Stage IV MBC Fitness
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Hello ladies!
Illimae, congrats! That's sooo many steps
You motivated me - I decided I should start counting & so went walking and found that that I can do 500 in 5 minutes. So if I do two thirty minute walks each day - that's only 6000 steps. And then there's things like stopping to pick the blackberries or checking out the nice view or...... Yikes! Wanna figure out how to get closer to the magical 10K.Iwrite, I hope the hike is awesome.
Zarovka, do you have everything that you do for complementary posted somewhere?
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Well, I'm back! I got almost 6000 steps today and worked outside for over an hour!!! Woohoo!!! Going for it!
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Hey Z! We just about could have met! We were headed to a Grand Island to the prairie museum, but the cloud cover looked like it might be heavier there so we went a little west to Dannebrog where they had a community eclipse viewing area.
I need to get back to adding supplements, I think. This week I have been pretty draggy with some headaches and feeling worn out. That is not how I usually feel so I think I need more sleep, but maybe the vitamins B will be just the ticket
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Gracie - I am so glad to see you here and so proud of you for 6000 steps. Please keep the reports coming. You are AMAZING.
DGHoff - Grand Island was as far west as we could go and still make a 5pm flight out of lincoln in the afternoon. We held tight and it worked out. Very cool. Not quite as peppy today but I made it through 6 hours of a 7 hour social event for my husbands company that ended in an opera. When I realized it started at 4 and ended at 11, I thought there is no way I would make it through ... but we only had to miss the last half of the opera. I am sure Julie would have gone dancing afterwards but I am still happy I could be there for DH for almost all of it. He feels he needs to do this things but doesn't want to be alone.
>Z<
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I played tag in the swimming pool with an 8 and 9 year old for an hour today. That is excellent exercise
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Yay Gracie!
I'm housebound by Harvey so I'll be doing laps around the first floor (family room, living room, dinning room, kitchen and back through the family room. Once my sleepy dog notices that mamma is walking in circles again, he thinks it play time. The game is "chase the baby". He has a red dog that he loves and wants me to try to get from him while he runs away. It's adorable and it's exercise, so I usually join in and stomp my feet and yell "I'm gonna get that baby!"
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Go Jen!
Hilarious Illimae.
12K steps today, so far. How I don't know but energy is good. ready for 12K more, which is unusual.
>Z<
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Good morning ladies,
Got in 13,000 steps yesterday hiking down from Resolution Mountain near Vail Pass at the end of the Live by Living Hut Hike. My DD2 went with me and we had a wonderful weekend together. We stayed at about 11,500 ft near the tree line. The Fowler-Hilliard hut was one of the 10th Mountain division huts used in WWII to train for combat in the Alps.
Highly recommend this organization! They hold hikes and survivor/ patient/caregiver retreats throughout the year. They are free and the volunteers, who have cancer stories of their own, pamper the guests the whole time. They also hold day hikes around Colorado. Love their motto..."Tell cancer to take a hike".
When I go back to Illinois it may be time to start a low altitude
chapter there
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I love the pictures Kathryn. I need to get into that hut system. Camping no longer works.
Tough day yesterday, very tired. but I got a short walk in with my DD and made my step goal. Did 10 minutes of yoga. Better today. Hoping for a walk while my daughter is in violin.
>KNC<
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how amazing is that? Love the views I've never been a fan on exercise and just before my dx I I bought a bike for my hubby so we could start that. Now we are content with evening walks after dinner. We have never been very active. So i suppose we start with baby steps.
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We start with baby steps and often go back to baby steps. I used to run half marathons. Today I am just happy I made my step goal.
Keep moving ladies!!! It doesn't matter what you do, it's all good.
>Z<
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Looks like a wonderful trip Kathryn.
HIldegunn, evening walks are plenty and enjoyable.
Z, you still amaze me.
Myself, I have been hit and miss when it comes to the gym but manage either stationary bike or walks around the neighbourhood at least 4 to 5 times a week. I am trying to get back into the swing of things as nicer walking weather approaches.
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Today the big exercise was going to get labs and washing the car...paying for the mountaintop experience, but totally worth it. Tomorrow I'll see if a longer walk will work. Oh well..
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I hit 13K steps today basically running errands. Kathryn, everything counts.
Tomorrow I host the girls JV soccer team dinner. Pasta for 30 teen girls at 6pm in the neighborhood park. Should be easy to hit my step goal.
Keep movin, and when you can't, know you will get back to it soon.
Hey Mara - I need to get to the gym. It's been weeks and weeks of just walking. You are way ahead of me.
>Z<
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Kathryn, I love all the pics! What a beautiful place.
Have been using the sauna after the gym & on 'off' gym days..... find it really helps with the achiness - have arthritis as well as the bone mets.... dunno what's aching but the heat sure helps!
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Loved the photos, Kathryn. That looks like a NICE hut and Live by Living is a great idea right up our alley. We need to promote the benefits of exercise.
Vancouverdeb, for some reason I am always in a hurry to get out of the gym to try the sauna. Now that it is cooling down, I should give it a try. I did get one brine steam bath visit up in the mountains and it felt so healing.
Am doing a lot of bodyweight exercises with an app called freeletics. I also downloaded their running app so I will try that today.
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Hi Ladies,
Yesterday walked a mile and then bartender for 7 hours, cramps in calves, anyone get these?
You ladies are amazing, we all have to just keep on moving.
Paula.
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Paula, bartendering for 7 hours? You're amazing! For the cramps - try magnesium (I'll forget to take it for a couple of days and then in the middle of the night I'lll wake up in pain with a seized up leg - right - gotta take the magnesium).
