40+ Club: Fall Fitness Fanatics

sing, I am hoping that you get better soon. Take care of yourself.

Chris, you have gotten so much healthier. Here is the proof.

Good morning everyone!!!!! :drinker: I read some of the posts yesterday but didnt have time to post myself. I have some people doing some home repairs and painting. Getting ready for family to visit next week. My parents are arriving on the 17th but they are staying with my brother the first week and with me the second. Then my sister from SC will be here on the 19th, my little brother who lives in PR is arriving on the 20th (surprise to everyone, shh), my nephew and his wife and baby the same day and then my older sister on the 21st. They are all coming to see the new addition to the family and also celebrate my husband's 50th birthday (21st). I am so excited but I am also very busy trying to get things done. My older brother (the baby's father) doesnt know the siblings are coming, he only knows about my parents. He will be pleasantly surprised.

Sing, I hope you get better soon. :flowerforyou: Poor thing!!! I got my flu shot about 2 wks ago, I really hope I dont catch any flu bugs. Cross my fingers!!

Stiring, great to hear that you had a great time with your hubby's family in Fl. And thank you for your advice. I really need to accept the changes that are going on in my body and try to embrace aging as much as possible. I am not going to stop taking care of myself though. I see a lot of people who just give up and stop taking care of themselves and blame it all on aging. LOL

Robin, thank you for your understanding as well. I was trying to picture you in the river all wet LOL isnt the water very cold? Brr!!

Chris, congrats!!!! :drinker: It must have been a great feeling!! It reminded me about the time I was leaving church and noticed an older lady had fallen and couldnt get up. There was no one around and I told her I could help her. She doubted me because she was a tall and larger woman and I was as she said "little". I told her how to place her legs, got behind her, bent my knees and lifted her like nothing. When she stood up I soon realized how big she was and was amazed at my strength. :drinker:

Well gotta get ready, workers coming back today to finish painting. Have a great day!!! :flowerforyou:

Barbell Day: Squats, Bench Press, Bent Over Rows. Also worked on my chin-ups.

Felt good, although it seems like slow progress. I looked back in my records to see what I was lifting a few months ago, and that was encouraging

*silvana: Thanks It gives me motivation to know that I motivate others.

Try to substitute refined sugars for natural, like honey and fruits and veggies. Also, try and get away from simple carbs and go with complex carbs instead. Both helped me kick the sugar habit. Hip Flexors take a long time to quiet down in my experience. Hope the Physio helps out! Keep your head up and just do your best

*alf: Wow, sounds like a full house! Yes, it was a great feeling It's amazing what we willingly give up when we let ourselves get unfit.

*singfree: Hope ya get better soon! I can feel my sinuses trying to get infected, hope I can fight it off.

singfree, I hope you get to feeling better. I'm sorry to hear you've been so sick. Take care of yourself and thanks for checking in with us. :flowerforyou:

Chris, you are doing great! Don't you just love tracking improvements? It never ceases to amaze me when I look back on a few years ago and I couldn't do one push-up on my toes, and the last time I did P90X (this past spring), I was knocking out over 300 in that Chest/Back workout without thinking twice. Celebrate your progress!

sdereski, I'm sorry to hear about the injury. The key is to let it heal. It will take time (alf had a hip flexor injury a couple of years ago and it took months to heal if I recall correctly). As Swissmiss pointed out, the key right now is to make sure you eat right. I've suffered a number of injuries over the years (I'm currently fighting tendonitis in both of my arms) and instead of thinking about what I can't do, I do what I can do and focus on doing the best with that. So if you can do anything like shadow boxing (no kickboxing, of course), upper body weights, etc, you can still get a good workout without impacting that hip flexor. Do what you can and forget the rest.

Robin, I finished P90X in May and have been focusing more on cardio this summer with Asylum and my Insanity/Asylum rotation. But I hear you about the strength training. I hate going too long without it. I didn't do anything on this last vacation (to Florida), and I was going crazy (very literally) by the fifth day. I visit my mom in a few weeks, and I'm definitely taking workouts with me on that trip. I was hoping to get some running in while we were in Florida, but it didn't happen. So I figure if I take my workouts with me, I can control my ability to workout a little better than I did last week. I'm absolutely addicted to activity, that's for sure. It's kind of sad because I was cleaning this morning, and just doing that kind of activity made me feel good. You can only imagine how good my workouts have felt these past few days!!!

