Spaghetti + vicodin= coma. At least for me it would be. Glad to see you are still killing & the wheels are coming alond VERY nicely 
whats this about vicodin?
I wouldn’t have thought so but do track how the knee feels after biking. Sending good vibes your way.
Ice cream and vicodin, parTAY at MiM’s house!
Just catching up on the log. Lets looking lean! Loved the cheat meal.
[quote]Cal Jones wrote:
I wouldn’t have thought so but do track how the knee feels after biking. Sending good vibes your way.[/quote]
Agreed. Do you ice your knees on the reg, like after doing leg days? Ice is truly a magical substance, next to vicodin 
Hope you had fun on the boat!
Oh! and for my bike intervals (re: your question from my log) I do my sprints with fairly high resistance, so you’re right, they may not look so much like a “sprint” as they may a “run” - but I am doing max effort, so it FEELS like a sprint. But even when I had good knees I would always sprint and “climb” with high resistance because it always felt better for my knees, otherwise with lower resistance it just feels like a flywheel, which doesn’t feel good for my legs at all…if that makes sense. So in sum - speed + challenging resistance = bike sprints for me. lol!
I think the knee pain was triggered my ‘leg,’ day last week…plus trying out some different cardio machines.
No I don’t ice my knees. I’ll have to try that at the end of the day some time. I don’t think I’m going to have leg days anymore 
Just waiting on my referral letter to go get my MRI done. I’ll continue doin the single leg ext and the squat press machine.those don’t hurt…but hammies and glutes all the way!
Maschy- that makes sense about the intervals. I do em that way I think. I do em both ways…off the seat too and ‘climb,’ or seated and ‘sprinting,’ with high resistance. Right?? lol
Thanks DJ!
Training:
shoulders/back/arms
Lat pulldown- 5x8
BB MP- 5x5
Just testing the waters here. Shoulder didn’t feel too bad. But now it’s the left one that is acting up…yay my life!
3x12
Neutral grip db press
lat raise
front raise
5x10
Straight arm pd-
face pulls
5x10
Standing v-grip pull
high db rows(incline bench)
4x10
rear delt raises(incline)
ARMS- 4x10
hammer curls
Tri rope pressdown
barbell curls
OH tri rope ext
jacking up the volume
Bike- 2 min warm up
4 min ride(level 20 the whole way through)
Definitely more challenging on the spin bike, but it was in use
6 min steady ride
Treadmill- 10 min
TOTAL- 22 min…yay me
oh no MiM sorry to hear about the knee pain. i’ll go ahead and x3 the icing comment. Throw an icepack on there when you get home for 15 minutes if you can. it’ll help.
sending good thoughts your way.
It’ll be ok.
I have a feeling by the end of this year(at least!) I’ll be on my way to feeling better, to feeling ‘normal.’ YAY NORMAL!!
I’ve also been keeping my eye out for my referral to the ortho. Soon, I hope!
I got my referral sent to see the Thyroid specialist I picked out. Now I just wait on the letter by mail to show, so I can make an appt!
It’s kind of a drive, but really no further than driving to DC or Baltimore.
So that’s where I am. More waiting, more taking it day by day.
So I think I found the right combo/volume to hit my tris to make them nice and sore. Kinda disappointed my rear delts aren’t feeling it more this morning.
I know soreness is not supposed to be an indication of anything, but to me it lets me know it was worked GOOD!!
Food yesterday-
11am- 1 cup greek yogurt
1230pm- steak
kale chips(about 4 cups worth)
8 oz carrots
kale was a new veggie for me. I love the basics, but like steppin outta the box sometimes
330- wheat bran cakes
630pm- baked chicken drumsticks(like 4 of em)
broccoli
I’m going to log my food for a couple days(fitday) to see where I am calorie wise.
I love a good set of tris on a woman! Happy days on the food front. Actually I think your’s & Cal’s losing weight is contagious too, nothing too exciting but my pants are slightly looser.
well, that’s SOMEthing, right?? WTG!
Training-
dynamic warm up
single leg ext-3x12
glute machine- 3x12
Leg press- 5x8(even this was questionable today, but was very cautious about ROM)
short rest like 10-15s
Cable side crunch…just wanted to try this. Gave my legs a break
Cable straight leg kick back- 5x8
KB rdl- 5x8
swiss ball crunch- plate on chest
4x10
GMs
hip thrust(with weight_1 min)
side leg raise- 30s
fire hydrants- 30s
2x12
single leg ext
4x8
wide grip pull ups- machine assist
just wanted to see if I could feel these in my lats more tomorrow
Bike- 2min warm up
4 min HELL
6 min coasting at moderate resist
Treadmill- 10 min
Later I am planning bike intervals/more abs
I like what I’ve been seeing in here lately. I’m a big fan of the bike too—once winter comes (shudder) i’ll probably change to indoor bike sessions instead of the outdoor stuff-so i’ll be stealing that workout too, thx Fingers crossed your lats are talking to you tomorrow!
How d’you make kale chips? When I eat kale I just tend to fry it up in my skillet. Picking out all those woody stems is a pain, though, so I usually just buy broccoli.
MiM, do you get any weird body aches with your thyroid problems? Ooo, love kale chips, unfortunately its hard to find the flat kind here.
I just bought a bunch of Kale. washed it. Ripped the leaves off the stems. Put leaves in a storage bag and drizzled with olive oil/salt. Baked at 350 for 15 min. Voila!
Burnt kale 
Cho- the bike thing is really ‘good.’ I’m in my third week and I’m wondering if you couldn’t just keep adding time over the weeks. I can’t do too much with my legs anyway.
MT- maybe some of the aches are attributed to the thyroid problem, but I have been living with it for so long I can’t tell the difference.
So I was lazy and didn’t put my foods into fitday yesterday.
But here is what I ate:
11am- 1 cup greek yogurt
1pm- 3 drumsticks
10 oz baby carrots
10 oz baby peas
330- 3 hardboiled eggs(whites)
1/4 cup wheat bran(<—really trying to like this stuff but I don’t think its worth it!) Gimme oat bran anyday!
630- 2 drumsticks
16 oz ‘coleslaw.’ (1 bag shredded cabbage. Drizzle with apple cider vinegar and sprinkle with celery salt!) nomnomnom
1 hr later I was starving, lol.
I think after two weeks of more work I think I am starting to ‘feel’ and possibly look leaner. It’s hard to tell when you see yourself everyday.
I did intervals on the bike yesterday evening and an extra dose of Bike hell to make up for today. Playing hookie and we are going to see my husbands sister who is in town with a friend on business. She’s watching her kids.
Have a good day!
I’m still catching up around here, but I wanted to say hi before your log dieded.