Heidi, a brine steam bath sounds very nice. Dunno what it is but there's something about heat and also being immersed in water.... I think of 'healing spas' in Europe - wasn't that a traditional place people went to heal? I wonder that the ancients may well have been onto something.
Mara, I'm a stationary bike person, too.
Zarovka, thanks for all the motivation.... 'keep moving!'..... love this thread!
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Hello ladies! Sounds like everyone is moving...yay! Hiked an easytrail this morning for 2.8 Miles. Felt good! Heading south to a hot spring for a good soak this afternoon. Ahhhh.
Wondering if it would be possible to start a Live by Living Chapter back home. There aren't many trails, but I'm willing to drive a bit. The thought of going back to November darkness with no beautiful nature to enjoy is tough...
Hosted my kids for dinner last night so weekend cooking is done
Enjoy the weekend
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Lwrite, I love the mountain hut pics! Sounds like a great hike! Makes me want to plan a hiking trip in the mountains. I like the hut idea as I end up trying to pack so lightly that I sacrifice some creature comforts to keep the weight down.
Vancouver Deb and Paula, I too get those cramps in the leg and I was just thinking I should try magnesium so you have convinced me!
Llmae, I love your little dog!
Glad to see everyone still kicking it! I cleaned house, then went on a leisurely bike ride with my husband and then a 45 walk. I was rewarded with a beautiful sunset.
Have a great Labor Day weekend everyone!
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Hiked this morning, cooked all day. something like 1K steps just cooking.
>Z<
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I've been getting in 3000-5000 daily. Not as much as I would like but better than it was! My friend texted me a copy of her Fitbit for a day. 17700 steps!!!! Holy cow!! She doesn't have cancer and is in far better shape than me! But wow!!! That's a lot of steps! I know there are some of you who regularly get 15 to 16,000 steps a day. I am in awe of all of you
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I'm with you Gracie. 8,000 is fine, 10,000 is doable but 15,000+ is only when I've been to the state fair or something like that. I will be going back to 10,000 though when radiation is over
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Gracie - Since I know what you have been dealing with. I am in awe of 3000 to 5000 per day. the difference between 5000 and 15000 is not much in terms of health outcomes. the difference between 1000 and 5000, however, is huge. please keep it up and let us know how you are doing.
Illimae - 8,000 with radiation is awesome indeed. good to hear you are on it ...
I am walking every day and getting 8,000 to 10,000. It's good. In desperate need of yoga and strength training but not able to get my act together, yet.
>Z<
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I had a bad week of steps last week. Only made my step goal once. I was under the weather at the start of the week and just stayed lazy at the end. But I'm determined to get back on that horse this week. I'm traveling again this week for work. I always get in lots of steps that way. Running around the office for meetings, using the restroom that's furthest away, walking from the hotel to the apartment... it's much easier to make my step goal when I'm away than it is when I work from home as usual.
DH and I went shopping for a used treadmill this weekend. Came home with a brand new recumbent elliptical machine instead. (You're welcome,Mr. Salseman.) Winter is coming. I know I won't drive the 10 miles to the gym, and walking will be spotty - we're expecting a rough winter in Wisconsin this year. So, the elliptical is my exercise solution to the challenge of old man winter.
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Z- yoga has been a life saver for me. I have taken 2 classes per week since I finished my chemo and radiation treatment in 2012. It has really helped with pain, and I think the taxol really hurt my muscles and the radiation and double mastectomy caused chest wall and shoulder issues. It has been a gentle way to gain function and strength and works well with the walking and other exercise. I do a 15 minute stretch routine the days I don't have yoga.
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Good solution Laura.
Nkb- yoga can't be beat ... as long as you don't have extensive bone mets.
>Z<
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Z- I have extensive bone mets! Diagnosed several months ago. I am doing iyengar yoga. Are you worried about fracture? (I have gotten every 6 months Zometa for years due to a belief at some point that it would help prevent bone mets.) now on it every 3 months.
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I am trained in Iyengar yoga, practicing for 30 years, taught for years. Iyengar is focused on alignment, slow moving, mindful. Not a bad choice. But pushing your range of motion is a thing in Iyengar, depending on the teacher, and you must say NO. Relax and release into a pose rather than pulling or pushing. And even then, don't try for the max.
My mom put herself in the hospital for a month with a herniated disk from doing a simple seated twist under the supervision of a very experienced teacher. Yes I am worried about fracture. But if you are experienced, double down on the mindfulness piece of the puzzle, do NOT push your range of movement, and rock on. You need the exercise, but you don't need a fracture.
Finally, consider other modalities that focus on strength do not push range of motion ... (mindful) pilates, some forms of weight training. At some point, you might just have to walk away from yoga and it will be less traumatic if know where you are going to go ....
As invested as I am, personally, in yoga, studies show that it really doesn't matter what you do as long as you move. Certainly there is a marginal benefit to this particular modality and some extra benefit to that modality. I've detailed some stats in the top post of this thread. But the biggest risk is injuring ourself so we can't move.
That said, I am more of an example of what not to do, than what you should do. I went over my handle bars of my mountain bike this summer at Snowmass trying to keep up with DD13. I got a bone bruise in my ribs that kept me from moving and, frankly, breathing properly for weeks. I was on heavy painkillers for 4 weeks, which made me a crabby bitch and ruined at least one day a wonderful trip to the East Bay that my husband carefully and lovingly planned. I am off painkillers but I am still recovering. It's effected my overall well being. I'm very tired all the time, which I attribute in large part to the fall and my exercise routine falling apart. Walking regularly, building back up up slowly.
Keep moving ladies, carefully.
>Z<
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Z,
Glad to here your on the mend, after a fall like that I can certainly can see where would take time to heal. You will be in top shape again soon, your a fighter
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