About accepting changes in our bodies, it is tough. And I struggle with it all the time. But I also recognize that some things are just going to happen, and I'm going to do everything to prevent that which doesn't have to happen from happening that's for sure. But the trade-off I've promised myself for that is to not sweat too much about that which I can't control. And I can't control all of the aging process, so I'll accept what I have to and work my butt off to prevent what I don't have to accept.

alf, your time with your family sounds great. I hope you have so much fun. Like I said above, I totally agree with you about not throwing in the towel and chalking it up to aging. I won't do that either. I still think I'm too young to be my age! :laugh:

All here is going well. I'm doing a week of whatever workouts feel good right now after coming down from some tough rotations. I leave for my mother's house in a few weeks so there isn't enough time to put together a complete routine in these three weeks so I'm doing what I want to do right now and it feels great. Today was a good kickboxing workout followed by a tough lower body routine. Tomorrow I'm thinking about doing a tough circuit workout. We'll see. Like I said above, I'm fighting tendonitis is both my arms right now, so I'm trying to lower the weights a bit on the upper body workouts to let them heal. This isn't the first time I've been down this road with my arms so I know what I need to do to take care of them. A few weeks of lighter load and I should be good as new.

Hope this finds everybody well!

sing, I hope that your evening went well. Sort of hard to work in execising when you work nights.

:flowerforyou: Wow stiring, you can do 300 push-ups ? That is terrific !!! I don't know why you are worrying about getting older. You look great !! I have had to change my facial care routine. Plus, we do have more wrinkles showing as we lose weight. Bummer.:grumble:

I am hopeing to get to my weight class tonight. I was 15 minutes late for it on Monday. So, there were the instuctor and her mother there and since it looked like no one else was going go show, they left.

Not much time to be here today. Couldn't get on earlier. Supervisor changed the computer password on me.

:flowerforyou: LadyPersia, thank you for the inspiring words. We can't help but age but we can stay young in mind, spirit and body.

Hope all is well with everyone. We've spent a few extra days working in Nevada these past two weeks. One of the houses is done and put-on the market. The other one, I'm hoping, won't take too long to get done. But of course we got two notices for tenants moving out on the 1st..... It just never ends. At least my husband is selling this house and hopefully the next. I don't want to add to the amount of rentals we have especially when they aren't even in my area.

My brother and his family are still living with us. We do all get along but it does put a strain on our budget and sometimes it's just nice to have the house quiet and be able to enjoy a book. That doesn't happen very often anymore. Yesterday I cleaned out my workout room to let the girls use it as a bedroom. They were all squished in one room and stepping on each other. So now I don't have access to my equipment. Not that I have used it much lately, gosh seems like the past year, because I am always on the go.

Alf... I know it's hard to believe but trust me, you are very thin. But I can understand the worry when you put-on a couple of pounds too. We work so hard to lose it and it's so easy to gain back. Extremely frustrating.

Stiring... Thanks for bringing up the topic of estrogen. It's had me thinking I should get mine tested along with my thyroid. There is absolutely no reason it should be so extremely hard for me to lose weight.

Sing... Take care of yourself working all those hours.

Tladame... Hope you feel better soon.

Swiss... How's your daughters finger?

Another week gone by!!! I am soooo tired!! :yawn: :yawn: I went to a concert last night with my daughter and some friends (Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull and Prince Royce) and got home late. But it was great fun!!!!! It looked like half of San Antonio was there, the place was packed!!! So there are a lot of sleepy drivers out there, including myself, not good...:noway: As far as exercise is concerned, this week pretty good but a little different due to different schedule. Eating has been ok, could have been better, definitely feeling the cravings for comfort foods due to seasonal changes. Must fight it!!! :laugh:

Tron, how many houses do you own? Good to hear from you.

tladame, good to hear from you again. I hope you feel better soon.

Good to see everyone else!!! Sorry, at work, not much time. Take care!!!!! :flowerforyou:

Alf... We own 7 in the Carson City, Nevada area and in California we own 5 houses, a duplex, and a four plex.

Wow! That's quite an undertaking! I really wish we had the extra money to buy another house as a rental/investment property. Prices are so low right now (I'm in northern CA).