Pentagenarians & Beyond: W/B 3/7

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getting us started..

I did stacked upper body and x train abs yesterday. nothing yet today.
we need to do a short shopping trip. need new bike helmets and I want to try them on first. there is such a range of opinions and so important a helmet is comfortable. there is a load of new protective technology really for several years now and we haven't updated. our helmets must be 20 yrs old and are wearing out. padding doesn't stay in place etc. overdue on this. peoples head shapes vary so what fits for one person wont for another most sizing is small/medium/large. best to try on. prices go from $45 to hundreds. my helmet has taken some hits, and plastic degrades over time in the sun. off to REI to see what fits.

Cathy that is terrific you finished that section of STS. be proud! its a long term commitment. I would like to do it again but keep procrastinating.
 
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Hello. Today is a rest day. I don’t have any side effects from the vaccine but I planned an easy day just in case.

Hello to everyone and have a wonderful day.
 
This morning I did Live Warrior Kickboxing which includes a core workout. It's a fun, fast moving workout. Now I'm just continually running through my mental list of things to do before I leave in the morning. Derek discovered this morning that his drivers license is missing, so unless it shows up, we'll be figuring out how the best way to get him a new one.

Valerie great job on Stacked Upper Body and XTrain Abs. I hope you are able to find a comfortable helmet. Definitely an important item.

Carolyn glad to hear that you haven't had any side affects from the vaccine. I'll be looking into getting something set up soon, as my group comes up soon.
 
Today I did Cardio Party for 39 minutes and 279 calories burned. My average heart rate was 133 and maximum heart rate was 160.

Cathy, great job with Live Warrior Kickboxing. I hope that your trip goes well and that you enjoy the time with your sons.

Hello to Judy, Deb, Valerie, Diane Sue, and Lori.
 
Did a 36 min spin premix from x train. also threw in a few sets of bicep curls using the new bands, and two sets of knee push ups. going to mt bike today leaving shortly as waiting for the frost layer to melt off.
so I need to brag a little. I had a derm appt, a full skin check that I get because I had the teeny squamous cell on my leg a couple years ago. have not had any more. when she was checking my arms i realized there is no skin flapping or hanging. for an old lady, my arms look darn good. sorry my birthday is coming up and age crosses my mind more than usual. I will keep up what I've been doing which is very regular upper body workouts but nothing long or involved. I've been grabbing a few minutes to do bicep curls or dips when I don't have time for a full workout and it pays off.

everyone I've talked to has had good experience with the vaccine. no down day after. we still have no word on our second dose. the county seattle is in , just south of here, reported shortages of the second dose and that seems to be what happened here as well. it would be nice if there was a formal announcement so we don't feel overlooked or forgotten.
oh yes ....cardio party... I need to revisit that one. afraid I will not ever feel good about it, but I have saved the tutorials and will look at them before trying again.

Cathy have a good trip. for regular trips, like we make, we printed up a checklist to check off before we leave. mostly we remember , but can save a lot of frustration. we keep a list at each house and run thru it just before leaving. we add/cross things off as needed. sometimes the most obvious things get left behind. once we had driven an hour and a half when DH realized he'd left his wallet on his desk. we had to turn around and go back. another time when leaving MT..... drove for 4 hours and realized the trash bag was still in the kitchen. duhh!! both things are on the list even tho we never forgot them again.

did a mt bike this morning in the sun. lovely out!. 97 minutes. a little longer time than usual since they were graveling a road and we had to walk a couple sections that were loose gravel.
 
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Today I did CDorner Step British Invasion which was fun, but she made some mistakes and was moving pretty quickly with some moves. I accidentally stepped on my own shoe crossing feet and tripped and hit my hip on my weight stand with weights. Sheeesh!. Anyway, I really liked this workout and the music and will do it again till I get it down and can ignore the mess ups and keep going. This was 71 minutes(64 actual as I had to set my grandson up with zoom in the middle) 275 calories, heart rate 98/135, 6,241 steps. I then did CDorner Abs with a pillow, 20 minutes heart rate 92/101, 30 calories, 118 steps. Total time 91 minutes, 6,546 steps, 305 calories. She stopped the cardio in the middle of A Hard Days Night and changed the music because it was throwing her off. This step workout had more choreography than her others. She has a lot that are basic step with fun music and builds on moves throughout the workouts so you pick up on the moves. I don't know how she concentrates on the moves anyway as she talks to people while she is working out and answers their comments as this is a youtube workout channel.
 
