Regular moderate exercise log

[zauberflote]

@Traceymac23 that was indeed the workout. When I shop i’m always grateful a) that the 20 lb sacks of kitty litter are on the bottom shelf, and b) that I can leave them in the car once home, having no room for them inside.
I knew someone once whose house was only accessible by climbing 80 or 90 steps. She’d just had a hip replacement and had to climb all those with her groceries once she started driving! Woweee!
First real walk in days. Almost 2 miles fast, waiting fir the lightning to start. It never did, whew!

 

[Japes]

In college I did actually have to play and “dance” once. Some weird modern dance guy needed two flute players who looked ok in a black leotard and wanted to make ten bucks. We spent most of our time snaking around on our bellies, and playing pieces of our disassembled flutes. It was ABYSMAL.....

Eek! It's bad enough occasionally playing my clarinet and walking in procession (twice a year at church I do this,). Fortunately, I would never have looked OK in a black leotard in my college days for that kind of shenanigans!

 

[Traceymac23]

In college I did actually have to play and “dance” once. Some weird modern dance guy needed two flute players who looked ok in a black leotard and wanted to make ten bucks. We spent most of our time snaking around on our bellies, and playing pieces of our disassembled flutes. It was ABYSMAL.....

and a bit trippy!!

 

[johnpol]

Squats last night worked upto 145kg felt OK but couldn't hit depth. Hip felt like someone had set fire to it!! One step at a time.

 

[ianpspurs]

2 day catch up. Nothing wonderful as absorbed with getting to know granddaughter who was staying with us for 3 nights. As this was her first time without mum and dad much deeper understanding of her personality. Also spent Saturday evening to an 80th birthday party and seeing extended family again much late bedtime for me. Quite surprised by 14k steps yesterday and 12k today. Should be able to reclaim my gym tomorrow and hopefully do a little more than walking.

 

[Traceymac23]

I am currently working on core and abdominals at the moment while my arm/shoulder /foot are all still pretty inflamed after sepsis problems.

Leg Raises(4x25)

Alternate Leg raises(4x25)

Crunches(4x20)

Twisting crunches(4X20)

Not sure what they're called but it's that exercise on all fours holding a dumbbell with both hands which you roll away from as far as you can you whilst holding it and than pull it back in using only your core muscles.....someone will have the name for them but I'm calling them Push-me Pull-Ya's and I done 2 sets of 15 .....eally slowly and controlled.

I also walked up the hill to Alexandra Palace and back(about 4km total).

 

[ianpspurs]

11k steps and 30 minutes steady exercise bike is all today.

 

[ianpspurs]

12k steps, 20 mins on exercise bike and 20 mins weights. 90 minutes grass cutting. <20 gms carbs and still can't get bg levels to usual - a little frustrating.

 

[johnpol]

Deadlifts last night worked up to 210kg and surprise, surprise it was stuck to the floor! Fought it and I won, but why does everything feel so sodding heavy at the minute, sub 200kg and they fly up but go above 200kg and its like someone has put the breaks on!! Ah well keep on plodding away. Oh and the hip is still bad, I have been informed the healing process for a torn hip muscle is approx. 9-12wks, it just gets better and better.

Take care everyone.

 

[Traceymac23]

Just a slow long leisurely stroll through and around my local park this morning.......I'd guess about 5-6k as I spent about an hour and a half or so in total........I may repeat this evening if it's not too chilly round the willy LOL

 

[ianpspurs]

11.4k steps and another sub 20 gms carbs but still seems to work for bg levels. Dammed if I do and dammed if I don't - baffled.

 

[NR]

Hi, good idea for a thread... was diagnosed pre-diabetic in March 2018 (aged 65) and got zero advice from GP “I could prescribe statins” me: “why would you, when my cholesterol is ok and my HbA1c is only 44 so that is what I want to deal with?” Rhetorical question of course. So I read this forum avidly (thank you so much for all the advice) and embarked on minimal carb, 1000cal diet and gym, monitored monthly by a sympathetic member of gym staff. I’m 1.63m (5’5”) and was 81 kg (12st 8lb) rather to my surprise as I used to swim 30 lengths of a 25m pool three times a week and go for a 4mile country hike most weekends. Clearly swimming was not doing it for me, so I now aim to do cardio (treadmill, rowing and cycling) and strength training (mix of free weights and machines) for an hour three times a week and only one swim. After 6 months I weighed 70kg, HbA1c 38 mol/mol and BP was down to 126/75 so I can say that this approach has worked for me. In fact during the summer I did a walking holiday of 100km in 6 days....diet went to pot as I was in Germany and it was rye bread all the way!
When it’s raining and I don’t want to walk to the gym, I do the Fitscript Glucosezone video of interval training

and the seated exercise one is good if knees are dodgy

I think one just has to start small and build up and it’s surprising what you can achieve, not that I shall be doing marathons/triathlon etc Oh yes, last point, the gym guy tells me that I’m not drinking enough water so I always take a bottle with me now.

 

[ianpspurs]

So, I did 14.2k steps today. In terms of effectiveness that is in the chocolate fireguard league but I got a bless him, he tried, badge.

 

[zauberflote]

@traceymac yes I believe trippy was what the writer had in mind. Or very retro-beat(nik).

 

[zauberflote]

12k steps, 20 mins on exercise bike and 20 mins weights. 90 minutes grass cutting. <20 gms carbs and still can't get bg levels to usual - a little frustrating.

Ian, this high bg seems to be in the air, it's going around. Mine had been way high, and all of a sudden they came back to lower than usual yesterday. I have NO idea.

 

[zauberflote]

Tuesday a Barre class where I am in way over my head but trying, and today Thursday a personal-best-first-mile 2.2 miles walk. Wed was much up and down of steps and driveway as I gathered trash and recycling to leave out.
The Barre class has been having an interesting effect on my legs the past two times. After, they feel (subjectively, from the inside) warm and relaxed. It really feels as though circulation is being restored which perhaps has been taken by trigger points. I have lingering nerve stuff from the left hip replacement, and decades-long awfulness from my right sacro-iliac joint and the piriformis muscle,, (That was all last week)
2.3 mile fast walk today as well as zooming around at top speed otherwise. Lots of upping and downing of stairs.

 

[johnpol]

Squats on Friday morning, trained with a good group of people who pushed me on worked upto 180kg x1 and hit depth and actually felt OK. Hip is still sore and it takes some warming up but nice to get under such a weight

 

[zauberflote]

Yesterday 4/21 2.2 mile walk purposely at a comfortable pace.
Today a weird day. Woke early after a very late bedtime, but I love being awake on spring mornings! It's the 5 hr sleeps that aren't good for me. 4 little half-mile around the block walks. There were to be 6, but stuff got in the way. Stretching lower legs now, bc I know that those walks aren't going to work on night cramps. Going out of town early Wed morning, and there's still too much to do grrrrr!

 

[Japes]

Hi, good idea for a thread... .

Hello, NR and welcome to the forums, especially this thread! I noticed it was your first post so I'll tag @daisy1 for her welcome post as well.

Apologies for absence, lovely people of this thread, Main Paid Work finished, organist duties took over and walking happened but not in an interesting way at all.

So, here's my local woods full of bluebells which is far more interesting than tales of miles trudged keeping calm for the last two weeks.

 

[ianpspurs]

Probably last of the warm dry days so caught up on grass cutting but still need to get in the ditch and do some strimming. 17k steps, 160 mins cutting grass including wild areas, sides of ditch and bank so some resistance as well.