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North East Quine
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The "stroll" referred to our speed, not our distance.
"Look! Is that a bullfinch or a chaffinch?" Let's stand still for ten minutes to watch it!
"Look! A bench! Let's sit on it!
"Great view! I must stop to take a photo!"
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Piglet
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Now that you put it that way, NEQ, it maybe doesn't sound quite so scary. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Jane R
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I did it!! I completed the Race for Life!
I must admit, I did have to walk occasionally, but I ran most of the way. And the only obstacle that I had to chicken out of was the scramble net (vertigo...)
It took half an hour to wash the mud off afterwards, but ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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ArachnidinElmet
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Congratulations Jane R ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Piglet
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What A-in-E said!
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Huia
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Jane ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) I am seriously impressed!
OK lazybones - this was on page 2, so I brought it back up to skite.
I walked for 1 hour on Monday and 2hours today (Wednesday) - and No, I am not walking for 3 hours on Friday ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Unseasonably warm weather has helped.
Huia - hoping to get fitter.
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Welease Woderwick
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quote:
Originally posted by Huia:
Jane I am seriously impressed!
...and so am I!
I am still walking most morning and most evenings - 40-60 mins in the morning and 20-40 mins in the evening - not power walking or anything silly like that but not strolling either.
Progress of sorts in that I have lost a couple of kilos that seems consistently gone away and, possibly more importantly, I recently noticed that my waistline has reduced by an inch or two.
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Jane R
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Well done on the weight loss, Wodders!
I haven't done much running since the Race for Life - I've gone back to circuit training to try and build my upper body and core strength up.
I took my daughter swimming this morning too, which was about as depressing as usual - she is a much better swimmer than I am.
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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There is a purple passage in the book I just got about how when you think you are doing fine this eleven-year-old girl dives in and paces up and down the pool faster than you without really trying.
The thing is that eleven-year-old girl is my niece who likes nothing better than to beat her aunt at swimming. Elder brother is faster still but he just gets on and trains thus family can pretend he is swimming in a different pool.
So you have my sympathy.
Jengie
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Huia
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I haven't done any swimming in years, but I know I would be much slower than I used to be, not that I was ever fast.
It's Friday here and this week I have clocked up 6 hours of exercise so far, mainly walking. I asked my GP for a "Green Prescription" which means I have access to a very cheap exercise class at a local church hall. The last session includes Swiss ball work, dyna bands and balance and stretching. I find it harder to persuade myself to branch out from walking as I can do that as part of my normal day, whereas I find repetitive stuff can be boring.
Huia
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Lothlorien
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I agree, Huia, although I have done very little walking as left hip and pelvis are very dodgy now. My sister goes to gym daily. Even house sitting in South Australua, she has found a gym run by the council. She goes every day. Gym's cheapness is somewhat overcome by the fact it is thirty kilometres away from where she is.
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Jane R
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I don't mind (much) about the twelve-year-old girl beating me - she's a very fast swimmer, she can beat other twelve-year-olds. What I really object to is being overtaken by the octogenarians! They're older than me - they SHOULD be slower!! ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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Huia
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agree - tie weights around their ankles ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
Damn gym/Swiss balls. Yesterday my main exercise was trying to inflate three with a pump that self-destructed several times - it was so frustrating! In the end a friend came around with a small compressor and saved what was left of my sanity. I lent him the middle sized ball and passed on a set of exercises that I had been given.
Because I am short I use the smallest ball for exercising, but the biggest (75 cm diameter) is good for sitting in while I'm on the computer. It also has the advantage over a chair in that Georgie-Porgy doesn't perch herself on it
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Lothlorien
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Great picture in my mind of Georgie- Porgy trying to perch on one of those balls. I can see the huffy expression when she fell off.
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Jengie jon
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Alright big silly question time. I fairly regularly run outside (between once a fortnight and once a twice a week). I should be doing that tomorrow, but the weather is wet, wet, wet. I am wondering instead of going down the gym and doing an hour or so running on a treadmill.
Fyi at present I have gym membership and have in the past walked on a treadmill but have never run on one. In my usual runs I cover just under 10km in a mix of slow running and walking and warm up before hand. Living where I do, the route is hilly.
Any advice?
Jengie
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blackbeard
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Speaking as one who has just renewed his gym membership after a year or so of not going to the gym at all ....
I never use the treadmill at the gym, I can't help feeling that in real running the scenery changes ... but I don't seen any problem in using it if you want to (assuming there's no problem in getting on or off it). I couldn't stay on it for an hour, I just don't have the patience, and short sharp bursts might actually do more good than long periods at a steady speed. (Not too sharp though unless you are fairly fit to begin with.)
One of the problems with running is over-use injuries and it might be better to spend some time on other devices which don't load joints and tendons quite so much.
Staff at the gym should be able to offer helpful advice.
Is the gym associated with a swimming pool?
If you are only managing an average of about one run per week it might be advisable to deliberately take things a bit easy, the gym environment could possibly lead to over-doing things a bit.
Round about here, the recent and apparently continuing monsoon is reducing any path that's not tarmac to a bottomless quagmire.
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Running in the gym is actually a rather needs must than an actual desire. Today outside I'd be running through about half a centimeter of water the whole time including on slopes. I have yet to work out how Sheffield manages to be hilly, have good drains and still when it rains has this film of running water on every solid surface.
I should explain, that this is one session in a varied routine. I swim once to twice a week and do weight training twice a week as well. I reluctantly introduced a run basically to get my legs and feet develop the strength to do long walks. I am at present trying to alternate walks with run week by week. Summer time I vary it with both a walk and a run in a week with when I am busy with a run instead of a walk. I thne only swim once a week.
If I could run cross country that would be my choice, but where I live that is not possible. So I make do with a street run through parks and such most weeks.
Jengie
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Jane R
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If your gym has a variety of training equipment it might be worth alternating between different CV machines. My gym has treadmills, cross-trainers, stair-walking machines, exercise bikes and rowing machines. If I'm in a hurry I tend to go for the rowing machine as that gives my arms a bit of a workout as well. I know the main point of a CV machine is to give your heart and lungs a workout, but they all seem to work slightly different muscles; or at least, switching from one to the other instead of always using the same one seems to make me work harder.
I've just added walking a neighbour's dog to my list of things to do (the neighbour in question had a stroke recently and can't walk the dog himself) but I don't think that counts as a proper workout as the dog in question is old and fat and fairly lazy (a twenty minute stroll around the village is about his limit). So I'm still doing the circuit training three times a week.
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Stercus Tauri
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I've become a bit of an evangelist for our local YMCA. I had some muscles messed around after surgery some time ago, and spent too long being inactive on account of it. The physiotherapist suggested the wellness program at the YMCA to get things straightened out and working again. This was some of the best advice I ever had. The trainers there are excellent and you get personal guidance starting at your own level. The atmosphere is good. It's not full of people flaunting their spandex clad bodies (though there are a few inspirational bodies to be seen) and the age range is almost complete - up to octogenarians and beyond. It's working really well for me. It was strange getting on the rowing machine - my favourite - for the first time. The trainer came up and asked, "Why are you doing it like that?" I was subconsciously picking up where I left off long ago, and was working it as though it was the real oar I used to pull on the Dee in Aberdeen. I could almost hear the water under the bow behind me. It's good, and the first result was being able to cut back on the physio almost immediately. I don't know how much more fit I really am after a year of it, but the sense of well being is worth a lot.
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