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Did the five-mile hilly trail at Valley Forge today, after standing (and rockin) from 7pm - 3am yesterday night (a gig). The walk took two and a half hours. My ass muscles may not recover for a week.

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 642304)

Did the five-mile hilly trail at Valley Forge today, after standing (and rockin) from 7pm - 3am yesterday night (a gig). The walk took two and a half hours. My ass muscles may not recover for a week.

But I bet j will appreciate those buns!

I cheated. I bought a pair of Earth exer -flip flip flops.:blush:

J did the five mile hike both yesterday and today. She's my inspiration.

I've been getting up early and taking a brisk 20-30 minute walk before my shower. wanna get my metabolism cranking right away. gonna do it rain or shine tomorrow, too.

Gorgeous-day walk around Hopewell Lake at French Creek today. Not sure how far that is. Took us about an hour and we walked pretty fast.

The frogs were "doin' it" - I didn't take pics this year."

i did a little video of them. you cant see shit because the blackberry has the worst camera EVER, and some loud-ass kids on bikes started yelling and scared the frogs anyway. i hate others.

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Originally Posted by lumberjim (Post 642040)

Jason pointed out something interesting:

If you visualize your muscle that you want to develop as a cylinder.....(most muscles are cylindrical with tapered ends....) ...and when you do whatever exercise you do, you tear down tissue, and it grows back thicker to compensate for its previous failing..... if this muscle is 4 inches long, and 2 inches in diameter.....and you improve it's girth to 2.5 inches.....it's still only 4 inches long.....

the big thing is to STRETCH that muscle before and after you work it..... so now, you stretch a 4 inch muscle out to 4.5 inches....and increase it fro 2 to 2.5 in diam..... and then you stretch it to 4.75, and then 5 inches long....but still increase it's girth and you exercise..... and you get that much stronger.

I've gone from using 70 lbs on my leg curls to 90 lbs in just 2 weeks.....by doing specific hamstring stretches before I do strength stuff.

pretty cool.

I've been doing that P90X workout routine and stretching is very large portion of the workouts. That probably explains why it puts so much emphasis on stretching.

I bought some Skecher shape-ups :p:

Are they still $200?

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 640261)

1/2 hour rowing, 1/2 hour on the eliptical, 1/2 hour badminton and 1/2 hour in the weights room. I reckon my everything will be sore tomorrow

I repeated this last Monday and today. I bet my shoulders will be sore tomorrow as I concentrated on upper body in the weights room and used some machines I normally don't.

That's awesome mon, helluva workout. Do you row the same way the whole time, or switch overhand/underhand or anything?
I've never done it but have been eyeing them up for a while...

same. but it's not overly strenous, except on the knees. I'm surprised my knees have held up so well! It rates the calorific thingumajig at about 300 for the half hour. But we chat the whole time (am going with a mate) so I reckon the jaw exercise probably burns another 50 or so ;)

I learned today the poor lass knows nothing about LOLcats. another one requiring ejumacation. *sigh*

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Originally Posted by lumberjim (Post 642348)

i did a little video of them. you cant see shit because the blackberry has the worst camera EVER, and some loud-ass kids on bikes started yelling and scared the frogs anyway. i hate others.

Yeah, that things does have the worse camera ever. :frog:

Piercehawk: How's the P90X working out for you?