Pentagenarians & Beyond: W/B 9/15

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Good morning... although its afternoon now. we mt biked this morning for an hour and a half. a road nearby that goes up in the mountains. a lot more traffic than we'd get on a weekday but its opening day of some kind of hunting season. this is a narrow rocky gravel road but OK for one way travel. lots of room for bikes and horses. someone was coming up pulling a huge horse trailer. no idea WHY because if he met anyone coming down, that coming down person would have to back uphill for a long way, not many wide spots, and some sections none. , because this trailer guy was so huge and so long..... 7 horses in the trailer. being on bikes we can pull off on the side almost anywhere, but another person in a vehicle would be hard pressed to find a decent spot. luckily when people met up, the exiting truck had room to pull over so the horse trailer could get by but not with out a strategy session, and everyone co operating. seems incredibly arrogant to me.

hope everyone is having a good weekend.
 
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Valerie, thanks for starting the thread this week. Great that you were able to get in a nice ride today. This is my rest day. Have a wonderful afternoon everyone.
 
Good evening ladies,

This week I tried out Hamelin D’abel a couple of times. He had a new rebounding/interval workout that I loved and bought, plus there was another one free on YouTube. I used 2lb handweights and 3lb ankle weights for both. Great cardio and toning workouts. Will be doing these again. I decided to go another year with SBF and did a few of her workouts this week. I am grandfathered in at a low rate and do not want to give this up quite yet. My BBS subscription ends today and I am not going to renew for a couple of months. I have a few youtube workouts of hers plus all her dvds that I converted to MP4s. Been a while since I have done her dvd’s - so these will feel new too me all over again.

Judy...hope you are feeling better! I hope you called in sick to rest up!! I think Suzanne is back. Still do not know what happened but glad she seems to be doing well and back on track. I stopped her workouts because I had done pretty much all of them ( I think I am going into my 6th streaming with her) and looked forward to new workouts. Now it has been a while since I have done them so all is good.

Valerie...I think a new kitty would be great for you and your husband. I love my TimTim and would get another kitty in a heartbeat, should something happen to her. I have never worked out in a higher altitude. I bet it wipes you! You must get A LOT of snow if you have a snow fence! Yikes! Nice ride and hike last week!

Deb...wow so sorry water again!!! I bet the 23rd could not come fast enough.

Carolyn...which rotation are you doing? Xtrain? I love seeing the workouts you are doing. I know I recently said how much I enjoyed xtrain. I really should do a few of the workouts. Maybe this will get me back into heavy weights again. It has been a while since I have done a cathe workout, never mind a heavy weighted one. Would be interesting to see how I do.

Diane Sue...I am so sorry to read of your discomfort. Was hoping you had some relief by now. I am sure the Friday rains did not help Great on the quick insurance approval. When are the mri’s scheduled? Hoping soon so you can find out what is going on and start treatment.

Funny note....my husband said he wanted to cook dinner tonight. So sure yes sounds great!!! Omg! He made a chicken sausage stir fry with red and green peppers that smells delicious!! But oh the mess I have to clean!! There is grease splatter all over the place. Not sure it was worth it for me!! Next time he offers I need to kindly say “lets do take out”!! Lol!!

Have a good evening!
 
I have been reading the posts, just not doing a lot of getting on the computer. I have my MRI's tomorrow afternoon. Family came over today and we just bought brisket because I said I was not cooking. We have to replace one of my car tires. When I was driving through that road work in the rain, my tire pressure light went on and has stayed. My husband checked today and there is a tear in the side of one of the front tires. He added air though and I guess we will do that Friday. Hopefully it is good for me to go to PT and my MRI this week. I scheduled my next PT for Tuesday so that gave me 5 days between PT sessions and I could see if I felt better not going and having the hands on treatments. It is no better so far. I just kind of wondered if more hurt was coming from the manipulations.

Lori, my husband usually just orders food. He ordered me a ceasar salad and got a pizza Friday night so I didn't have to cook. He can cook though. He even has made me chicken pot pie soup from scratch when I was sick. Today my daughter cleaned up all of the family mess. I am hoping to at least find out what I am dealing with so I can be sure I am doing the right thing.

