<p>I agree that you have to find something you enjoy doing.</p>
<p>I have sprained my right ankle so many times…well the last time was a few years ago.
When I run…there is a little pain. I have also had a knee operation. So running, and tennis…don’t work for me anymore.</p>
<p>I do love to walk. Love it. No issues with walking…it will take longer to lose the weight.</p>
<p>I would like to lose between 13 pounds at a minimum. If I keep reading this thread…maybe I will get the incentive to lose more.</p>
<p>On the plus side my wife hasn’t really noticed my weight gain…the last two times…she did. </p>
<p>Or…maybe that is a negative. :)</p>
<p>I am off for a walk for an hour to 3 hours. If you are working out today BCEagle91…have a good workout.</p>
<p>I’ve only made it to 32-inch waist in Dockers. Levi 501 jeans are 33s. Dress pants/suit pants could be 33s or 34s (baggy) – I’m not young enough for tight dress pants!</p>
<p>Marshalls is starting to get some NIKE Running shirts, it looks like. These are the fancier Nike pieced tech shirts. I don’t know if they fit the same as the training shirts or not.</p>
<p>I’ll take a look tomorrow during grocery shopping.</p>
<p>In general, I prefer Adidas and New Balance for sleeveless running shirts though that may be because I hardly ever see Nike running shirts. I picked up another Adidas sleeveless tech for $7 in the clearance section last week. That gives me five running shirts which should be enough. I’m going to go for a mile shortly and I’m just using a Nike tech tee - it’s good enough for short runs.</p>
<p>I have 11 of the tech tees now (including a few pro combat). I wear them into the office a few days a week; on other days I wear dress shirts. That should be enough to get me through the week. I have a short dresser drawer at the top of my bureau and all of the Nike tech tees fit in there. This was never the case with my XL cotton tees. There is overall a lot of extra space in my bureau since downsizing my clothes. The only drawer that is full is the socks drawer and that’s because I wear two pairs for working out and I now have winter socks (Merino) to fit in.</p>
<p>After working on shorts, my next area is warm-up pants. I have three extra large. One of them is heavy cotton and it is truly huge. I have to use the drawstring to keep it up. I also have a pair of New Balance Vesper pants. Wonder material - it’s light and stretchy but they stopped making it a few years ago. Son lives in them in the spring and fall. The other one is something cheap that I got from Marshalls. I want to replace them with Nike pants that cost $65 a pair. With Nike sizing, I’m an S too. Their warm-up pants run a little large and long compared to their shirts.</p>
<p>Nike has a poly material that feels like the NB Vesper pants and I think that they have it in varying thicknesses. The local Sports Authority doesn’t carry them - the only local place that I’ve found them at is Dicks.</p>
<p>“I’ve only made it to 32-inch waist in Dockers. Levi 501 jeans are 33s. Dress pants/suit pants could be 33s or 34s (baggy) – I’m not young enough for tight dress pants!”</p>
<p>I would be really happy with those numbers…</p>
<p>Just walked close to 2 1/2 hours …probably close to 7 1/2 miles…I walk about 3 miles an hour…</p>
<p>I am planning to go for another walk later…</p>
<p>You’ve got more stamina than I do. Four miles is about my limit for walking. Anything longer and I start wanting to be done. I start getting all stiff and creaky!</p>
<p>I did bench press and hang cleans this morning for my workout. No sets over 5; going heavy. Tried 200 for bench, but couldn’t get it. Did 185 for 2 reps though so I’m pretty happy :)</p>
<p>Then I shot a basketball for a little bit. The first couple shots were awful because that ball felt so light after having lifted weights ;)</p>
<p>15.1 cold but sunny miles with my daughter. Longest she’s ever run. Last 4 felt tough. Not the hardest course, but plenty of gradual uphills. The road we did the last 3 or so on seemed to be uphill in both directions. Started at 6:30am. I’m tired.</p>
<p>Ran a mile and then hit the weight machines. I was about 70% done when the power went out. So I used my iPod (as a flashlight) to continue my workout. They kicked us out about five minutes later so I went into the locker room which was pitch black - no emergency lighting or it wasn’t working. I used my iPod to get to my locker and open it and got out of there.</p>
