Lets Post our Daily Exercise
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Ruth: What a worthy cause! And I bet you do look cute in a hairnet.
Badger: I also am watching basketball. Go Badgers!
S&S: Glad you are improving!
Spring is truly here. I mowed for an hour today. Actually, it was more like mowing the onions and weeds. Still have about 2 more hours of mowing to do to finish the yard. Wish every time I mow it would be 68 degrees like today.
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What a great game, even tho we lost by one point at the buzzer!
Walked this morning 3.9 miles. Have Q1 books to do today. ♥
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Darn it, I thought you had it in the bag several times......but very exciting to be sure.
Did 45 minutes of pilates, may walk later.
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Boo! LOL I have not been on here in a few weeks. Well, I had a fall on the mountain. I picked up too much speed, and was trying to break my record, and instead almost broke my neck.
I fell forward and didn't have enough time to get my hands out in front of me, landed on my chin, then slid down about 10 feet. When I got up and realized how much I was injured, I called out to a lady that I had been running behind, and she didn't help me. She yelled back to me "Oh, you're okay". It was only later after I was walking to my vehicle that she drove by to see if I was okay. Frankly, I think she started having second thoughts about leaving a hiker stranded and bloody on the trail. As she drove off, I noticed the back tow hitch on her truck had a breast cancer ribbon on it. Then I had my quarterly Onc appointment this week. I always lay off the supplements and exercise 48 hours beforehand. Well, my WBC has always been low since I started exercising right after treatment, and my Onc always told me it is due to my intense workouts. So the past month, my workouts have been less and lighter due to mountain fall. When I had my appointment all labs, and WBC in normal range. First time ever! Turns out, my Onc was right. He has a PhD in Hematology, so he went into great detail about the correlation. We've agreed that I can do 10 miles a day, and he loved that I was adding in the mountain 2x a week - in place of the elliptical.
Reporting in: 11 miles - 90 minutes gym last night.
I will have to read and catch up with everyone again - I see we had a birthday. Happy Belated Birthday Ann!
Oh yeah, remember we were all talking about Arnica? So ... the night of the mountain fall, I sent the hubby to get me Arnica. I have to tell you ... from a jaw that wouldn't close, to 2 large gashes on shoulder and left side and swollen left foob, this Arnica worked some magic. When I saw my Onc on Thursday he could not believe how fast everything was healing (I had a photo). I did use ice packs for the first 48 hours as well, but this Arnica, I will now always have on hand. I really am a believer in it now. I don't know how 5 little pellets could be so effective, but it was. I took the Arnica 3x a day for about 5 days.
Happy Weekend to Everyone!
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Two mile walk with about 100 yd slow jog after church today. I saw the coolest thing ever while I was walking! I don't particularly care for elliptical machines myself, but I saw a guy out riding an elliptical-type bicycle. Instead of being a stationary machine this one had wheels and the foot platforms are like pedals on a bike! Sorry if I sound like I just fell off the turnip truck here but I've never seen one before and it struck me as pretty cool. Really caught my eye because it was a bright orange color!
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sweet.....I've seen that gizmo on pathways myself....looks like a hell of a workout, especially going uphill!!!
Inspired...glad to hear you've recovered from your tumble...I'd love to hear more about the WBC/intensity theory...sounds very interesting! I am totally UNimpressed by anyone who is aware someone has fallen, and doesn't stop to make sure the "fallen one" is ok to leave.....truly wrong thing to do....!!!!!!!!!
12km walk with hubby today. Tomorrow is take it easy and have a massage day....likely some long slow yoga, just to keep moving. Have a great rest of the weekend everyone!
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Nihahi, I know I will get this all wrong but will try to articulate what he said ... he's sometimes a little hard to understand with his accent and technical terms. My Onc mentioned right after chemo when my WBC was low part of it is due to the Taxotere side effect, but he felt the majority of this was due to the intense workouts (14 miles) each day, there were many new 'small' blood cells coming in, that it will give a low wbc. So as the body was repairing and replenishing after chemo, I did continue with vigorous exercise, some days clocking in as high as 21 miles, and he mentioned at each visit it is suppressed due to intense workouts. At each visit this was the only thing out of range, and it was low, so I always asked, and we always had the same conversation, workout intensity and the length/duration of the intensity (90 minutes) 6 days a week. I read on the internet things to do, eat, etc to increase the WBC, but I never reduced the workouts. This time, I had a good month of light workouts, and many days off in between, and then my WBC was normal. I just remember him mentioning the amount of new or small wbc and the correlation of that to these workouts.
