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Welcome to the October Exercise Thread

bopper — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 15:38:29 GMT

Welcome to Fall Everyone!

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meallen616 — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 17:58:30 GMT

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Mmsfoxxie — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 11:42:02 GMT

Happy October 1st everyone!

@JudyL regarding what apples I use....I prefer Granny Smith apples or Honeycrisp (if on sale) because they hold up well being cooked. But if a have a lot of apples on hand and suddenly feel like apple crisp, I use them. I think Red or Golden Delicious are good for cooking as well. I’ve never gotten into some of the newer varieties of apples.

Long day today....Senior Cardio and Strength & Motion classes this morning. Then I’m off to my yearly mammogram and my every other year bone scan. Luckily, I can get them back to back with minimal, if any, wait in between. On second thought, that’s not so long. I should be home by 3 pm.

Remember everybody to “Make it a great day or not. The choice is yours”.

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bopper — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:34:03 GMT

Happy Octobe 1st, cruising right into Fall with our chins held high and a positive attitude, right?

Did TG today, the challenge workout, and walked the trail, using Gazelle throughout the day and watching this Cub/ Brewers game at 1, I"ll get lots of gazelle today while watching.

In the 40's here, but didn't feel bad to me this morning walking.

I love Honey crisp apples, my favorite kind. Don't ya'all just love the smell of apples and cinnamon? So cozy I find it.

@Mmsfoxxie good luck with your mamm and bone scan. Glad you can do them back to back and will be back home before dark o'thirty.. My mamm was a few weeks ago and all good Thank the good Lord!

Waving to everyone here in the " neighborhood".... Have a wonderful day!

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MickD — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 20:39:43 GMT

Happy Monday everyone!

Very humid here.....there's a hurricane way down south and it's bringin it.

Dogged on the treadmill, but it's done! 4mi/50.35min

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JudyL — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 23:37:38 GMT

@bopper what is "Gazelle?"

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Laura14 — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 10:50:46 GMT

Pound was a normal Pound class. She said she was going to do 8 songs but it was 31 minutes and it's a 30 minute class so she started 5 minutes late and ended 5 minutes early. I don't get it. But I was able to hold my knees up during most of the ab track so I was extremely proud of myself. That was a first for me.

I have been listening to a brain health seminar for the past week and a half and one of the experts said when you lift weights you tear up muscle and that's how in 36 hours you get stronger because it rebuilds and then some. Another said earlier that you have to stress your body to get better.

I went up in weight on everything in Power class except legs and nailed every bit of it. I did all my pushups including fireflies on my toes. I had a good day.

Nudie is still in clothes but she got rid of the bleach blond white trash biker look and is now a brunette.

Adonis is still MIA and the teacher actually celebrated that we could move through class without his theatrics of not being able to breathe because he was lifting so hard.

Ms. Rudeness came without the neon. Everyone seemed to dress down today and not be their outrageous selves.

Although there is another chick that is quickly becoming Ms. Rudeness Junior. We'll see.

Another day at the gym down...

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Mmsfoxxie — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:20:41 GMT

Good morning all. Loving this cool weather but tomorrow it’s supposed to hit 85!

@Laura14, I’ve heard that, too, that muscle tear and build. That stressing the muscles is good. If I were younger, I’d move to higher weights. I have moved up for some movements but for the most part, I don’t need to do that for good health which is my goal. At a younger age, I’d do it. My arthritis would object, lol.

This morning, my classes includes Body Sculpt, Flexibility and Zumba. By the way, I got my first 3-D mammogram yesterday. I asked the tech if that was an extra fee, she said no.....not right now. She said that if any insurance refused to pay, the hospital would swallow the cost....for now.

@nomless, good to hear from you!

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bopper — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:43:00 GMT

@JudyL wrote:
@bopper what is "Gazelle?"

https://www.amazon.com/Gazelle-1285-Edge/dp/B0000AS7W2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1538505660&sr=8-3&keywords=Edge+gazelle

I really like it Judy.

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JudyL — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 19:06:51 GMT

@bopper that looks like an interesting machine. Thanks for showing it to me.

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bopper — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 19:27:52 GMT

Hey everyone, I decided today to grocery shop instead of tomorrow as more rain, today isn't too bad at all 57 outside now, and cloudy but I decided to trim my deck railings with my Christmas lights instead of doing it with 20 degrees and windy... This way I'm ahead of the game. Got the shovels out too as last year my hubby piled wood in front of the shovels, ( not to smart) and I had a heck of a time getting to my scoops. I have them down now, put the snow brush in the car, changed out the car mats to the rubber ones. I'm ready... well not really Hahaha

I did my Gazelle today and walked, tomorrow will be another TG day. Laura i heard that as well and I can tell my TG has made me much stronger, I couldn't do 1 legged squats on a level 4 before and now I do them on a 7, 3 sets of 8 on each leg. My shoulders are funky though and I can't go up in weight or my rotators will give me fits, but oh well, like foxxie said you just do what you can not to irritate some other issue.

Nomless got your message thanks and hopefully that won't happen again.

The days sure go fast, or the time, its almost 3:30 here already, seems it should still be morning. I do not like it dark so early and it will only get worse especially when we change the clocks once again. I wish they would leave it alone.

Quite a baseball game yesterday, Cubs/Brewers, with Brewers winning. Another game tongiht. I' so love my baseball.

Ya'all have a good rest of the day!

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Mmsfoxxie — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:19:29 GMT

@JudyL, I wish I could mail you mine, 😂. Mine is by Tony Little who was on HSN at the time. I haven't used it in years. It's a nice machine but it's pushed against a wall in a third bedroom between or behind some other equipment, one of which is the treadmill. Then there's that chair that Susan Lucia sells. The first one. Downstairs or somewhere, we have a total gym, too. Others things, I can't even remember the name of. I just don't have the discipline to exercise on a regular basis at home. Also, I've come to realize that I'm not crazy about machines.