Hi Everyone,

Friday I did Muscle Endurance and this weekend I did Peloton rides and a Peloton upper body workout.

Valerie-I’m very sorry about your cousin.
I hope you are able to get your second vaccine soon. Thanks for the reminder about bike helmets. We need to get new ones this year too. Nice job with the arm workouts and seeing the benefits of them. That is something to be proud of.

Carolyn-That’s great that you got your second shot and didn’t have side effects. Most of the people that I talk to haven’t had bad side effects. It’s reassuring to hear that. Hopefully we will be getting ours soon. You should try Hokas. I think you would like them.

Cathy-Congrats on finishing STS Meso 2! I was happy to see that we will be eligible for the vaccine after 3/22. We are on a list with our doctor and with Meijer to be notified as soon as they have openings.

Diane Sue-The British Invasion step workout sounds like fun. Probably a little too advanced for me but I will try one of her other workouts soon. Good luck with your move. I hope it’s not too stressful. The new house sounds very nice.

Hi to Deb & Lori,
 
great news this morning. yesterday at 4 pm we got a notice of vaccine available today, appt at 9:30 at the drive thru site. I am so happy! yes!! want to get this DONE. short notice for sure, but that beats "no notice" by a frigging mile. now we are deciding if we can still do a MT trip. want to make tomorrow a rest day in case either of us doesn't feel well. I still remember shingles shot #2. .... not a pleasant night and day. DH and I were working on the computer at the time so we were on that site in a microseconds.
so strange all the different approaches to getting everyone vaccinated. we will still be masking and avoiding most close contact for the next months for sure,.

thank you all for the condolences. he was a very nice man and pretty much the only relative I had contact with after leaving wisconsin. he visited here once for dinner and I connected with him a few times when we both were traveling for work. we had lunch with him and his wife( his wife is terrific too....) after my mothers funeral and went to their house. he was my fathers family, very few people. they have a scholarship fund I can donate to rather than wasting money on flowers. flowers are especially silly now, with basically no in person events. they will stream a service. I would not travel right now by plane and too long a drive.
a lovely day out today so i feel bad I will miss a ride or a ski. we had a ski planned but that changed abruptly.

ETA we got our shots and are back home! what a relief to finally be done. trying to figure out how to proceed. too many choices for the next few weeks, each with an upside and downside.
 
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Today I did X Train Supercuts for 48 minutes and 301 calories burned. Average heart rate was 130 and maximum heart rate was 155. This workout has the alternating sit outs that I can‘t do very well. I modified those to a standing Ab move.

Valerie, that’s wonderful news about your vaccine appointment today. Now you can move forward with your plans. It’s nice to notice those firm arm muscles with no jiggle! Great job with your consistent upper body work.

Diane Sue, great job with CDorner Step British Invasion and CDORNER Abs.

Judy, you are doing great with the Peloton rides. Nice job with Muscle Endurance.

Hello to Deb, Lori, and Cathy. Have a wonderful day everyone.
 
Carolyn, its not exactly 'no jiggle" but very little jiggle.

I did not feel well yesterday afternoon. this was about 6 hours after the vaccine. got feverish, and achy, with a headache. I chalked this up to a strong immune response, part of the process. I was planning a workout, but cut it short with dips, push ups, curls, tricep push ups and x train abs. went to bed very early and slept ok, though DH could not sleep. so I would not plan a heavy day for the rest of the day following the vaccine. might be just fine like after the first one, or less than fine.
 
This morning I did Cardio Slam, no mat cardio premix. That was 34 minutes and 219 calories burned. My average heart rate was 127 and maximum heart rate was 153.

Valerie, I know that you must be relieved to have the vaccine done. Like you, I will not make changes to my behavior, but that extra layer of protection is reassuring.

Have a wonderful day everyone.
 
