I’d rather do planks
those single leg jobbies look like hamstring killers. What muscles do you find they challenge most?
<p>Probably the quads. Just above the knee. That’s were I seem to feel it the most after doing these. It’s supposed to be the ultimate ACL knee reconstruction rehab exercise.</p>
<p>Hey iDad – I think you’d get a kick out of this:<br>
"…steering me away from trouble. His stuck his hand out like a traffic cop when we got to the gorgeously bottled Italian sodas.</p>
<p>“No,” he said. “Not necessary. Empty calories.”</p>
<p>But they’re from Italy, I offered in defense.</p>
<p>“So is Topo Gigio,” he said. “I don’t drink fruit juice, either. Fruit juice is sugar with no fiber to mediate its consumption. When people tell me they’re going on a juice cleanse, they might as well tell me they’re going on a root beer cleanse.”</p>
<p><a href=“The Author Peter Kaminsky on How to Eat Wisely - The New York Times”>The Author Peter Kaminsky on How to Eat Wisely - The New York Times;
<p>mommusic,
"^If you are doing “much heavier weights” you have gained strength. "
-I do not understand your response. I have said that I am doing the same for couple decades at least. I said I am doing “much heavier weights” in comparison to other females. So, why it means that I have gained strength? Oh, well, it does not matter in my case. I just do what I love to do and additional benenfit is killing time, which is absolute must for empty nesters to avoid depression. OMG, here is another health benenfit!</p>
<p>MiamiDAP, I think we all thought you meant that you are doing “much heavier weights” than you were before – in which case that would prove you have gained strength. </p>
<p>You could go to the next weight dumbbell and see how that feels. Even if you do fewer reps with the heavier weight, that will challenge your muscles. And before you know it, you’ll be increasing the number of reps.</p>
Sounds like my kind of diet book!
I’m having the “chili station” for dinner tonight!
<p>Sorry MiamiDap–I indeed read your post as “heavier weights than before.”</p>
<p>Peter Kaminsky is on the right track. However, I fear he is also on the “high-priced gourmet foods” track. Anyone would eat less if it all cost twice as much! :/</p>
Yeah. I doubt that he worries too much about the price of arugula at Whole Foods these days…
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I’ve reached the point where I’m not increasing the weights very often. It’s not like the first year of resistance strength training where the gains are constant.
I can tell I’m getting stronger, but it’s showing up in doing better, faster, stronger reps with the same weight on most of the exercises. In part, that’s because a five pound jumps in DBs is a pretty big jump. So, I’ve gotta be pretty solid at one weight before moving up. I have been increasing the reps on a couple of exercises.
I have been adding 5 pounds to the trap bar deadlifts every couple of weeks.
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<p>Sometimes the anecdotal stories provide nice support for the research-style articles.</p>
<p>I’m not making any progress on weights as I’m not consistent enough on weight workouts. Basically I’m treading water but that’s not bad. The mix of tennis, running, weights and flexibility is probably as much as I can do and they provide quite a variety of physical challenges. But I can’t do them all consistently or as much as I want to. I’d like to run 30 miles per week, play tennis two-three times per week, weights four days per week and flexibility four days per week but there isn’t time and my body couldn’t recover from the workouts to do the next thing. So it’s usually tennis x 1, running x 3-4 and fit the other stuff in wherever I can.</p>
<p>Having a bunch of places where I can work out really helps.</p>
<p>I’m just doing the “streak” miles for a few days since I’m exhausted. Still not as sore as expected. Did 2 miles this morning. Just trying to recover.</p>
MOWC:
You runners are a strange breed! How to “recover” from running 26 miles? Just run a couple of miles each day! 
When I’m trying to recover from the Airdyne, I won’t even go in the same room with the thing!
<p>Runners ARE a strange breed. My daughter went to put on her Zensah calf sleeves that she had carefully packed in her finish-area bag after we finished and discovered that she had accidently packed her arm warmers instead of the calf sleeves! As she said “Runner Problems.” After we got cleaned up, we put on our cute sundresses with Zensah calf sleeves (me) and argyle knee-high compression socks (her). Very stylish!</p>
<p>At our age, we have to be very concerned with NOT hurting ourselves which will result in inability to do any exersize. As I have point out that I am already doing much heavier weights (it could mean 25 lbs vs 85 lbs on some machines) than other females including HS and college athletes, I do not think it is wise for me to increase the weight just to see at what point I will tear my muscle or hurt my back/shoulder.<br>
I do not believe that we can indefinitely increase our strenght without any kind of chemical input.
Enjoy and do not get yourself sick. Remember that exercise is to improve your condition, not to ruin your well being.<br>
Planning 10 miles today, hopefully it will not rain. Had to settle to only 6.5 yesterday, as H. could not walk - yes, he has ruined his legs while walking crazy miles with me back in December, he is unable to recover since then and nothing his doc. can do about it. So, please, be careful, it is NOT worth it.</p>
<p>Wow, 10 miles is sure a lot for our age, Miami. Maybe you should scale back so you don’t injure yourself. You don’t want to end up like your poor husband and ruin your legs with that crazy mileage. Too bad you couldn’t get him to follow your sage advice.</p>
<p>idad…bridge done while sitting on ball/feet on ground and rolling out so back/shoulder are resting on ball and then rolling back to sit up. Other exercises also done with shoulders on ball and feet on ground. This helps protect the injured parts of my back.</p>
<p>My back muscles are a little sore from yesterday’s walk. Not too bad. A little stretching and some ibuprofen should help.</p>
<p>I’m still curious about how MiamiDAP is measuring her ten miles. That’s over 3 hours of walking.</p>
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<p>Got it! Those are going to be great for strengthening your “glutes” and hips.</p>
<p>"Maybe you should scale back "
-Guys, where is consistancy? I was advice to push harder, now I am adviced to scale back.<br>
10 miles is OK with me, actually mere 1.5 miles of swimming is much more than 6.5 miles of rollerblading + 3.5 miles of walking. As additional benefit, you do not need to go to gym after swimming as your all muscles are engaged and it makes you feel very re-freshed. There is no chance of injury either swimming at my pace. Pool is open in 17 days…count down…unfortunately, I cannot swim inside</p>
<p>OK- so now 6.5 of the miles are rollerblading. Got it.<br>
Swimming is good exercise if done at all properly, but it does NOT help bone density, which is the problem with it. You “can’t” swim inside or you “won’t” swim inside?</p>