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Mmsfoxxie — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 11:55:40 GMT

Good morning everyone. Well, Summer is supposed to be back today. Indian summer, maybe?

Wow, I had no idea how many jeans I have until I started looking for some non-jean type pants to wear today for my first day of volunteering that were just plain pants. Not jeans but also not dressy. Finally found one pair. I wanted to wear pants because I’m wearing sneakers which is allowable. (I have noticed that most hospital staff wear sneakers or sneaker-like footwear). I can’t wear sandals or clogs which is what I’d wear with a dress or skirt. Once it gets cold, I will wear boots wearing a dress or slacks. I hadn’t realized how restrictive dress codes can be.

This morning I’ll do some in place walking and some stairs for 30 or 45 minutes. I hope everyone has a great day!

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bopper — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:02:38 GMT

Hello, this morning was so dark and dreay and rainy, supposed to get 50 mph winds today and no doubt I'll lose power again.

I got in a Total gym workout for 50 minutes and 2 trail walks with the dog. It's mild today, I can't tell you how much I love not bundling up, tomorrow not so much, high of 48. Today its over 60.

Made some steel cut oatmeal for breakfast with cinnamon and it was really good. Oatmeal doesn't stay with me though

foxxie hope your 1st day goes well for you. Let us know. I think you will like this volunteer position, you will be good at it!

Ohhh here comes the wind, I better go close my garage.

Take care everyone!

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MickD — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:46:30 GMT

Cooler today, but humid....we're supposed to get some rain later today.

4mi/49.30min on the treadmill.....done.

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Mmsfoxxie — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 11:44:12 GMT

GM everybody. Boy was it windy and muggy here yesterday! Today, the temp is supposed to be much lower, like around 70.

Well my volunteering went well but boring as h***, lol. I’m in the birthing center which is new and hardly any patients yet. I have the important job of answering an internal phone, answering buzz from the few patients there that require a nurse and buzzing in visitors! Problem is that due to lack of patients, there is a LOT of down time. For four hours. I’m sure business will pick up and I will be busy. But next week I am bringing my iPad or a word puzzle. I probably looked stupid but I did a lot of walking around the desk with arm movements. One nurse laughed and said that was a good way to get exercise in, lol. I had almost 22,000 steps at the end of the day.

One of the other volunteers later told me that she had that desk last week and she couldn’t take it and requested a change. Now she’s filing.....for four hours. She took a break in between, lol, had to. Be careful what you ask for.

Today is my my early morning Zumba day! And I’m going to do some walking afterwards.

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Laura14 — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:06:49 GMT

Went to Power this morning.

Adonis is still MIA and the instructor actually put out an APB on him. I guess the mirrors put in an abandonment complaint. I'm quite enjoying not hearing his weights get thrown all over the room to prove what a heman he is. Much more quiet and peaceful.

Of course, one leaves and another starts up. We have a hypochondriac who has found doctors that do nothing but carve her up for the most inane reasons I have ever heard of.

The past few months she was limping around in a sock but doing Power with the full on weights with a toe that got infected and was most likely going to be amputated. The pic line she had put in for the intravenous antibiotics was not working.

Am I nuts or do you guys have people in your life with this exact problem? I can not tell you how many people I know who have had this exact issue.

She gets better.

Now the tendons in her hand especially the one by her thumb are not sliding right so she is having surgery this afternoon to fix that. This is not an old woman. I would guess she is 40-50 age range. She has a teenage son who a few years ago she was in counseling with CPS over all the time.

I have never known a person to have so many personal issues in my life. If I knew CPS on a first name basis and had a toe set up for amputation along with a thumb getting ready to go on the chopping block, I might see one more doctor that does therapy. The mental kind. I really think she wouldn't know how to live a life without a dramatic crisis in it.

Anyway, I kept all of my increased weight except for the last shoulder track. I am very proud I increased my normal and stuck with it all week.

Almost the weekend which is a good thing because I desperately need one. Have a good day all.

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DrKelli — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:42:33 GMT

Good morning, all!

@Laura14, it sounds like that woman has Munchausen's (sp?) or something like that. And yes, I've known people like that. They are exhausting. I have a friend who has been in an abusive marriage for 30 years or longer. Even her kids want her to divorce their dad. Every so often, I'll get a phone call that she's in a shelter and she's ready to come back to Colorado and she'll be there on such and such a date. And then she goes radio silent. In the mean time, there's a group of us who have been friends since junior high (actually, this girl and I have been friends since first grade) and we're making preparations, decided who she is going to stay with etc and then we don't hear from her. The last time this happened, I finally got in touch with her and of course, it has been put on hold. I get it about domestic violence--it took me years to leave my abuser (we were together 4 years), but enough is enough.

Because this is so emotionally draining on me, I have decided that I can support her, but until she's standing on my doorstep, I can't continue to be dragged into the drama.

Today is Zumba and I am teaching. I have kind of a fun play list which includes Monster Mash and I put a Spell on You (Viennese waltz!). There is one song that I keep making mistakes on, but hopefully I get that ironed out by the end of the month. When it's time to change playlists again. . .

Hope you all have had a great week!

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Laura14 — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:44:16 GMT

@DrKelli I want to take your class! Sounds like so much fun.

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MickD — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 18:13:01 GMT

@Laura14 Oh lawdy! I agree with dr.k.......with an additional personality disorder like histrionic with a side of hypochondriasis! My BIL's wife is a trip like that.....she's not allowed in my home.