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The cats enjoy some outdoors exercise.
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Yikes IBD that fall sound hellacious, I can't believe that woman wouldn't help, how mean
Ruth they are off heading to Tiggers house, there's safety in numbers
. All our classes were cancelled at my gym today as they are using the GGX room for a special training so they offered us a Bootcamp with a young man named Rocky, he was very easy on the eyes
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Lovely kitties, Ruth.
Two mile hike today after lunch with the local BCO bunch.
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Inspired - so glad you're OK. I can't believe that woman just left you there!!! Highly ironic that she had a b/c ribbon on her car - I think I would had to have given her some nasty sarcastic comment about pink ribbons being nice, but when a b/c survivor really needed her help, she sure didn't come through. S&S - good to hear that you're making some progress. Ruth - there's still a heckuva lotta snow out there. Nihahi - massage days - mmmmmmmmm! Badger - I had Wisconsin going all the way in my March Madness pool, so I'm out of luck. Ruth - sounds like a great cause.
Finished our cold baseball weekend, and the Nats finally won yesterday. Got out for a nice hour run Sunday before the game, then with all the walking around the ballpark I ended up logging over 17,000 steps. Tomorrow is colonoscopy day, so I'm on the liquid diet today - lime jello anyone?
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Extremely delinquent catch up post...
HOWDY!
Mary, I am sorry you are having fun with colon day...but so good to get those checked off the box!
Weights and run in store for me. I've been "on it" really well for a month today.
Hi to all I don't know, hi again to those I do...I missed you!
XO
Kim
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I LOVE the cat photos.
Reporting in from last night: 80 minutes - 8 miles.
Have a great day everyone - get an early start on those voices. I'm doing the mountain today (slowly this time)! We are going right into the high temps of 90's this week, so will have to really make sure to get a head start on anything outdoors this week!
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Inspired, so glad you are ok!!
We started week 3 of the 5k training today. Honestly? I was nervous and did not expect to accomplish today's goal because it doubled our running time. WE DID IT!!!!
In support of Inspired's Get Going advice:
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Cheryl, I looked for a BCO app and couldn't find one. The closest I got was a diagnostic tool. If you could point me in the right direction, I'd be grateful.
Sweet - yes, the outdoor channel, and a couple of others besides - some shows can be interesting (I particularly like meat eater), but most of them I tune out and play on the ipad. So glad you got your fitbit working - I really enjoy mine, though I do have trouble getting all of my 10k steps in daily.
Did yard work this weekend, and had another garage party (this time to make sausage), so lots of walking to and from the garage. Looking forward to a nice walk at lunchtime, but no gym today, meeting a friend for dinner after work.
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pat01 - yes, fitbit is finally working and I'm quite surprised at the number of steps I accumulate just doing housework! With the outside walks I did on Saturday and Sunday I was able to get the 10,000 step badge both days. We'll see what happens today at work. Haven't been as mobile as usual so I may need to fit in a walk tonight.
I'm really looking forward to seeing what it says about my sleep habits but keep forgetting to set it to sleep mode!
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45 minutes - 16km - Exercise bike - (sweat happened).
Love the cats.
InspiredbyDolce - glad to see you back.
Falling off mountains! Maybe that is why I don't go up too many mountains!
My husband took me hiking the first week after we were married and he kept telling me to drink water - but I did not want to pee in the bushes so I didn't drink.
It was a sunny day with a nice breeze.
By the time we were on the way home I had a phenomenal headache, was dehydrated and becoming delirious. Luckily husband stayed calm and recognized the symptoms and knew what to do.
He made me drink orange juice with a tiny bit of salt in (not enough to cause puking!) and within the hour or two I was ok.
But the silly man never realized I was not the hiking type and insisted we continue exploring the country on weekends. We often landed up where I needed rescuing from situations that most people would have been fine with. Husband was very patient with me.