Today I did CDorner Hip Hop Tabata, 34 minutes, 139 calories, heart rate 97/134, 3,371 steps. This was another fun one. I recognized a couple of the songs, but have not been a real hip hop fan. I know I burned more calories than that. I should see if I still have the Blaze upstairs. I don't think I packed it yet. I followed this with the first half of a phone rolling workout which was nice as that portion worked upper back/ lats. This was 14 minutes, 12 calories, heart rate 78/97, 12 steps. Total time 48 minutes, 151 calories.
 
Monday & Tuesday I did short Peloton rides after work. Yesterday I did Rock'm Sock'm KB with the Blizzard Blast and Muscle Meltdown Back.

Valerie-I'm glad you were able to get the second vaccine. I hope you feel better today.

Carolyn-Great job with Supercuts & Cardio Slam.

Diane Sue-Great job with the Hip Hop Tabata workout. I'm sure you burned more calories than that. It's frustrating when you have a watch that isn't giving you accurate information. One of my Garmins was doing that with indoor cycling workouts. It was saying I only burned something like 200 calories for a 90 minute ride. I ended up changing the workout setting from indoor cycling to other cardio and then it started giving me more accurate numbers.
 
This morning I did Pyramid Upper Body (Intensity series), up only premix. My time was 49 minutes with 266 calories burned. Average heart rate was 122 and maximum heart rate was 260.

Diane Sue, nice job with CDorner Hip Hop Tabata. Does she name her workouts based on the music that she uses? British Invasion sounded like The Beatles.

Judy, I started to do Rock’m Sock’m yesterday, but decided to do another type of cardio. That’s one of my favorite kickboxing workouts and I do it often. Great job!

Valerie, I hope that you are feeling better today.

Have a great day everyone.
 
Back and way behind with everyone's comments for the week. I have not been sleeping well at all, so it's a good thing it's my rest week from STS. Monday morning I did or shall we say attempted to do Party Rocking' Step 1, and lack of sleep really did a number on my brain, I got through the first four combos which were not pretty, the fifth was a disaster and I stopped at that point. Tuesday I did Live Quick Fix Cardio, then yesterday, I ended up not working out and sleeping till about 6:30 and headed for home about 8. Had rain for 3 or so hours, but it could have been worse. Talked to my sister for an hour or so as she was heading to the Condo in NC. They sold it and bought a house up there, so they'll be packing and moving over the next couple weeks. It was crazy, they ended up with a bunch of bids and got a cash over for $35,000 over asking price. LOL

Spent Monday evening with Nick and got his taxes done. Derek had more free time I Tuesday so we decided to go climb Sugarloaf. Turned out Nick had enough free time to do that, so he got home from the hospital (internship) changed and grabbed food to bring along. The sign by the entrance says it's technically closed for the season, and climb at your own risk, but they didn't block the drive and there were others there. The temps have been warmer up there lately, so everything has been melting and refreezing, and it was definitely pretty slippery in places. Some of the stairs had so much snow there was barely a place to step. We did take the easier route up, but even that has areas with lots of rocks and trees roots alternated amongst the ice. I had them go down ahead of me on the way down, so I'd land on them and not the other way around! :D Derek was the only one who went down, right on his butt, so of course, Nick and I had to take pics to share. We're kind like that.

Valerie glad to hear you got your second vaccine! I'm on lists for the health department and Meijer and I bookmarked a site where you can see what pharmacies near you have appointments available. Technically my group doesn't come up for a week and a half yet.

I'll try and get back in the swing of things tomorrow.
 
I'm totally fine, was Ok by yesterday. not everyone gets any side effects but to be careful... don't plan big things later the same day or early the next day.
we tried to xc ski this morning and a total waste of time. solidly frozen icy ruts that we did not want to drive up. we didnt waste time with another location but drove straight home, loaded the road bikes and rode the local paved trail for 15 miles and about 90 min. first road ride in a while, some some adjustments needed, so took longer than usual. cold to start but warmed up fine. we bought new helmets last week and first time with them. mine is good, DH thinks his is too small. our helmets were pretty old and the plastic degrades after a long time in sun. you want your helmet to work well if you fall on your head. at one time, when learning mt biking, I fell a lot. my helmet took some hits.

