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hottiescientist
Cathlete
Good morning!
Couldn't sleep well last night and the cough came back hard. I'm just waiting for DH to wake up, but then I think I'm going to stay home and rest.
Vilma - have a good workout!
Couldn't sleep well last night and the cough came back hard. I'm just waiting for DH to wake up, but then I think I'm going to stay home and rest.
Vilma - have a good workout!
Boingo1
Cathlete
Hi Vilma!
Good Morning to you and all to follow!..
It is very COLD here too. 32 now, but it feels even colder (waiting for the bus to come!). Our thermostat is set conservatively at 64, and it's cranked on a LOT this morning...
My workout today is one I'm dreading: GS: LEGS. Big dread factor for me today, maybe because of those 200 lunges from Saturday?
BBL...got to get moving !!
Good Morning to you and all to follow!..
It is very COLD here too. 32 now, but it feels even colder (waiting for the bus to come!). Our thermostat is set conservatively at 64, and it's cranked on a LOT this morning...
My workout today is one I'm dreading: GS: LEGS. Big dread factor for me today, maybe because of those 200 lunges from Saturday?
BBL...got to get moving !!
bitmover
Cathlete
Hi Everyone! Hottie, what a bummer you're feeling worse again! And what is this with 90 minutes?! Isn't that nuts? Well, I guess it depends on how intense the last 30 minutes is.
I did PUB this morning -- fried my arms! I think I'm sort of afraid to do kbells only, well, plus, it's fun to do Cathe, let's face it. I'm really enjoying a rotation where I just have "cardio" marked on the calendar and I can decide what I want to do that day -- funny -- I guess if I get the strength training in order, it's fun for me to have some flexibility in the rotation.
Joanne, I forgot all about your waterpark excursion! Sounds like so much fun. We are so bad at getting the kids away for that kind of "organized" fun.
I think I have a fairly busy day ahead -- well, let's see -- but may not be back for a while. Have a great day!
-Beth
I did PUB this morning -- fried my arms! I think I'm sort of afraid to do kbells only, well, plus, it's fun to do Cathe, let's face it. I'm really enjoying a rotation where I just have "cardio" marked on the calendar and I can decide what I want to do that day -- funny -- I guess if I get the strength training in order, it's fun for me to have some flexibility in the rotation.
Joanne, I forgot all about your waterpark excursion! Sounds like so much fun. We are so bad at getting the kids away for that kind of "organized" fun.
I think I have a fairly busy day ahead -- well, let's see -- but may not be back for a while. Have a great day!
-Beth
Boingo1
Cathlete
Well I did it. It was tough for me. I thought about ending early several times. I did do a few less "one legged pull-ins on the ball". In fact, what I did of them were all "two-legged pull-ins". But I did everything else!
Iris: Every time I read about your workouts, I wish I'd were doing it too!
Hottie: Oh no! Did you end up doing that 90 mnutes yesterday? You need to take care of yourself and get well once and for all!!
Beth: I think mixing up some Cathe weights with KB's will be super challenging and confusing to your muscles. Great workout today!! The entire PUB is tough!
Bunch of stuff to do for me as well, today. But I'm procrastinating.. as always.
Will check back in later...
Iris: Every time I read about your workouts, I wish I'd were doing it too!
Hottie: Oh no! Did you end up doing that 90 mnutes yesterday? You need to take care of yourself and get well once and for all!!
Beth: I think mixing up some Cathe weights with KB's will be super challenging and confusing to your muscles. Great workout today!! The entire PUB is tough!
Bunch of stuff to do for me as well, today. But I'm procrastinating.. as always.
Will check back in later...
jojobean
Cathlete
Brrrr!! Today seemed like the official first day of winter. I think it's only about 20 degrees. And, Indiana got about a foot of snow, just about an hour away from us.
Today was GS Back, Shoulders, and Biceps. I'm going to do an itread during my lunch.
Chris, I'm dreading GS Legs tomorrow! Glad you got through it!
