Join the Apple Watch club snd the club if agonizing over closing the rings!
I think 10 pounds in 10 weeks is a huge success!
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What? I resemble that remark!
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I also put some inserts into my shoes at purchase - haven’t tried the super feet - I just like that LITTLE extra support. I do find that the inserts do make me need a little extra room in my shoes.
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Roll call.
De-load week this week. Yesterday I did clean and jerks for strength/skill and then a 20-minute HIIT of power cleans, rowing and air squats.
Thursdays are lighter days and the program was four 1-mile runs with 50 KB swings and 25 GHD situps after each mile. Followed by a 20-minute recovery ride on the air bike.
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roll call.
I’m still hanging in there as a ww lifetime member at goal and light exerciser. Mostly walking looking forward to bike and kayak seasons starting soon. My goals are to be healthy and active and enjoy the outdoors.
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Those are great goals @jackief !
Good job @Youdon_tsay .
I am another fan of shoe inserts. I was a late onset runner (age 59 when I started) and figured shoe inserts were a small price to pay in preventing potential problems.
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Congratulations on the retirement!!! (jealous!)
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Great job everyone! Lots of people losing weight, reaching goals, even maintenance is great.
I wear the green superfeet inserts. (I’m a high arched supinator who runs on her pinky toes.) I used to just add the Dr. Scholl’s 3/4 length inserts to my shoes, but I’d wear through them pretty quickly. Superfeet are a lot pricier, but they last me a long time. I have one pair for each of my running shoes (always have 3 in rotation), but I only replace them every 2-3 years. With the Superfeet inserts, I take out the existing insert so there’s more room.
A good workout today. It was 30 degrees colder, but also VERY WINDY. I hate wind, so I did a stairmonster/bike combo at the gym. Came home and did abs and Day 5 - Legs. I was strong today. It felt good. Must be the extra calories from the take-out Japanese food from last night.
I’m taking a half day today. The south is weird. We get Easter Monday off and not Good Friday. Never heard of Easter Monday until I moved down here. Younger S is coming home today, so he can get in some volunteer hours for his scholarship. We are working the packet pick-up for a local 5/10K race. It’s virtual this year, but they still do t-shirts and stuff. I worked it last weekend too. (One of my goals is to try to give back a little to the running community.)
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ROLL CALL - As detailed in various posts throughout the winter, I was able to run a few times most weeks with added indoor activities (Fitness Blender videos - arms, leg stretch; zumba gold class via zoom). During the worst weather, I increased indoor habits and added a bit of trainer bike time with my “training partners” from Netflix / Schitt’s Creek along for company. That exercise paired with continued focus on food/nutrition has been enough to maintain my long term weight loss, despite consumption of a bit more alcohol during Covid.
Weather has been great for running this past week. I ran the lake trail on Sat, Mon, Wed & Fri. After my normal 5k, I’ve been adding a slower run of a few extra km. My week total was 26k (16 miles), which is quite good for me. Soon maybe I will be able to start “commuting” to the lake by bike again to mix up the workouts.
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Roll Call!
Doing fine. Swimming 3-4x a week, running 3-4x a week. The runs are short I’m afraid. Over the past year I have gone from a ten mile long run to a four mile long run. Tuesday I will be two weeks from Pfizer shot number two, so I look forward to adding some indoor gym time. My weight has been stable but I feel mentally and physically flat. I hope the new activities will inspire me.
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Congratulations on being “marinated” now 
I had been considering a gym membership after retirement (was gonna pick some place that hubby can do for free via SilverSneaker/65+ perk). But Covid prevented that. Perhaps in June, after a May road trip to see family, I should think about that again.
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Thanks. So far it’s been great - all 3 days of it 
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I’ve been good the last couple of days, getting 1.5 hours of workout in each day. We have no kids with us, and tomorrow it’s going to be beautiful here, so we will go outdoor biking.
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Roll Call.
I used to use inserts but my beloved Sambas now come with a small arch that seems to work fine.
Two hikes in two days with my wife and 2 daughters:
6.8 yesterday on the 2nd Manassas loop. For DMV folks–even if you’ve been this trail is cool right now because they did a prescribed burn at the Deep Cut and the views are amazing.
Today was just under 3 miles at Bull Run Mountain. We’d planned for longer but we screwed up and left our boots at home so we were walking in sneakers
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Thanks everyone for playing along with “roll call”. 
I know it sometimes get monotonous if we are just reporting miles or distance rowed like a journal but for some people that accountability is important - but other content like new things tried, equipment talk, health/nutrition - all of it helps motivate most of us!
I know the OP would want us to try and keep some dialogue in the thread!
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We are having some beautiful weather right now. I have the day off, but I still got up at the usual time to run and lift. Today was day 8 or Day 1 of Week 2 in Phase 1 of 80 day obsession. That means this week is a 3x10 scheme going through all the exercises before repeating. (Last week was 2x15). Hence, this week is the one to try to bump up in weights/bands. I did for just about everything I believe. And all my push-ups/tricep push-ups were really strong. I was pleased.
Then a nap even though we have painters here for the next 2-3 days. We are having a few radiators scraped and repainted. Not the way I wanted to spend my day off, but being holed up just reading isn’t so terrible either.
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We biked @28 miles yesterday. Today I walked 4.2 with a friend, and rowed 30 minutes/5000m. I am a “beginner” rower, but I’m hoping to avoid “old lady arms” and it would be nice to improve the “bra fat” areas. Some laugh when I say I have that, but it’s something I’m conscious of.
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@1214mom 30 minutes is a lot for a beginner rower! Rowing isn’t easy.
I am on Day 10 of 80 Day Obsession, but this is the day that I modify. I hate the cardio in the program and think the core part is easy. I do plenty of it on my own, so I just did my usual run/bike combo followed by my favorite core video. And then for kicks I did Day 10’s core twice. (it’s like 3 min. long and not hard). Finished with a short yin yoga video (aka lie there and let gravity do the work 
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Did an hour on the spin bike, and took the grand pup for a walk while visiting my son and his GF in NOVA. They got vaccinated at a CVS in Alexandria. Driving around there is crazy these days.
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80 days is long commitment!
I’ve been doing my usual 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening of some form of exercise and also had since the weekend I’ve also done a few hours of yardwork most days. I think it caught up with me yesterday (along with our first 80+ degree day) and I was just too wore out for the yardwork!
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