Valerie, was that road access to someone's land or home? I always hated getting caught on those roads that were up the sides of mountains and barely room for one vehicle. My Dad had a habit of choosing those and it always scared me when I was growing up.

Carolyn, I hope you enjoyed your rest day.

Hi to Deb

I checked out the blood pressure cuffs awhile ago. I may get one.
 
Hi Everyone,
Friday I did LiTe PHA2 and yesterday I did KCM Strong & Lean. I worked all weekend and I work 3-8 pm today, then I'm off the next 3 days. I changed my availability to only working Tues & Thurs, no later than 4 pm and weekends no later than 6 pm. Hopefully that will start the first of November. I really need to get my hours down and have more days off. This schedule has been ridiculous for a part time job.

Deb-Great workout yesterday! My allergies are a little better. It did cool off here this weekend.

Lori-Yes, I did call in sick on Thursday. It really helped to get the extra rest. Lots of people called in sick this weekend so something must be going around.

Valerie-I think it would be wonderful if you got a new kitty.

Diane Sue-I hope your MRI and PT go well this week.

Carolyn-I hope you had a nice rest day!

Have a great week!

Judy
 
Diane sue the "road " we were on is wilderness access. ther is one cabin near the end that used to belong to sam Peckinpah the movie director. it is mountains and meadows. no people there. national forest or wildlife refuge or possibly private inholdings but no buildings or roads. probably some trails. . very rough narrow road along a creek. people ride their horses up there, mt bikes. or walkers. it didn't get used much at all when gated off since its a dead end. this guy with his humongous trailer seemed WAY out of place. he could have parked in wide open space at the beginning of the dead end road and ridden his horses the 3 miles up the road. no idea how he would U turn around at the end of the road but that is his problem. we passed him when he was going around a corner next to a cliff that he could barely squeak past. he was getting help from the driver from the car trying to head down. he was not going anywhere until the trail was out of the way. generally downhill drivers have right of way
Hope you get some good information from the mri' s today. not knowing what is going on is the worst. yes, what deb said, white coat hypertension. lots of people are fine 99% of the time but get stressed at the doctors office , get high readings and are put on meds. a bad drive like that would put about 99% of people above their normal range. best get home readings under normal conditions.
Judy that sounds like a good plan. you've been patient but time to ask for what you need.

we want a new kitty but are now waiting until we're done with MT this fall. our kitty will need to travel with us and we want a few months before we start that up.

Lori oh my yes, its nice to have dinner made but the mess! 20 dishes when 2 would do. when DH puts the dishes away there is training him where everything goes so I can find it again. my DH is getting better and if he doesn't know, he leaves it on the counter so I can put it where it goes. Good kitchen help is hard to find! We dont get that much snow here but it is very windy and whatever snow there is gets channeled to spots on the lee side of hill into a hard solid drifts. no snow anywhere but one spot, and that spot is right on the driveway curve. we are putting snow fence up to help direct snow to fall sooner before it gets to the low spot on the driveway. the wind shreds the fence too, so we are putting up a wire fence with the plastic snow fence in front of it. makes sense if you can see it.
 
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This morning I did the original Bootcamp from the Intensity series. My time was 62 minutes with 370 calories burned. My average heart rate was 119 and maximum heart rate was 149. I had only done this workout three times in all the years that I have owned it and I didn’t remember it at all. I had it confused with another one that has a lot of running and moving dumbbells from side to side, which I didn’t really enjoy. I’m glad that I did this one.

Deb, great job with Live Metabolic Meltdown. You can keep your chia and flax seeds in the freezer. I keep mine in the refrigerator, but will freeze them for longer storage.

Lori, that’s great that you have a new trainer to try for a while. I am doing Cathe’s September rotation which has some heavy weights each week. I’m enjoying the variety.

Judy, I’m glad that your allergies are better. Nice job with LiTE PHA 2. Changing your availability for work is a really good idea.