Beth, good job with PUB. Is your endurance better or can you left heavier on Cathe workouts after doing kettlebells?
Iris, have fun with your back work today! Have you noticed any results with the rotation?
Vilma, have fun with kbells and squeeze! Did you feel any DOMS from squeeze the other day?
Hottie, take care of yourself. I must have missed it yesterday, but did you do a 90 minute workout? Hope you are feeling better soon.
Zipfizz question....we went to Costco yesterday and I saw the box of Zipfizz and they also had some in canisters. The ones in the box said energy drink, I think and the canister one was immunity booster or some such thing. Anyway I got the ones in the canister (they were $10 cheaper), but I think I should have gotten the others. Chris, which kind do you use? The ones in the box said they had something like 41,000% of the daily amount of B12. That kind of scared me a bit!
BBL...
Joanne
Today was GS Back, Shoulders, and Biceps. I'm going to do an itread during my lunch.
Chris, I'm dreading GS Legs tomorrow! Glad you got through it!
Beth, good job with PUB. Is your endurance better or can you left heavier on Cathe workouts after doing kettlebells?
Iris, have fun with your back work today! Have you noticed any results with the rotation?
Vilma, have fun with kbells and squeeze! Did you feel any DOMS from squeeze the other day?
Hottie, take care of yourself. I must have missed it yesterday, but did you do a 90 minute workout? Hope you are feeling better soon.
Zipfizz question....we went to Costco yesterday and I saw the box of Zipfizz and they also had some in canisters. The ones in the box said energy drink, I think and the canister one was immunity booster or some such thing. Anyway I got the ones in the canister (they were $10 cheaper
), but I think I should have gotten the others. Chris, which kind do you use? The ones in the box said they had something like 41,000% of the daily amount of B12. That kind of scared me a bit!BBL...
Joanne
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hottiescientist
Cathlete
Hey guys,
I actually feel a lot better after a 45min nap. I think with all this fire crap in the air and us leaving the windows open resulted in my coughing fit. I was unaffected by the fires but pick a direction other than the ocean from my apt, there it was - fire.
I got in 80min in yesterday of light aerobic. I called stretching my toes for 10mins in bed my "yoga" workout. I'm trying this extra shock push because my bday is in ~ 6wks. Just trying to maximize.
I forgot to post this -I went to a fantastic talk yesterday. I had some issues with what I thought were flaws in the analysis/model, but it was basically an aging talk...what keeps us living longer and/or healthier. My lab showed this in yeast and mice, and this guy was doing this in human -- calorie restriction. It basically means smart dieting...you have to have high quality intake just less than what we thought originally. In yeast and mice we've expanded longevity almost up to 50% and this guy showed similar stuff in humans. But he was looking at a lot of things and he and I quibbled about calorie intake for athletes at the end. Other people brought up some other points like behavior changes (which they aren't measuring) and the difference between minimum requirements and recommended requirements for nutritional intake. But anyway, here was some info from the talk -- with some great statistical strength -- that I thought you guys might find interesting and motivate you.
1. Loss of excess weight has dramatic and positive effects on the body. This can be done through CR or exercise, it does not matter how you do it, but the body making the loss has positive effects.
2. The big one!! -- Removal of the fat through physical means (i.e., liposuction) does not give the same effect as #1. So, if your cholesterol ratios get better from exercising the fat off, you will not see if it a doctor sucks the fat off...immediately or even months after it. So, its something about the body's internal signaling during weight loss that helps regulate the numbers, not just the removal of the visceral fat.
3. Though it appears first that people on CR have much better health index scores (fasting glucose, cholesterol, etc.) than people who just exercise (but we're not sure how significant the change is), people who exercise process glucose MUUUUCH better that CR subjects did. This was one of the more interesting pieces of data at the talk because we were discussing why evolutionarily this would happen.
