Bromfield- MiamiDAP rollerblades most of her miles and walks some, too. She only walks outside. I don’t think she has any idea of her real mileage.
<p>My hat is off to anyone who is out there roller blading period. That would turn my legs into jello and then I’d fall and break my wrist! :)</p>
<p>Rollerblading on a regular basis sounds like fun 
but wouldn’t work too well where I am. Some serious hills here! I do like to go ice skating on occasion, but it’s been a while. A year? Two years? More? I hope it wasn’t longer ago than that.</p>
<p>Rollerblading is fine but the point is that you can cover ground a lot more quickly than walking, thank God! It’s not for me. H tried it in Dallas which is how we discovered that our driveway which we thought was flat actually was not!</p>
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<p>Congratulations on the commitment! If you are able to hold calories in the 1800 to 2000 range, you should be able to drop some fat at a pretty good clip.</p>
<p>Your workout makes my arms sore just thinking about it! I’m a wimp. I only do four strength exercises per workout, although my warmup, core, and power sets often have a strength training component to them in one way or another.</p>
<p>Interesteddad & Tom, I bet you guys could do some serious hefting with a shot put or discus. Have I got that right?</p>
<p>These would not be my track and field events (understatement).</p>
<p>6 miles, 4@8:41, 2@9:18. Smith Machine, and a lot of free weights.</p>
<p>A food scale helps.</p>
<p>I was going by volume for various foods and find that weight is a more accurate measure. The volume of my containers appears to be a little generous according to my scale and the food packaging. You could always take the conservative approach: eat the minimum of volume and weight.</p>
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<p>Had to Google it. Yikes!</p>
<p>We’ve established I’m pretty clueless about sports. Just walk me through it…</p>
I’m too scrawny for discus throwing or shot putting. However, one of the strength coaches I pay a lot of attention to was a top discus thrower.
[dan</a> john perfecting the kettlebell swing - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVEReOq5Jgs&feature=related]dan”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVEReOq5Jgs&feature=related)
The medicine ball exercise I was doing today would be a great discus training exercise.
<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNLLLZ8Z-aU[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNLLLZ8Z-aU</a>
<p>Thanks. The main thing I know about discus is not to be anywhere near the vicinity when one is being thrown. We know someone who was injured by a discus gone astray. Not a good thing. Not a good thing at all.</p>
<p>Today</p>
<p>Cals 1348
Fat 96 g
Net Carbs 15 g
Protein 94 g
Sugars 8 g</p>
<p>Found some ancient ketostix in the medicine cabinet. Either they are past their expiration (if they indeed expire) or I have no detectable ketones, despite Atkins-worthy induction diet over the past week. Or as idad said, my body is “using them”? Still don’t quite understand all the science involved.</p>
<p>Nice videos,
I have done the med ball side throws, but the kb tutorial was a little different than I am used to. He stops the kb way lower than I have seen.
I actually love the kb swings, because you can generate tremendous power with the hip snap and hold your own against big, strong guys who are trying to do it all with upper body strength.</p>
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<p>I would love to be able to rollerblade, but the roads and sidewalks around here just aren’t very good for it…</p>
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<p>Yeah, I had a friend in high school get hit with one right in the mouth… bloody mess! And of course they weren’t practicing at the track that day so the ambulance was driving around looking for them!</p>
<p>New reader here … just learning how to jump my body into fat burning. I am not going to try to keep up w/ BCEagle or IDad, but I like the articles that IDad posts. I’m doing pretty good so far this week on low carb/high protein/tons of water and the Ketostix results say I’m in ketosis and I definitely feel like I am. Just trying to trim off 10 lbs that have accumulated in the last 3 years … no marathons yet.</p>
<p>CJaneRead … I just bought my first bottle of Ketostix and it said on the instruction packet (that you throw away once you open the box that the bottle is packaged) that you cannot trust the reading once the bottle has been open longer than the expiration date. My bottle says they expire in 10/2013 and I bought them last week. The directions also say that if the bottle has been left open to air a long time or the reading is past 15 seconds you also can’t trust the color.</p>
<p>Gorgeous morning in middle Tennessee. 49 degrees and sunny. Dead legs, but glad to be out there since I’m going to be locked in a windowless conference room all day. 4.1 miles done.</p>
<p>First day of the calorie count was good. I did this about 8 years ago and dropped 40 lbs fairly easily. I was working out harder then though. </p>
<p>As for shot put and discuss- no for me also. I leave the heavy weights alone now.</p>
performermom,
Many people are told that by all kind of MDs…because it is very true. I witness it being true every time I lose/gain very few pounds (I am talking about 3 - 5 lbs, nothing major), BP goes up/down about 30 points, blood sugar is about the same 25- 30 points. I have all devices at home and BP device at work, measure all (and my height) on a regular basis, go on scale at least 2 times/day just to know what to eat, how much (maybe nothing). Some people say it is depressing, not to me, not to my H. We exercise a lot though, the problem is consumption, but again, we are always in a good mood, possibly because of our food/drink intake. Chocolate is a big thing in my diet, for sure.
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<p>That’s the so-called “hardstyle” kettlebell swing, as popularized by Pavel Tsatsouline:</p>
<p>[Amazon.com:</a> Enter The Kettlebell! Strength Secret of The Soviet Supermen (9780938045694): Pavel Tsatsouline: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Kettlebell-Strength-Secret-Soviet-Supermen/dp/0938045695/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Kettlebell-Strength-Secret-Soviet-Supermen/dp/0938045695/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1)</p>
<p>He’s the Russian fitness dude who is largely responsible for popularizing kettlebells in the US. He runs the RKC training certification program for kettle bell instructors and is the model for the Dan Johns, Gray Cook (FMS), Brett Jones, crowd. They make kettlebells into a bit too much of a religion for my taste, but it’s hard to question their training and technique.</p>
<p>The hardstyle swing can be absolutely brutal because you lose the breather at the top of the swing while the weight floats. It’s a hard hip drive at the bottom alternating with a hard plank and lat pull at the top. If you really do both, it’s killer. I try to stop my swing at the shoulders, and drive my hips, but I’ll be honest… I don’t always “stab and pull” as hard as I can at the top, especially when I’m dong burpee fusion.</p>
<p>I should put the swings in as a power exercise, just do ten reps, and really try to be aggressive at the top and bottom.</p>
<p>I love Neghar Foonooni’s swing technique:</p>
<p>[Kettlebell</a> Conditioning - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXACEff1rT8&feature=plcp]Kettlebell”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXACEff1rT8&feature=plcp)</p>
<p>Stuart McGill just published a paper on spinal loads from the kettlebell swing, with a variety of athletes doing swings while hooked up to his spinal muscle sensors and computer model. As part of his paper, he also measured Pavel doing swings while hooked up to the instrumentation. You can read the paper here:</p>
<p>[Scientific</a> Kettlebell Articles - KETTLEBELL SCIENCE](<a href=“http://www.kettlebellscience.com/scientific-kettlebell-articles.html]Scientific”>http://www.kettlebellscience.com/scientific-kettlebell-articles.html)</p>
<p>And, here he is talking about the kettlebell research:</p>
<p>[Teleseminar</a> Interview 7 - Dr. Stuart McGill](<a href=“http://www.sportsrehabexpert.com/public/338.cfm]Teleseminar”>Teleseminar Interview #7 - Dr. Stuart McGill | Member Login Area | Online Continuing Education for Physical Therapists)</p>