Diane Sue, I’m glad that you are having the MRIs today. I hope they will provide the needed information for you. I also have an Omron blood pressure monitor.

Hello to Valerie.
 
Good morning,

Don't know what I was thinking but I posted this in last week's thread this morning...LOL...

Judy, you responded there....I thought it was strange that no one else posted all day...:)

Yesterday I did LiVe Metabolic Meltdown 43 minutes, 266 calories.

Valerie, thanks for starting the thread yesterday. will you be making jam from those cherries? I like Diane Sue's thought that maybe you can freeze chia seeds. I have flax seen meal frozen. I read that it is okay and it keeps it longer.

Diane Sue, How did the MRI go? sorry about the pain and the frustration of being turned around on your trip taking your grandson to school. Maybe print a Map Quest directions and keep in the car? High BP probably was from stress etc. As for doing it at home, lots of people get a high reading in a DR office..."white coat syndrome"...John takes his at home sometimes, not as often as he should.

Judy, I hope your allergies are better. Has it cooled off where you are? We have had really nice weather the past few days. Those hours sound more reasonable.

Carolyn, hope you had a great rest day.

Lori, great that you are keeping the SBF streaming. I know how much you have enjoyed her workouts. LOL on the clean up when your husband cooked dinner. It is the same here. I follow John around and pick up and wash dishes, pans etc while he is zooming around the kitchen cooking and leaving everything where he drops it.

Take care,
 
If I had flax meal, I would freeze it. when its ground into powder, the fats are more likely to go bad. I just bought the flax and its a small bag so frig is probably good enough. the chia I might freeze since not going thru that quickly at all. I have a friend who is violently sensitive to flax seeds, kind of an odd thing.

deb I don't think I will make jam. I'd have to pick the berries and transport them back and then process them. I would like to taste chokecherry jam but I eat so little jam its not worth all the canning process. I used to do it sometimes, and had a water bath canner and jars etc. tee hee I guess all the male chefs have a clean up crew!

I used to print directions and maps from MapQuest or google maps but they don't work anymore unless( how could this be??) I'm doing something stupid. you get teeny little map miniaturized that doesn't show the street names regardless of what you see on the screen. If I'm doing something dumb here, please educate me! it shows detail on the screen but doesn't print. DH hates the voce directions and I prefer a paper map too. I will use the voice prompts if I'm driving by myself in an unfamiliar area.

we rode a new trail today, harder for me than expected. toook me a while to get going but did better as we went on. not many miles but a ot of uphill, rocks and roots. an hour and a half. I fell once but not badly. its an obstacle I've fallen on before, a crosswise round wood step that is hard to hit at a 90 degree angle. tire skidded and whammo. got a foot down so no major damage.
 
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I am not going to spend a lot of time on here. Terrible amount of pain with the mri's. I didn't make it through all of the images they were going to do for the shoulder which was the second set of mris. The guy went to get help because I stopped him at the end of the 4th image. I was shaking it hurt so bad. Tears were running out the corners of my eye. He said there was 5 more images to get still. A woman came in and went over what they had and said if I could do one more 6 minute image they should have enough. 6 minutes does not sound like much but when it feels like someone has a knife in your shoulder twisting it to see how long it will take for you to give up, it is a long time. I felt pretty good when I went in there as I had taken some Advil and iced before I left. The guy offered me Ibuprofen, but I told him I already had some. Besides that would not have helped at that point and wouldn't have taken affect till they were done. The neck was bad too as there was no head support and my head was lodged into the apparatus with foam shoved in the sides so I couldn't move. That was probably more than enough before I got to the shoulder.
 
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It sounds like a LOT to go thru but maybe there will be a clearer diagnosis and some sort of understanding and resolution to this. so sorry this is so terrible and awfully unpleasant... Hang in there.
 
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Diane Sue-That sounds like a horrible experience. I'm sorry that it was so painful. I hope you are able to get a diagnosis from this.
 
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This morning I did RWH Lift It HiiT It Legs. My time was 41 minutes with 260 calories burned. My average heart rate was 125 and maximum heart rate was 156. This is the workout with contrast cardio training after the strength exercises.

