age group (40-50) in a recent massive 5K dash.</p>
<p>Nice little Friday workout to finish up the week and a two-week run of this pair of workouts. Every exercise was better today than it was last week, so that’s always a good sign.</p>
<p>Not sure what I’ll put in the workouts next week, but it looks like my trap bar will arrive on Monday, so trap bar deadlifts will have to be in there!</p>
<p>I tried the renegade rows. No shoulder pain. So, I have managed to tighten up the joint by getting stronger with the upper back and shoulder muscles.</p>
<p>Oh, lucky me! I got another short, but very high intensity cardio workout courtesy of DH who decided to drive to a meeting. Hubby got out of the garage just fine; as he was driving, he got a message that the meeting was cancelled, so he turned around, and then the car got stuck in the 2-foot deep slush! I had to get out and shovel a path since H had his dress shoes on. :)</p>
<p>Thanks, MOfWC! Oh, hubby does owe me something nice for that one! Of course, being able to see into the future, I preemptively (sp) rewarded myself with a cashmere hat just prior to my shoveling session. :D</p>
<p>(Of course, my all-time 5K PB was just a verrrry tiny notch under 19 min, but that happened centuries ago somewhere in a parallel Universe, so it no longer counts :))</p>
<p>Time to relax with a glass of some nice vino.</p>