Lets Post our Daily Exercise
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eeuuuuuwwwww.......worms! I hate going out after a rain, I swear, I can smell the dang things!!!!! dulci....you must have looked like you were leaping for joy!
.....beautiful sunshine here today..... Cheryl, you bet I'll be happy to "modify" your weather come the weekend!!! However, you can keep THAT kind of heat!
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Welcome Ms.Mez, Cheryl, a wet bandana around your neck can help. I'm here in the kitchen baking a coffee walnut birthday cake for DH.
This morning at the gym, freestyle step, and after a sub teacher so not body attack, rather it was power core and pilates. When I got home at noon, ran 5k in the warm sunshine. The farmer was muck spreading the huge field I run along, so for 1/2 of the run it smelled like I was running in poop (I kid you not)
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Hi I am new here. I've been in a dark place for the past week since this has all gone down leading to my diagnosis yesterday so have had no motivation to work out. We normally go to our gym five nights a week or so. Thanks to NatsFan I am getting my butt to the gym tonight. Want to be in best shape for surgery, etc. I hope I can get some good advice on how to exercise after surgery. Did anyone do PT?
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Welcome beth!!! I think PT would be a very good idea for the upper body. You can pretty much always walk & do lower body stuff without worrying about it.
An icy rain is coming down here, so my Wednesday Walking Women's group was forced indoors AGAIN. We went to the YMCA where the college baseball team had some batting cages set up. We 'borrowed' some props for our pictures. I was assigned to do the Facebook collage today & here it is:
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Gym last night for some leg work, and some crunches before bed. No time for stretch this morning, and at lunch today I stepped outside for my walk and it started rainaing. Pooh. Checking the radar to see if there will be a break. Very hard to get 10k steps in today without a noon walk, as I am going out tonight to a play. Only so many times a day I can walk to the far away bathroom!
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Nothing (again) for me today, but my office is starting a May Mini Challenge tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get myself jump started again. Been fighting some tummy discomfort since revision surgery Friday, likely from the antibiotic. No pottyhouse trots, though, thank goodness
. Last pill was at lunch time today so hopefully the bloating and discomfort will start to ease up. Aside from that I'm doing well. Steri-stips are starting to work their way off bit by bit. Even with a bra on there's a fair amount of underarm friction that makes the edges roll up, then they start getting itchy and driving me crazy. This journey continues to be so awesomely, incredibly, wonderful......
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bethq - I am sure one of the ladies will be along to give some advise soon.
I am relatively new to this world. Take things easy and listen to your body.
Today's 11km - 30 minutes on the exercise bike brings my cycling to 175km for April.
Had some fun looking at a map and seeing how far that is. I could be in a different country by now!
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bethq - hang in there honey. We've all been there and can assure you there IS light on the other side. The time immediately after diagnosis is so fricking emotional and frightening. Only someone who has been there (like this wonderful, wacky bunch!) can truly understand where you're at right now. Keep up that exercise routine as much as possible - it will truly help you stay sane through the coming weeks and months. We're here for you - don't be afraid to rant and rave and bitch and moan when you need to and ask any question under the sun. No such thing as a stupid question here......lol! Before long you'll be amazed at what you've been able to handle and you'll come to an awareness that you are much stronger than you ever thought you were. I look back at the past 18 months and wonder where they've gone, even though at times they seemed to be moving at slower than a snail's pace! BMX sometimes seems like just yesterday and sometimes seems like a hundred years ago!
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Welcome bethq. We all have experienced the fear, the unknown, and the terror you are feeling. Come back to this board to know that you are not alone. (((bethq)))
Lilac: Yuck on the muck! I thought of you today as I was smelling the sweet scent of lilacs in our yard. Too bad they weren't there for your run today!
Great picture Ruth!
Good evening everyone. Luckily we have not been affected by the scary weather. My dd lives in eastern NC and they have had lots of flooding and tornado damage.
I power walked/jogged at the park earlier. We have lots of clouds and humidity so there was lots of sweat!
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Welcome mz mes and bethq. Lilac, I've been wondering how your DH was doing. Glad to hear he's able to enjoy a coffee walnut cake. Bethq, some words of encouragement. I feel like the wimpiest, most fragile anxiety and depression-prone person I know, and I nearly imploded after diagnosis. People told me the fear and grief would get better with time and it did, though I was sure it wouldn't. So I believe you will get better too! Exercise is a big help and distraction. It is great to feel you are doing something good for you body that is about to be smacked down by treatment. Do what you can and get your surgeon's OK.
