Diet/Exercise/Health/Wellness Support Thread

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<p>Is there an elevator hidden behind the cliff?</p>

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<p>Sure would be good for the glutes, though.</p>

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<p>That reminds me of a nightmare I had once.</p>

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<p>Reminds of the hike I did at Angel’s Landing in Zion.
It was a little nerve-wracking, not because I was worried about myself, but I kept having a terrible feeling I would be witnessing some one else plunging to their death. Which, fortunately, did not happen!</p>

<p>[Narrow</a> section of Angels Landing | Flickr - Photo Sharing!](<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/sudweeks/3563522521/]Narrow”>Narrow section of Angels Landing | Narrow, but there are ste… | Flickr)</p>

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<p>So if you had to pick one, which would it be – Mt. Morgan, Angels Landing, or Zorb?</p>

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<p>is zorb that weird ball you put yourself in and roll down hills with?</p>

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<p>That would be it, and no, I haven’t tried it, lol.</p>

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<p>That looks truly frightening. I’m scared of heights and would really struggle on that one.</p>

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<p>On the NH hike, I’m not as concerned with the ladders as much as the “ledges” just above them:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.danbalogh.com/photos/nh-morgan/nh-morgan-12.JPG[/url]”>http://www.danbalogh.com/photos/nh-morgan/nh-morgan-12.JPG&lt;/a&gt;
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<a href=“http://www.danbalogh.com/photos/nh-morgan/nh-morgan-14.JPG[/url]”>http://www.danbalogh.com/photos/nh-morgan/nh-morgan-14.JPG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Fortunately, there is a “wimp bypass” route that skirts the whole thing, starting at the bottom of the ladders.</p>

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<p>I hiked my favorite kind of trail tonight, after H left for the airport & S went back to campus. It’s up and down hill in a park following a creek bed, crossing it on flat rocks at several places. It’s such interesting walking, and I like to go rapidly cause I’m good at gauging where to put my feet. I’d rather do it alone cause DH, (bless his heart) is sort of slow. I don’t want him to twist an ankle cause I sure couldn’t drag him out of there, so going it alone is fine with me. :)</p>

<p>Of course, all that going downhill to the creek is necessarily followed by the same amount of uphill back to the car. :smiley: I could feel the burn in my glutes.</p>

<p>And I got doggie doo-doo on one shoe. Didn’t smell it til I was back in the car with the windows closed…</p>

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<p>Doggie do and sore glutes! A workout can’t get any better than that, can it? :)</p>

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<p>I fell behind and I’ve caught back up. We’ll see how I feel tomorrow!</p>

<p>-50 KB swings (30#)
-25 KB swings (30#)
-25 KB swings (30#)
-50 Single arm KB Swings (20#)
-50 Single arm KB Swings (20#)
-50 KB swings (20#)
-20 KB swings (20#)20 Single arm KB swings (20#) 10 KB Swings (20#)</p>

<p>I did some other assorted cable work in between sets of KB swings. I also spent some time doing some Graston Technique around my left elbow after a set of swings. At one point, I was getting some tingling down into my fingers from the ulnar nerve. Then I ice massaged the elbow when I was done. Isn’t it great to have the tools on hand to fix myself? ;)</p>

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<p>4.1 miles, 35 min easy run. Now gotta glue my rear end to the chair for some more reading of the really boring book.</p>

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<p>Completed Day 5 of 100 KB swings. Did spinning on Saturday and spent Sunday in the garden. Did lots of transplanting, which is tough on a hot day. Planned to walk, but after 5 hours of digging and moving and playing in the dirt, I was beat.</p>

<p>IDad: Great photos of your hike! I’m picking up my D from camp in NH where she’s been teaching in th drama program. Same camp she started as a camper and went on to counselor and program director, etc. Plan is to get up there early so that we can climb Mt. Chocorua. A few years ago we did Mt. Washington.</p>

<p>CJane: Those steps in your photo look tough. I though the Mist Trail (Vernal Falls and Nevada Falls at Yosemite) were challenging. These are the steps at Vernal Falls (it was wet when I went last spring). </p>

<p>[Mist</a> Trail steps to Vernal Fall | Flickr - Photo Sharing!](<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/thomaspix/4635807528/]Mist”>Mist Trail steps to Vernal Fall | Thomas Kriese | Flickr)</p>

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Ooooh. Thumbing thru my guide to hiking in the White Mountains, that looks fantastic! Maybe just a bit out of my league this summer at 7.25 miles round trip and 2200 feet of elevation gain. I did 6.5 miles and 1600 feet of elevation yesterday and that’s, realistically, all I’ve got. I was hurtin’ for the final mile or two. But, just doing the 3 mile round trip to the falls halfway up that hike would be fun. And, I hope to get a little stronger and faster at this hiking stuff as I do a little more of it. So maybe that will be a target for next summer.

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<p>Wow, pretty soon we will be talking about rock climbing here! ;)</p>

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<p>Well, maybe some of you will be. For me, I’ll stick to my local 1,000 nature preserve of relatively flat terrain with my dogs.</p>

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We hope to retire out in Arizona or perhaps southern Utah or New Mexico. We just feel physically good in high desert country and we absolutely love the hiking. You can really see the “bone structure” of the land. When we vacation in the Southwest (love Tucson especially) we seem to hike a great deal, especially in the early morning, swim just before an evening cocktail at the hotel pool, then eat a ton of great Mexican food – but still lose weight! Nirvana.

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Back from NYC trip and happy to say I got in some great walks. Thanks to MOWC D2 ran and H and I walked some beautiful areas. The walk along the Hudson was just wonderful as was Central Park. We did the Hudson River in the rain on Friday and we were almost by ourselves. Returned here several times as it was right by the hotel. On Saturday we walked over 10 miles and I now have blisters on the bottom of my feet! Guess I wore the wrong shoes! :wink: Also walked back and forth on the Brooklyn Bridge. Great place to get in some walks! Thanks again MOWC!!! D2 is starting to have some hip pain from her long runs as she trains for a fall marathon. Icing and stretching not helping much. Any one have suggestions to combat this?

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<p>I took an Advil yesterday evening as there was a moderate amount of pain and soreness. This morning, sore along the back of the right thigh - probably due to serving. A little back soreness too. No abs soreness - which probably means I wasn’t hitting my serves hard enough. I took another Advil this morning and feel okay at the office. Tennis is a tough workout.</p>

<p>I’m back to running mode this week. I also received our team roster - a bit less than 1/2 of our usual count. I need to get back to tennis two times a week to get my body back into decent tennis shape. I also need to get my racquets straightened out - I had them all set and they got restrung with the wrong stuff and I’ve been tinkering to try to counterbalance and it’s been driving me nuts going back and forth on setups. I should just cut out the strings and get the right stuff put in.</p>

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They put a couple of ladders into my regular hike. Nothing has long as in those pictures! It made the trail much, much easier.