When I was a kid, “duck footed” was the opposite of pigeon-toed–walking with the toes splayed out instead of pointing in.
No, the opposite of pigeon toed. You know, duck footed. Like a duck’s feet. (This is a strange concept? Do they not have ducks wherever you guys are?) They go out, like a ballet position. It’s a family thing - my cousins do it too. My knees aren’t over my feet. I went to a yoga class twice where the teacher said we could work on it, but as usual I crapped out and didn’t go back.
Okay, it’s still technically the week of 9/21 and I’m starting today after work. I had a terrible headcold that I’m just getting over, so that put me off schedule a bit.
I downloaded the Ulley podcasts to my mp3 player and I’m ready to go. I’m kind of excited, but worried about the sciatic pain kicking in.
I’ll check in tonight to say how it went.
My feet also splay out (duck feet, ballet position, whatever) … with concentration I’ve minimized this (I was never an extreme case) but unless I’m paying a lot of attention I will still stand with my feet splayed. I too got some ankle pain on the right side.
By concentrating on keeping my feet straight I alleviated it.
So, basically, yes that may be what’s causing your pain and you may also be able to mitigate it yourself. I would absolutely talk to a podiatrist of some sort though… If you’re extremely duck footed you may need an insert or something in your running shoes to compensate.
Oh yeah, and I also found yoga to be helpful. FWIW.
My armpits hurt from the pushups. Well, more accurately, the muscles in front of my armpits. I need an armpit sling! 
Find a good podiatrist. My wife talked me into going to one about 5 years ago and I swear it is the best thing I have ever done for my feet. With my orthotics I feel I am able to run—without them I am sure I would have hurt myself. The orthotics align my feet properly and really makes a big difference. My wife though had a hard time running even with her orthotics, she completed the program, but went back to her elliptical machine. However she recently bought this ankle brace thing and that seems to be helping her a fair amount. So you might want to try something like that. This is an example of the type she got:
http://www.return2fitness.net/Supports_and_braces/Ankle_Supports/md195ankle
good luck–don’t hurt yourself!
Well grizzled is probably accurate but I am not the best poster child for this. But I enjoyed it since it showed me that I could run and frankly proves that anyone can run if they go slow and easy and follow the instructions—age really isn’t a factor. My advice is to not go too fast or you will hurt yourself and then will stop running. Early on in the program about week three I was thinking it was going too slow and so I tried to speed it up–big mistake and I was pretty sore for a bit. But I recovered and went back and did it correctly the next time and kept going.
But I am not trying to be a runner–I just wanted to have another weapon in my battle of the bulge 
Now I can do 20-30 minutes of running, or 20-30 minutes on the elliptical or 20-30 minutes walking briskly up the steepest incline on the treadmill. I just like the variety for my cardio. But good luck!
Yoinks! Well, I did day 2 of week 1, but I was borderline charlie horse-y the second half. It never fully cramped but ow. Cardiovascularly, not a problem.
Is that a failure of my warm up or hydration or what? Any tips?
It could be anything, really. Did you go faster? Did the terrain differ? What about your cool down (I was taught to never stretch a cold muscle, so I only stretch after my run–it made a huge difference for me; no more charlie horses). No tips, sorry. But congrats on doing D2/W1! How are your armpits? 
Well I found myself eating a lot more bananas and I haven’t had any charley horses. I also saw my doctor when I was really hurting when I tried to push the program and he suggested two things. Take a calcium supplement like a tums on my run days and to make sure I warmed up enough and to stretch. Since doing those things I haven’t had any issues, but not sure if I just adjusted or if they actually did anything.
I was pretty half-assed about my stretching. Next time, I’ll do a warmup walk, then do a full-fledged stretch, and then start the program. My legs feel fine now, the sneaky things.
Tums I can do. A banana? Urk. I’ll consider it.
Eleanor, I have been distracted from my armpits. For the moment, they feel fine!
It doesn’t matter what you said, YOU’RE BACK!
I had Harvest Jam this morning. I thought there was none left. I thought of you.
Also, ONLY 45 minutes of yoga? Pfft. Bikram classes are 90. Step up, slacker! 
I just got home from mine.
Also Also, my husband has said he’ll do this with me. :eek: He’ll begin tomorrow if we can get a kid-free half-hour.
Anyone else gaining weight?
I’ve been exercising and eating well for 1.5 weeks now and I’ve gained 2 lbs. How completely annoying.
I’m doing week 2, day 2 today of C25K, and last night re-did the first day of the pushup program (was terribly sore after doing the first day last week, then was kind of sick over the weekend and didn’t continue, so I’m starting over). My max last week was 17 (last set) and my max yesterday was 12. I probably could have gone a couple more, but I didn’t want to be so sore again.
Great job everyone!
Well, I have given it a lot of thought and I think I will start the program next week. I had to give it some thought because I hate running but I think I might hate running because it was always inflicted upon me by asshat P.E. teachers and I associated it with feeling like I wasn’t as good as everyone else. I will start the program on Monday. Wish me luck!
One of us! One of us!
Welcome and good luck.
My sister went to a bluegrass festival and brought me kettle corn. Yeah, I’m gaining weight.
Ok. I did Week 1/Day 1 tonight. It was a little difficult for me, but not so much that I ever had to cheat by walking more than I was allowed. I really felt it in my calves and I felt the pounding my knees were taking, but I feel really good about it. The podcast was helpful so I didn’t need to be watching the time on the treadmill. I even worked up a sweat–and I don’t normally sweat much! I’ll be doing it again Thursday, but tomorrow I might do the circuit training so I can get in the habit of exercise again. I’m kind of an “all or nothing” type.
Bwhaahahaha! You had me at “Blah blah blah,” you know.
tdc just recently finished his last bit of jam. Like you, he thought he’d had it all, then <poof!> there was a bonus jar. I think you might have made magic jam.
I don’t have to do Bikram yoga, you know, 'cos I live in the state of Florida. WHERE IT’S HOT AND SWEATY ALL TIMES.
Now I absolutely have to go (1) b/c my kitten is trying to eat my colored pencils and (2) I’m getting up in 6.5 hours to run again. :smack:
I did, you know. You don’t want to know the bonus ingredient.
For those of you doing this on a treadmill, what do you do? Do you pre-program it, or what?
The daughter and I went for our run tonight. As we got into the penultimate run segment, we had to make a left turn. Nothing difficult or fancy. But somehow I pulled a muscle in my calf. Not the main muscle, but sort of to the side and back. Hurt more than a bit. I limped through the rest of that set then slowed a bit for the final one and sort of gutted it out. It’s tightening up a bit throughout the evening, and I keep trying to stretch it out (not easy to do with that muscle) so that I can still do the Thursday run. If I can’t then I’ll wait and reset on Sunday. Bit of a bummer. 
FWIW she’s doing fine, but she’s already in pretty good shape, so that’s to be expected. Stupid youthful athletic kids. Get off of my lawn!