Diane Sue, I’m sorry that your procedure was so painful. I hope they can give you good feedback after all that you went through.

Deb, that’s funny about posting on the wrong thread, but I understand how that could happen.

Hello to Valerie, Lori, and Judy. Enjoy your day everyone.
 
we did some outside work on our snow fence this morning. not that hard but uphill and downhill, unrolling a big bundle of plastic fence onto the wire fence we did last week. we think this will hold up better since it wont flap so much in the wind. it is windy windy windy here. we want the snow fence to make the snow drop before it goes onto our driveway, similar to what you might see along highways in snow country. they use wooden fence for that, but too heavy and expensive for our purpose here. we use rolls of green plastic fencing. will try to fit in an upper body workout later today.

I meant to mention before, I spotted 7 ( 11 today) mountain goats from our living room with a spotting scope. we have a lovely mountain view and were able to spot people hiking, and goats. also a few cows, since they are still up in high country but should be down soon. hunting season is time to get cows down where they wont get mistaken for elk. yes some hunters are careful and responsible but plenty are drunk idiots who mistake cows for elk.

when I started the thread this week I lost the "bold" part of the formatting, so last weeks thread is more noticeable, so my fault. I thought copy/paste brought formatting along but maybe not. I don't know how to edit it after its posted.
diane sue hope you are feeling better after yesterdays imaging. if at least it shows what is amiss, then it will be worth it.
 
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Diane...I am saddened to hear of your terrible experience. Yes hoping they can tell what is going on and help you.

Rest day yesterday and did not feel like working out this morning. I did workout at lunch though (40mins). Last week, I brought in some light dumbbells and ankle weights to keep at the office and did a bounce interval. I usually just bounce at lunch. I did like having the option to add in some weights today.

Judy...you have been working a lot of hours. Certainly more than you anticipated. Hopefully, they will abide by your request. You still got in a couple of great workouts!

Valerie...I need to train my husband in the kitchen. He is a great cook, just a messy one. I always cringe when he says..”I’ll cook if you do the dishes”!!! :). The snow fence makes complete sense to me now. That sounds like a beautiful view!! Very nice. Good you were quick and got that foot down and prevented a nasty fall.

Carolyn...I loved that Bootcamp when it first came out!! Did it many times. Well...I should say I did the “no core” premix many times!! Lol! I know you are not surprised with that!! ;) The rotation you are doing sounds great! I keep my chia seeds in the fridge too. I go thru them pretty quickly so no need to freeze.

Deb...I have posted in the wrong thread before! John cooking sounds just like Bob. Lol!!! I stopped Live a few months ago. I felt guilty doing so, but felt most of her workouts were all feeling too similar for me. I still thought I would miss the workouts, but not yet.

Have a great night all!
 
yesterday I did 35 min on the rower, OK and different from anything else I would do, then abs from High Reps, and 3 sets of 30 knee push ups in between. with the fence work in the morning, turned out to be a busy day. the main issue is nothing much to watch. Im starting one of those Great Courses and hope its not too complex to watch while I'm on the rower, another reason for exercise a little less intense.

MY DH is not good in the kitchen. oh my. his mother could not cook. spaghetti-o's were her level, and nether DH nor sisters can cook. but he can clean up! whatever works. we eat well and the kitchen stays clean. wow where is everyone?
 
Good Morning, Ladies. Today I did Hard Strikes, no conditioning premix. That was 34 minutes and 253 calories burned. Average heart rate was 129 and maximum heart rate was 148.

Lori, I’m sure that you enjoy the flexibility of being able to do a workout at lunch. Having light dumbbells there will be a nice addition.

Valerie, nice job using the Rower for your cardio. My husband doesn’t cook at all, but he’s pretty good at cleaning up. It just takes him so long to do it!

Diane Sue, thinking of you and sending positive energy. I hope you are feeling better today.

Deb, did you decide to do the NG’s class?

Hello to Judy. Have a wonderful day everyone.
 
Hi,

Getting here late.