AnnieLane, you were the voices for me today. I'm having problems with eating and sleeping, but there's a difference between feeling cruddy and really being unable to move. I am so sorry you and your mom went through that. I'm going to do some gentle something and go to target. Which is a step up from lying in bed and sitting in a chair!
P.S. my band is the Flesh Crackers. Once again you caught me on the internet while not wearing pants!
Edited to add my exercise for the day: I did some deep breathing while holding the hoop and standing straight and grounded. I think I just invented gentle hoop yoga.
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Embarrassed to say that my band is Black Can of Pringles!
Did Zumba & Yoga tonight.
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30 minutes on elliptical and leg workout. Since the biopsy I've had a couple of really tender nodes on my clavicle and have to wear the strap on my sports bra off on my shoulder!
Thank you for all of the kind words.
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Thanks my lovely voices! I had my DH drive me to choir rehearsal and walked home from there tonight. Cloudy but perfect cool night for a walk. I think it was about 1.75 miles and I feel really good that i made myself do it. Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' is rapidly becoming my favorite walking beat song. I need to google the lyrics so I can quit massacring so much of the song!
My band tonight is Lavender Gray Emptiness because I haven't had dinner yet. Very shortly it will change to either Lavender Gray Bread and Butter or Lavender Gray Spaghetti.
Night all......
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Wonderland, so glad you are ok and hope your daughter has only minimal issues from the storm. We are getting way too much rain and are having serious flooding but thankfully no tornadoes.
Ruth, I want to join your band!!!
Ran 3 miles on the treadmill tonight. My band tonight is black salsa chicken.
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Black roast chicken......
Great golf game today....but since we use carts, not really much of a workout, except for the "laugh" muscles. I golf with ladies who enjoy the fun of it. Did yoga this morning though to get loosened up, so I guess that's my report for the day.
ruth...seriously....not a whole can!!!!
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Yes, the whole can. When I am bad, I am very, very bad.......
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Black Ice Cream checking in. Welcome Ms Mes and bethq. Nihahi laugh muscles are the most important ones. Sweet when you're walking along singing Thriller you need to be doing the dance moves as well
Wonderland hope your DD is safe.Did Sh'bam this morning and a Spin class tonight
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Ruth....don't you mean, "When I'm bad, I'm better!"
I was planning a run this evening, but since I left half my dinner at the office and had to do a U turn when I got home, it got downsized to a 2 mile power walk.
Warm day today, so an Oregon shrimp salad for dinner with curry mayonnaise/avocado and greens. Just delish and on sale.
Last night's run in the woods elicited Viognier yearnings, but alas, it's fume blanc tonight. Back to a run tomorrow after my Ikea delivery.
Welcome ladies new to this thread. Exercise really is the best. This would be true even w/o a cancer history. - Claire
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Hi Ladies! Behind on posting. Gym mtn ... gym mtn .... 8 days straight of exercise so today was day off.
Dulci .... congrats on finishing the run and the significance of doing so for you. Girlfriend you are amazing. ((Hugs))
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brown chocolate truffle cake. I am ocd and want things to match.
Rest day yesterday. Before that i helped a friend move and still managed zumba. So i needed the break.
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I'm going to ask this question here too since everyone is active. For those of you with implants do you find it hard to exercise? Short of breath? Does it feel strange to take a deep breath? Thanks.
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Bethq - I've had my implants for about 9 months and I have no problems with exercise or shortness of breath (except of course for the fact that I'm not in the kind of shape I wish I were!). Initially, though, right after the exchange, I had to go through another minor period of 'weirdness' adjustment as well as the standard workout restrictions for several weeks. While the implants looked great, everything was a bit tight again and until the pecs relaxed again I would say it breathing may very well have felt a little strange at the time. I'm now accustomed to my new normal. However, I think I've had a pretty smooth go of it compared to a lot of ladies here. All my procedures and recoveries were complication free. Someone with more bumps in the road may have a different experience to relate.
