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Re: 200+ Pound Club!

guest — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:17:22 GMT

gdsmit1 wrote:

Let's talk strength training. I'm looking for something to do at home. I don't have the space for a weight bench and I'd like to keep it on the cheaper side. I also don't like exercises like push ups. I'm thinking that maybe kettlebells is the way to go. I'm seeing lots of sites about them and have watched many videos. The problem is almost all the sites and videos are trying to sell a product as well, so their backing of the kettlebell is slanted. Anyone here ever use them?

Anyone using any other type of strength training?

I do my strength training 2x a week with a trainer at the gym, so I can't help with any home/limited space recommendations, but we do sometimes do kettlebell training (she is always mixing it up, it may be a month or more before we repeat an exercise). I always have a pretty good soreness going on after the kettlebell work.

Re: 200+ Pound Club!

guest — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:05:28 GMT

Good luck to all who are doing Turkey Trots today!

Re: 200+ Pound Club!

guest — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:48:51 GMT

@wes - I did have trouble with the jump between W3 and W4. Most of the time I can keep plodding along with my legs, but my breathing is what makes me stop and walk. I am on my 4th or 5th time doing a W4 run and I am just now getting close to being able to finish it.

Re: 200+ Pound Club!

guest — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:57:13 GMT

I had a pretty good W4 run today! It is the first time in over a week that my back is feeling almost back to normal. I skipped my bosu class again just to give it some more time and went running. I made it through both 3 min runs and the first 5 min one without stopping, and walked about 1.5 min in the middle of the second 5 min.

Re: 200+ Pound Club!

guest — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:07:36 GMT

318lbs wrote:

No, Mt. Monadnock in Jaffrey, NH.

Cool! I live in the Seacoast NH area. I like the picture with the World Series trophies even if it is your "before" pic. Go Sox!

Re: 200+ Pound Club!

guest — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:30:51 GMT

Wideguy wrote:

Really cool thing, last night was my oldest son's Fall sports awards ceremony. He was a freshman runner on the Cross country team this year. He only started running in August, with me on C25K. During the ceremony the coach called him out for his huge improvements, and mentioned how he had been out running weekends with his dad trying to get better. Said he looks forward to him in Spring track and CC next year, and that he had a great work ethic. That felt really good.

That's awesome!

I really enjoyed cross country when I was in high school. I only joined because I was a basketball player first and foremost, but I wanted a fall sport that would keep me in shape. I ended up really loving it. I bet your son will have a great sophomore season after he gets a year of running under his belt!

Re: 200+ Pound Club!

guest — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:20:38 GMT

@musicteacher - Thanks for posting that Jeff Galloway 5k plan. I wonder if that would work better for me than C25K. It seems more like what I end up doing now! I never seem to make it through all the intervals and in the past it has made me feel like I am failing. Last fall was my best attempt at C25K, and I just got stuck in W5... I must have done W5 for about 4 weeks before I gave up. I should have just kept going on doing what I was doing and taking walk breaks when I needed to to catch my breath.

Re: 200+ Pound Club!

guest — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:19:47 GMT

Made it through another day of W4! My back is still sore, but it's getting better. I had to do a 1 min walk in both 5 min runs and the second 3 min one. Hopefully soon I can do all of them and move on!

Re: 200+ Pound Club!

guest — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:33:16 GMT

yogabudorunner wrote:

So today was HOLY **** DEATH BY CHLORINE swim day.. 1 hour. 55 laps. I.. can.. not.. feel... my... arms.....

Been working these drills on body positioning. Damn that pull buoy. KILL ME. Also, if you ever thought swim fins make swimming *easier*, you have never swam with Zoomers. Sure, you're faster, but you're also killing your arms. More speed = more laps = death by chlorine.

Great job!

About 3 or 4 years ago, a friend and I signed up to do one of the Danskin triathlons together, and it became pretty clear that the swimming was going to be a major hurdle for me. I can swim... but apparantly I forgot how to do freestyle swimming in all the years in between my last swimming lessons and now. I had signed up for some adult lessons at the gym, and then the class got cancelled the night before because I was the only one who had signed up, and I was trying to figure out what I should do (get private lessons or something) when I started having a bunch of health problems with my gall bladder and that pretty much put an end to any triathlon stuff. I still want to do one though at some point! Maybe I could breaststroke my way through the swim leg.

Re: 200+ Pound Club!

guest — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:36:51 GMT

Who922 wrote:

So, here is my first question. Do ya'll run with gel inserts? I bought some new Asics to run in. Are there any other things I can do to help avoid injury while running at my weight? Thanks in advance.

I don't... I have never really felt like I needed them. I bought some Superfeet to wear with my cross trainers that I use when I go to the gym and work out with my trainer or to a group exercise class, but I hated the way they felt the first minute I put them on (they aren't gel, though) and I returned them. I couldn't imagine running on them.