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Tough chick
Posts: 662 (03/20/09 8:08 AM) |
I was playing around with the 8lb free weights I have kicking around at home the other night, and I realized that I'm going to have to get heavier ones.
Too easy!
I've got a couple of weeks of intermittent gym-going coming up due to work travel. I always intend to work out at the hotel, but it never happens.
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Chickenier than thou
Posts: 1496 (03/20/09 8:17 AM) |
I always intend to work out at the hotel, but it never happens Hah, I know. I don't even bother bringing work out clothes with me anymore. No point in taking up suitcase space with sneakers I'm not going to wear. I am, however, almost back in the workout groove thanks to bringing my things to work with me. I say almost because it's only been a couple of weeks of going regularly. I'm feeling good about keeping that up. I've been doing mega-cardio, but need to fine tune my weight workout. It's been a little haphazard..this machine here, some free weights there; but not quite comprehensive enough. |
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Egg
Posts: 48 (03/21/09 9:28 PM) |
The foot that was broken back in June? FINALLY healed in February. I just started working out again this past week. Don't EVER get yourself a
pseudo-jones fracture. They take for freakin ever to heal!
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Just Another Smithie |
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Big clucker
Posts: 725 (03/22/09 6:50 AM) |
Geez Louise. What a hassle! I'm glad it finally healed up for you.
I set a goal to exercise 12 times in March. So far? Twice. 
Scratch the surface of any mother and you'll find Scarlett O'Hara chomping on that gnarly beet she'd just pulled out of the
ground. "I'll never go hungry again" seems to be the DNA-encoded rallying cry of many of us who never went hungry in the first place.
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Big clucker
Posts: 936 (05/12/09 3:57 PM) |
Personal records so far: barbell squat @ 125lbs and deadlift @ 155lbs.
It's what you do that makes your soul.
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Chickenier than thou
Posts: 1533 (05/13/09 4:22 AM) |
If you tend to get sore knees running/walking down hills, is there something that can be done exercise-wise that might make that happen less in the future?
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to always be one of the crowd. Christopher Morley www.life-suitcase.blogspot.com |
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Downy chick
Posts: 172 (05/13/09 2:25 PM) |
Some people wear knee braces. Yes, it looks dorky. But you do what you gotta do.
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Chickenier than thou
Posts: 1534 (05/13/09 10:24 PM) |
I was more wondering if there were exercises that could strengthen the area... I assume losing weight might help too.
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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to always be one of the crowd. Christopher Morley www.life-suitcase.blogspot.com |
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Big clucker
Posts: 915 (05/14/09 9:19 AM) |
Knee braces. Wear them even if your knees don't hurt, because soon they will. Running is terrible for them -- and don't take the wrong, I ran long
after my doctor ordered me not to, though I finally had to quit.
What might also help is building up muscle around the knees by doing weight exercises. If you don't have equipment, do squats and lunges and that sort of thing. It will help to protect the joints some. Another trick, if you can do it, is to walk down the steeper downhills, especially on hard surfaces, and run uphill and on the flats. That might not fit in with the hashing and stuff. But it will be just as good a workout and your knees will last way longer.
I wonder why coffee tastes so good when you're naked with your family.
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Tell Tishie your custom level!
Posts: 2507 (05/16/09 2:45 PM) |
ms chinook, When the knee I screwed up skiing starts hurting, I do lunges up and down my hall way. Just a few sets when I think about it. I find that
strenthening those big thigh muscles (surely they have a name?) helps my knee a lot.
I am very out of shape but considering signing up a swimming class. The problem is that the class if schedule to meet for 1 hour and 40 minutes four times a week. That seems really long for a swimming class. Frankly, that would have to be a 1/3 swimming, 2/3s floating class for me. |
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Tough chick
Posts: 615 (05/17/09 11:02 PM) |
Rajsh wrote:I've done all of that, but I still have problems with my joints - ankles more than knees, though. |
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Feathery chick
Posts: 336 (07/05/09 4:49 AM) |
Bumping this since I realy need to work out more. Has anyone used the fit program on Wii? I have a friend who has been doing this and pilates and she says its
great. I am not sure I have the discipline to do it on my own but i am thinking of giving it a try.
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Big clucker
Posts: 958 (09/09/09 9:02 AM) |
New personal record: barbell squat @ 155lbs.
I can't recommend The New Rules of Lifting for Women and the original New Rules of Lifting (for men) highly enough.
It's what you do that makes your soul.
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Big clucker
Posts: 961 (09/09/09 7:20 PM) |
And, my ego from last night is now punctured and deflated. I got stuck under the bar on the second rep of a pathetic 70lb bench press. Made yelpy noises until
some kind sir pulled it off me. Well, at least I know what my one-rep max is...
It's what you do that makes your soul.
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Tough chick
Posts: 652 (09/09/09 7:30 PM) |
Ouch.
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Big clucker
Posts: 963 (09/11/09 7:40 PM) |
Another shitty workout. Managed 145lbs on the deadlift, which is ten pounds less than my former max. And it tore my hands the fuck up and I couldn't grip
the bar long enough to finish my second set of the Romanian varietal (which requires you to sort of "present" your ass to the viewing public). And
when I tried "goodmornings" (where you shoulder the barbell like for a barbell squat and do a sort of bow) something screamed in my lower back. It
was real pain and not just muscle soreness, so I quit for the night before something fell off.
It's what you do that makes your soul.
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Big clucker
Posts: 972 (09/23/09 4:29 PM) |
Bench press is up to ~80lbs. Back still screaming when I move.
It's what you do that makes your soul.
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Just Another Smithie |
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Big clucker
Posts: 887 (09/24/09 12:10 PM) |
My gym went bankrupt.
My jeans don't fit. Aaaaaargh.
Scratch the surface of any mother and you'll find Scarlett O'Hara chomping on that gnarly beet she'd just pulled out of the
ground. "I'll never go hungry again" seems to be the DNA-encoded rallying cry of many of us who never went hungry in the first place.
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Ganymede is a history geek |
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Big clucker
Posts: 1014 (10/14/09 10:18 PM) |
So, I think I might have progressed too fast with the lower body work. My lumbar spine is unhappy with me and my... is it sacroiliac? area on both sides seems
to have walked out on strike.
I did some deep tissue stuff tonight with a tennis ball. It isn't dignified to apply your butt cheek to a tennis ball and scuttle back and forth on the floor, but damn does it seem to work.
It's what you do that makes your soul.
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