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Shows you how colors can be deceiving. Light blue makes me look so much younger and dark blue makes the "Dude"-what we call Grandpa-look even worse than he is.

Ahhhhh, but we still love him.

lol... Any way you color it, all those pics are great.

Girls at the gym do things that amaze me too, and I'm not even old.

May be wise to spend more time on the leg muscles and less on the ocular....

Off to the gym as soon as find my glasses

For some of those girls, all they have to do is walk across the floor and it's amazing.......

Cardio today.

I understand completely.

30 min 15degree incline walk.

Legs/ triceps.

Sore knees.

You left out the 360-degree head swivels.......

I hate it when they do that. Makes me feel soooo self conscious.

Three mile run. 80 pushups, sets 4X20.

Did a quick up/down at Green Mountain, 55# pack.

1 pallet fescue
1 pallet bermuda

Yesterday:

Kinda took a day off. Early fast 3 mi walk with the Toby.

Shot shotgun for 3 hours in the hot and humid. Harder than the walk.

Great minds think alike, did 3-4 miles with the dog today. Had to re-route three times around "obstacles." Twice it was whitetails near a road. Didn't want to chase them across the road. The other time, it was 3 coyotes guarding a den with pups. They get pretty particular this time of year with any strange canines near their dens.

Did cardio today, great workout after an "off " day yesterday.

Recovery is underrated, especially as you get older. I tried to do the same cardio workout last week after a couple days of hard workouts, couldn't come close in duration or intensity.

Smoke:

Doesn't apply to your post, but a heads up from two days ago.

I use "My fitness pal" to roughly monitor my daily calorie intake. They also tell you fat, carbo, protein and potassium intake for the day. Upon looking I could see my potassium intake is about a third of the recommended daily requirement. Knew it, but thought I felt fine. A little off lately, but attributed it to age and working out more than normal. Need to up the vegetables and fruits.

I have had three episodes where my potassium level dropped and I became really weak. First time I drove myself to the ER. Docs gave my a D5W .9NSS + 20meq/L Potassium Chloride IV and the heart slowed down and the skips went away immediately. HR was hitting 200. And while my K (Potassium) level was on the low side of normal they attributed it to low K.

Happened a second time a couple years later while Grouse hunting. Felt weak and kept going, got weaker and finally had to stop and lie down. Again pushing 200. I couldn't go or get a good breath. It reversed and I went on my way, but paid attention.

Just happened the other day again. Not as bad, but I recognized it before I crashed. I had talked about this with a Doc previously and he wrote me a script for prescription strength KCl and he told me to keep it close at all times. Only to be used if the symptoms occurred. Anyway went home and took one. Within 30 minutes my HR was back to 62 and I felt great.

There is also an interplay between Sodium and Magnesium with Potassium. Most get enough Sodium, but the majority of the population is Magnesium deficient.

Diet is a bigger factor than we realize as we get some years on us and if you are not eating right this high intensity stuff can get things a little skewed.

All of us should see the GP regularly and have a blood panel done. Talk to him/her about the numbers and what they mean. Read and acquire a working mans knowledge so when they give you answers they make sense.



Addition: Had to squeeze it in before gym closed.

Hex deadlifts: 10x10 185lbs

Standing barbell press: 10x10 alternating between 70
80lbs

Inclined sit-ups with 25lbs: 4x10

Harry

Good points. I ran into some it that last year running and riding before work. Use bananas/Nuun/Endurolytes almost daily with plenty of water.

No workouts this week. 10 days of maintenance shutdown at work isn't leaving any time for the gym.

Scott,

Two of the episodes occurred on very hot days and the one while Grouse hunting a warmer fall day. Supposed to drink a lot of water and I was. Problem was my K was probably at its border line low normal. Sweating dropped it a little lower. If there are any Docs in the house here is where I would like them to join in.

I'm thinking drinking a lot of water may have also been a contributing factor in that I diluted out my blood volume and caused the concentration of available K to the cells to be decreased. A cell can only hold so much volume. K needs to be inside the cell to be effective.

No doubt drinking fluids is important when it is hot and one is working hard. However, when your minerals are on the edge of normal, diluting them out can have an effect we would not normally desire.

Again, not sure if I'm entirely correct on this, so if a Doc can add some insight it would be appreciated.


Thing is low normal and high intensity workouts may not be the best place to be and the only way you can know is by having relatively frequent blood panels done.

We all hear about vitamins, however having the right amount of minerals may be even more important.

Two of these events gave me a scare. So it was EKGs, Thallium scans and echocardiograms. Docs say don't stop what you are doing.

Also stress test. Last one was a joke in that I could have hopped on the treadmill for 10minutes and stressed myself more. Hardly breathed hard and in fact I didn't. Said to the Doc that's it. His reply, "For your age that's it."

Waste of time, if stress had anything to do with it.

Saturday
Went Kayaking for a while.

Yesterday
1 set of 5 on bleachers, 1 lap around the complex(about 3/4 mile), back to bleachers, then flip tires. Rest

Did that 3 times

That'll get you ready for hunting season!

It's also good for the mind in that it is one of those I ain't gonna quit mind games.

And when it's over you say, it really wasn't all that bad.