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Yoga Instructors - Child's Pose with a ruptured lumbar disc
Hey folks, PT recommended child's pose for rehabbing my ruptured L5-S1 disc. Any of you yoga folks, instructors and practitioners, have thoughts on this? Seems odd because I hurt the disc from overuse riding a road bike. It is like using the position that hurt me to heal me????? Makes no sense.
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Ruptured L5 - S1: Needing a pick me up
Hey Folks, I do not post on here often, seems months actually, but I could use the experience of the group here as a sounding board.. I train for triathlons and work as a SPINNING instructor here in Ohio. In any given week, it was not unusual for me to teach 4 SPINNING classes and ride upward of 150 miles on my road bike.…
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Lap Swimmers and Triathletes
I hate posts like this, but here I go. Has anyone ever experienced vertigo after swimming? In my case, I swam on Friday morning and spent a good bit of time working on breathing. What this means is a half an hour against the side of the pool rotating my head one way then the other just breathing. Now, I have swam for years…
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Timex Ironman Heart Rate Monitors
Anyone else seeing that the timex products give an extremely elevated calorie count?
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Caloric Deficit vs. The Scale
I have a good one for your scientific folks and I would appreciate your thoughts. First, I am not actively trying to loose weight. If I do, fine, but it is not my main goal at this point. I am however starting to ramp up my training for some summer triathlons. In doing so, I watch such things as caloric input/output. Over…
