Mucho Mental Manatee Mentors--CLOSED (Pop Tarts?) (Page 33)

Sinus infection. On two drugs. :-(

I need a nap.

Sinus infection. On two drugs. :-(

I need a nap.

I think today should be sponsored by caffeine.  

Who has the coffee IV and why aren't you sharing???  

Or there is this . . .

Breaking Bad Coffee

this did remind me that I should give you all a little PSA about using hotel coffee machines - DON'T! People use them to cook meth in and not just in the crappy motels, this also happens in the nice ones. The general cleaning of coffee machines is not enough to get rid of the poisonous products used to cook meth, so even if you tried to clean the machine you could still end up sick. < p> now you may return to normal manatee talk!

this did remind me that I should give you all a little PSA about using hotel coffee machines - DON'T! People use them to cook meth in and not just in the crappy motels, this also happens in the nice ones. The general cleaning of coffee machines is not enough to get rid of the poisonous products used to cook meth, so even if you tried to clean the machine you could still end up sick. < p> now you may return to normal manatee talk!

Originally posted by 4agoodlife

Originally posted by jobaxas

Originally posted by 4agoodlife

Originally posted by jobaxas oh goodness let me find his response lol...it links to his site somewhere here's his stance on anti inflammatories http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/exercise/should-you... and for ice http://www./2012/09/burning-more-fat-with-cold/sorry if links don't work paste into browser - i'm on work computer it's sh*t

First link worked; second didn't.

Although I am curious about how what looks like the title -burning more fat with cold, is related to treating inflammation with ice.

copying and pasting... So Should You Ice After A Workout? In the meantime, however, despite all the benefits of cold exposure, when it comes to using cold or icing post-workout, there seems to be a sudden doubting of icing’s efficacy across the internet and in several magazines. The argument goes something like this: when an injury occurs, your body creates inflammation as a healing response. So if inflammation is the body’s natural way to heal an injury, why would you want to block this inflammatory process with ice? Although I have a more comprehensive response to this argument against ice, forthcoming in Lava Magazine, I’ll give you 4 good reasons why, in addition to the cold thermogenesis benefits listed above, you actually should ice after a long or especially hard workout (and why I wear my tight, stretchy geeky pants post hard run or bike ride, filled with ice): 1. Ice does not completely reduce inflammation based swelling. But ice can prevent excessive swelling from occurring for a long period of time after the initial injury occurs. While some swelling certainly does important healing components such as white blood cells and other chemicals involved in the healing process to migrate into damaged tissues through increased vascular permeability, and also physically protects an injured area through decreasing it’s potential range of motion, there is no physiological reason to allow swelling to freely progress for hours or days after an injury occurs, especially if you’re smart enough to have ice around. 2. The cold temperature of ice can slow down nerve conduction velocity and shut down the activation of your muscle spindles, making it a highly effective pain reliever and muscle relaxant. If a muscle is in less pain and is more relaxed, then mobilization and movement become a reality, and a return to functional training status can occur much more quickly, which can limit muscle atrophy or loss of fitness. 3. Ice also reduces metabolic activity in the tissues that you ice, making them better able to resist the damaging effects of the impending loss of oxygen from inflammatory swelling pressure. In other words, lower tissue temperatures from icing means less oxygen is required by your muscles to sustain their integrity 4. Finally, as you learned in point 1, ice causes vasoconstriction, or shrinking of blood vessels. But unless you’re in extreme conditions where you must shuttle blood to your brain and vital organs to survive, your body will avoid tissue death by not allowing the body part you’re icing to cool excessively. Through a process called “reactive vasodilation” (also known as the Hunting reflex or Lewis reflex), your vessels, while being exposed to cold, create a negative pressure in the capillary system, which causes a pumping of inflammatory and metabolic byproducts out of an injured area, while allowing additional healing components such as macrophages and white blood cells to mobilize into the area. When combined with pressure and elevation, this “pumping” action of ice can be an extremely effective rehabilitation tool (and you can observe this in nature by simply jumping into a cold lake for about 20 minutes and watching your skin slowly turn red as reactive vasodilation occurs). YOU'RE WELCOME

ah-ha! Now I don't have to stay awake wondering all night.

