Beer Drinker Appreciation Society - Open For Business (Page 45)

Welcome, John! I feel you on the cold weather! I have been doing a lot of strength workouts lately. It is easier to do them at home, and building your strength is a good base for all the other stuff!

Hi John - Welcome to the party! We are glad to have you and proud that you used your first post to join the BDAS! A few favors to ask - we've got a bunch of people in this group so to help people get to know you, please add your name at the end of your posts to help us cheer you on. We also have weekly challenges - this week our challenge is to see if we can eat 15 different types of fruits/veggies. Feel free to dive in - or to propose your own challenge for next week. Finally - I encourage you to become a regular poster to the BDAS. The more you share and support others - the more connected and accountable you will be. We are here to help, so please feel free to let us know how we can help you reach your goals. I think an OLY by October is totally doable! Good luck!

Nicole:

Nice work on your swim last night! 1600 is just short of a mile - quite the accomplishment.

I say count the veggies - I'm sitting in a bakery near my parents house munching on a Raspberry croissant and I plan on counting the Raspberry

Check out my favorite yoga app - YogaStudio - it's great because it lets you make your own yoga workouts so you can target the areas of your body that are the tightest. If you really want to get loose thought - you need to buy a foam roller. Nothing is better at breaking up muscle fibers and the pain that it will cause will pay off with fewer injuries.

Morning Everyone - Just checking in from Cleveland, Ohio (my hometown).... I drove the new car to my parents house to help them do some chores around their house. I don't know how many of you have older parents (clearly - all of you do but I mean really old parents... but getting old is a bi#%@! After watching them hobble around - I wrote my wife to tell her it's time to get fit if only so we can be a little faster/stable in our old age.

I'm on Winter break - so I decided to get up and hit the bakery down the street from their house. The croissants are amazing and I plan to work them off with a swim at the local Y. Clearly - swimming is the area where I need to learn the most. Any suggestions on a book or program I could use?

Thanks for the advice on the app, that sounds perfect! And a foam roller is absolutely on my list of things to buy, they are quite amazing. We have them at the gym, but having one at home would be nice.

Enjoy that raspberry :-)

I didn't see anyone propose a topic of the week (I hope you will propose one for next week) so how about this:

For those of you who work out in the cold, how do you stay warm?

For me - it's all about layers. I love going out for a ride or run in the cold and I find that if I put on enough layers - I'm able to stay quite warm. The keys for me is to wear a good long sleeve shirt that prevents chafing, a thick pair of socks (I buy running shoes a size bigger to use in the winter), and a balaclava that protects my face.

Working out in the cold, for me, is a matter of pride. To be honest - it makes me feel like a bit of a bad@55 when people tell me they think I'm crazy. Doing something that others think is a bit crazy is one of the allures of tri.

Got in a 700 meter swim this morning for workout #3 this week. Wasn't a strong showing, I'm not sure if I'm seeing the effects of the 100 pushups yesterday, the night of sleeping on a vinyl hospital couch (finally home though), or a combination of the 2. I did meet a swim coach today that gave me a couple of pointers that helped a considerable amount. Looks like I may investing some money on a swim coach for a bit to make sure I don't engrain any bad habits.

Plan tonight is to get a rough fitting in on the new bike with some parts a pull off of my roadie (peddles and wheels) and but in a 30 minute spin to see how it feels and then make some final adjustments before bed.

On working out in the cold it's all about warmth and moisture wicking for me. I prefer a neck gaiter over a balaclava because I can pull it up and down as necessary or even completely off, but keep my hat on. Granted my coldest runs tend to be in the 20's so I usually can get my body temp to a place where I want to start losing some body coverage. Moisture is the enemy of warmth so being able to get keep the sweat from soaking you is imperative.

It is to make your arms do most of the work. It also takes your legs out of commission so you can fine tweak your stroke - hand entry/exit, high elbow catch, not crossing over the longitudinal axis of your body when reaching, pulling then pushing back and really feeling the water against your hand the whole time. It just allows me to really think about what my arms are doing without having to worry about or think about my legs at all. I've also always taken my breaths to the right and the very slight buoyancy helps me to find right where my head should be when I practice breathing to the left without sinking the ship so to speak. I can focus on what plane my head is on when breathing right and try to emulate that on the left. I found I would pull the top of my head up ever so slightly when breathing to the left - when that happens it sinks my chin down so I'd have to lift my head more to get a good breath. That takes your whole body out of a good swimming plane and then the hips start to sink, and the legs...etc, etc. Not efficient, wasting energy, and leaves me gasping for air. Last year the Oly I did had the buoys on the left so it was helpful to be able to occasionally take a breath to that side to see where I stood without pulling my whole head up to look. I don't know if this helps. Thor was more of a competition swimmer that I was I think - he may have a different slant on it and/or more to add.

