Get Fit Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!But first a small update. It seems as if I might be over the hump. My mom’s here spending some time with us, meaning I have a little more free time than usual. So I’ve been [...]

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Just a quick note to say that I’ve updated my page at We Endure with all of my activity for the past month. I intend to keep it up-to-date from now until at least the end of the marathon. There are 13 people in the Get Fit Slowly group — I encourage more of you [...]

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Earlier this week, Dumb Little Man posted a list of 11 odd but simple ways to improve your health. Some of these seem odd, indeed. One suggestion is to use Neti pots to perform nasal irrigation. This practice floods the nasal cavity with warm salt water, and allegedly improves sinus health.

I’m skeptical. My logical mind [...]

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I received this email from J.D. yesterday morning:
Yikes. I just got up. It’s my swimming day, but I do *not* feel like going. Is it wrong to skip a workout? I’m not sick — just lazy. I could always go for a run in the afternoon…
–j.d.

My first thought after reading this it was: “Why [...]

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If you’re going to send me junk mail, at least get my sex right! Since J.D. and I have started this lovely little venture, junk mail has at least doubled at my house. I thought this one was pretty funny, actually.

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Just to be clear, not everything in my current fitness regimen is peaches and cream. My exercise program has been going very well indeed, but like Mac, I’m beginning to have food issues. Maybe that’s stating it too strongly. What I should say is that last weekend was difficult for me.
Most of the time, [...]

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It was “lower body day” at the gym this morning. Methodically, I worked my way through the major muscle groups:

Quad: Leg extensions (from 12×50 to 6×80, with a peak at 12×70) and leg press (12×180)
Hamstrings: Lying leg curls (from 12×40 to 6×80, with a peak at 12×50) and straight-leg deadlifts (12×25)
Calves: Seated calf raises (from [...]

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Lately, much of our family’s dinner time conversation revolves around fitness and diet–shocking I know! I’ve previously discussed how I’m not a very good multitasker, so forgive me if this post seems repetitive. But I think it’s worth writing about again. During one recent dinner conversation, I was noting that I hadn’t [...]

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Let me say it again, this time with feeling. I BEAT STRESS EATING! Have I mentioned before that I’m a stress eater? When things get tough, I head for the fridge. Well really, I head for the carb cupboard or the ice cream, but you get what I mean.
I’m having a [...]

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Kris and I recently spent a long weekend in San Francisco. I was worried about how I’d handle my fitness regimen while away from home. Turns out I had mixed success.
On the down side, I didn’t get any regular exercise in at all. I didn’t have time. My three days were scheduled from start to [...]

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