<p>Laughing to myself at all the moving stories. The couple of times H and I moved ourselves (one apt. to another, we didn’t own much, but still) I kept saying, “Add this to the list of things I’ll never do for a living!” Hard work!</p>
<p>Saw my doc this morning for what seems to be arthritis in my thumb joints. He said it’s common and didn’t seem too impressed. But he really ticked me off when somehow we got into an exercise discussion and he said there’s no empirical evidence that exercise helps anything. That if your back hurts, for instance, it’s discs & connective tissue, and weak muscles have nothing to do with it. I can’t believe it.</p>
<p>He says if you have to be in a chair all day, your muscles adapt to whatever they have to do, so you’re fine. ??? No empirical evidence (but plenty of anecdotal) so therefore no evidence.</p>
<p>He also believe in pills instead of weight loss/exercise for Type II Diabetes, so his stock is at an all-time low with me.</p>
<p>He should be working WITH nutritionists and physical therapists. Instead he’s pooh-poohing them. He said it’s just the individual attention that makes you feel better!</p>
Weird as it sounds; go to a “sports medicine” orthopedist. It’s been my experience those guys get things done MUCH quicker than a regular orthopedist. Like hurt on Friday-- seen for Monday appointment kind of thing…
Our business was actually down a little bit this year because we had a mild winter. Not as many people falling and getting hurt…
<p>^I am not actively looking around for a new internist b/c I just ignore him when it comes to exercise & nutrition (but I am slim and in shape to begin with.) DH, OTOH, thinks cause his doctor says so, it must be true. DH is overweight and pre-diabetic.</p>
The question is, what are you missing out on because your doctor doesn’t know anything about these areas?</p>
<p>For example, my current doctor was years ahead of the curve with regards to vitamin D and fish oil, and uses prescription drugs only as an absolute last resort. (He also has a chiropractor, acupuncturist, massage therapist, nutritionist, and some other “alternative” practitioners on his staff.) He’s all about optimizing your health and dealing with issues with a variety of weapons, not just writing a prescription.</p>
<p>re “sports medicine” - it seems like they all claim to be sports medicine doctors. At the place where I got an appointment, every single doctor lists the sports teams they are the team doctor for, “sports medicine” is all over their web site.</p>
I hear ya on the clueless doctor front. It’s insane to be telling patients that exercise doesn’t do anything. Good grief.
I think a big part of the current obesity problems is the amount of bad information that is handed down to us. It’s the same thing with smoking cessation. The more “they” try to help, the worse the information. Now, it’s to the point where much of the information is telling people to do stuff that will make it much harder to kick nicotine addiction. Same thing with this nutrition and exercise stuff.
Doctors get essentially zero training in nutrition and fitness in medical school…
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Carried some seriously heavy stuff today. A 60 lb DB and a 45 lb DB. Two cases of vintage port wine. Then, I (foolishly) loaded up every Le Creuset cast iron piece I own into a Rubbermaid bin (wok, skillets, chicken fryer, dutch ovens, sauce pans, and lids for all. I don’t know what it weighed, but it was seriously heavy – had to be somewhere between 60 and 100 pounds. Sheesh. Between that and the bulk spices and all the plastic containers and a box of wine glasses, and a stack of baking sheets and lasagna pans, I’m starting to put a dent in the kitchen stuff.
When we moved to our current house, it was a corporate move – all paid for; didn’t care how heavy anything was; we didn’t pay for it. DH had loaded all of his weights into one box. The fellow carrying the box into the house remarked, “Geez – what cha’ got in here? Weights?” DH looked guilty.
<p>It seemed like a good idea at the time. I got it all out on the counter to match up pots and pans with lids and discard any extras (we had more lids than pots). So I just started putting it all in a bin without thinking how heavy it might be. When I went to lift it, it kind of took my breath away, but I could actually lift it and walk with it, so I figured – what the hell…</p>
<p>My weights are almost moved. I’ve got a pair of 35 lbs and a pair of 40 lbs dumbbells and the empty standard barbell, plus a few assorted 5lb and 2.5 lb plates in a box with my ab wheel and Valslides. That’ll probably go tomorrow. Then I’ve got to take down my chin up bar, gather up the resistance bands and Jungle Gym XT, and let enough air out of the stability ball to get it in the back seat of the car. Movers are taking the weight bench as that would require disassembly or bungee-cording it out the back of the car, I think.</p>
<p>Moving the weights 100 to 150 lbs per carload has worked out pretty well. No one trip has been too brutal carrying them to and from the car. Farmer’s walking the 60 lb DB up the stairs and out to the car and from the car down the stairs today was a pretty good little workout.</p>
<p>I really, really want a workout. I might have a shot for this weekend.</p>
<p>Spent three hours taking metal furniture apart, moving it and then putting it back together again. Nothing was particularly heavy except for the mattress - it was mostly using screwdrivers, hex wrenches and socket wrenches. Stuff that can get you sore in the hands, arms and elbows. I did have a cordless drill but it wasn’t charged and I don’t know that it had enough power to do the stuff that I needed it to do.</p>
<p>I just have two bed frames to tear down and bring home, a broom, a dish brush, steel wool, mattress cover, box of tools and then it’s rent the U-Haul and move the three big items. After that, it’s vacuum the whole place, wipe it down with Windex or 409 and then turn in the keys. I want to get this all done as soon as possible (probably like iDad wants everything done). So it means no workouts for a while other than moving things around.</p>
<p>Last thing tonight is to assemble a desk and move the mattress from the car into the basement.</p>
Yesterday, I moved about a dozen boxes of my Mom’s to the attic of my brother’s house. It wouldn’t have been so bad if the temperature hadn’t risen about 30 degrees about three steps from the top. Then today I got to help son move fridge, two bookcases and endless boxes and bags. Down four flights and up two for about a third of it, and just down four for the rest. Plus whatever the horizontal distance is, which is a fair amount because the idiot architect put the front door as far as possible from either available curb - and the side door (the one that is alarmed) isn’t much better. I am knackered.
<p>I really thought I would see a gator this morning on my last Florida run. I didn’t, but H did. Said it was huge. Swimming under the bridge in the park. I miss everything! 6.2 miles done in some new shoes I’m trying. Less than 5 ounces. Go Runs by Skechers. It’s what Meb wears and I’m sure I looked just like him with my blazing pace!</p>
<p>GoRuns are minimal shoes. They throw you on your midfoot/forefoot and have very little heel build-up. They feel a lot like the Nike Frees, only less shoe. I would not have started out with a 6 mile run, but that’s the way it worked out today. I am a forefoot/midfoot striker anyway, so I didn’t have any problem. They are VERY light. My normal “go to” shoe is Brooks Launch (neutral, light) with Brooks Flow for long runs and marathon. I like Brooks Ravenna when I want a little more shoe.</p>
<p>Thanks, MOWC. I guess I’ve never really understood what exactly minimal meant in relation to neutral vs stability. I remember when my daughter was competing there were different shoes the kids needed for meets than they used for their regular runs. Would the meet shoes have been minimal?</p>
