THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

JamesO

Seated Exercise for Obesity and Limited Mobility - Stage.1 Ep.1

https://youtu.be/vPJKAG0mknI

Elona_2

GQ

My resting heartbeat is in the 50s but hypothyroidism and age probably plays a part. I did get an epidural when in labour with twins about thirty years ago and was asked if I was an athlete as the needle could not work properly. If I had not been in so much pain I could have laughed!

Jumping to conclusions is about as active as I get and I am very grateful for the medication that keeps me alive and as "normal" as I get.

moneyistooshorttomention

JamesO wrote: »

https://youtu.be/vPJKAG0mknI

There's loads of fitness videos on YouTube - something for all tastes and initial states of fitness.

Living where I do now - ie it rains a lot - it's not possible to just think "Right - short daily walk at start of day every single day without fail" as I've done before now and "rain never stopped play".

In a worse weather part of the country - then I've found it's still perfectly possible to "go for a walk" when one decides to (even if the weather isn't co-operating). Check out Leslie Sansone power-walking videos and it's possible to do a "virtual walk" of 1 miles/2 miles/3 miles/4 miles as desired. That was a "good find" imo - as I was feeling distinctly flummoxed as to how one was supposed to "go for a walk" for much of the year here.

fuddle

Bob if you've not had alcohol in a while it could be the can that has lowered your blood pressure. Alcohol increases blood pressure if consumed a lot but for a mild, infrequent drinker a 'hit' can reduce.

Bob your readings are fine to me, they're fluctuating due to life. Unless you've been told to keep such a close eye on your BP than maybe it's time to relax your monitoring now you're better. Taking BP can very quickly become an obsession and unfortunately with that comes worry when you don't see the readings you want. It's not a healthy 'hobby'. Ask me how I know

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fuddle wrote: »

Unless you've been told to keep such a close eye on your BP than maybe it's time to relax your monitoring now you're better.

The machine was loaned to me by the diabetic nurse in January, who I'm due to see just after Easter, for a 3 month review.

I'll take along my figures, and ask her if she still wants me to keep taking readings.

As for the alcohol, I didn't even manage to finish the can.

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Temperature here right now, is a very pleasant 70f, sunny with a few clouds, and the merest hint of a breeze. :cool:

DigForVictory

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I have a resting heartbeat of < 50 bpm. Not sure if that means I am technically comatose most of the time, but it does seem to disconcert medical professionals.

Them medics can be startled by all manner of things, GQ, but a resting heartbeat like that tells me God wants you for a sniper...
(Frankly, what a lovely job, within reason. Very well paid, fits in around family and caring responsibilities, you get to pick where & when, just it happens to be illegal. Dash, eh?)

Get thee to as many first aid courses & teaching hospitals as you can - it's very good for the pupils to see their teachers darn nearly triggering gangrene as they clamp for a pulse & can't find one despite you sitting up unassisted & breathing at them. (I can slow mine down for about 20 seconds using yoga breathing but it pops back up again into the default range on the inhale.)

"One in every litter", eh? - possibly a conservative estimate I suggest, that or my lot deliberately breed for Personality. (Recalling Parents Evening & various staff blinking that the two brothers they saw were very different, "yes" I grinned like a maternal shark, "and their little brother's different Yet Again!". (It's only the fraternal punch-ups in the back seat that would lead you to Imagine they were related - seen individually you really would not link them.)

Family trip now over, all safe home (headcount before & after identical despite assorted prejudices being reaffirmed) and now I can try to find the clean clothes I didn't wear to take away training for a couple of days.

Funny how the urge to shake certain individuals until their heads wobble off is *less* in the classroom environment. Mind you temptations like cooking knives are also kindly out of reach.

Prepping for a foreign-to-me city. Carry as little as I can get away with, wear footwear I can move fast in & conceal cash, tech etc against the body rather than in some bag I think. Oh and an empty bag for the snaffled-from-the-hotel loot - my hospital bag should then have a portable soap, shampoo, conditioner etc sorted, and my hospitality teabag caddy can bulge with new acquisitions...

Any recommendations for prep in strange city?

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Always look like you know where you're walking to don't have a map or consult your phone maps while you're walking along always find a private area, even go into a shop and check the map there, don't make eye contact and walk as fast as is practical. If you're abroad DON'T speak English to each other in a voice level that can be heard by anyone else. If approached by a person (usually a woman or a child) with a piece of paper in their hand saying 'Speak English?' don't give any indication that you understand them, they will follow you if you do and try to extract currency, any at all! If you wear a bag and it has a strap put it over and across one shoulder and carry it it in front of you. Keep a hand on the fastening at all times especially on escalators or in crowded places, even when you're walking. I've felt a hand from behind trying to feel for the bag several times on escalators from underground railway stations, if you're nice just give it a sharp pinch or slap, if you're feeling got at, keep a nice sharp pin in a lapel and gently apply enough force for them to know it!

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

If approached by a person (usually a woman or a child) with a piece of paper in their hand saying 'Speak English?' don't give any indication that you understand them, they will follow you if you do and try to extract currency, any at all!

In some Cities, they'll ask you to sign what you think is a petition, but is actually a promise to pay them several hundred Euros.

If you then refuse to pay, they'll call the police, who will insist you fulfil your promise.

DigForVictory

Birmingham can unquestionably be challenging. Happily I do know my route from station to teaching site (& although which classroom is a blank, at least it's on the other side of a site-pass-access-only staffed gate).

I do worry a bit about the rucksack, but needs must & having mostly two free hands (food in disposable bag) and an array of hairpins should the language barrier prove challenging, I plan to get in & out in one pass.

Which will look wonderful on my tombstone, but there you go.