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Beth,
I'm about 6 months out from revision. Breathing is normal. I do not feel different at all from my originals....EXCEPT if something engages the pec muscles. Then it feels kind of strange. But biking, running, walking, hula hooping all feel completely normal now. It took a while to get here, and everyone is different.
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I ran 5K before work again this morning. My plan is to run the distance every other day until the 5K race with my daughter on May 17.
Didn't post yesterday, but I did walk the dogs and do some leg lifts with ankle weights.
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As soon as I stepped outside at lunch yesterday it started raining. And it has continued to rain - out to dinner and a play last night with friends, so for the first time in a while my steps were only 6200. Got to bed late, then this morning no stretch for me - they are doing construction at my job, so near the office parking spots are in short supply - it was torrential downpour this morning, so I rushed out of the house to get a good parking spot
They promise it will stop raining by the afternoon, so I hope to get a walk in at lunch or shortly thereafter. Then when I get home, I'm going around my block (about a mile) til I make up my steps from yesterday and do all my steps for today! at least, thats what I'm telling myself now...0 -
Good to see you Beth - so glad you came over here to join our group! If you haven't had your surgery yet, you may want to do some core and leg exercises. Practice getting up from a chair or couch using just your legs and core (not pushing with your arms and hands). Those are the areas you want to work on. After surgery your upper body is pretty useless for a few weeks, and you'll be a lot more mobile if you go into surgery with a strong core and legs. Annie - I'm impressed with your dedication - you'll breeze through that 5K race! I also have a 5K on the 17th to benefit the local humane society. It's for people and dogs too - Mikey has run it a few times with us, but you really don't get much of a run in because he has to stop and sniff everything, so we may leave him behind this year. I'll be thinking of you! Dulci - you're doing a 5K too in a few weeks, right? Is yours on the 17th as well?
My band to day is Blue Eggs.
90 minute yin yoga class last night - I was a limp rag when I got home, but I felt wonderful and relaxed. Then dh tells me the basement is flooding - water coming in alongside the chimney. We had the same issue over a year ago and had a chimney person fix it - we thought. After it was fixed, dh and I went on a frenzy and totally redid our downstairs - it sure was beautiful! But we had 4 inches of rain yesterday on top of the couple of inches we'd had since Monday, and I guess that was too much. I was just too tired to even deal with it last night other than to dam it up with towels, but of course I was up at 5:30 this morning pulling up soaked rug and padding, draping it across anything I could find to keep it off the floor, then setting up fans to start the drying out process. DH had PT this morning for that hand-chronic pain thing he's had, and I didn't want him helping anyway so as not to risk triggering a flare of the chronic pain. So that left just me to do it.
I want credit for 2.5 hours of Flood Cleanup 'N Sculpt exercise! 
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I'm behind in posting. The dreary weather has been hindering my exercise…excuses, excuses. Today was PT. Hoping to get some shoulder exercises in after a nap. I guess my band is Denim Clementine, which sounds cooler than Blue Orange.
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Denim Clementine is GREAT!
Our 5K is the 10th. So, I'd best get a hat or I will have multi-colored hair for Mother's Day.
This weekend I'm doing a bike ride with some friends. We're planning on the 25 mile route right now as they have not ridden much lately. Today is house-cleaning, sewing, and some hooping. DH laughed at me last night. I had tried using his Garmin to measure my distance in a 20 minute run. I got frustrated because it was measuring in yards and not at all accurate. When I asked him he laughed and showed me how to change it to "Run." It was set on "Swim." Now I can't wait to run tomorrow to see how far I'm going!!! Lol.
Faded Blue Leftovers. (Doesn't that sound sad????)
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Oh Mary, I feel your pain. We had that happen once, and it was so much work & so discouraging too!! Blah!!!
I went to my Core & Pilates classes this morning; and then out to lunch with friends.
The sun is actually shining and I am ALMOST inspired to drag out some of my capris and see if they still actually fit...after all these months (last night the weatherman announced that the weather has been below normal almost every day for the last 5 MONTHS!).
Ah Claire, I don't think that there can be any redeeming value to eating a whole can of Pringles in one sitting
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Hi Everyone,
First good news! I had my annual MRI yesterday and results came back this AM - all normal! I had considered sitting on the couch to wait and stress, but decided to go work out. Right as I was getting dressed the Radiologist called. It was great timing.
Reporting in: Gym - 10 miles!
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