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<p>Definitely. Not just in the way you feel, but it has a noticeable impact on heart rate, too. It’s just plain harder in the hot weather. I laid off walk/jogging when we had the stretch of muggy weather. I’m so acclimated to Yankee weather now that it is really tough to handle that.</p>
<p>I have been amazed at how much water I’m drinking on these hikes. Like 4 liters.</p>
Love these [ripstop</a> pants](<a href=“Ripstop Pants | Shorts at L.L.Bean”>http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/74226?feat=6719-GN2&page=ripstop-pants).
So, I’ve been wearing a pair of these sale pants around the house this weekend. I sure wish I had discovered these a long time ago. Tech nylon ripstop fabric. They are as feather light, cool, breezy and close to wearing shorts as you can get without wearing shorts. Perfect for hiking, sightseeing, schlepping kids up to a college dorm room, yardwork, and all those other occasions where shorts are not enough (cool in the morning, too breezy along the coast, not quite dressy enough), but jeans or khakis are just too hot and heavy. They fit loose and baggy with some elastic in the waist. Two front pockets, two velcro back pockets, one zipper pocket in the front for a phone or keys.
<p>I picked up a long-sleeve Nike zip-neck shirt. It looks like it’s for running (vents, iPod loops, etc) but it doesn’t have the Nike Running thing on the inside collar.</p>
<p>They had some thermal running shirts too - I can’t imagine running in weather where I’d need to wear one of those.</p>
<p>The stock on Ts and shorts is very low.</p>
<p>Well done, ohio, well done! Congrats. I guarantee that your next 5K will be under 20. Just as MOfWC said, wait for the cooler temperatures.</p>
<p>idad, great pants! Gotta grab a pair for Mr B before they disappear!</p>
<p>I will be fighting weeds in the yard today. As I say, war on weeds is like war on drugs - you can’t win, but you can keep them in check and off your property.</p>
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<p>I’ve got a couple of the adiddas version. I find them pretty useful for layering. For example, I’ll wear one over a tech-T while I’m warming up for a workout in the winter and then take it off once I’m warm and sweaty. Same thing at the end of a workout. They were really useful when I was going to Planet Fitness, where the long sleeves were just enough to walk from the car to the gym. I’ve got one rolled up in the bottom of my hiking backpack right now as a long sleeve layer if I get wet or cold or windblown.</p>
<p>We had our race at a golf course and the golfers were upset that the runners had taken a lot of the closer parking spaces. I couldn’t help notice the difference between the golfer’s and runner’s physiques.</p>
<p>Were they using carts?</p>
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<p>You bet! Guess I shouldn’t make fun of golfers. It’s just that a cart and the 19th hole kind of defeats the (excercise) purpose?</p>
Burpee Fusion for me. 108 kettlebell swings (45 lbs) and 108 burpees. 22 minutes of hell. I’ve been doing this workout for over a year and a half now (thank you, Zuzanna). You would think it would get a little easier, right? But, it never does. I don’t know what I’d do without a big fan, a water bottle, and a sweat towel.
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Oh, I did find a tape measure to check how I’m doing on the men’s fitness bucket list:
[Fitness</a> Bucket List for Guys](<a href=“MSN”>MSN)
It’s official. I can only check off one of the five. I can touch my toes. Big whup.
I was so close on the waist to hips ratio, but even using the most generous possible technique on the ol’ tape measure, the best I could come up with was 81.1%. Oh well. I’ve got no shot at the others. I’ll never run a 6.5 minute mile. I’ll never bench press 1.5 times my body weight. And, 10 chin ups is a very remote possibility.
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<p>The easier it gets, the harder you push yourself making it harder! Keep it up! :)</p>
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<p>That is a big whup. I’m nine inches away from that.</p>
<p>BTW, if going to the supermarket is a a motivator, so is the beach. Family wanted to go to Hampton Beach (good to visit once if you’ve never been there) so we did a quick afternoon there.</p>
<p>Hampton Beach is a zoo. But, the coast road north of there up thru Rye Beach to Portsmouth is spectacular. I would love to walk/jog along that coast, but parking is just about impossible in the summer.</p>
<p>Well, it is a zoo, but it’s an experience too. We used to go up to York Beach but Hampton is less than an hour away and we don’t have to deal with traffic on 95. Walking on sand is a pretty good workout.</p>
I bet there aren’t 1 in 10,000 guys who can bench 1.5x their body weight. I think that one is a little unrealistic.
Before my back surgery I could touch the 1st joint of my fingers (the one next to the knuckles) to the floor. Not any more. 
6.5 minute mile - even when I was young I couldn’t do this. It will never happen now, my back doctor doesn’t want me to run.
10 pull-ups - I could do this at one time in my life, I think I could work my way up to it again.
Not sure I want to calculate the waist/hip ratio. I think it is under 1, but .8? Seems ridiculously low.
<p>IDad- I really think you could get to the 10 chin ups. You woukd build up to it just like you have all the rest of the stuff. You can get there if you want to bother.</p>
It’s at least conceivable, but 10 chinups is a very tall order for someone my age. I’ve done 5 (4 is my max right now), but they get exponentially harder as you add reps. I plan to keep doing chinups as an almost constant in my workouts, so we’ll see. At least it’s something I will try to work towards. I don’t do barbell bench press and I don’t do mile runs, so I have no shot at all on those two. I won’t make a crazy effort on chin ups (doing them every day and so forth) because that is a surefire recipe for soreness.
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On the ratio, we just need bigger butts, that’s all! Now, I know how to do that! 
<p>I don’t get the point of measuring your hip to waist ratio. I could do three unassisted pull-ups when I was in my 20s. Can’t do any now. (I do assisted ones when I am at the gym so that I’m pulling up about 80 pounds.) Our Y closes for a couple of weeks every summer so we went off to a different one today. (It’s much nicer and busier, but less convenient.) They have TRX stuff there, so I tried both the beginner and more advanced routines posted. I could do all of it except the stuff where you are on your back with your feet hanging in stirrups. I felt like I was in danger of pulling calf muscles so I didn’t do them. I like the planks with your feet in the stirrups though. Very effective and not quite so horribly boring somehow.</p>
<p>TRX plank for the win! That’s my go-to plank version. I just love the way you have to hold the plank and stabilize the feet in the stirrups.</p>
<p>The various hip exercises on your back with the feet in the straps are really tough. Boyle has a variation that I like better. Feet on floor, holding the straps in hands. This one is great for firing the glutes:</p>
<p>[TRX</a> Leg Curl - YouTube](<a href=“TRX Leg Curl - YouTube”>TRX Leg Curl - YouTube)</p>
<p>Carb-fest. Two ears of fresh sweet corn and my Middle Georgia style bar-b-q sauce (w sugar) with my grilled pork chops for dinner. So, no apple for dessert. Gotta go with the pepperoni snack…</p>
<p>Cals 1902
Fat 105 g
Carbs 134 g
Fiber 21 g
Protein 123 g
Sugars 36 g</p>
<p>48% fat
25% protein
27% carbs</p>
<p>Another 4+ miles for me today. I test-ran my new lilac Zella running dress, and I am happy to report that it deserves two thumbs up. It is very light and flowy, does not interfere with running in amy way, and looks awesome. I really wish it came in another fun color, I would have bought two (the other color option offered at Nordie’s was black - a pretty bad choice for running).</p>