Category: Exercise
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Pregnancy exercise: a review.
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3 comments on Pregnancy exercise: a review.In honor of everybody else's New Year's resolutions, I stayed away from the YMCA for a week. Last night for Milo's swim lesson we found a parking spot, so perhaps it's already slowed down, or perhaps the fresh snow kept the crowds down, or perhaps the resolution people are on a MWF schedule. I took…
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Want to avoid tibial stress fractures?
As reported in the NYT: If you're a woman, strengthen your calves. If you're a man, shorten your stride.
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Goals.
I'm still swimming, and I'm still doing something I call "running," a few times a week. It'll all get harder after the baby's born, I know — mostly because of scheduling. As much as we like the people who staff the child care in our YMCA, the new baby will be many months old before…
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I think my running days are over.
For now anyway. I tried to run on the treadmill yesterday evening and couldn't manage it even for a few minutes — far too much round ligament pain. I had to settle for a brisk walk — but even 4.0 miles per hour was too fast for me to sustain for more than about 20…
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Swimming on vacation.
May I just say that the YMCA in downtown Nashville is the cushiest YMCA I have ever been in? Nice pool with wide lap lanes, five (!) of which are available for lap swimming at any time. Outdoor pool to keep the rabble out of the indoor pool. Enormous two-level fitness center with 1/12-mile indoor…
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And verily it was so.
This week I fulfilled an ancient prophecy, of sorts. I remember once telling a friend of mine — I forget whom, or when, but it was long before I had children and long before I got married — "If I ever put on a two-piece swimsuit, it'll be when I'm huge and pregnant." (At the…
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In which I think I figure out how it is possible to enjoy running for fitness.
Yesterday evening instead of going to the gym we took turns running around Lake Calhoun while the children played at the 32nd Street Beach playground. Mark went first and I went next. I didn't run all the way around, just the 2.5 miles from the playground to where we left the van. Of course I…
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“How do you make it to the gym in the middle of the day?”
Reader Alishia asks about my post from the first day of school, "I'm just wondering how you make it to the gym in the middle of the day?" I answered in the comments, here's a lengthier answer. 1. It's an established routine for Monday mornings. Monday's the only day I go during the school day. …
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Failure of calculation.
Often, when people plan for contingencies, they make the mistake of focusing on the worst-case scenarios — the scariest thing that might happen — rather than the most likely things to go wrong. Just such a thing happened to me this week. I have had one pair of Vasque hiking boots for about nine years. …
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Well-meaning, yet so very unhelpful.
Mark and I took Mary Jane hiking in the mountains yesterday. I carried the pack with all the gear for a half-day's hike crossing lunch — don't forget, this includes the oops-I-fell-down-a-ravine-and-spent-the-night-in-freezing-temperatures gear — and Mark carried the empty child carrier while MJ walked. We thought she'd tire quickly, but she hiked more than 2…
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Do it for its own sake.
The article linked to in this blog post at "and sometimes tea" completely meshes with my experience: Exercise does not actually help you lose weight very well on its own, but it's worth doing anyway. This is why it is so important to exercise for the sake of exercise, and completely forget about exercising in…
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(not-a-medical) Doctor Bearing is in…
Got an email from a reader asking my advice. OK, I'll throw it out there, because I think it's a great question. And it's not too far off from where I was a couple of years ago — I wasn't as fit, but my other health markers were always good. Here is my problem…
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