My legs are surprisingly sore from yesterday sprints. Particularly my hip flexors and hammies. Quads too.
I did a lot of stretching after training. Felt good! I don’t do that enough and need too.
Meant to say, I had my first run in with WTF-are you doing?- type people. Like the guy kipping the hell out of his pull ups. It just looks hilarious in person. Never seen that before.
And the bench press flutter kick combo? Ya, it followed me.
I did, however, see the ‘built lady trainer,’ curling 100 lbs!!! Granted she was forcing the rep big time and someone was helping her get it up. But still…Obviously she’s not afraid of lifting heavy. Wonder what her leg day looks like blink
Now to nosh on some grub and then we’re gonna go check out another farmers market.
Kipping pull-up guy is likely one of your Crossfitters. That’s how they do it. It’s not exactly cheating per se - it’s a different movement, essentially, because it’s explosive.
Built lady trainer was curling a 100lb dumbell or barbell? I just hope it was a bar, otherwise I’d have to wonder. Heh.
Mimzy - Impressed with your sprints. Those are soo hard. And keep us posted on how the Dr. visit goes. Be assertive. And wear your new giraffe print dress. Hey, whatever will get their attention, pretty girl. And you have chicks curling 100 pounds at your new gym? Maybe it’s catching!
I surely hope you get the thyroid function straighened out. In the meantime, doesn’t it just make sense to step away from the scale until you have a plan?
Sprints are fun, yup! Not sure if I’m doinitrite. I have no technique. I just take off and think to myself-- OMG OMG OMG, there’s a viscious dog chasing me!! run for your life!!!
Yesterday my knees were in paaain.
They haven’t hurt like that in a long while…clearly sending me the message that, just like my thyroid, they are not magically cured just because I’m taking glucosamine. duh.
K- yes, if I was sane, I would stay off the scale.
your right though. As long as I’m eating healthy and moving…any +++ on the scale isn’t fat gain(I’d hope!!) I can blame my hormones. I don’t feel so crazy now!
As long as my cloths are still fitting, I’m ok. When I get to an optimized level I can focus on cutting these last lbs that have been haunting me.
Sprints are freaking killer! That’s why they’re amazingly awesome! I credit pretty much ALL my leg development to sprints - glutes, hams, calves, all of it. So I really couldn’t advocate more for sprinting. Its probably the only form of running where you’re building muscle, so YAY DOMs! Don’t forget to stretch!
Great gym sesh there MiMsy! I love when you get in the gym and kill it! Woot woot!
Oh the knee pain…yeah, that’s not good. I know you’ve had intermittent knee trouble for a while, have you gotten that looked at recently? And more importantly, did you warm up before sprinting? That’s imperative to staving off knee pain while running.
And yes, there is a proper form to sprinting and running. It might be worthwhile to look that up. It always amazes me how many people don’t know how to run. Maybe Charlie can weigh in b/c she’s the sprinter, but I was taught - long strides, relaxed upper body and pump your arms like pistons (so opposite leg moves with the opposite arm) and on flat surfaces your chest is up, but on hills you keep your center of gravity low.
1pm- chicken cooked with
coconut milk n curry
asparagus
4pm- greek yogur
mixed berries
6pm- chili
cornbread, mmmmm
Yesterday we went to another farmers market…kinda out of the way but fun to scope out. Paid $19.50 for…
3 rather large zukes
2 english cukes
3 large tomatos
about 3 lbs of small red potatos
strawberry/rhubarb jam
blueberry jam
not bad, I spose. Hubby brought up a good point though. That alone would feed ME for like 4 days(maybe)
And is it cost effective to drive all around MD to buy this stuff?
I guess it depends on how hardcore you are about getting the freshest food possible.
But when you are on a very tight budget, I dunno. I guess we’d have to do the math one day.
I tend to buy a lot of frozen veggies/berries. And I always have cucumbers/apples on hand for snacks. And I like buying fresh as needed veggies for dinner, etc…
waiting for the hubby to wake so I can go on a nice long walk. Supposed to be going to the pool later. Tomorrow is the crab festival!
The only time I asked about my knees was a few years back. During the thyroid debacle, same Nurse practioner lady. She had me straighten and bend my leg and just made gross faces and said ‘ya you need to go see the PT people.’ I got a couple sessions in, but the moral was don’t do things that hurt.
I’m going to ask again…maybe request an x-ray or MRI to get a better idea of whats going on.
ya, I was sprinting wrong.
And it was on a bumpy grassy field. oops.
My warm up was walking to the field. double oops.
Long strides huh? makes sense! Maybe I’ll take my camera to the track sometime.
PS- I don’t think it was the sprints that hurt my knees. They started hurting when I got home from the gym yesterday. I think maybe it was the high rep, kinda fast paced kb swings/squats that got me.
I’ve been known to sprint on bumpy grass - it’s not always great if you hit a bit that is higher or lower than you expect, but hey ho. It looks like a lovely place to train.
Push-ups didn’t look bad to me - well done on getting 28.
Eats sounded good, too.
And why not wear the bottoms? You have great legs. I’m stuck in board shorts due to cellulite but you don’t have that. Make the most of your lovely leggies.
As far as the sprinting is concerned the warm up should take longer than the sprints. sort of like 45min warm up to about maybe 3 min overall sprinting. <If it’s max effort it is hard to maintain a sprint pace for longer than 10-15 secs. You know you are sprinting if you can hold your breath while doing it, except for breathing out, like doing a heavy lift. I treat them like doing a lift so one sprint is a set.
This is one of my warm ups
Walk to park 30mins
Jog across field for about 5mins.
Stretches
Walking butt kicks x2 (across distance you intend to sprint helps to find bumps and holes too)
Walking high knees x2 (across distance you intend to sprint)
Sideways runs x2(across distance you intend to sprint)
Buildups x5(jog first then build to sprint)
Stretches
Then I would do about 5-10 sprints<-- I usually felt my 3rd or 4th were the best efforts
I found doing both squats and sprints to be very hard on my knees so I am sort of giving my knees a break and taking a break from sprinting until I have a better squat. I think I want the stronger squat more than the sprint right now. Although I have heard that hill sprints are supposed to be easier to maintain proper form and might be easier on the knees. Also I noticed that when I slow down by putting my heals down instead of slowing down on my toes (flat surface sprinting) I am more likely to jam my knee or ankles.
Basically treat a sprint day as a leg day.
My squats have improved since removing sprints. So for me I may just train one or the other. Undecided. :-/
Why do people have to ask us if we are okay when we are working out? Doesn’t anyone know what effort looks like? Yeesh <–sort of annoyed at those firemen’s comments.
i think that a lot of people don’t know what effort looks like
those push-ups looked pretty good. squeeze the butt!!! thats all i got. that field looked kinda nice and peaceful. sorry they ruined that for you. good luck with the doc. hope that goes well for you. hawaii?? WOW. what you say about florida makes sense too, though.
wanted ice cream actually…but when I came down from putting Julia to bed the boys were playing xbox and I was feeling quite sleepy, even though it was only 815
I laid in bed trying to read, but passed out of course.