I'll read and ponder. Thanks

To get the whole thing for the second article, put "burning-more-fat-with-cold" into google and it should come right up. Or add  bengreeenfieldfitness (.com) into the original after the www. Think Jo did it right originally, but the BT filter removes that part when putting it out directly (as she did) or even with a hyperlink.

That just made me think of  "I'm Oscar ... dotcom"

Oh that's just icky...

Huh, so I guess that means I shouldn't have used the carafe part to make myself a really big gin & tonic??  Or would the alcohol have killed off the poison and it was, in fact, safe for me to drink?   

yeah, i wouldn't do that either!

Drat.  Too bad it's already been done... but, on the plus side, it didn't kill me!  

(note to self:  I can no longer use coffee carafe in hotel room to make one ridiculously large drink)  

Originally posted by brigby1

Originally posted by 4agoodlife

Originally posted by jobaxas

Originally posted by 4agoodlife

Originally posted by jobaxas oh goodness let me find his response lol...it links to his site somewhere here's his stance on anti inflammatories http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/exercise/should-you... and for ice http://www./2012/09/burning-more-fat-with-cold/sorry if links don't work paste into browser - i'm on work computer it's sh*t

First link worked; second didn't.

Although I am curious about how what looks like the title -burning more fat with cold, is related to treating inflammation with ice.

copying and pasting... So Should You Ice After A Workout? In the meantime, however, despite all the benefits of cold exposure, when it comes to using cold or icing post-workout, there seems to be a sudden doubting of icing’s efficacy across the internet and in several magazines. The argument goes something like this: when an injury occurs, your body creates inflammation as a healing response. So if inflammation is the body’s natural way to heal an injury, why would you want to block this inflammatory process with ice? Although I have a more comprehensive response to this argument against ice, forthcoming in Lava Magazine, I’ll give you 4 good reasons why, in addition to the cold thermogenesis benefits listed above, you actually should ice after a long or especially hard workout (and why I wear my tight, stretchy geeky pants post hard run or bike ride, filled with ice): 1. Ice does not completely reduce inflammation based swelling. But ice can prevent excessive swelling from occurring for a long period of time after the initial injury occurs. While some swelling certainly does important healing components such as white blood cells and other chemicals involved in the healing process to migrate into damaged tissues through increased vascular permeability, and also physically protects an injured area through decreasing it’s potential range of motion, there is no physiological reason to allow swelling to freely progress for hours or days after an injury occurs, especially if you’re smart enough to have ice around. 2. The cold temperature of ice can slow down nerve conduction velocity and shut down the activation of your muscle spindles, making it a highly effective pain reliever and muscle relaxant. If a muscle is in less pain and is more relaxed, then mobilization and movement become a reality, and a return to functional training status can occur much more quickly, which can limit muscle atrophy or loss of fitness. 3. Ice also reduces metabolic activity in the tissues that you ice, making them better able to resist the damaging effects of the impending loss of oxygen from inflammatory swelling pressure. In other words, lower tissue temperatures from icing means less oxygen is required by your muscles to sustain their integrity 4. Finally, as you learned in point 1, ice causes vasoconstriction, or shrinking of blood vessels. But unless you’re in extreme conditions where you must shuttle blood to your brain and vital organs to survive, your body will avoid tissue death by not allowing the body part you’re icing to cool excessively. Through a process called “reactive vasodilation” (also known as the Hunting reflex or Lewis reflex), your vessels, while being exposed to cold, create a negative pressure in the capillary system, which causes a pumping of inflammatory and metabolic byproducts out of an injured area, while allowing additional healing components such as macrophages and white blood cells to mobilize into the area. When combined with pressure and elevation, this “pumping” action of ice can be an extremely effective rehabilitation tool (and you can observe this in nature by simply jumping into a cold lake for about 20 minutes and watching your skin slowly turn red as reactive vasodilation occurs). YOU'RE WELCOME

ah-ha! Now I don't have to stay awake wondering all night.

I'll read and ponder. Thanks

To get the whole thing for the second article, put "burning-more-fat-with-cold" into google and it should come right up. Or add  bengreeenfieldfitness (.com) into the original after the www. Think Jo did it right originally, but the BT filter removes that part when putting it out directly (as she did) or even with a hyperlink.

That just made me think of  "I'm Oscar ... dotcom"

This? http://imstilloscar.com/    hahaha

I'm checking out the whole blog now.

Sinus infection. On two drugs. :-(

I need a nap.