Cathy there are traction devices for walking on ice less hazardous. Microspikes! they stretch and fit over your normal shoes or boots. probably not worth the expense unless you do this regularly. when I bought them they were $35. cost more now because they got popular.

hiking poles help also. us regular hikers do whatever to make things easier and safer. side bonus is your arms get a good workout instead of hanging down doing nothing useful.

https://www.rei.com/product/890608/kahtoola-microspikes-traction-system these are serious equipment and will get you over or down almost everything. as you probably found out, going downhill is riskier than going up. we use these instead of crampons... crampons are overkill for hiking. we had a few hikes that needed crampons, used them a few other times but microspikes are easier on/ off and make it safer going uphill and down. They’re about $70 now but way cheaper than a visit to an emergency room. a little like yaktrax but better. you do not want to negotiate an icy parking lot, and then go into a store with any of these.

Supercuts keeps coming up. I know I have that one as part of a series I think but I don't remember doing it.
 
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Today I did not get a workout in. I had an appointment with my heart doctor and an appraiser come out later today. Maybe tomorrow, but I do have an electrician coming to do some work with the switch box in the garage. For some reason someone had spliced a wire or something in it. We never had a problem though.
Here is a link to CDorner's youtube channel. She has a website as well. Her workouts are all free. There are short step learning demos as well. I like her stretching and mobility workouts as well.
CDornerFitness - YouTube

Carolyn, some of CDorner's workouts use a specific title like disco, hip hop etc.. Many of them say with fun music. She has ones that are 80's as well. British Invasion had a variety of British music including Beatles. I have done some with Micheal Jackson, Janet Jackson, a lot of familiar fun tunes. She has step, no equipment, kickboxing, weights, a bit of everything and also uses a variety of equipment.

Valerie, I am glad to hear that you are better today.

Judy, that is interesting that just changing the settings to a different type of workout made a difference. I don't think that would work with Fitbit. I never notice a difference at all with the different workout settings. I pulled out my Blaze watch that was not great, but better than the Versa 2. I charged it and am going to see if they match. There is nothing worse than working out hard for 90 minutes and getting 200 calories out of it. I am glad changing settings worked for you.

Cathy, it sounds like your sister got a great deal. I bet the climb was fun with your sons. Plenty of exercise as well.
 
I decided to take a rest day today. I had an early dental appointment and I didn’t feel like rushing around to fit in a short workout.

Cathy, I’m glad that you were able to hike with your sons. Sounds like you had a good trip.

Valerie, Super Cuts is a part of the X Train series. It’s not one that I have used much for some reason.

Diane Sue, I’m sorry that your Fitbit Versa 2 is such a problem for you. Have you ever contacted the company about your problem? Maybe it’s defective and they need to send you a replacement.

Hello to Deb, Judy, and Lori.
 
Carolyn, that's why I got reminded. I've been doing x train abs and use the disks I don't use for their main workouts, supercuts is one of them. I should give it a try. I don't remember it at all. how hard is it? I

went mt biking this morning and it was lovely. 90 min. sat in the sun for a while by a lake. warm sunny, and a load of migrating ducks returned to the lake we ride by. none there 2 days ago. teals, buffleheads, and my favorite hooded mergansers. they are so beautiful.

cousin's services were held yesterday and I participated online via u-tube. interesting process but much better than trying to fly there.
 
Today was shopping so I did 40 minutes of Love Me Some Cardio Kickboxing and stretched. Lots of spring bird activity here. The Sandhill Cranes spend a few weeks in the fields in this area on both their northern and southern migrations. They weren't gone very long this year as they didn't leave until into December and I saw the first ones back nearly 2 weeks ago. Plus all the black birds have returned: Grackles, Male Red-wings and Cowbirds.

Valerie it was good that you were able to view the funeral service. In general, I don't find myself walking on slippery surfaces, so it wouldn't really be feasible to buy anything. Sounds like the boys may go somewhere tomorrow between their jobs. I think they have four hours between Nick being done and Derek starting. It was funny the other day, there we were up on Sugarloaf, looking out over the shoreline and Lake Superior and they spent their time discussing people they new from the working at the dining hall. LOL I've done the Xtrain workouts, but I honestly couldn't tell you anything about SuperCuts either.

Carolyn yes, it was a lovely trip. I hope your Dentist appointment was an easy one.

Diane Sue, it'll be interesting for you to compare the two watches. I do miss the days when Cathe used real music. I understand the reasons they no longer do, but I definitely preferred it.
 
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