<p>Did I mention that my fastest jogging interval today was when this song happened to pop up on my (broken) iPod playlist?</p>
<p>[Bootsy</a> Colllins – Do You Love Me – from the Funk Bros Motown house band documentary/concert](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>What a band.</p>
<p>" I try to stay out of the TJs as I don’t need more clothes."</p>
<p>LOL. They have a pretty good selection of men’s exercise clothes, women’s - not so much. However, I could not stay out of their swimsuit section that had some awesome Marc Jacobs, Juicy, and Trina Turk pieces. I needed a one-piece suit for more adventurous water activities, and now I’m set.</p>
<p>Day 1 of shoeless exercise. My arms are sore, but it feels good.</p>
<p>No, Deborah T, I’m not gonna get that stuff. My workout needs are pretty minimal – shoes and my ipod are essential; everything else is optional. And I’m not keeping score about a lot of things like you guys are – the major exception being my bone density, which I won’t get an update on until next April or so. So I just keep on doing what I’m doing, and let the chips fall where they may!</p>
I was pretty beat this morning - I haven’t played a match in about three weeks and I had forgotten how much of a beating the body takes in a match. Everything feels like it is working though.
I may try to see if I can get another match later this week.
<p>Back from a vacation week–entertaining family at our vacation home. I managed to workout once (created a portable workout from New Rules for . . ) and did a power walk 3x (interspersed faster pace with slow jog). Wanted to do more, but I find that unless I get up before everyone else–I get swept up in the activities of the day and don’t take time for myself. Also decided not to drink any alcohol for a month to see if it made a difference in weight. I don’t drink a huge amount (couple of glasses of wine 2-3 times a week) but it always seems like I end up drinking more when other people are around–especially if we go out for dinner. I was surprised at the reaction of my relatives when I didn’t order a cocktail before dinner–“why are you not drinking–are you sick”, etc. etc. After the first time, no one commented anymore, except for my sister-in-law who kept saying–“I guess you’re serious about this not drinking for a month.” LOL</p>
<p>VH–will you be on Antiques Roadshow TV program? I’ve always wanted to go to one of those sessions and have a few things that I consider treasure appraised. Congrats on the graduations.</p>
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<p>I’m guessing that they have a 10 to 1 ratio of female to male shoppers and the female stuff gets picked over a lot faster. To really be successful at those places, you have to stop by on a regular basis and grab it when your size is there. Men just don’t shop that way.</p>
<p>There’s a reason that TJs and Marshalls are in shopping centers with grocery stores!</p>
<p>I did end up buying a couple of workout shirts this spring. A very fancy day-glo yellow mesh NIKE running shirt, a red Columbia hiking tech shirt, and another electric blue adiddas (clearance rack for $7). Now that I’m doing my walking on roads with actual cars and stuff, I’m very happy to have bigger arsenal of bright, visible shirts. Although, I must say, this 5K route I’ve been doing is super nice. There’s only 3/10ths of a mile on the whole route with cars whizzing by – and that’s on a “country” road, just one that is narrow enough where cars at 45 mph are too close for comfort when an ol’ (formerly) fat guy like me is staggering along… :)</p>
<p>^^ Cars can be disconcerting, especially when you look at the driver and the driver is texting or putting on makeup!</p>
<p>Went running Sunday instead of yoga. Somedays I feel like running; then somedays I really look forward to yoga. I never thought they would go together (I always thought it was an either/or kind of thing) but there’s something about one that balances the other for me. Oh – and I watched the final minutes of the French Open – boy, were they noisy! She looked so happy when her opponent’s final shot hit the net.</p>
<p>Running and Yoga make a great combination. Running generally makes you tighter while Yoga (or some aspects of it) can loosen you up. Yoga also provides strength work to balance running’s more lower-body work.</p>
<p>Warm up which included 20 burpees</p>