4. Too much protein can *possibly* change something called IGF levels in the body which has been an indicator of cancer. Now, from this, it was, how much is too much based on what activity and is it too much or is it the kind of protein. He showed data from vegans and just normal CR people and the vegans were doing a lot better than the normal CR people via the health indicators.
5. Processed and refined stuff = bad for you. Very strong data. It was the nail in the coffin. Started looking up last night how to change our lifestyles to get rid of as much of processed/refined stuff and started making lists.
So, not sure if I bored you but I thought it was pretty interesting yesterday.
Also -- re: zipfizz -- it seems that there is an immune booster, liquid shot, and something else. Which ones do you guys take?
Personals!!
Chris -- GS legs looks haaaaard. And didn't you just do a bunch of walking lunges? Crazy! Hope it warms up. I'm doing the exact opposite in my home right now. I have to A/C to put on when I workout (I only put it on when its warm or we're working out so we we don't get sick) because they're replacing it, so I'm trying to let the cool air come in and do it for free now so it won't get too warm later (if that made any sense!). But I'm keeping my mouth covered to not breathe in too much of the crap.
Iris -- that sounds like a really nice mix up. Have fun with that.
Beth -- like I said, I think its the air quality that's making the cough annoying. But mixed blessing. It's forcing me to stay home for a bit so that's nice...
Off to doze off again...
I actually feel a lot better after a 45min nap. I think with all this fire crap in the air and us leaving the windows open resulted in my coughing fit. I was unaffected by the fires but pick a direction other than the ocean from my apt, there it was - fire.
I got in 80min in yesterday of light aerobic. I called stretching my toes for 10mins in bed my "yoga" workout.
I'm trying this extra shock push because my bday is in ~ 6wks. Just trying to maximize. I forgot to post this -I went to a fantastic talk yesterday. I had some issues with what I thought were flaws in the analysis/model, but it was basically an aging talk...what keeps us living longer and/or healthier. My lab showed this in yeast and mice, and this guy was doing this in human -- calorie restriction. It basically means smart dieting...you have to have high quality intake just less than what we thought originally. In yeast and mice we've expanded longevity almost up to 50% and this guy showed similar stuff in humans. But he was looking at a lot of things and he and I quibbled about calorie intake for athletes at the end. Other people brought up some other points like behavior changes (which they aren't measuring) and the difference between minimum requirements and recommended requirements for nutritional intake. But anyway, here was some info from the talk -- with some great statistical strength -- that I thought you guys might find interesting and motivate you.
1. Loss of excess weight has dramatic and positive effects on the body. This can be done through CR or exercise, it does not matter how you do it, but the body making the loss has positive effects.
2. The big one!! -- Removal of the fat through physical means (i.e., liposuction) does not give the same effect as #1. So, if your cholesterol ratios get better from exercising the fat off, you will not see if it a doctor sucks the fat off...immediately or even months after it. So, its something about the body's internal signaling during weight loss that helps regulate the numbers, not just the removal of the visceral fat.
3. Though it appears first that people on CR have much better health index scores (fasting glucose, cholesterol, etc.) than people who just exercise (but we're not sure how significant the change is), people who exercise process glucose MUUUUCH better that CR subjects did. This was one of the more interesting pieces of data at the talk because we were discussing why evolutionarily this would happen.
4. Too much protein can *possibly* change something called IGF levels in the body which has been an indicator of cancer. Now, from this, it was, how much is too much based on what activity and is it too much or is it the kind of protein. He showed data from vegans and just normal CR people and the vegans were doing a lot better than the normal CR people via the health indicators.
5. Processed and refined stuff = bad for you. Very strong data. It was the nail in the coffin. Started looking up last night how to change our lifestyles to get rid of as much of processed/refined stuff and started making lists.
So, not sure if I bored you but I thought it was pretty interesting yesterday.
Also -- re: zipfizz -- it seems that there is an immune booster, liquid shot, and something else. Which ones do you guys take?
Personals!!
