Fitness chat and tips #2

[Nettie]

MG - I'd love to make your lunch for you! Alas... the miles!

Berenice - I found that making my tuna salad was quicker than driving to and waiting in the KFC drive thru... it's also just as quick as re-heating leftovers. The only other downside is a few extra dishes (knife, peeler, board, bowl) and a little mess. But I always enjoy the salad infinitely more than some of the other stuff!

Nelle - good idea on the name of the thread!

Liz - like the Wii plan!

After my icky experience shopping and feeling all riled up - I'm gonna hit the floor tonight!! Gonna grab my weights right now!

[Winter]

Nothing for me today! I have the w'ends off apart from a walk in the evening, but I've skipped even that tonight.

Have any of you girls found that after strenuous exercise that your legs ache in bed at night & it's hard to sleep? A crampy sort of feeling? I thought it might have to do with lacking in some minerals that I sweated out or something. I took a vitamin tablet last night & I don't know if that helped or not. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

No personals from me tonight, sorry, knackered! Off to read a book over dinner (DH at work, DD in bed! YAY!) Can't wait to hear how you all go in this next week.

[Winter]

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[Mother Goose]

Nettie - I'd move to SA! If I take salad to work I have to make it at home (believe me, in my industry, better done at home!). And I usually make it the night before. Good luck with your session tonight!!!!!!

Heather - Yeah, D is brilliant! You'd never guess his age when you first met him!

Berny - soft tissue is good! It means you can build muscle and take the pressure off. I strongly advocate clinical pilates (which is different to gym/mat pilates). It will help to really build your core muscles and to strengthen the weak bits in your back. It will make it much better. If it doesn't help, request a CT from your GP to make sure it isn't anything structural. My injury IS structural and clinical pilates worked wonders for me... so imagine what it will do for you!!!

Leck - like the plan!

I also like the new name Nelle! Thanks!

AFM - I just did a treadmill session. Not as brilliant as last night. I still pushed myself to hit 6.0Km/hr for a little bit. But I noticed that my gait was way off tonight. It felt like my left side was lagging at times which is an indication I am beginning to relapse. My hip flexor is tight tight tight and I can't get it to stretch! Which is me. I'm really hoping D will be able to help me out on Tuesday... and if not I'm pretty sure I have physio this week. I'll have to take my anti-inflammatories tomorrow for sure. Aiiiii I don't get worse girls! I couldn't handle that!

Have a lovely lovely night girls!

MG

[ladybird11]

MG - I just really wanted to thank you , for imparting your knowledge surrounding injuries to me (well us all actually ). I've honestly never really suffered from injuries (as you can tell because my attitude is starting to bite now this injury has been with me for almost a fortnight now), and most of the people I deal with at gyms usually only have the basic sprain / strain type injury. Its one thing to read and learn from a text book - but another to hear stories from people who have actually suffered injuries and worked through it.

I seriously see you as an inspiration to me, because despite your injuries, you're working damn hard to overcome them - whereas sooo many other people would just give up.

Kudos to you MG!

[danniellabella]

I'm planning to see how long I can jog on the treadmill today. Last time I really tried I could only go for about 2 minutes. I'm gonna try to do at least 5-10 minutes today. My fitness level has increased a fair bit since last time I tried to see how long I could jog for.
It's a hot day here in Adelaide though, thankfully the gym is air conditioned. I've brought my short shorts for the gym which I usually hate wearing coz I don't like showing my thighs in public...they're aweful! At least no one can stand behind me when I'm on the treadmills at my gym.

[ladybird11]

Hey Danni - have you got an mp3 player? You can download the mp3 C25K program onto it and give it a crack .
Its bizarre to listen too, they guy speaking tells you when to run and when to walk with music in the background, but hey - it'll help you get to 5k's....
(I'm fairly sure I remember you posting a thread about the c25k program?)

[danniellabella]

Hey Danni - have you got an mp3 player? You can download the mp3 C25K program onto it and give it a crack .
Its bizarre to listen too, they guy speaking tells you when to run and when to walk with music in the background, but hey - it'll help you get to 5k's....
(I'm fairly sure I remember you posting a thread about the c25k program?)

Yeah I've got the C25K and have tried it. I didn't find it helped me to actually jog properly. But thanks for reminding me about my MP3 player...I need to charge it before I go to the gym. (it charges by USB on the computer... a little annoying that I can only charge it that way).

Oh, I've got this other thing called a tabata clock which is good for short burst exercises (like jogging on the spot, skipping, plank, mountain climbers etc). It's just a thing that counts down "three, two, one" and then a bell goes off and that's when you start your exercise. The default timer will stop after 20 seconds with a big buzzzzz and then you get a 10 second break before starting again. If anyone wants the website pm me.

[Winter]

I'm interested in this tabata clock. Sounds like a good way to do interval training by yourself without a trainer. We had Circuit on Friday with a stand-in PT and he said that interval training is the best way to loose weight as it keeps your body working for an hour or so after you finish. Can the ladies in the know about this stuff stop in and fill me in a bit more on the whys and hows? THANKS!