Mama's got some new aero's!! Cute, little shorties!
Of course the other picture will show you it's going to be at least 6 weeks before I get to try them out on the roads....so I'm headed down to the trainer right now to start the tweaking process.

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Oh, one more thing....last night I had an epiphany as I stared at my calendar...my 20 week HIM program started a week and a half ago.....ooops..
Glad I've been doing something! I may have to try a combo of walking and elliptical to cover the running piece until I really can.

I have Pinterest but have no idea how to find and add people... I would healthy eating ideas (if you don't mind seeing plans for an Elvis officiated 10 year anniversary vow renewal).

I did spin yesterday and a long walk. I think I hurt my foot doing burpees so am taking it easy with a walk and yoga later today. I love Yoga Studio for travel. That and Kimpton hotels have yoga mats in room for you to use.

I'm trying to enjoy some sun before another snow storm this weekend!

It's the same idea as running intervals or whatever else, just trying to force your body to keep moving and keep heart rate up rather than staying still.

I find that for swimming it really helps increase my lung function and endurance in general.

Nicole this is awesome! 1600 is great, so close to a mile!

Do you always do pull-heavy swims? I've been doing 100-200m pull drills in the water, but I was worried about not doing full freestyle enough. I'd be interested to see how following something like this for 1/3 weekly sessions felt.

Do you have a username (should be at the end of your address: I'm https://www.pinterest.com/meltycooks/for example)? Feel free to add me! One of the great things about pinterest is you can follow/unfollow specific boards. So if you don't care about my craft or fashion boards, you could just unfollow them!

Yay! I found you! Thank you. I'm very creatively K8. I had no idea how great it is for recipes! I am so going to start pinning food! Now to find Nicole!

Please do!

Thanks! I don't usually do them as heavy as I did yesterday, but I do usually use it pretty often. Sometimes when I am doing more of a speed workout I will alternate 100s with and without. I feel like my legs usually get all the attention in my other workouts, and I really try not to use them too much when swimming in a tri, so I'm not too worried about not kicking. I do try to get some kicking in though to make sure my legs don't forget what to do

I almost forgot the reason I went to pull heavy yesterday though, and it was to focus on when the buoy comes loose, like Dave said he was having a problem with. Dave, I found that occasionally when it came loose, if I just moved my legs up and down a little it would put it back in position. Otherwise, I also adjust while I do my flip turns, like someone else said. If it just popped up a little, I just use my heels to push it back into place. If it went too far down towards my knees, I would take an extra second in my turn and just pull it back into place. Also, not sure how you hold your legs when you do it, but I found that keeping my toes pointed made it easier as well.

Oh, bike porn for you all! The LBS I go to had Tom Danielson's TT bike from last year. Apparently he knows someone in my area and gave it to him. Wow. I had to pop a picture of it, touch it, but I didn't dare ask to get on it.





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Check-in: 3/? I did 7.77 miles on the stationary bike and 3.5 miles running today. It only felt ok today, I just had to power through it.

Veggie Check-in: 6/15 now that I added iceberg lettuce and a granny smith apple today.

Shirt Vote: I vote 6

Cold Gear: When it comes to cold weather running gear, this works for me down to 20. I haven't tried lower...yet:

For ease of reading, SW = sweat wicking
- 2 pair SW socks
- SW underwear
- SW pants. The tight ones, not baggy ones.
- SW shorts because no one wants to see the tights pants on me.
- 1 short sleeve SW tech shirt for underneath (this is where all the old race shirts come into play)
- 1 long sleeve SW tech shirt
- SW gloves
- SW hat
- light running jacket

I tend to run hot, but this works for me. I run with the running jacket for 1 mile then begin to overheat, I unzip for about a mile and then remove for the remainder of the run. I even carried that jacket for 12 miles during my November half marathon, though I should have toughed out mile 1 and left it behind.

Dropping below 20 I'd probably add a balaclava.

I plan on running Saturday morning, so I'll post a pic.

Jeremy - You need to cut yourself some slack... You are dealing with a lot. Having a kiddo in the hospital is rough and the fact you still got a workout in is something you should be proud of... I hope your son is Feeling better!

I've been tinkering with my swim (I su%@ - and my times have dropped to 2:30x100) and am going to take 5th up on his suggestion of giving total immersion a try. If you get any good tips from your coach - please pass them on.

Have a better day!

Hi All - Just a quick checkin from chilly Cleveland, OH. It's -8 here. Amazing!

I missed my workout yesterday due to a home improvement project from hell. My parents own more than 20 flat head screw drivers - but only 1 phillips head - at it's got a small head... It made a 2 hour project take more tha 5+ hours... And there was no beer in the house to celebrate with when I finally finished.

I've got a side bet with Nicole about exercising 6x this week and I have no intention of losing it. I'll need to figure out a way to get a workout in.

Have a great day everyone!

Made it to 32, degrees that is, Florida is officially freezing. Hope you are all happy.