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I swim a mile on my lunch hour every Mon/Wed/Fri. Its a great exercise for toning and stretching your muscles and really builds up endurance. I run or ride bike on the other days so swimming provides me a way to work out without working the same muscles on consecutive days. I also do body weight strength training early in…

We can multitask. ;-)

I agree 100%.

You're doing great, keep it up. And you have a beautiful smile that lets your personality shine through.

From the title of your post I thought maybe it was an alzheimer issue. If you're confused you might need to stop running before you get hopelessly lost. :laugh: All kidding aside, it sounds like your doing it right. With your back and neck issues I would try to do some core body exercises and make sure I did a lot of…

Your joints, ligaments and tendons need to get strengthed the same as your muscle. That may be what you're feeling. They take longer. Don't over do it but keeping working at it and the aches will go away. No need to go fast. Try light stretching every day in the morning and evening and give your body a couple days to…

Recently started back in Shotokan after a twenty some year break. Brown belt working toward black. I like that martial arts adds flexibility, balance and coordination to my exercise routine.

Very inspirational. Its great that you're approaching this as a long term project and lifestyle change. Keep it up! I went to a Flogging Molly concert with my son several years ago and really enjoyed it.

Who says you can't turn the clock back? Soon you'll be in High School!

Start with vertical pushups - stand an arms length from a wall and do pushups against the wall. Do them slowly, 2 seconds down 1 sec. pause, 2 sec. up, i sec. pause. repeat. Try to work up to 2 sets of 50. After you can do that try doing push ups on the stairs. stand at the bottom of the stairs and lean on to the highest…

Thats great! I'll bet you feel much better afterward this year too.

The thing is, at age 55 I'm not a stylish, trendy kind of guy.

I wasn't going to respond to this as there are already a lot of great suggestions. So many that it might be overload. But I was doing my mile swim at the Y on my lunch hour and got to thinking that maybe I could simplify. I started swimming laps 20 years ago when I was 36. Coincidentally 36 laps is a mile, so I thought I'd…

I've read the book and started the program, at the beginning level, last week. I started at the very beginning level because I have been having some shoulder pain and I thought this would be good therapy. Also, I'm in no hurry. I'm actually kind of surprised at how strenuous exercises like vertical pushups and shoulder…

swimming laps.

I try to do cardio 7 days a week, either swimming, running or biking. Swimming is monday, wednesday and friday for 35-40 minutes on my lunch hour. I alternate running and biking after work on the other days, 45 to 60 minutes on weekdays, 60 to 90 minutes on weekends. I do strength training 3 days /week before work. Usually…

I'm not sure how you could gain 20 pounds on a 1600 calorie/day diet. Something doesn't seem right, are you sure you're counting correctly? There's nothing wrong with exercising to move and sweat and stay limber, but are you sure you're exercising enough to burn significant amounts of calories? If you haven't been athletic…

When I run and I see another runner at a different speed (slower or faster) I have to remind my self that I don't know how far they've already run or how much farther they plan on running. I can't compare what I'm doing to what they're doing because I don't have enough information. Its like that with eating too. You don't…

You all may be joking, I'm not sure. I have seen them pan fired and chocolate covered.

Great advice so far. I've been exercising for years and still get that when I start back up or try something new. I was sore for a week after my first session of P90X. I always seem to be more sore the second day after than the first. Take it easy, but keep moving.

You'll want to stretch out your calves.…

I was diagnosed with psoriatic RA 20 years ago. It was only painful in my hands, but I was always exhausted. I had been a runner and the first time I tried running when it was active, before the diagnosis, I only made it about 50 yards and had to lie down on the bench in the locker room for a half hour before I had enough…

I only jog in day light because I don't want to trip on an unseen crack or pothole and twist my ankle. I did that years ago and haven't run at night since. I wear minimalist running shoes, so to me shoes are less important. The key is to land on the balls of your feet, not the heels. Most expensive running shoes…

I use a garmin ant+ HRM and just last week got a wahoo dongle for my iphone to use it with ibiker. I really like it but I've had some trouble getting the ibiker to work right. Once I thought I had started it but hadn't, once I left the screen on and it doesn't dim automatically so I almost ran the iphone battery down, and…

I'm by no means an expert on strength training, but I would suggest you go with relatively low weights and train high reps.

It's such a shame that those bouncy moms haven't matured any since middle school.

Welcome, if you're a control freek you'll love this sight. Start logging your food and exercise, get a monitor to log your heart rate, an app to determine your LTHR and HR max. You can control everything here! (Only partly joking)

My lower back used to tighten up when I ran until at some point one of the muscles would spasm and I'd be barely able to get out of bed. Last spring I started consciously landing on the balls of my feet and found that I no longer had any back problems. This spring I bought a pair of five fingers minimalist shoes (the kind…

Went to an open house yesterday after work and had six hors d'ouvres even though they had sliced fruit available, and didn't log them because I wasn't sure what they were. I tried to make up by having a bottle of water instead of a glass of wine to drink, but then I went home and skipped my evening workout.

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