Diet/Exercise/Health/Wellness Support Thread

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CJane’s new name is GI Jane! :slight_smile:

Aqua Zumba was pretty good. I discovered the pool is heated so the water was fine. :slight_smile: It doesn’t seem like a severe workout at the time, but when you get out of the water, you are tireder than you realized. Doesn’t really get my heart rate up, and it’s low impact, but it does work the muscles. The teacher is pregnant, and she of course was on land to demonstrate, so I think she was working harder than we were!

This afternoon I’m moving my son out of the dorm, so that’s the rest of the real life workout for today. Lifting & shlepping…

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Bunsen is on the west coast, so it is a little earlier than it seems!

mommusic- I’ve been to a couple of water exercise classes back in Dallas and I snickered at the idea that it would actually be a “workout”. I was SO tired and sore afterwards!

Good runs after work yesterday (4.3) and this morning (5). We are having some REALLY nice, dry, relatively cool weather. It was 59 and clear this morning.

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Believe me, I feel your pain! The good news is that lifting and schlepping is fantastic exercise. Just think about each trip to the car as another “rep”. :slight_smile:

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I fell asleep in my desk chair again last night. These new workouts are wearing me out, which is kind of interesting since they are shorter and a bit “easier” than what I’ve been doing.

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<p>For some reason, this fitness video seems to be getting a lot of attention today.</p>

<p>[Can</a> Ellen Do More Push-Ups Than Michelle Obama? - YouTube](<a href=“Can Ellen Do More Push-Ups Than Michelle Obama? - YouTube”>Can Ellen Do More Push-Ups Than Michelle Obama? - YouTube)</p>

<p>Ellen has pretty good form in her pushups. Strong core.</p>

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Yes, I’m on the PDT - it was only 11 or so in the evening for me. I don’t exercise after midnight. :slight_smile:

Wanted to share this:

[Why</a> I run and why I can’t stop after 30-plus years | Take 2 | The Seattle Times](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/take2/2018372011_taketwo06.html]Why”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/take2/2018372011_taketwo06.html)

D ran a 5K on the dreadmill last night. Good for her!

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<p>1:05 of tennis practice this morning. A good workout and the knees felt quite good. I forgot to bring the knee braces but was fine without them. We have tentative plans for doubles on clay for Sunday. Just waiting to hear back from one more person.</p>

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<p>Swimming in 70F water every day…definitely very re-freshing and prevents heat stroke for sure. One huge benefit - the muscles are frozen, do not feel any muscle fatique at all as I do not feel them at all. Breaststroke is a bit uncomfortable as head gets this freezing feeling like after drinking lots of icy water (or beer) quickly. But no effect on brain so far…and it is getting warmer, so there is a chance of warmer water. Somebody said that some part went wrong in heater last year, I quess nobody has money to replace anything any more, I wonder what they do with our fees. although there are many new employees floating around for no reason including about 6 or so lifeguards that watching me swimming alone in olympic size 50m pool. I am very honored…</p>

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<p>Wow, Ellen is 54 - she looks great and is in a great shape! Awesome. I will refer the over 50 club to your post, idad. :)</p>

<p>I’m tempted to so some pushups now.</p>

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<p>I’m going to do some “over-50” push ups in a few minutes. Burpee Fusion time! Burpees and kettlebell swings. Yippee!</p>

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<p>I did a few on the office floor. Office is very, very quiet - I think that people are on vacation or working from home. Or maybe preparing to watch the Celtics play the Heat.</p>

<p>I got my other racquet back this morning. I weighed them both at home and they both come in at 380 grams (not sure what the accuracy of my scale is - to the gram I believe). I found that I had added an extra 3/4 inch of lead tape on both sides or an extra 3/4 gram. I hit with both of them today and the one with the extra weight definitely hit a heavier ball. I’m more inclined to take 3/4 inch off the heavier frame as it’s a pain to add lead.</p>

