Health and settling in~ma to Grandma Mary.

Good luck with the exercise stuff, Fay. When I was taking aikido my arms and abs looked really good, and running seemed to help my progress. No idea if this would carry over to other martial arts, but it's a datapoint. Everyone else's exercise advise sounds good to me.

I'm doing long walks and the occasional yoga now. If I could get back into a regular yoga regimen, my arms, back, and abs would thank me. And I'll second the rec. on ashtanga--best yoga class I ever took.

My gosh, people, in the midst of all the excercise talk, didn't you see this?

after that it's probably going to be the Far East, or India, or the States

Fay in the States! All that fabulosity within reach--or at least in similar time zones!

Perkins - Saturday should be clear. The girls are gone and I just have to make sure DH is ok with having CJ for the day.

I was gonna see about going to Harry Potter on Friday, taking CJ...would be glad to have anyone else interested join us.

Cool. Sadly, I can't HP on Friday, unless it's pretty late-- I have a chiro appointment after work.

for a starting and easy weightlifting program - to start - go with the strong women stay slim. They start with weight lifting because, quite frankly, larger women are stronger and they tend to be successful at it. I am not a runner, but I think the plan of sreching a 2 month program to a three months is a great idea. It gives you room to get used to things mentally. have fun.

ma~~ to mary.

keep well vw.

When you say weight lifting, beth, are you distinguishing it from doing weights? I mean, are you looking at it like the sport? Because "doing better at it" doesn't have to mean how much you're moving -- it's about how well you progress.

At least in how I've looked at it, but I'm not familiar with the angle you're describing, beth.

Also, when you say larger, do you mean fatter-larger or bigger-larger? My brain is preventing me from slicing that further semantically, so I hope I'm making sense. Krav-wise I haven't noticed overweight women being much stronger than women who aren't--although they can load more weight behind a technique. But that doesn't work against a machine. Bigger women who aren't overweight do tend to be stronger than the average. And then there are the women who might be overweight, but if you zapped it away, you'd be left with larger, and stronger. It's very varied.

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My knees are wretched things, but I do love running. A 3/2 run/walk works best for me.

I should lift more weights. My old gym had much better machines than my current one, and I've gotten lazy.

I am not a nice person. I am not a nice person.

Murder is not good before noon.

I hate weight training and never do it (except for the work we do with small weights in pilates). I know I should be doing some weight training it is just so boring for me. I'm going to have to build up my arm strength though because I'm going to be in charge of pushing my friend's twins in their jogging stroller after they are born, evidently. My pregnant friend, who's the one who got me running in the first place, is telling me I'm going to be the one doing the pushing because she will not have run for over a year. I'm gonna have to have strong shoulders! I think I'll just try to do more pushups. fun!

That Maidengirl is so nice, except for the killing folks stuff.