Chris -- GS legs looks haaaaard. And didn't you just do a bunch of walking lunges? Crazy! Hope it warms up. I'm doing the exact opposite in my home right now. I have to A/C to put on when I workout (I only put it on when its warm or we're working out so we we don't get sick) because they're replacing it, so I'm trying to let the cool air come in and do it for free now so it won't get too warm later (if that made any sense!). But I'm keeping my mouth covered to not breathe in too much of the crap.
Iris -- that sounds like a really nice mix up. Have fun with that.
Beth -- like I said, I think its the air quality that's making the cough annoying. But mixed blessing. It's forcing me to stay home for a bit so that's nice...
Off to doze off again...
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hottiescientist
Cathlete
awww..quiet day when I'm home alone.
So, I did the step portion of BM2 and followed by the elliptical (my body just couldn't handle the idea of the power circuits). I'm going to get some busy work (and going to Costco) done an then I'm going to do some kind of resistance training to get up to 90 minutes today. I still have the cough but its much better after I closed all the windows.
My husband is so foolish! He told me he wanted curry tonight (btw, I love how my midwestern-when-the-Anglo-met-the-Saxons-husband can't go on too long without having Indian food) but then neglected to tell me that he stuck the bulk pack of meat in the freezer without separating it. It takes forever to defrost (and he HATES it when you try in the microwave)! I don't understand why taking an extra five minutes of our life that will save us a ton of time later is that big of a deal. Men are just silly.
Joanne -- thanks for Zipfizz info. I think the one in the canister is like a multivitamin in a way. I'm probably just going to make the decision at Costco. I looked at all the things I'm going to buy...its going to end up being three digits. Oh well....
So, I did the step portion of BM2 and followed by the elliptical (my body just couldn't handle the idea of the power circuits). I'm going to get some busy work (and going to Costco) done an then I'm going to do some kind of resistance training to get up to 90 minutes today. I still have the cough but its much better after I closed all the windows.
My husband is so foolish! He told me he wanted curry tonight (btw, I love how my midwestern-when-the-Anglo-met-the-Saxons-husband can't go on too long without having Indian food) but then neglected to tell me that he stuck the bulk pack of meat in the freezer without separating it. It takes forever to defrost (and he HATES it when you try in the microwave)! I don't understand why taking an extra five minutes of our life that will save us a ton of time later is that big of a deal. Men are just silly.
Joanne -- thanks for Zipfizz info. I think the one in the canister is like a multivitamin in a way. I'm probably just going to make the decision at Costco. I looked at all the things I'm going to buy...its going to end up being three digits. Oh well....
bitmover
Cathlete
Re: zipfizz..... I have the drink mix that came in little individual tubes in a much bigger box.... I think that's probably the immunity booster. I know what you mean about the numbers scaring you, Joanne. I have to wonder if that high a concentration is just a waste (peeing them out) or --hopefully not -- bad for us. Whatever the zipfizz mysteries are, I am hooked! I drink them every time I work out now, unless I'm doing yoga.
Hottie, the info from the talk was very interesting and I'm glad you made the effort to post! While I'd heard some of the theory before, it was interesting to see the detail. The big thing I wondered from all that is whether or not I should bother with all the protein I try to consume.
Re: the kbells and strength vs. endurance..... well, when it came to PUB this morning, I did a little heavier than I did in the past. Mind you this was only my 3rd time ever doing PUB and the first time I was afraid to go very heavy. I think I pretty well matched Cathe this morning except for those darn biceps!
Have to get out of here and do some errands myself!
-Beth
Hottie, the info from the talk was very interesting and I'm glad you made the effort to post! While I'd heard some of the theory before, it was interesting to see the detail. The big thing I wondered from all that is whether or not I should bother with all the protein I try to consume.
Re: the kbells and strength vs. endurance..... well, when it came to PUB this morning, I did a little heavier than I did in the past. Mind you this was only my 3rd time ever doing PUB and the first time I was afraid to go very heavy. I think I pretty well matched Cathe this morning except for those darn biceps!
Have to get out of here and do some errands myself!
-Beth