<p>I’m a little unhappy with the strings. I normally string at 54 pounds but the stringer seems to have been below this as the strings are looser than what I am used to. It might also be the strings that he used. I thought that it was just a different color but it might actually be a different string than what I normally use. The effect is that the ball goes a little further. I will probably use my other stringer in the future. I don’t see my other stringer that often though. It is nice to have the two frames matched up.</p>

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<p>I hate hockey…</p>

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<p>I’m leaving to see my son in five minutes. He lives two blocks from the Garden. I expect to see people trying to make turns into parking lots and a lot of green shirts walking around the area.</p>

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<p>Wow. One or more of the following must be true:</p>

<p>**a) I’m getting old.</p>

<p>b) I lost some conditioning doing nothing but carrying stuff for weeks.</p>

<p>c) This Burpee Fusion workout is just plain hard.**</p>

<p>Dang, that kicked my butt. The usual: 12 swings (40 lbs) alternating with 6 burpees (w pushup), starting every minute on the minute for six minutes. Rest 'til my heart rate falls to 60% and go again for a total of 3 six minute sets. </p>

<p>Drenched. Panting like a dog. I almost quit after 2 sets, but then I thought: no, what would MOWC do? What would GI JANE do? What would Zuzanna do? And, I pressed on for the third set.</p>

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<p>One the moving front, I have three more kitchen boxes to unpack: two boxes of wine glasses and shot glasses and a box of booze (which is probably going to be sorely tempting). I cleared out a LOT of superfulous kitchen junk, which pared it down to just a ridiculous amount of cookware! I’ve got all the stuff I use every day (salad spinner, cuttiing boards, knife blocks, spice rack, etc. out on open shelving. Looks like hell, but it’s functional.</p>

<p>I believe that’s pretty much the end of the unpacking upstairs (not counting the pair of plastic bins of “desk stuff” that may or may not ever make it into an actual desk drawer or may just stay on the shelf next to the desk.</p>

<p>After that, it’s just boxes of books and DVDs and stuff in the basement that may or may not ever make to shelves upstairs. (Cookbooks are already unboxed).</p>

<p>The final piece of the so-called kitchen came together yesterday: a little black and butcher block microwave stand to free up some of the very limited counter space. A “guy’s kitchen” approach: microwave for heating coffee with a 24 inch high def TV on top of it for watching news/sports while a I cook! Take that, Martha Stewart!</p>

<p>I took some photos of the World’s Best Gym (Version 2.0) complete with boxes and stuff stacked in every corner. I’ll link a couple later. It’s working out pretty well.</p>

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<p>^^ You did great. A little bit of all three, but you will be back to full strength in no time! Good job for a geezer! (and I got the “I hate hockey” joke…)</p>

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<p>The first one is not true. You’re no older than you were three weeks ago. (Well, generally speaking.) Not doing something, even if you’re doing something else, makes doing that thing very difficult.</p>

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<p>Kudos to you, idad. You already know how I feel about anything burpee!
Eager to see the new gym.</p>

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<p>…and the correct answer is C). :slight_smile: Great job!</p>

<p>The ladies in the video made me do a couple of pushups (well, 30 exactly), but I did them with my feet propped on the bed, above my head.</p>

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D) The three kitchen boxes

could probably wreak more havoc than A, B, and C combined. :wink:

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<p>Yeah. Fortunately, I’m not much of a drinker.</p>

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<p>Here is a photo of [the</a> World’s Best Gym (version 2.0)](<a href=“http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/gym2b.jpg]the”>http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/gym2b.jpg).</p>

<p>And one of my [my</a> new chin up bar](<a href=“http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/gym2a.jpg]my”>http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/gym2a.jpg).</p>

<p>It’s a nice compact little set up. Carpet is a nice addition instead of a concrete floor. Not as much air circulation because it’s a lot smaller space, but I’ve got a good fan down there.</p>

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<p>Dang, BB. Feet elevated push ups are hard core. We’re gonna have to start calling you GI JANE. I can’t do 30 feet elevated push ups without stopping.</p>

<p>Nobody is ever going to accuse me of not going all the way down in a push up. My nose touches the exercise mat on every rep.</p>