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<p>I had to go to YouTube to figure that one out. I threw my back out just watching the [url=<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmyyrv_gcxI]video[/url”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmyyrv_gcxI]video[/url</a>]. :)</p>
<p>This is fun:</p>
<p>[The</a> Pushup That Blasts Your Core | ThePostGame](<a href=“http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/training-day/201208/pushup-blasts-your-core]The”>http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/training-day/201208/pushup-blasts-your-core)</p>
<p>Works a bunch of different muscles than a regular pushup.</p>
<p>Yay on the new Brooks, iDad. Sounds like it was time! You might like Ravenna, too. Lighter but still with a little bit of guidance.</p>
<p>notrichenough:</p>
<p>That’s one of the exercises I did in the Amazing Abs workout. The only difference is that iPod nazi had me go from the back knee’s bent position straight forward and down into the bottom pushup position. Killer. I should try them again. I’ve also been doing one of Michael Boyle’s exercises – go down to the bottom of a pushup and hold it for 45 seconds. Wow. That’s hard. But, I bet I would be better at the core exercise you linked now.</p>
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<p>It doesn’t look like they make the Ravenna in wide EE widths.</p>
<p>Those look like fun pushups, notrichenough! Thanks for sharing.</p>
<p>Ran 4.1 miles - my usual loop. Too darn hot again! I should have waited for a couple of hours, but I have guests coming to dinner, so it was “run now or never”.</p>
<p>MOfWC, don’t underestimate your speed 
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<p>Looks up from pillow long enough to catch brisket, 12 miles, new torture pushup…</p>
<p>Short stint of weights at the Y today. Knees are a bit sore from tennis this week and I’m generally recuperating.</p>
<p>Yum. I had the country ham from Cracker Barrel for dinner (with some red-eye gravy) and a side dish of carbs and fiber (baby lima beans with butter). Counting a handful of pistachios for late night snack:</p>
<p>Cals 1894
Fat 115 g
Carbs 117 g
Fiber 33 g
Protein 95 g
Sugars 17 g</p>
<p>55% fat
25% carbs
20% protein</p>
<p>Like pistachios. Yummy. I rarely make it out of Trader Joe’s without a bag.</p>
<p>Of course I only make it in TJ’s every so often, usually when I’m in need of laundry detergent…</p>
<p>I wish I had a doctor like Mary Vernon:</p>
<p>[Low</a> Carb Explained - YouTube](<a href=“Low carb explained - YouTube”>Low carb explained - YouTube)</p>
<p>20:18 5k today. Missed it again by 18 seconds. Anyone know if any downhill short 4.9 k races!</p>
<p>A former manager at the race I ran told me about a race in his town that is all downhill. I asked him how you get back to the start if it isn’t a loop. He told me that they bus runners back to the start. It sounded a bit like cheating to me but it’s probably a way to set a PR.</p>
<p>Free donuts, biscuits and mini-muffins at Market Basket this morning. The muffins are in chocolate and vanilla. Feels like the office.</p>
<p>Brisket. Yum.</p>
<p>BC, I have a solution for you. Become a little OCD. When you see the communal food offerings, think germs. At the supermarket, imagine feverish children just having coughed all over the sample plate. </p>
<p>I’m sure John Tesh must have something on this…</p>
<p>Ohio, I like the creative thinking. ;)</p>
<p>Still a good 5K, ohiopublic! Wait until cooler weather. You’ll get it.</p>
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<p>Been there, done that. It fades with age.</p>
At home workout this morning – stretches and mini-weights.
Temperature sure does make a difference. I was surprised I accepted the water cup and took a gulp at the mid-point in the 5K on Friday. It was maybe six to eight degrees warmer than when I usually run, and I really felt it on the way back in the no shade stretches, facing into the sun. Usually I’m fine without drinking any additional water on the way for a workout run that length.
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<p>The grocery store is one big exercise in fat food avoidance for me. I have to “get in the zone” when I walk through the door or all those displays of red twizzlers and junk in the main aisles would lure me in like a Siren call. Fortunately, the grocery store is a great place to be confronted by the obesity epidemic in America, which helps me stay focused as I make my circuit around the perimeter and avoid the poison aisles in the middle of the store.</p>
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<p>Wow. 20 minutes for a 5K is flying. Congratulations, even if it is 18 seconds more than you wanted!</p>
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<p>Yeah, I was counting the number of people that weren’t overweight this morning. Not very many.</p>