<p>400 m sprint</p>
<p>5 rounds
25 14# wall balls
25 hand lift push ups</p>
<p>400 m sprint</p>
<p>Ended up doing the last half of push ups on my knees.</p>
<p>Warm Up 5 minutes on the elliptical</p>
<p>Workout
6-5-4-3-2-1
—Medicine ball throws (8# each side)
—KB Romanian Deadlifts (30# KB each side)
Alternate these two exercises…</p>
<p>6-5-4-3-2-1
—Diagnol Chops (each side)
—Vertical Pallof Presses (staggered stance, each side)
—Pallof Presses (each side)
Alternate these three exercises…</p>
<p>Each of these sets was done 6-5-4 without stopping and then 3-2-1 without stopping.</p>
<p>bromfield, No, I will not be on TV for Antiques Roadshow. Although I thought I did, it turns out I didn’t really bring anything interesting enough. :(</p>
<p>Day 4 of [workouts. As I’ve noticed before, even without increasing weights or anything, the workouts get a little harder. I think it’s because, as a get dialed into the exercises, I do them a little better and exert more energy. I don’t know.</p>
<p>I’m lovin’ the warmup routine. It has two of the best hip flexibility exercises I’ve ever done. And, all the high knees skipping and carioca and lateral shuffles across the parking lot behind my condo are a lot of fun – and I’m sure the neighbors think it’s a hoot… You’ve got the 16 year olds shooting hoops and the old geezer doing high knees skipping…</p>
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<p>Two exercises kicked my butt today. They are old favorites that I haven’t done in a long time and both hard as nails:</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube]T-push</a> ups](]New Rules of Lifting for Life[/url)
Wow, I collapse in a heap after five reps per side. I hope to see some progress with this one. I’m using 10 lb gray hex “prison” dumbbells.</p>
<p>[ValSlide</a> reverse lunges](<a href=“ValSlide Reverse Lunge - YouTube”>ValSlide Reverse Lunge - YouTube)
This is hard on the thigh of the front leg. Has a real balance challenge. And, is just plain harder than it looks. I have to take a breather after the 15 reps on the first leg and then do the second leg. I’m doing it with a 30 lb DB held in the goblet position.</p>
<p>3.25 miles, 9:06 pace. Did some home weights too. The run was surprisingly uneventful considering 2.5 hours of tennis yesterday. This morning I could barely walk when I got up but things got better through the day. It looks like I’m good to play tennis again - I’m not sure if my regular guy is though. Tomorrow and Wednesday will probably be rainy so looks like a few days of running.</p>
<p>I’m doing a lot more with kettlebells. Saw a woman at the gym last night who was really ripped doing a lot of intense things with them. She’s my new role model.</p>
<p>I’d have to start with a really low weight kettlebell. Otherwise I’d end up with me standing on one side of the room and the kettlebell with my arm attached to it on the other. 
Working on the upper body strength, but it’s definitely not my strong suit.</p>
Very humid, swampy run this morning. 7.1 sweaty miles in the bank. I am going to NYC for a legal seminar (I’m on a panel- ugh) for a few days but WildChild tells me I can catch the Hudson River Trail right at my hotel and run a long ways. It will have to be really early in the morning since this thing has required breakfast meetings…
P.S. I wore the Nuu Muu and it did well, even sweaty!
<p>Still hard at it here. Back from the cabin where I continued my 3 mile walks in the 90 degree weather…ish. Back is feeling good but knee is a little stiff and sore. Back to measuring my food. </p>
<p>Be careful with those kettlebells…that’s how I hurt my back when I upped weights and must have screwed up my form. Dumb me!</p>
Krispy Kreme in the kitchen this morning.
I’m at 14% carbs today so I skipped the donuts.
Did my stretching video, some abs work and some hamstring stuff along with home weights and pushups. I made sure to match Michelle’s count. I brought in my stuff for run this afternoon.
I received my MotoROKR S9 (previous version) and it is much nicer than the S10 - I will keep the S10 as a backup. The S9 is lighter and the buttons are easier to push and it fits better but the S10 looks a lot more durable. I guess I will just keep buying S9s (hopefully they last a year) until they come out with a model that’s light with good buttons and is durable (S11?).
<p>BCE- Is your company hiring? :)</p>