40+ Club : Where the Cool Kids Are

Holy cow you guys are inspiring! I hit up kickboxing tonight, Tammy always has an intense and varied workout for us. My poor arms are killing me this week, lots of pushups and tones of punching.

Tomorrow is kettlebell and kickboxing. Hoping to use the yellow bell for a lot of class (16kilo). I don't use it as much as I'd like during the week but I find at 6am classes I'm not quite at full strength and pulled my back a bit a few weeks ago in my over enthusiastic state, so slow and easy it is.

I think I'm most pumped about going for a massage!! I put a rib out a few weeks ago, not as painful as I've done before so I didn't get into the chiro right away and it's kind of made the right side of my back tight and sore. So looking forward to a massage.

Off to couch surf and read!

Hey guys. I'm one tired puppydog tonight. I spent all afternoon on the tractor. It was just about all the cardio I got today, but six hours of it is more than enough. I got the hayfield ready to plant the pines. Here is a picture of the scalper in action.



I had gloves and a light jacket with me, but it was warm when I started. So they got left on the edge of the field. Then as night was falling, I didn't take the time to go get them until I was finished. I was freezing at 40F, so I will have to leave the negative temps to you guys.

Beeps, I struggle with 38 lbs dumbbells, {76 lbs total} so you are kicking my butt with the weights.

You guys are all doing such good work.

Mamma is well. Margie saved all her birthday wishes on FB and printed them out for her. She got a kick out of that.

Here are the numbers for the week:
21.4% Body Fat
24.2 BMI
172.8 Pounds

It seems my eat more and workout less plan isn't working as well this week.

Larro

Welcome FEves! Looks like you're doing great!

Did kettlebell and kickboxing this morning! , And spluged on pad thai for dinner

Alf and FEves, I'm an SLP who stands in awe of your parenting accomplishments.

I have a small success this week: down three pounds at weigh-in. This is my first loss in months following a move and job change. I credit y'all and your cardio posts. I got off my butt and added some low-impact cardio. Thanks!

So I didn't have the best week with coming down with the flu. That said I didn't do so bad either I am down another 2.2 lbs for a new total of 5.9 lbs gone. I need to get myself in the habit of only checking my weight once a week.

Good Afternoon Cool Kids.

I'm happy to report that after yesterday with only 2 minutes of squats, today I got in my normal AM cardio, a nice 30 minute walk with Margie, 15 minutes of gardening, 30 minutes of tractoring and walking over to Mamma's to rescue her TV from pay-per-view purgatory.

The guys started on my pinestraw yesterday. They already have one semi trailer loaded. The dealer told me he hopes to get 5 more.

Welcome to all the new guys. Hello to everyone else. To quote Young Mister Grace, "you've all done very well."

Larro

FEves wrote: »

Hi and thanks for the welcome

38 minutes of low impact aerobics and 33 minutes of pilates later, and I'm sweating like a pig. (Do pigs actually sweat?)

No. They have to wallow in the mud to cool off.

Count me in too! I'm 40 looking to lose 15lbs to begin with. If I can manage that then I want to lose another 10. I've just joined. 1st week on mfp.

Welcome to the workweek Cool Kids!
FEves, welcome, and good job balancing out your cardio-to-carrot cake ratio!
Larro, I think of your trees whenever I drive by road work with rolls of pine needles!
Jackie, sorry to hear you got the flu . That's no fun. But congrats on the lbs. gone!
Alisha, hurray for you! Great loss.
Alf, have you tried a rolled towel between your shoulder blades while lying down. That one usually help open my chest and relax my shoulders.
3furballs, I'm trying kettlebels for the first time tonight! Any tips? Favorite moves? I hope your massage was wonderful.
Beeps, I can't believe that list of moves! I'm trying to picture the fire hydrant. ...I think I get the idea.
Caramel, Now I can truly say "I feel your pain" . Back at it again tonight.

