Health For Oldies!

[iblis.raeb]

[quote name='PeterJMelb' post='22923' date='Dec 11 2009, 07:57 PM']What in the world is Percutane?

Is it like Deep Heat? Or ......[/quote]

Exactly like Deep Heat.

[iblis.raeb]

[quote name='PeterJMelb' post='22938' date='Dec 12 2009, 02:27 PM']Ah Iblis.



Is it cheaper than Deep Heat?[/quote]

No idea... supposed to be a more natural product (sorta like the organic version).

[glen]

That is amazing stuff! Hope the leg is better!!!



Yes I have had a fairly inactive week! I will try walk some stairs later!

[Suze]

That's pretty impressive Peter. I couldn't even get to the gym. <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[iblis.raeb]

I stopped wearing my Nike+ Sportsband and can't tell exactly how fast I ran today but it sure felt pretty fast.

[iblis.raeb]

[quote name='PeterJMelb' post='22996' date='Dec 14 2009, 05:03 PM']What does your Nike Sports Band tell you when you wear it?[/quote]

Pace, distance, time and calories (inaccurately).

[iblis.raeb]

[quote name='PeterJMelb' post='23006' date='Dec 15 2009, 08:33 AM']Hello Iblis.



Which part is inaccurate?

The calories or all sections?

Do you wear it on the hip or wrist?[/quote]

None of the measurement are 100% accurate but I was referring to the calories since every bodies ability to burn is different.



I wore the Nike+ Sportsband on my wrist, accompanied by a dongle that was lodged in the sole of my runner shoes.

[Suze]

You guys discussing "oldie's health" has inspired me to go for a walk and a swim today. I'm exhausted

[iblis.raeb]

[quote name='PeterJMelb' post='23050' date='Dec 16 2009, 08:50 AM']I've tried all sorts of creams, even been to the salt water baths in St Kilda. No good![/quote]

And I was just about to recommend a salt water chlorinated pool... do those types of pools still have chlorine or is salt an issue too?

[Suze]

Hey Pete,



I'm not knocking myself out, cos I only did 20 laps of the pool and I only walked for half an hour at a slow pace. Will do the same today - when the heat dies down.



My daughter is allergic to the Alma Road Swimming Pool in St Kilda, don't know if she's tried the Sea Baths. She doesn't seem to have trouble at other pools though.

[Suze]

Yay, I made another 20 laps tonight - and another half hour walk. There was no one else at the pool, so I had 5 lanes to myself. Apparantly the swimming squad that was supposed to be there tonight thought that it was too hot? <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/LMAO.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[Suze]

hahaha @ the backstroke swimmers. There is this OLD lady that swims where I swim - but she goes around 8 am and she doesn't just do backstroke - she does it with both arms simultaneously flailing sideways and takes up the whole bloody l lane. Her legs drag along the bottom of the pool and she's just a bloody waste of space. There's a board at the head of the lane that has "slow" written on it, and I often feel like saying to her "Hey Love, it says 'SLOW' not "STOPPED""



I do backstroke, but easily stick to the left hand side of the black line down the centre of the lane. After half a century of swimming if you can't stick to the left hand side of the lane, then perhaps it's time to try something else.



Today I didn't make it for my walk, but I did do my 20 laps at the pool again. Unfortunately I had to share the pool tonight with other people. Life's tough sometimes. I think yesterday was the first and last time I'll ever get the pool to myself. I can live in hope.



I'm gonna double my laps the next time I swim, but it wont be Friday cos I have to work on Friday.

[Suze]

<img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> No swimming today - had to earn some money by working today.

[glen]

Yeah the whole working thing does tend to get in the way of life sometimes!

[Suze]

hmmm. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see the Body and Soul Section of the Herald Sun on 20 December, but if you give me the heading, I can look up the article online.



I did 40 laps of the pool today. Feeling a bit worse for wear, but I'll get used to it. Am gonna try for another 40 laps tomorrow. Had to share the pool with a couple of kids today - it's getting tough out there in the land of public pools: 3 people in a 25 metre pool at the one time. <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/fishie.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':fishie:' />

[Suze]

The pool where I swim is 6 lanes wide, and the lane that the kids were playing in is called "multi purpose", the other five lanes are set aside for lap swimming. I like to swim in the slow lane because I've been kicked out of the "medium" lane once before - years ago (but I don't forget it. I was the only one in the lane, but a mother and daughter wanted it to themselves so they asked the lifeguard to kick me out, then they got in - and were slower than I). Even in the slow lane I usually pass the people in the fast and medium lanes but I wasn't an olympic swimmer, not even a state swimmer. Many times in recent years I've thought about joining the Aussie Masters swim team, but never really had the time, or the confidence to do it. I was the first female patrol captain at Freshwater Surf Life Saving Club in Sydney though - so that could be my claim to fame.



And I'm not telling where the pool is, so it doesn't get too crowded. <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/th_thblob_duck.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':fishie:' />



As a 12 year old I got swept out to sea in a rip at Seaspray (on the 90 mile beach) and no one came to rescue me so from the time that I was brave enough to go back into the water at the beach, I made it a point to be surf safe.

[Suze]

Pete, I certainly wasn't very calm when I got swept out to sea, I thought I was a goner. Of course I panicked as anyone would when the beach was getting further and further away. It was about 10 years before I went back into the water at a surf beach, and even then it was only Freshwater which is a sort of bay with no real waves.



I'm off to my uncrowded pool for another swim <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/fishie.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':fishie:' /> <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[Suze]

Yay, done my 40 laps for the day. <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/fishie.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':fishie:' /> Had to share the pool with 12 others today. Which wasn't bad considering it was 39 degrees when I arrived there.



Now time for a <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/piwo.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> and cuddle the <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cat.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':cat:' />

[glen]

Well done Suze! I would be happy just to do 1 lap <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':fishie:' />

[Suze]

Yay, another 40 laps today (the last 4 are a killer) <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/fishie.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':laugh:' /> Thank goodness the pool is closed tomorrow.



No idea how many people live in that suburb, but it's within 15 km of CBD, and I only had to share with three others today - but got a lane to myself again. <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/officechair.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> I'm gonna be devastated when other people realise that the pool is open <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> and I have to share it with the rest of the suburb. As I was getting out another woman got into the pool and she was wearing a head scarf with her goggles and a full length wrist to ankle rashi swim suit <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ph34r.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':laugh:' /> there's a clue as to where it could be.



The pool seems to be heated to around 25 degrees, which was cool yesterday and just pleasant today, but as Pete says, it's for us old ducks <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/th_thblob_duck.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':ducky:' /> .



Unfortunately Pete, when I was 12 years old there were no TV programmes to teach us about what to do when caught in a rip at sea (and there was only 2 chanels on TV which began at 5.00pm and went onto Test Pattern at 11.00pm hahahahaha), and swimming in the surf wasn't really part of the school curriculum for kids at inland schools. I know what to do now, because of what I learnt in surf life saving, but unfortunately I didn't know then. I was so grateful when the ABC put Andy Pandy and Kimba the White Lion on at 3.30pm - and not to forget Adventure Island or Play School for the teenagers. <img src='http://www.melbournechat.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />