Not sure why, it was a good day - booty bootcamp at noon. Shanan and I went about 15 mins early and did our own workout with the bells and the skipping ropes. So, all said I got a good 45 mins in. Also, I neglected to add that last night after I blogged, I took the girls (my pups) for a 3km run!! Soooo, maybe that's why I'm tired and my hamstrings are wicked tight!!
Tonight I was super mom, took my kids, my dogs, another local kid to the park before supper. After supper we cleaned up, did some homework, read books, etc....I even took 20 mins to tend the veggie garden!
Eating today was excellent! As I type I'm sipping on my low cal hot chocolate which I'm hoping will kill the snack cravings I'm presently having. Fortunately I'm tired enough that I'll soon be in bed and will sleep through the cravings!
The kids are hitting the hay and I think I'm not far behind them.....
Nite
Showing posts with label running with the dogs. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Weekend wrap-up
Sorry I missed checking in yesterday - hubby was working, there was house chores out the wazoo, and playdates and a hockey tournament! Phew, I'm tired.
I didn't get any exercise in Sat (aside from vacumming, hauling laundry, dusting, etc). Funny, I'm always sweaty cleaning the house! I did 2 loads of towels on the closeline yesterday!! That's how nice its been here lately! It actually got up above 15 degrees - son and I took the dogs to the park in jeans and tee's!
A note on the running - I believe it has irritated my 'bad' knee : ( I have Petella femoral syndrome (have had it for many years). What the hell is that you ask?
Well, my very un-technical answer is this: The knee cap naturally moves in all directions (to a degree), however when I walk, run, bike (or generally exercise with repetetive knee movements) my right kneecap (patella) tracks out of place - in my case it tracks out to the right. This is because my VMO (vastus medialis oblique) is stronger than the other 4 muscles that make up the quadricep.
The VMO is only one of the four quadriceps mucles (together we think of these 4 as the Quad) - in fact, it is really the smallest of the quadricep muscles (I've always called it the 'little troublemaker'). Each of the 4 pull in a slightly different direction. The idea that one small part of one muscle can make enough difference to overcome the other three larger and pull the patella 'off track' seems adsurd -sadly, I'm here to say it is possible.
The tracking out doesn't hurt, what hurts is that each time the patella tracks it irritates the fat pad under it. With enough repetition the fat pad can swell and become irritated. (Friday after Ryder I had to actually ice it (which I haven't had to do in YEARS). I was smart during the class and listened to my body - I didn't rise of of the saddle as that was putting extra pressure on it.
I had a scope done in my late 20's to determine that PFS was the issue, and to clean the joint up a bit. At that point the doctors said the only/best option was to reduce the outside quad muscle (vastus lateralis) to balance the 4 quads and therefore stop the patella from tracking out.
The reduction is just that - REMOVING PART OF MY MUSCLE! I did years of physio to try to strengthen the VMO, but it didn't work (pretty common actually). Needless to say I passed on the surgery. I've just come to live with it, and honestly it hasn't been much of a problem in years because I've become much less active! And now that it's rearing its ugly little head I'm going to have to be much more careful about what exercises I chose to so - this means no running (bummer).
Ok, so there is your sports medicine lesson for the day! LOL! After writing this I've decided to take today, Sunday, off as another rest day from heavy exercise. I'll take the dogs on a nice long walk, and prepare for this coming week: I will be training with Laurissa 5 days so maybe the rest is best!
Later!
I didn't get any exercise in Sat (aside from vacumming, hauling laundry, dusting, etc). Funny, I'm always sweaty cleaning the house! I did 2 loads of towels on the closeline yesterday!! That's how nice its been here lately! It actually got up above 15 degrees - son and I took the dogs to the park in jeans and tee's!
A note on the running - I believe it has irritated my 'bad' knee : ( I have Petella femoral syndrome (have had it for many years). What the hell is that you ask?
Well, my very un-technical answer is this: The knee cap naturally moves in all directions (to a degree), however when I walk, run, bike (or generally exercise with repetetive knee movements) my right kneecap (patella) tracks out of place - in my case it tracks out to the right. This is because my VMO (vastus medialis oblique) is stronger than the other 4 muscles that make up the quadricep.
The VMO is only one of the four quadriceps mucles (together we think of these 4 as the Quad) - in fact, it is really the smallest of the quadricep muscles (I've always called it the 'little troublemaker'). Each of the 4 pull in a slightly different direction. The idea that one small part of one muscle can make enough difference to overcome the other three larger and pull the patella 'off track' seems adsurd -sadly, I'm here to say it is possible.
The tracking out doesn't hurt, what hurts is that each time the patella tracks it irritates the fat pad under it. With enough repetition the fat pad can swell and become irritated. (Friday after Ryder I had to actually ice it (which I haven't had to do in YEARS). I was smart during the class and listened to my body - I didn't rise of of the saddle as that was putting extra pressure on it.
I had a scope done in my late 20's to determine that PFS was the issue, and to clean the joint up a bit. At that point the doctors said the only/best option was to reduce the outside quad muscle (vastus lateralis) to balance the 4 quads and therefore stop the patella from tracking out.
The reduction is just that - REMOVING PART OF MY MUSCLE! I did years of physio to try to strengthen the VMO, but it didn't work (pretty common actually). Needless to say I passed on the surgery. I've just come to live with it, and honestly it hasn't been much of a problem in years because I've become much less active! And now that it's rearing its ugly little head I'm going to have to be much more careful about what exercises I chose to so - this means no running (bummer).
Ok, so there is your sports medicine lesson for the day! LOL! After writing this I've decided to take today, Sunday, off as another rest day from heavy exercise. I'll take the dogs on a nice long walk, and prepare for this coming week: I will be training with Laurissa 5 days so maybe the rest is best!
Later!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Hump day
Well, I was hoping to get a home workout in tonight, but that didn't happen. I was back to work this am, so after leaving work I rushed to the Rink to attend son's hockey practice and relieve Oma who had the kiddies today. The practice went an extra 1/2 (as there was no one waiting for the ice - extreemly rare). By the time we got home, and I threw together my new favorite quick meal (Pita Pizza's) it was 7:00!
Here's my pita pizza:
Here's my pita pizza:
Doesn't it look great! Mine was chicken and spinach (with red peppers, zuchinni and cheese) on a whole wheat pita. Takes less than 5 mins to prepare, and about 5 to cook. We used to order pizza or do the frozen ones, but after a good look at what is in them we made a decision to make healthy pizza's. The other great thing is that each person can make their own - daughter likes just cheese, son is cheese and pepperoni, while hubby and I generally do the heavy-on-the-veggie pizza.
So its now 8:00 and I still have to bath the kids, clean the kitchen, flip the laundry, walk the dogs....wait, hubby just arrived home - I'm off to walk the dogs.
Back from walking RUNNING with the dogs! I'm not sure what got into me, but after a few warm up minutes of walking I felt like running. And lord knows the dogs could use the exercise. So, we did almost 30 mins of running (really jogging cause I'm slow and steady). I stopped twice for 30 seconds, and then back at it again! I'm quite proud of myself! I didn't think I could do that, but I'm feeling pretty go and likely could have gone farther (and the girls could have too). I guess this speaks to my increase in fitness!
I could use a soak in the tub (I ran in my heavy jacket and I'm WAY sweaty) which reminds me, I need a massage. I now find that every few months my body just gets overall tired and needs a good rub. So I must remember to call and book an appointment tomorrow for this weekend! It always does a world of good.
Tomorrow and Friday are both RealRyder noon hours (Laurissa is off with her kids on March Break so our regular class isn't happening. Luckily we could throw in these Ryder classes to fill the void). All this cario and I'm going to have to do a heavy-duty TRX on the weekend to balance it all out!
That's allllll folks!
Nite
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