We had serious winds & rain over the weekend ... gusts to 65 mph here on the coast last night. But a few of my kayak pals still braved the storm for our regular Sunday visit with the ocean. It was very raucous out there. Saturday I attended the crab races at the crab festival. Pretty enterataining. Before going to the festival though, I told my gf that we had to go for a brisk walk, so we explored a couple miles of a new trail along the bay. These are the small changes that are starting to add up real change!

Hello to all you other Kids ... where are you, btw?
Welcome newbies.

Have a great day everyone.

I have been using my little green Fitbit for months. Not much improvement, but a few weeks ago I added a diet to the mix. Now I am down 10 pounds approximately. I also did Zerona. Regardless of what is working, I love seeing the scale go down. Nothing motivates better than that! My husband and I will be celebrating our 10 year anniversary in April, and taking a trip to Europe this summer to celebrate. I would love to be back to my wedding weight by then. That is around 30 pounds to go. I track my calorie count using MyFitnessPal, take Ariix weight loss supplements, and try to get as close to 10k steps each day. I look forward to staying motivated with all of you!

Hello to al the cool kids!

Wow, you are all killing it! Great workouts and great losses! Well done!

Had a good weekend, workout wise. Did two major snowshoe hikes, for a total of 15km trekked over the two days.
Saturday's hike was a tough one, but one of my favourites - literally cross country, so lots of climbing and over / under fallen trees. Sunday's was a long steady uphill and then a nice up / down on the way back (we took another route back). Was cold yesterday though. Came out of the bush with "white, frosted hair."

The picture below is one of me taken a couple of summers ago. I had no idea what ever happened with the pics, until my son sent this to me asking who took it. He found it in the 2015 Travel Algoma magazine. A couple of years ago, our local Kayak business was looking for 40+year old models and someone suggested me. When I arrived, I was the only 40+ there. The others were all in their 20s!! Talk about intimidating. Don't I look like a pro?

Good Afternoon Cool Kids.

I got in my AM cardio and lifting, but being so short of time, and having real trouble getting enough calories lately, I cut my lifting back to 30 minutes. I'm being hopeful here, and put some tomato and pepper seeds in soil this morning. I'll transplant the sprouts to cups when they come up, and try to keep them inside until after the last frost. But just to be able to get to my gardening table I had to do some serious work. During the winter it had collected the toaster oven as well as a food processor. The table in the kitchen where this stuff usually goes had filled up with glassware, mostly baking dishes. So I had to clean out cabinet space to put the baking dishes before I could even start. I bagged up two trash bags of unused plastic storage and took out to the shed, then started shifting everything over. I may even count it as cardio.

Kate, what I do is mix the plain Greek yogurt with vanilla Greek yogurt. Just a little bit will improve the taste. And the calorie and protein numbers for Greek yogurt are unbeatable. I have some with my breakfast everyday.

CG, there is nothing like an angry ocean experienced from a tiny vessel. Talk about living in the moment. The crab races sound fun.

Syligirl, sorry about the weight gain. More cardio and less carbs will surely point you in the right direction.

Sdereski, that smile has the look of a pro. Very nice picture. I'm thinking of buying a kayak. To put the canoe in the river I have to have someone drop me off upstream. With a kayak I could go upstream then come back down.

3furballs, I'm with you on the cost of fitness electronics. I lost my weight using a $10 watch from Walmart. As long as you do more cardio and eat less, you will lose weight. But Margie bought a Fitbit she isn't using. I am struggling maintaining my weight, so I may give it a try. It is paid for, so I might as well use it.

Welcome to all the new guys, and hello to everyone else.

Hope you are all having a good Monday,

Larro

PS: Today's omelette is one I never would have dreamed of trying, except I did. When I woke up this morning it occurred to me there was no breakfast type meat cooked to go in my omelette. But we had a huge pot of taco soup made with turkey and turkey sausage. And me being me, I said what the hell. So it's 2 eggs, 75g taco soup, 15g 2% milk, 7g 4 cheese Mexican and 34g Pineapple Peach Chipotle Salsa. It was better than it sounds. Also had some of the sausage noodle stir-fry {with extra stir-fry veggies}, toast, yogurt, smoothie, yogurt, strawberries and blueberries.