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30-35 minutes of heavy bag work to start every workout day. Polar300 with HRM. Love it, and love the bag work.
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Don't count out push ups just yet. I struggled with doing 5 properly. Gave it a go, several times a day last fall. Doing 100+/day on average banging out 35 at a time, now. Takes time and a little voice in the head getting you to push out just two more. I literally used commercial breaks as my workout time to start. During…
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I have a Polar300 (just over a month). I also have a compatible HRM that came with it but both can be purchased separately. Together the cost was around $125. I love the thing. The sleep activity was eye opening. My only sticking point is the inactivity alert. I hate seeing those things on my chart. I have an hour+ drive,…
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I'm a fairly quiet person in general so I prefer home. It's been said previously that getting ready for the gym is motivating and it's easy to stop at home. Although I agree with the latter, I also use that as motivation and pushing through that pause on my own, motivates me. All I have at home is a heavy bag, treadmill,…
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Planks, push-ups, a variety of ab exercises, bear crawls (forwards, backwards, sideways, circles).
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For years my last name was always misspelled in media guides; then ONE time someone finally spelled it correctly only to misspell my first name. At some point one just learns to roll with it. Shakespeare said it best...
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Lack of motivation or lack of energy? For myself it can be a struggle differentiating between the two. It's when I really have to be honest with myself because that lack of energy is usually a sign (for me) that I'm not eating right. In those instances, my go to is raw spinach. It is one of the few foods where I actually…
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Once upon a time, when I was ironically much more fit (and coincidentally much younger), I had a 7:30am Psych class. Breakfast was Dew and a Snickers. For me, it got to the point that my body started.....unpleasantly reacting to the stuff. That was an easy break for me. Now, I might have 10 sodas in a year.
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Said it on another thread and I'll repeat it here, Contrast Bath. It will help scoot recovery along.
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ROI....You have invested time, good food, good choices. You stand to waste the return on that investment. The only person who truly knows what that return is or feels like, is you. Life is all about risk/reward. You've been able to balance that act this long, you've built a good foundation, you owe it to yourself to…
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I sleep best on days I busted my tail working out. Throw in some ploys during commercial breaks. I love using my Polar to track my sleeping patterns. First thing I do when I wake up is synch my watch with the Flow app to see how much or how little sleep I got. Once or twice a year though, I can't fall asleep for anything.…
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"Pause" kind of defeats the purpose of log-streaks, doesn't it? It's kind of like that kid who would always call time-out just before getting tagged. If you aren't able to log in while on vacation, so what? It means you are unplugged and having fun on vacation. To quote Aaron Rodgers, "R-E-L-A-X, Relax." Just do you and…
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Walk in the woods. Drive in the country. Put the cell phone away like it never existed...
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One more thing. Beyond the docs advice, Contrast Bath. I swear by them in the gym and at home.
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If I did that, I only win once. If I leave it on the counter, I get to win that battle every day.
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I'm not that coach but I do begin my athletes on a 200 squat warm-up at the beginning of every practice from day one. All are warned plenty of time before season begins. Without fail, several have to slide down stairs rather than walk the next morning following the first day. You can imagine some of the other stories I've…
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As a coach of higher level competitors, I see this all of the time. Not knowing the reasons for your boot, I suspect stress fracture in the foot? I've had athletes get placed in the boot and "stay off the foot," meant stay off the foot. They don't, and they never come back in the initial amount of time given. They are…
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I love candy. I have an Easter basket full of jelly beans, candy bars, etc... Sitting on the kitchen counter, taunting me every time I walk by. Fact of the matter is, discipline to not gorge myself comes from working out itself. The more I workout, the less inclined I am to eat my cravings. Brain says "Do it." Body says,…
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"I'm Perfect." Learned that one years ago. Of course "perfect" is a sliding scale but it works for me.
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I got hooked on series' I never bothered tuning into on t.v. As popular as Breaking Bad was, I never watched it and decided to see what all the talk was about. Got hooked instantly. The 100, The 4700, The Remembered, The Inbetweeners....all shows I probably never would have watched if not for the treadmill. Haha. Currently…
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If you are strapped for time, finding moments to push out some push-ups, planks, any quick body weight exercise is better than nothing. In between chores around the home (I had to do that for a while), before or after an errand like getting kids from school, etc... For a while I was doing 20-30 random push-ups at random…
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Fwiw, mine just arrived on Friday and it's been great. Running, bear crawls, stays in place just fine but it's only been a few days so the strap is fresh. As far as the H7 unit itself it's much thinner than I thought it was. Hadn't seen one, physically, before.
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I joined MFP in 2012 but I really only lasted a month or so. Needless to say, I went nowhere. I made a concerted effort again (along with the purchase of a treadmill) in August of this year. Since then I've dropped 15 pounds. I hate running, but I hate feeling unhealthy even more. I have multiple "motivators" but the one…
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Typically, Apple doesn't rollout the update until mid-morning, their time (Western). I'm guessing within the next couple of hours we'll see the tide swell. I'm anxious for the upgrades, hesitant for any deprecation and/or dysfunction that will befall some apps.
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I actually hate that I may have an answer to this but; K-Tape may be in order. Certainly a bit more "skin-friendly" than duct tape. That stuff was (indirectly) made for something like this and it's made for the body, not metal.
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About a cup of yogurt, a half of a banana, half a cup of blueberries, honey and cinnamon and a few cubes of ice.
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Just to clarify, there are plenty of malodorous folks NOT wearing gym clothes. How one stinks isn't necessarily directly related to how one is dressed. The gentleman I was luckily seated next to on my flight a few weeks ago smelled so bad it was almost mythical and he was in a polo and jeans. Cripes it was like sitting…
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Actually when it comes to places of business, private organizations and the like, one is not free to do whatever they please. Just as people have a constitutionally protected right to be a jerk, places of business have a right to tell them their business isn't wanted. I don't have an issue with those shirts, necessarily.…
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Strictly reruns and 90's Nick; it would have to be The Adventures of Pete and Pete
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This country is full of interesting names. Took a wrong turn in Ft. Wayne, IN and my GPS is telling me to take a right on......Harry Baals Dr. I almost lost control of the vehicle.