Wishing everyone safe exercising.
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ROFL! I need to print out that photo and message and stick it on the bathroom mirror! Seriously, I can relate. I have gotten up so early before, that my eyes were still half closed leaving the house. The workout woke me up and I was back home before my mind figured out where I had been. If I'm up for too many hours in the day before I exercise, my mind starts scheming on how little I can do to still post a number on the fridge!
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Hi Kim, glad to see you back!
I will do Zumba tonight (after going to a benefit dinner at 4:00, which is the only way to make it fit into DHs & my schedules.....hopefully that will encourage me not to eat very much....otherwise I will look like 'Sumo Wrestler Zumba).
Mary, if you have some leftover jello, sent it this way. DH has one scheduled for Friday. He is thinking that he maybe shouldn't go to work Thursday because he will be too hungry. Ha!
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Bounce ... enjoyed the story! Sweet hubby.
I have had to pee up there before but no discrete places so now I just sip the water. lol We have mountain rescues weekly here and a lot are due to underestimating the heat or running out of water. It can all catch up to you fast.
Reporting in: Mountain hike: 4 miles, 63 minutes, 85 degrees, sunny and exhausted. I overdid it due to heat ....face bright red when done due to the heat, not sunburn. I went at 11am and it was already uncomfortable up there.
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Bumped for RedReading
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Hello everyone. Ruth invited me to say hi. I started my exercise program today. Sorry but all my life I have considered it the E word. Like it was swearing or something. And I do ache tonight. I wasn't aware I had some of those muscles. I have to wear a heart monitor while exercising so I can't do it at home, but every Monday and Wednesday I will be exercising now. Oh dear.
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Yea! And we will cheer you on!
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Thanks Ruth. I appreciate that. I've gotta say I hate that the heart thing happened at this time too. Really?? Can't I just deal with one problem at a time? OK pity party over now. Sorry. I can do this. I will graduate to 4 lb weights soon. Yay!!!
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Welcome, Red!!!
I never liked exercise either. I like to read. And crochet. Lol.
But I started biking just a few months before my diagnosis. I enjoyed it. So I started doing a little more. Of course there were some bc interuptions, but I got back into it. And now, (something I would NEVER have imagined!!!!!!) I've started running!
I started by walking. Then I walked a little faster and a little farther. "Baby steps." You can do this!!!
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Welcome Red and Good For YOU! You'll love the way exercise makes you feel.
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Catching up from the weekend. Inspired, how awful that woman couldn't even take a minute to see if you were ok??? One word........KARMA.
Welcome RedReading! Vent away as needed but know we are here to cheer you on. Cute kitties Ruth.
Did lots of walking Saturday while running errands but undid any benefit while having lunch with some local BC ladies. Sunday was a rest day but back to the gym today for 30 minutes on the Elliptical plus 45 minutes circuit training with weights. Counting down to my very first 5k run on Saturday so will likely run tomorrow (outdoors weather permitting) plus circuit training with weights.
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Welcome Red - we love you already! Everyone has to start somewhere and remember - everything you do to be active is one minute or 5 minutes or 30 minutes that you're not on the couch
. I've always been naturally athletic but it didn't stop me from gaining 75 pounds in the first 25 years after high school! I just got sick of it one day, joined weight watchers and lost an average of 2.5 pounds a week for 5 months or so! Some of that has crept back, but I remember how good it felt and I'm trying to get back closer to that weight again. Do what you can. I'm proud of you for making the commitment. Even if you feel like you're not an 'athlete', whatever you're able to do is better than not doing anything, and you'll find the majority of ladies here didn't start out as athletes. Am I right ladies?. You go, girl!0 -
S&S, I was never the athletic type absent dancing. Didn't really like exercise when I first started but am enjoying it much more as I get stronger which makes it easier. So yes, you are absolutely right!!!!!!
Edited to fix typo
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Atheletes.....smatheletes....we're all courageous ladies determined to show bc exactly what a winner looks like!
glorious massage today, and a lovely, slow meandering walk in a provincial park. The massage therapist is a bc veteran herself....young gal with two young sons, had bmx with implants....just got her nipple recon finished with tattoos a few weeks ago. Our success stories are everywhere!
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