<p>If you workout in a gym, bring something that can put out some light, whether it be a watch with a backlight, a music player or a phone.</p>
<p>It was interesting in the locker room because you could see these little portable devices glowing in the dark and moving around. I can imagine that it wouldn’t have been a lot of fun if you were in the shower.</p>
<p>The power is out for at least a mile north of the YMCA so it was probably caused by the high winds that we have today. I’m going to the YMCA in the next town over with my son later on.</p>
<p>BCE- that’s awful! My little locker room at work has an automatic light that is NOT triggered by motion back in the shower/dressing area and I have been plunged into total darkness a couple of times. Not a shred of light. It’s a tornado safe room.</p>
<p>Long runs are tough. They just are. I didn’t want to do it, but, unfortunately, it’s part of the deal if you want to run marathons. Not that I’m even wanting to do the marathon, but I promised my daughter I would…</p>
<p>Planet Fitness workout today. I was all discombobulated. Real estate agent said 3:30 and then showed up at 3:00, so I was scrambling to get out the door. Had my bag, my workout sheet, my HR monitor, my water bottle, my Airex pad, and my headphones – but no iPod. Oh well.</p>
<p>As an aside, the people at that gym must have the strongest wrists in the world and they work at it. Sheesh. The two most popular exercises appear to be wrist curls and sitting on an ab machine, “recovering” I guess. Fortunately, there were four women doing serious workouts – Pallof presses, Romanian deadlifts, single leg hip lifts, and stuff – in the strength area. All with printed lists to follow. That was nice. I don’t feel like such a freak! One lady showed me where the one barbell was so I could grab a couple of 45 lb plates off the Smith machine and do some Romanian deadlifts. They were on my list to do with DBs.</p>
<p>Really good workout. I took my Airex pad with me and nobody said “boo”. That thing really makes a big difference for any exercise that requires knees on the floor. Us ol’ (formerly) fat guys need all the cushioning we can get!</p>
<p>**WARMUP (1 set) **<br>
Quadruped thoracic rotation
Squat to stand
Ankle mobility
Quadruped hip extension
Curtsy lunge
Elbow pushups with walkout
Spiderman
Cook hip lift
Split squat
Hip hinge
Heel to butt walk</p>
<p>**CORE (2 sets) **<br>
Tall Kneeling chop (cable machine)
Pallof Press (cable machine)
Upright dead bug
Farmers Walk (40lb DB overhead )</p>
<p>**POWER (3 sets) **<br>
DB overhead snatch (30 lb)</p>
<p>**STRENGTH (3 sets) **<br>
Alternating Bench Press (2 x 35lb)
Split Squat (2 x 35lb)</p>
<p>Today’s run: 6.27 miles, 1:05:46, 10:29 pace. I decided to do 6.3 miles with the first 3 uphill. Way too hard. I tried to run the whole thing, but had to walk quite a bit. I did a better pace with my intervals, and I felt much better doing it too. But then again the intervals weren’t uphill. I think I will try this route one more time and do it as intervals, and see how that goes. I wish I had more time to build up to this distance.</p>
<p>MOWC, I can not even imagine running 15.1 miles.</p>
<p>I had fun working out today. Being able to do some core stuff on the cable columns was a nice change of pace. And, I’ve put together a couple of workouts based on what works at that gym. Being able to do barbell romanian dead lifts today was a nice improvement.</p>
<p>Went back to the ymca after a long nap. There were things on the locker room floor tht people left in the dark. I had a look at the emergency lighting and my guess is that the batteries are all shot.</p>
<p>Spent more time on the machines and weights and did split squats, both sides. My knees are a lot better than several weeks ago when I could not do any on one leg and only a few on the other.</p>
<p>Well…I just walked another 7 miles…which means I still have walked less than MomofWildChild ran. :)</p>
<p>Interesteddad…I can’t work out as intensely as you do…</p>
<p>Ucbalumnus…great link…I had no idea those games were going on. Kind of a bummer. I do know the last time I could wear 34s easily…my blood work showed I was in great shape…so at least that was good. ( I am also a UCB alumnus).</p>
<p>Neither can I. I just try to muddle through! I’ve learned to pace myself on these workouts, taking enough rest between exercises that they aren’t that grueling.</p>