Very interesting! I do farmers walk abt once a week. Dang hard!
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Absolutely! My weekly programming will typically have farmers carries, lunges, box jumps and/or box step-ups in it in some form or fashion.
What I never do are wall sits.
I do have one small quibble. If one has a healthy back, legs, etc., and the mobility and flexibility are there, then one’s “range of motion” may be able to go beyond 90 degrees in terms of an air squat. Whatever your body will allow you to do.
However, “just” a 90 degree squat is fantastic.
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More of a feel good article, but I loved this article this morning. I have a big soft spot in my heart for Michael Phelps. It’s good to see him doing well. And learning to swim is so important. I coached/managed our local Y team for 7 years in an area where many people don’t know how to swim. Our swim lessons are pretty mind blowing (coming from NOVA) when the lifeguards often don’t know how to swim properly. My goal for my kids (on the team, not just mine) was to make sure they could all swim the 4 strokes properly and have fun, not to produce an Olympian. Most days I think we succeeded. Our pool & practice time back then consisted of an ancient, gross, 4 skinny lane pool for 40-50 kids from ages 5-18, ranging from 1 step above drowning to one who actually was nationally ranked. It was a zoo, but nobody drowned, and most of the time we had fun…
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I also love this and I LOVE Michael Phelps. I agree that too many people don’t have access to learn how to swim and it’s SO important.
Our public school system is offering (at some schools) swimming lessons for 2nd graders. I think that’s wonderful.
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I was fortunate enough to live in a town with both an indoor and outdoor pool. Everyone took swim lessons as basic swim skills were a high school graduation requirement, yes we had swimming in PE.
Until I was an adult and lived in other places/ met other people I had no idea that was not a common experience! I really wish more people had access to pools and swim lessons.
My kids each spent many years on our community swim team. They were not top swimmers but it was a great experience for them.
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This is such a cool story! Forwarded to my former swimmer kid. She swam and played club water polo in college. One day, she invited her college boyfriend to a rec swim and learned that he couldn’t swim! She promptly became his swim teacher, and by the end of the school year, he could do all strokes quite well. He turned out to be a fast learner and a fast swimmer! He just didn’t have access to swim lessons when he was a kid, just like many kids in NOLA where he was from.
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New Orleans could be a place where knowing how to swim can be useful, in case of flooding.
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In college everyone had to take a swim test. if you failed you had to take lessons
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That was high school, not college, in my experience. High school made everyone take a swim test at the beginning of 9th grade. Those who did not pass had to have swimming lessons as their PE.
Presumably, this varies across high schools and colleges.
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Yesterday I was running outside and got a sudden, severe pain in the middle of my calf. It stopped me in my tracks but luckily my son was home and came to pick me up.
It didn’t feel like any muscle cramp or strain I’ve had before so I was confused. And then a painful red lump popped up along a vein higher on my calf. Back in May I had some procedures to treat venous insufficiency in that leg, but it’s been feeling great for several weeks.
I called my vein doctor and they thought it unlikely to be related to the procedures. They wouldn’t give me a straight answer about whether or not I should have it checked out. I hemmed and hawed and eventually my spouse got home and said “I’m taking you to the ER”.
I went to an ER I’d never been to (which was GREAT and much better than the one a block away from my house). They did an ultrasound and there were thankfully no deep blood clots (DVT), but several superficial clots (SVTs).
The clots could be related or unrelated to the sudden pain onset (maybe just a muscle strain?), but the clot that visibly popped up after the pain onset was definitely weird.
SVTs aren’t dangerous and go away on their own, but they sure hurt! I could barely walk yesterday. The doc was scratching her head a bit on what exactly happened which was also the reaction of an ER doc in my family. They said to follow up with PCP and repeat ultrasound in a couple weeks if it’s still bothering me. And of course return to ER for anything worse.
The main calf pain has improved a lot today but the visible clot is even more irritated. So my half-marathon training schedule is stalled for a bit. Long sigh.
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I’m glad you got it checked out! Crossing fingers it goes away sooner vs later.
I once got an ultrasound for suspected DVT. I had had dry needling done earlier that day, but it had all of the exact symptoms. I was in the middle of a movie and panicking, so I just left in the middle of the movie and went to the urgent care who had an ultrasound area. Fortunately it wasn’t dvt
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I’m sure that was a little scary. Glad you took some action to get it looked at.
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@ClassicMom98 - My son, who is NOT a runner, but a biker, decided he was going to run 15 miles last weekend. (At least he got good running shoes - when he decided to try 10 miles recently he did NOT have the right shoes). He was running somewhere in or very close to Baron Cameron (sp?) Park, which I’m guessing is your old stomping grounds. It reminded me of a story related to you, just running for many miles from Reston and back.
ETA - he did it at a pace of a little over 10 minutes per mile - seemed pretty good to me.
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I have been in Lake Tahoe all week, getting lots of exercise hiking, plus walking to dinner/lunch, and today to the “shopping area.”
Some pics
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Doing more than a half marathon at 10mph = 6 min/mile seems like it would be in the elite level, according to Half Marathon Run Times By Age And Ability - Running Level .
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Ooops - I corrected my post. He did a little over 10 minutes per mile, not 10 miles per hour.
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I don’t think I ever quite made it to the park, as I lived further south. For a longish run, I’d run up Reston Parkway (used to be Avenue) past Reston Town Center to the intersection of Baron Cameron. That was my turnaround point. But I never really trained for a marathon while I lived there! The one time I ran 40 miles, I started on the W&OD trail at Reston Town center and headed toward DC. But I worked at the Hyatt there… It was still a good 3-4 miles from my house…
But nice run for your S! Yay!
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FWIW, the 2nd half of the HIIT portion of my Friday program included three (3) rounds of 100 meter farmer carries (100m with each arm x 3) with one 70 lb kettlebell.
My grip got really difficult towards those final carries, especially since the 1st half of the HIIT included toes-to-bars.
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Wow that’s a lotta farmer carries! Is that 70 lbs on each arm?
As per the article posted above I should be carrying 75% of my body weight. I’m only up to 20 lbs each hand. Uber tough!
The workout called for just carrying one KB and switching hands at each 100m mark. But 100m is really long way. 
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