Exercise Anyone?????????????

[Fenlason]

I am sure that pushing shopping carts is a real good workout.

I would like to get a sled or something to pull / push.. to incorporate into my workouts.

Maybe I can just borrow a shopping cart.. and put weight in it.. or periodically head towards a store and push a line of their carts around the parking lot.

Maybe you can find work as a sled dog.

actually one of the ladies that came out to snowshoe a few weeks ago, wanted me to tow her on a sled..

I told her she would not like the downhills..

[Kelleyaynn]

Ok this is our excersise for this morning.

At 0630 Finnish Local time we went for an 8 kilometer hike into the forests withour camping buddy Una the Samoyed Girl.

Feels nice after it also for the both of us. Fresh winter air in the forest.

Classic Finn

The nice part is sauna afterwards!!!

[artwebb]

I am sure that pushing shopping carts is a real good workout.

I would like to get a sled or something to pull / push.. to incorporate into my workouts.

Maybe I can just borrow a shopping cart.. and put weight in it.. or periodically head towards a store and push a line of their carts around the parking lot.

Actualy saw a 'weight sled' (looked more like a reinforced bag on the picture on the box) at Academey today, while looking at the wife's adult trike she's been wanting. After discusion, we agreed it'd be a shame to buy it and the weather prohibit it's use (the trike, that is). I will walk in the rain and cold, but not bike, and she wouldn't, either. Thought also about that Trek 820 for me (income tax return is in) we decided instead to get a stride cycle. A sort of cross between an exercise bike and an eliptical. Did ten minutes on it tonight and feels like more workout than walking 25. Maybe I've not been walking fast enough. (I worry about walking speed becuase I have a tendancy to 'ovrstride' if I go verry fast, which I've been told is bad for the knees.)
With the eliptical I can't overstride as sride length is fixed, and even on lowest resistance I felt the 'burn' just above my knees and at the base of the glutes and had to swich back and forth between eliptical and 'biking'. Biking on it feels a bit weird, like somewhere between an upright and a recumbant exercise bike. No need to exercise in nasty weather, now, so in order to develop anf keep enough fitness to use this thing, I'll probably just use it all the time, and save outdoor time for play. Only bad thing, now I'll have to mount my chinning bar (at about waist height) for my supine pullups (been using a conveineint handrail at the high school's sports facility)
Sorry for the book, couldn't think how to say it all in less words

[Fenlason]

I have seen a lot of people just tow used car or truck tires.. they don't push well... and you can't adjust the weight. I am not sure what I will do on that yet..

[Fenlason]

Ok this is our excersise for this morning.

At 0630 Finnish Local time we went for an 8 kilometer hike into the forests withour camping buddy Una the Samoyed Girl.

Feels nice after it also for the both of us. Fresh winter air in the forest.

Classic Finn

The nice part is sauna afterwards!!!

I have a small electric sauna [I know a sin] that I build in under my stairs when I built the house. My heater is broken though...

[Fenlason]

yesterdays workouts. I periodically through the day did some kettlebell work. then last night we went for a fast 4 mile hike.

[artwebb]

I have seen a lot of people just tow used car or truck tires.. they don't push well... and you can't adjust the weight. I am not sure what I will do on that yet..

You can adjust the weight, just like my track coach did, partialy fill with cement, and add more when you need more weight. He had some a quarter full, some half full, some three quarters full, and some full (to the bead only) that was what inspired me, when I was on the track team, to try to run pushing a car, to develop leg stregnth and speed.
I went to state (Didn't win, though)
Did ten on the eliptical without sitting down today, and my body weight routine

[artwebb]

Hello... Hello... Hello... Is there anybody in here?
Just ten on the elliptical today, think I'll extend time starting next week.
Everyone else doing well? too busy to post? Not too busy to exercise I hope, that way lays madness

[hotrod]

wiped out skating last night, feel similar to getting hit by a car... fell skating backwards at speed. ....teenage girls mocked me....

[Fenlason]

Hello... Hello... Hello... Is there anybody in here?
Just ten on the elliptical today, think I'll extend time starting next week.
Everyone else doing well? too busy to post? Not too busy to exercise I hope, that way lays madness

I did a little KB Friday.. more like a recovery lift..

yesterday we did a bicycle ride, with freinds. For a couple of them it was their first road ride in Feb.

[Fenlason]

I have seen a lot of people just tow used car or truck tires.. they don't push well... and you can't adjust the weight. I am not sure what I will do on that yet..

You can adjust the weight, just like my track coach did, partialy fill with cement, and add more when you need more weight. He had some a quarter full, some half full, some three quarters full, and some full (to the bead only) that was what inspired me, when I was on the track team, to try to run pushing a car, to develop leg stregnth and speed.
I went to state (Didn't win, though)
Did ten on the eliptical without sitting down today, and my body weight routine

congrats on the States.

I was thinking with a sled.. I could more easily adjust the weight up and down as needed... but perhaps just a few tires would do it. It would be cheaper.. and pretty indestructible. Do you remember what you did for a harness

[Fenlason]

wiped out skating last night, feel similar to getting hit by a car... fell skating backwards at speed. ....teenage girls mocked me....

teenage girls are like that..

being bumped, crowded.. made fun off.. rinks are not my favorite place..

[swissarmygirl]

Did my Friday workout yesterday morning.....feeling a little under the weather, so blah.
Today I carried two 25 lb plates through evil-mart and out to the car. I think that's good for a non-workout day. Still feeling under the weather.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.

[artwebb]

I have seen a lot of people just tow used car or truck tires.. they don't push well... and you can't adjust the weight. I am not sure what I will do on that yet..

You can adjust the weight, just like my track coach did, partialy fill with cement, and add more when you need more weight. He had some a quarter full, some half full, some three quarters full, and some full (to the bead only) that was what inspired me, when I was on the track team, to try to run pushing a car, to develop leg stregnth and speed.
I went to state (Didn't win, though)
Did ten on the eliptical without sitting down today, and my body weight routine

congrats on the States.

I was thinking with a sled.. I could more easily adjust the weight up and down as needed... but perhaps just a few tires would do it. It would be cheaper.. and pretty indestructible. Do you remember what you did for a harness

Basicaly just a rope with a fixed loop in it. You could, however, tie the rope to a large d ring passed through a good belt, or use web straps to make a backpack inpired harness. (or two leather belts w/d ring)

The rope was tied to a big eyebolt passed through the tire tread before cement was added.

Another one is uphill sprinting, though that can be hard on the knees if you start with a too steep grade. We used to 'run stadium', too. We'd run up the bleachers on one end, run to the other end, run back down the steps.

off tonight, and too windy outside to take Buddy out to play, so realy no exercise tonight.

[Fenlason]

I am a little under the weather..

I did some easy walking yesterday.. just to get outside.. get some fresh air and to move around.

I have all kinds of hills on my back "yard" trails, some very steep.. I do run them.. winter and not. The weight vest helps in that also.

I would love a stadium to run stairs also.. stairs feel very different than my hills... traction is not usually an issue on stairs.

I think I want the "sled" to be heavy enough.. that it is work just to move.. vs a way to load running.. but I am not sure.