What's Your Most Recent NSV
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NSV: I'm able to do a regular stiff leg deadlift instead of a sumo. Previously, my gut was too much in the way.12
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Im learning to run for the first time in my life (and on hills no less). This weekend I ran for a total of a mile up and down hill (out of the 4 miles) and I did it in the rain.17
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I failed on my 275 lb squat this morning and didn't let it get in my head. I rested and came back and got it the next time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGkVyzqEESU24 -
I ran my first 5k since 2018 today! I could barely run more than a minute at a time in February so I’m thrilled with my progress 😁17
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I realized I can touch my toes again, and the floor in front of me while keeping my legs straight, so I did so many the other day it gave me DOMS.14
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Picture Number 1: My old clothes that no longer fit me and are ready for the donation bin.
Picture Number 2: some new, size Small workout clothes. Wahoo! I can still hardly believe that I’m a small in anything.
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Sand_TIger wrote: »I realized I can touch my toes again, and the floor in front of me while keeping my legs straight, so I did so many the other day it gave me DOMS.
I discovered this evening that I can put my palms flat on the floor with my legs straight. I have NEVER been able to do this (or not since I was about five years old). This means that I am currently more flexible than I have been for over fifty years!
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Sand_TIger wrote: »I realized I can touch my toes again, and the floor in front of me while keeping my legs straight, so I did so many the other day it gave me DOMS.
I need to work on this, I have zero flexibility! I can’t even touch my feet.7 -
So maybe not a massively inspiring one but a couple of months ago my toddler said I looked like I ate too many cakes (he got some idea at nursery that too much food makes you fat and we were like no sweetie food is fine and cake is ok its only too much cake). He stuck to this and said daddy didn't (I mean the boy was not wrong). It made me a bit sad even though it's irrational.
Today it came up again and he said I didn't look like I ate too many cakes. Whoop!25 -
I was able to walk around the block without sitting down for the first time in decades!
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I'm at the 14-day mark, last night I walked a mile in 12 minutes without feeling out of breath. My blood pressure has held at normal levels for the past 4 days and my oxygen levels are up! Since I am doing this for my health, this means more to me than inches!23
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Geneveremfp wrote: »It made me a bit sad even though it's irrational.
Totally empathise with that feeling. Toddlers are really unaware of how hurtful some comments can be though. They see, they say. I've had everything from comments about my (then) weight to comments about my (inherited) prematurely-grey (now from a bottle blond) hair to "Did you see any dinosaurs when you were little?". And worse.
But these comments are made in one moment and forgotten by the children in the next. They don't know how to be offensive and hurtful when they are tiny. As I said, they see, they say. Without thinking because at that age they just don't have the experience or brain capacity to understand.
When I've thrown these comments back at my now-teenage children, they have been mortified that they even said it, especially as they don't remember making the comments in the first place. We just laugh about it now. Especially the dinosaur comments . . .12 -
Coming up the the end of the 10k trainer and have just realised that my running is SO slow that it's going to take me 90 minutes to run a 10k.
But I don't care how long it takes me because I enjoy running. Me, the one who used to avoid PE like crazy at school and was always last to finish the torturous running sessions (I always walked).28 -
I’ve relocated for the summer and have some new running trails to enjoy. I did 7K yesterday, my previous longest run has been just shy of 5K since restarting C25K in January.
And I found my old Tomtom watch (last run registered in 2014...) which informed me that the 7K was at an avg pace of 8min/km - the same pace I’ve had on my other 5K loops. I’m excited!!
I’m now aiming for the 10K before I head back home in august, and hoping for some pace improvements as well.14 -
I live inside a school. We’re in strict lockdown here but those of us who live on campus are allowed to walk within the campus in the evenings. As a result we all tend to be out walking around at the same time (small window of time between when we’re allowed out and when it gets dark).
Today when I passed one couple they stopped and asked me (from an appropriate distance) “are you on a diet?”. I said I had been trying to lose weight and they said they’d really noticed how much thinner my face looked.
Nice to get feedback that it is making a difference.21 -
My turnout gear is getting too big! These used to fit snug. Grateful for my suspenders.42 -
You're a firefighter @rosebud69155? The number of cool people on here is boggling! Thank you for all you do!!
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Collar bones are making themselves known again16
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My NSV is not dying!
On the evening of Thursday, 21st May I was admitted to NHS Broad Green Heart & Chest Hospital with chest pain. After 48 hours in hospital, an MRI of my heart & an angiogram, I was diagnosed with myopericarditis, an inflammation of the sack surrounding my heart, caused by a silent heart attack that occurred sometime on Tuesday.
So... I had an actual heart attach. A blockage of an artery that damaged heart muscle. A silent heart attack means it wasn’t severe; not life threatening but definitely life changing. This damaged heart muscle was rubbing against the pericardium which caused the inflammation & pain of the my pericarditis.
I am now under the care of St Helens Cardiac Rehab Centre, albeit over the telephone (because I fall to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel), and will have to wait until the current COVID-19 crisis is over before I have a face-to-face appointment with a nurse or cardio-physiotherapist. I’ve been prescribed statins & aspirin (for life) & no grapefruit (yikes!). But after a month sick leave & instructions not to do anything too strenuous for at least three months, I went back to work this week.
May the gods bless the NHS.
I am old, fat and defective.
Monday was the first day of the rest of my life and I have to reset, readjust, refocus & restart. I weighed myself to give me a starting point, walked the dog for the first time in weeks. Prepare myself mentally with mindfulness techniques and went to work. I will not be stressed about returning after a month off because my team is capable & reliable, & I can trust them to keep calm & carry on in my absence.
I am lucky, I am alive. I have TMBWITW who loves, cares & puts up with me & I have my dogs Pippin & Meri who love me unconditionally. I am in a better position than some people and I can do something about my health.
Be excellent to each other 🤙🏻 because when that ambulance door shut to blues & twos me to the Hospital I thought I'd never see TMBWITW again...
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