Comments on: All Systems Go

By: gina

gina — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:32:29 +0000

My knees aren’t bad when I walk. I practiced yoga for several years and they improved over that time, but I’m scared that they’ll go back. I guess I won’t know until I try, though!

By: Mike Oliveri

Mike Oliveri — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:05:30 +0000

Troy – Very cool that you can run with your boys. My wife’s thinking about trying this program now, too, and may join me tomorrow. (I just got home from a long trip to Indiana so I may end up a day off schedule this week — Mon/Thur/Sat then back to Mon/Wed/Fri next week).

Gina – I haven’t had any knee problems at all, yet. How are your knees when you walk?

John – Doesn’t sound like a half bad plan to me, bro. My record low — at least since high school — is 185. I was lean at that point, which is why I don’t take much stock in those BMI charts. That’s a subject for another post, though…

Mike

By: darkfluidity

darkfluidity — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:04:22 +0000

I’ve been doing something of a running program of my own, in that after my 30 minutes on the elliptical walker, which is typical when I get to the gym, I move over to the treadmill and run for a few minutes. 2-3 minutes at the moment, intending to build up. In the past, when I was exercising more regularly, I’d actually managed to run 3 miles in 30 minutes on that infernal machine. {wicked grin} I want to get back to that, and further, because at that point I’d gotten down to 192 but never lower.

I’m currently, according to my scale at home, 229, which is down from 245 last year.

By: gina

gina — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:02:28 +0000

I really want to try this program, but I worry about my knees. Have either of you had trouble with your knees? Mine crack all the time, and they occasionally give out on stairs.

By: Troy

Troy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:06:09 +0000

I somehow managed to drag my ass out of bed this morning after “THE RUN” last night. Did the 12 step stretching exercises – very important for us old timers. Started off with the 5-minute brisk walk, then the 60 seconds of running and 90 seconds of walking for a total of 20 minutes. I was really dogging it by the end and did not feel well at all last night, pains in the collarbone areas, blood pressure was 135 over 91 as measured by my home health nurse (my wife), slept in the recliner last night. Debated running on Tuesday night with my 2 youngest boys but will postpone that until Wednesday night.

Muscles are a little sore, especially my anterior thigh muscles (quads?) and the front of my left ankle.

Steady and slow wins the race according to the turtle.

Take care and cmon, Jack!

Troy