Regarding nutrition

Have you seen these Feed Zone Portables recipes on USAT's site?

• Mushroom and Swiss Frittatas
• Blueberry Coconut Sticky Bites
• Allen Lim’s Rice Cakes

I asked this today in the gear forum, but I thought I'd throw it in here as well:

I am beginning to look into a GPS watch, primarily for running, but it would probably be used for cycling as well. First thought is the cost vs performance discussion and I am on the more frugal side. Second need is that I would like to be able to upload here to BT, as well as Strava. So, I have looked into a variety of Garmins and at Timex and I'm bouncing back and forth between a few models:

• Garmin 310X - about $250 and on the high side of the cost spectrum. Bike sensor and HRM add-ons available, if I ever grow into that.
• Garmin Forerunner 110 - about $180, has the availability of a HRM.
• Timex Trainer 2.0 - about $225, again with the HRM available later.

So, if you have any experience with the quality, functionality, or anything else with any of these please let me know. Also, if you have a different brand or model that you like, please let me know that as well.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give.

Ahhhhhh yeeeah, you know what day it is!!!!

I asked this today in the gear forum, but I thought I'd throw it in here as well:

I am beginning to look into a GPS watch, primarily for running, but it would probably be used for cycling as well. First thought is the cost vs performance discussion and I am on the more frugal side. Second need is that I would like to be able to upload here to BT, as well as Strava. So, I have looked into a variety of Garmins and at Timex and I'm bouncing back and forth between a few models:

• Garmin 310X - about $250 and on the high side of the cost spectrum. Bike sensor and HRM add-ons available, if I ever grow into that.
• Garmin Forerunner 110 - about $180, has the availability of a HRM.
• Timex Trainer 2.0 - about $225, again with the HRM available later.

So, if you have any experience with the quality, functionality, or anything else with any of these please let me know. Also, if you have a different brand or model that you like, please let me know that as well.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give.

I asked this today in the gear forum, but I thought I'd throw it in here as well:

I am beginning to look into a GPS watch, primarily for running, but it would probably be used for cycling as well. First thought is the cost vs performance discussion and I am on the more frugal side. Second need is that I would like to be able to upload here to BT, as well as Strava. So, I have looked into a variety of Garmins and at Timex and I'm bouncing back and forth between a few models:

• Garmin 310X - about $250 and on the high side of the cost spectrum. Bike sensor and HRM add-ons available, if I ever grow into that.
• Garmin Forerunner 110 - about $180, has the availability of a HRM.
• Timex Trainer 2.0 - about $225, again with the HRM available later.

So, if you have any experience with the quality, functionality, or anything else with any of these please let me know. Also, if you have a different brand or model that you like, please let me know that as well.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give.

I wish I could help you Chris, but I have a Garmin 310X and rarely use it.  The main problem for me, is that I have a heckuva time getting it to connect to a satellite and so I never really get my pacing/distance from the thing which is what I wanted it for.  

When I'm out of the city, it works great, but as I've lived in London and Chicago... I don't get to use it to its full functionality a whole lot.  I generally use my trusty old Ironman Timex that used to be white (it's now some weird colour that I'm sure there's no name for, but it's certainly NOT white anymore) and then use Google pedometer to figure out how far I've run.  Rudimentary, I know - but it works!  

Have you checked out the reviews on this type of equipment on DC Rainmaker?  You might get some answers, or find some others that might work better for you.  

hmmmm....need some advice, Pod.

My lower right shin muscle is pretty sore. Not swollen or showing bruising or hot, but has been between sore and painful since Monday. I had Monday off running, then ran the prescribed 3 on Tuesday (really sore after that). Yesterday I did yoga and 45min on elliptical so I wouldn't be pounding on it.

I've not had this kind of soreness before, so I'm assuming from what I've read that it's shin splints: I've been running a lot on sidewalks, pushing stroller into the wind, and was already planning to get new shoes this weekend b/c mine are wearing down.

So my plan is to trainer and elliptical in HR zones for the next couple of days.  I don't need to totally rest, right?

Hmmm...the mocha java truffle mixture has a good flavor, but I'm having a hard time getting it to a "dough" consistency. Even after a full cup of protein powder, really sticky. Trying the fridge to see if it will ball up better when cold.

Your kids are just too cute for words, and the camel looks cute as well!  "Hey Mike...MikeMikeMike..."