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05-16-2011, 01:50 PM
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By God's Grace
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2007
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 1,954
S/C/G: 293/ticker/175
Height: 5'6"
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Gym NSV... kind of.
So I've been going to the gym 5x a week for about a month now. I couldn't go today because of some extenuating circumstances and so decided to go for a walk with my kids in the stroller instead. With the stroller, I used to be able to do 20 minute miles, about 2.5 miles max. Today I rocked 3.7 miles @ 15:30 min/mile! All that cardio I've been doing at the gym (45-60 min/day) has paid off! I knew I'd been improving on the machines, but it was awesome to see an out-of-the-gym experience corroborate it.
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05-16-2011, 01:52 PM
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I got this
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Near St. Louis
Posts: 2,823
S/C/G: 206/162/135
Height: a little over 5'2
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Awesome NSV! Way to go!
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05-16-2011, 01:52 PM
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Asses 2 Ash/Guts 2 Dust
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Sacramento, CA
Posts: 740
S/C/G: 292/ticker/175
Height: 5'8"
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Wow! That's excellent Gale! Way to go!!
(BTW - I think there should be a 3FC rule saying that no "kind of" or "sort of" comments can be included after NSV's.)
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05-16-2011, 02:01 PM
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By God's Grace
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2007
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 1,954
S/C/G: 293/ticker/175
Height: 5'6"
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Lol Jami - I meant it was kind of a gym NSV, I know it was for sure a NSV!
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05-16-2011, 02:06 PM
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Asses 2 Ash/Guts 2 Dust
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Sacramento, CA
Posts: 740
S/C/G: 292/ticker/175
Height: 5'8"
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gale02
Lol Jami - I meant it was kind of a gym NSV, I know it was for sure a NSV!
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LOL Oh okay, good! I don't like having to scold anyone but my kids! That is definitely one heck of an amazing NSV. Be VERY proud of yourself!!
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05-16-2011, 04:34 PM
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Strong is the new Pretty!
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Jacksonville, Arkansas
Posts: 2,237
S/C/G: 245/ticker/1??
Height: 5'2"
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Yay! I love it, congrats.
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05-16-2011, 05:48 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Just moved out of denial
Posts: 881
S/C/G: 298/238...285.5/217/150
Height: 5'5"
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Wow, that's quite an improvement. You ROCK!!!
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05-16-2011, 07:15 PM
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one choice at a time
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 1,343
S/C/G: 275/155/189/???
Height: 5'5"
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It is a great feeling when you realize that "gym strength" and "gym endurance" have translated into real-world, functional strength and endurance.
On my vacation last week, I did a 7-mile moderately strenuous hike. It didn't hurt at all. At the very end, when one of my group had straggled back on the trail, I hopped up and jogged - JOGGED - back to find him.
No way in **** I could have done that two years ago!
I wasn't sore the next day - in fact I did an easy 2-miler the next day, and could have done more except everyone I was traveling with was destroyed from the 7-miler. :LOL:
So - not to derail your NSVs with my own NSVs, sorry about that. But I know how you feel, and it's great. Congratulations!
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05-16-2011, 07:19 PM
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By God's Grace
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2007
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 1,954
S/C/G: 293/ticker/175
Height: 5'6"
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No NSV derailing happening, the more the merrier!! WTG on not only doing a 7 mile hike but doing a 2 miler the next day, that's fantastic!!
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05-16-2011, 11:32 PM
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Finally Losing Myself
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Alabama
Posts: 371
S/C/G: SW 278/ CW see ticker/ GW 150
Height: 5'5
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That's awesome and I think it's great you didn't use the kids as an excuse to not get in your cardio. When I started my journey my little guys were almost 3 yrs and 3 months old. I would put them in the stroller and off we'd go. They usually enjoyed getting out too.
Awesome on the improvement!
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05-17-2011, 05:01 AM
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Mummy-tummy battler
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 507
S/C/G: 132ish(290+)/~ticker~/75(165)
Height: 164(5'4")
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Congrats - I so love NSVs, helps me to see why we are trying to lose weight and reminds me not to focus too much on the scale.
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