All set for surgery on Friday for the hernia. I guess one good thing is this surgery finally made me actually go get blood tests, urine test and EKG. Everything came back normal and good. I am not diabetic. I was never tested for it in the last 5-7 years. I am sure at one point I was.
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Hoping all goes well with the surgery.
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Slam dunk. You got this!
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Fingers crossed for an uneventful one!
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Hope the surgery goes well and you can put that hernia behind you!
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Glad you had a good checkup. Good luck with the surgery!
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Hope the surgery goes well
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@gpo613 hoping the surgery went well. Thinking of you.
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That was me at the end of week 2, a little discouraged. But I’ve hung in there, followed the training plan, and the runs have gotten progressively easier and faster.
The event (I refuse to call it a race) is only a week away and I’m ready!
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Rooting for you!
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I’ve now biked to pickleball twice this spring. And today I got back to “bike commute” for running. In both cases, tis only about 3 miles round trip. But I like having the variety of movement. Well that and the nice weather (after snow yesterday, now melted) meant parking spots were tight.
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Surgery went well. They were able to do it laparoscopicaly, so I just have 3 stab wounds. They didn’t have to use stitched to close me up just glue. I am a little tender, but feel pretty normal overall. I will stay off the elliptical until at least Sunday for sure, but I will do some walking this week starting today. I didn’t do anything for the last 3 days and I am going a little crazy.
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Glad to hear you are doing well. Walking sounds like a good start. Hope you are getting some nice sunshine to make it pleasant.
Great news. Laparoscopic surgery is a wonderful option.
Glad to hear things went well.
I’m sick right now and the doctor told me not to work out. I hope to start back tomorrow as today is Day Three, and I, too, want to get back to it.
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I understand this mentality well. One day off and I’m going crazy already.
I’ve been “under the weather” lately for what seems like a month. Seems like I was sick a month ago and then again, last week and this week. No time for the weary, since I’m competing soon and then there’s the Murph competition on Memorial Day, so I did some Murph prep last Saturday.
Right now, I’m trying to figure out my “openers” or what I’ll lift in my 1st of 3 lifts in each of the squat, bench and deadlift. I would love to beat my previous best total weight lifted and I’m about 12-13 kgs (or 27-28 lbs) away from moving up a class. However, as usual, my deadlift is going to be the determiner of my overall success/goals.
The deadlift is the bane of my existence. Such a simple lift and yet, well…
I’m in the process now of tapering off (reduction) both my running and lifting to hopefully get my body in a recovered condition or as close to it as possible for the comp.
ETA: I don’t consider myself a powerlifter, and folks in the gym keep reminding of that fact. Yesterday’s HIIT was a 1 treadmill mile run, 30 handstand pushups followed by a 2,000m row.
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I had what may be the longest HIIT workout of my life last night. As pictured in the heart rate graph below, there are 22 intervals – each 1 minute on / 1 minute off, in addition to working running prior the intervals + cool down. Peak HR during the intervals is ~190.
In this workout, I intended to increment the treadmill by an additional 0.5% with each interval, so by 20th interval I was running at 10% incline. However, somehow I lost track, so I ended at 22 instead of my planned 20. The workout itself was surprisingly unchallenging. Getting more sleep than usual may have contributed. I expect there were also other favorable factors, such as hormonal or blood sugar. I typically have an attentiveness decline ~2 hours after this type of workout while recovering. This time I did not I remained at peak mental performance for rest of night.
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What’s a ‘handstand pushup’? (I can do both but not together…?!)
Three ways to do it:
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Not facing the wall:
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Facing the wall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxgJS48wf1M -
The final method is not to use a wall at all, which I cannot do. IIRC, I think @ClassicMom98 can do them w/o using a wall.
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Thanks for the demos. And here I was thinking I was accomplished doing a few handstands a week (facing away from wall). Always good to have a new challenge!
@ClassicMom98 - is this your jam? Amazing if so!
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