Valerie, jam can be time consuming, especially if you have to pick the cherries, clean, etc. It would take a lot to make just a few bottles of jam. That fence work sounds like a workout on its own! MapQuest can get kind of goofy at times. Sometimes I like it to compare with what the Garmin says, but if you are driving without another person, it's hard to read written directions or look at a map. That is why I really use the Garmin more and more now.

Diane Sue, I hope they were able to get some sort of diagnosis even if they had to stop the MRI early. I am sorry you had to go through with that.

Carolyn, have not decided yet. I guess it can be started any time, since there is no interaction, just reading and getting recipes, menus etc.

Lori, having DB's is good for a change up for the workouts. I still can't imagine you bouncing etc in an office setting...LOL :)

Hi to Judy,

Take care,
 
Deb choke cherries are very small, and the pits are big. it would be a huge amount of cherries to make jam, and I'd have to take the fruit back to WA and process it there. Not happening! I wont rule it out but if I brought the canning supplies here, then maybe. then I would need to find out about boiling water canning at elevation too, since water boils at a lower temp. I'm sure it can be done, but not sure how motivated I am.

we hiked with our neighbors this morning, 4 1/2 hours. nice, on a closed road that is in a wildlife refuge. the road up there was really rough and steep but once up high it was pleasant and rolling and would be good for biking too. really windy. yes, the fence work is a workout in itself. we are almost done.

we use our phone for directions sometimes, DH hates it, but I would like to get a decent paper map besides, but I can't get it to work and print anything useful. tried both mapquest and google maps and they both do the same thing and take a detailed useful screen map down to something so general it doesn't have any road names printed.
 
PT went well yesterday. I had spent the morning with heat then icing and PT was in the afternoon. They always start with a hot pillow and doing the "tens" with the little tabs stuck on my neck and shoulders. I have the same therapist for the next two weeks that gave me some relief last week. She talked to me and made some adjustments and did some of the stuff she did last visit that really helped. She worked with me with my shoulder posture keeping the shoulder blades together and shoulders down for a couple of the moves. She told me the lying with the foam roller between my shoulder blades is a good thing for me to keep up. I felt much better when I came home. So far today has been pretty good till this afternoon, but I just vacuumed and did some of this housework I am neglecting. No workout yesterday. This morning I just walked on the treadclimber for 30 minutes and burned 162 calories, then did my PT exercises and some lower body stretching. My lower body has been a bit stiff and achy and last night my knee was aching. I need to move some.
I have not heard from the doctor on the mri yet. I did see his interpretation on my portal. Apparently he wants an outside consultation on something. It appears most of it is osteoporosis an RA related. Something about narrowing at the C5 C6. Lots of stuff I don't understand completely. Nothing is torn in the shoulder. It just shows erosions with marrow edema and synovitis. I need to talk to him to know what he is saying.
I have PT tomorrow morning earlier than I have been going.

Deb, I just know now that I don't have something torn and stuff in my shoulder and arm are all intact. I am betting they will want to change meds or something. I am not looking forward to that. I saw today that Silver Script is going to start charging a 325 dollar deductible next year. I don't think I spent much more than that on prescriptions last year. My daughter said to make sure whoever I use covers arthritis drugs like Humira that are kind of expensive. I am dreading dealing with this. Need to get my husband signed up. We used to use a Garmin and I remember going to Tulsa and it had us going around the freeways in circles till my husband finally gave up and went the direction he thought he was supposed to go. Those things can be quite frustrating. I use my phone though. But, my problem there is it wants to take me the freeway routes when I don't want to use them. I do not like driving in unfamiliar areas.

Lori, nice that you got the workout in at work and were able to use some weights too.

Hi to Judy and Carolyn I need to get to bed. I feel my neck and shoulder starting to hurt while on the computer. I will try to check back tomorrow.

Valerie, my mother used to find choke cherries and make jam. It was sooo good. I have been able to use Map Quest. I think there is some symbol or something you can hit to enlarge an area to print or something. I remember having to mess with it. None of it seems to print up as easily as it used to.
 
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