Stage 4 Fitness 2016

Beautiful!

>Z<

Beautiful photo, Heidi. What a great place for biking.

Z-glad you are able to work through the pain and keep moving. For me, it's a fine line sometimes when determining whether to gently keep moving, or let the hurting part rest. Usually movement wins, and as long as I don't over do it, it's okay.

Mara-sounds like you're making great progress. So happy to hear that you are up and doing things.

Shazza-I am so impressed with all that you've done, preparing for the upcoming walk. Yep, awesome!

Wasn't able to get out much today but did go for a quick ride on my horse this morning. Yesterday was morning bike ride, and then swim in the afternoon. Amazing how a 450 yard swim can suck me dry of all energy. Definitely need to keep getting in the pool.

Best to all you fitness ladies.

No formal exercise for me today except for cutting and shaving my hair bald. It was falling out fast but was so messy. It also felt like would take too long so I just did it myself. Looks and feels much better.

Enjoy the massage Z, I swear I can feel the strength of those planks. I am pretty happy about the hair too.

Great to hear of everyone's activity, and glad you are feeling just a bit better, Mara. Planked 90 seconds for you this morning! Can't seem to get to two minutes, but I'm working on it.

Zarovka, I only recently started running. I don't generally have joint or pain issues, but I do if I start running. However, if I can push past the first 1/8 mile or so, then it starts to go away. I'm wondering if maybe that's the Letrazole. Helps to know that might be the issue, so thank you for sharing.

I do have a bit of pain in the knee when I run, which actually caused a bit of anxiety this week. I had scans on Monday and when I got my results sent to me the next day, it showed a new spot in my bone scan just below my knee on the tibia. They thought possible mets to that bone, but I tried not to worry while waiting to see my onc today. After talking with her, and remembering that I had actually fallen on a rock on that very same spot earlier this summer, she concluded that it was almost certainly the healing from that as all the other scans were good, and the fact that I've started running again may have exacerbated it further causing the bone scan to light up a bit there. I was very relieved!

Ran/walked 2 miles tonight. 3 push ups. 90 second plank in morning and 60 second one tonight.

Did a 1-minute plank before our deadline today. Mara, hope life without bad hair days is good!

DGHoff, very relieved for you, too!

Bionic, as Z said, swimming moves lymph around a lot. Like a massage.

Speaking of massages, they really helped with my letrozole aches and pains as well as exercise soreness from trying to deal with letrozole aches and pains. I aso read somewhere that a massage can increase immune cells by 10%. More recently, a study showed massage can improve vascular function with a sustained response for a number of days even without exercise.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140416125434.htm

So keep moving or having massages!  

I am still here. Enjoying your planks.

I am sleeping well at night now, still tired but functioning much better after only a week since radiation ended.

I have most been pedaling a small peddler while watching TV to keep the legs up. It's been terrible weather here with the rain so walking was not happening. I have managed to pedal approx an hour a day. Still working my way up to the bigger exercise bike since it will provide more cardio work.

Good info on the massage and movement Heidi. As always, you astound me with your exercise Z, DG glad for you as well.

I got to 3 HIIT hour longclasses this week it felt amazing to be getting back to what I was before my stroke and radio surgery. My goal is to keep that up until my 33rd bday and start in on some gentle yoga again 😍

Hope everyone is feeling strong as well!! And happy fall

everyone is doing so well. Just the usual yoga, Pilates and walking for me. My 21k walk is a week away. Getting excited. Lots of changeable Spring weather here but Daylight saving started here last week so the evenings are much lighter so I'm hoping to get a little more activity in after work now.

Keep up the good work ladies

HI everyone-have had a good, busy weekend here. Chemo on Friday, but then the fun stuff. Both daughters and my college student niece here to celebrate her birthday. My brother and a friend came too. Activities were mostly eating and bike riding.

Tomorrow's plan is to get back to healthy eating, and go for a swim and bike ride with DD before she heads back to her home.

I've been doing massage for many years to move lymphatic fluid in my comprised arm. Lately I've been using a soft brush all over-neck, arms, legs, feet-as a massage tool. I follow this with a rub down with a wet cloth, and then rub on lotion (Alba lotion with added essential oils) on any sore spots. When I am finished I feel great and it only takes me about 10 minutes to do this quick refresher.

Great to hear about everyone's activities. Hope you all have a good week and keep up the good work.

Pagej, awesome getting back to your former fit self. Bionic, that brushing sounded so good I looked it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0INAkceNMg4

There are other Videos on YouTube but just looked at this one. I had manual lymph drainage and scar massage combined with progressive weight training as a lymphedema prophylactic according to a protocol I saw in a Spanish study. I definitely would try skin brushing (on the face, too!) as a continuing prophylactic.

I also bought myself a massage device with infra red at a trade fair on Saturday. It felt so good.

Biked about an hour just running errands.

Since I will be away this weekend and probably not able to post, I wanted to send best wishes to Shazza for a great walk. I hope it goes really well for you and will be looking forward to hearing about it.

Got out for a bike ride this morning and a walk this afternoon. We are enjoying beautiful fall days here and it just feels good to be outside. Hope everyone has a good weekend.

I think Wendy on the Ibrance thread is our resident lead as far as dragon boating goes.

Shazza - hoping for good weather.

Tired and shaky today but still got through a bike ride and a yoga class. Fell off the bike, wasn't wearing padding because it was an easy familiar ride. The fall was purely from shakiness. Not sure what is going on with my balance and shakiness. I am feeling sorta okay and sorta not okay at the same time. Huge raspberry on my hip from the fall.

Dinner with my 10 year old and then we see the shanghai acrobats at the local theater. All sitting down, so no imminent threats to my wellbeing tonight.

>Z<

Mara - I am glad your cat is getting some attention. A small sign that things are getting back to normal. Let us know the plan after talking to the MO.

>Z<

mara glad things are improving and healing and recuperating is under way.

I'm cancer free except for my shrinking brain met, I know we have different types of breast cancer but my doctors are just keeping close eye. I get body scans every 3 months with tumor marker tests and so far 2 scans have been clear.

There's no chemo for me just watching making sure nothing more pops up. My drs give me great hope that this brain met was it and someday I'll be no longer getting the scans every 3 months.

Just to give you an idea of what follow ups might be for you as well. I have met another brain only who takes Herceptin and is doing well 6+ yrs later and some who don't take any chemo also doing well years later