40+ Club : Where the Cool Kids Are

@caramelgyrlk

At the moment I don’t use knee wraps. You really don’t need anything at all until you get to about 80% of your max. The reason being, you’ll recruit more accessory muscles without, so why not. Since you are just building technique right now, I’d avoid any for as long as possible. I would recommend Shiek wrist wraps, get them on Amazon. Get the long ones. For knee wraps my coach recommends a worn out Ace bandage. Really. As a second choice he says the SuperTraining sleeves. I would only use knee sleeves for deep squats though. I am just now starting to think I might need them...I am squatting about 95% of my body weight at this time. But if you don’t have knee problems and are not squatting *kitten* to grass then again avoid them as long as possible. Honestly, the first piece of equipment you should get and use is lifting straps. Just my opinion! Also, embrace callouses, gloves will make it harder for you to grip when it gets heavy.

Stronglifts DUN!

Yesterday's WOD

Warmup:
Star Jumps x 1 minute
High Knee Skipping
Broad Jumps
Monkey Hops
Cat and Cow x 10
Quadroped Scap Rotations x 10

D-Ball Overhead Carry 10 x 10m with 30lbs ball

D-Ball Clean 5 x 5m (45lbs ball)
At eacj meter 2 x squat and clean
Chest carry between stations

Midline:
Alt tabata Table Top and L-Sit x 4 minutes

Conditioning:
EMOM 3 x 5 monutes
Min 1 = 15 calorie row
Min 2 = 12 x box jumps (my first time so i did it on a 20cm plate stack)
Min 3 = D-Ball Ground to over the shoulder (30kg/66lbs) ball

Happy Friday kids, I get so much energy reading all of your posts. Keep it coming. Quikdogs, thanks for the tips, I really appreciate them and plan to benefit from it. I lifted this morning and my face was more grueling than the last (lol). Have an awesome weekend kids.

Public Service Message from someone who’s been sick over a week with the the flu: get the flu shot. Really people, you don’t want this. I’m starting to feel better, fever is gone, still dizzy and weak and coughing. But I’m not sleeping 24/7 so I’ll take it.

"21 Day Fix Dirty 30 & Yoga Fix"=Done!

Hey Kids,

Welcome to the Noobs! Great to see lots of activity by the long time Cool Kids as well.

Congrats, @gam3rguy! First 13.1, correct? Well done. Any day you can score a Rocky medal is a good day.

My coach gave the OK to start easing back into the training flow this week. Enjoyed an easy 4 miles yesterday and a chilly 7 today. Tonight's recovery work will be Yoga. Looking forward to getting back to spin class and some strength training this coming week.

SusanDSME wrote: »

My friend who's training me wanted me to run 1.5 miles as fast as I could today. The first mile was my fastest yet (12:22.. not so fast, but when I started 6 weeks ago, my average was 16:30). I lost it in the last half mile. I think tomorrow I'll have to trick myself into thinking of the 1.5 as a whole and keep my speed up. My legs feel ok after a mile, but my lungs aren't thrilled with the cold air (pretty warm today- low 40s).

@SusanDSME - Welcome! Nice to have another runner in the Cool Kids Club.

Training for a 5k is a lot of fun and you have lots of time to prepare for a Mother's Day race. As a new runner, are you following a training plan? Did your friend tell you why the 1.5 miles "as fast as you could" was suggested? As an old guy, I'm always worried about the risk of injury, particularly with speed work so early in the training.

SusanDSME wrote: »

@Djproulx ... I'm not following an online training plan - I'm going by what my trainer friend is putting together. We started slow back in September with a lot of walk 1/4mi, run 1/4 intervals, gradually increasing distance. She had me sprint for the first time last week. I'm stretching a lot, and so far nothing has hurt. When she told me to run as fast as I could for 1.5 miles, she said she wanted to get a sense of my new baseline. I have no interest in getting hurt, and so far things seem to be going fine. It's my cold lungs that slow me down at this point.

Its great that you're working with a trainer and building volume gradually. That's the key to long term success. Look forward to hearing about your progress and the race!

thanks! yup...first 1 halfer!!! wasn't as bad as i thought it would be (still not "easy" though). i think the cold weather acctually helped (didn't post temp...because my weather app has a potty mouth)...and that i acctually trained for it, LOL!

Happy Monday kids...Gam3rguy, more bling to your wall of fame. You rock. Quikdogs, hope you are feeling better. Hot Pilates and upper body lifting is done. Have a great day kids.

I did cardio on Friday and Saturday. Will lift tomorrow. Am aiming to stick to two meals per day and just be compliant. The lbs were coming off when I just did that. BOOM!

I ran 4 miles tonight and it felt great!

Tonight is happy hour followed by strength training - should be FUN!