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Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 10:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Today is a 'do over' No promises, but I'm trying... again...

45 min Curves for women

I hate this size type!! Calamity, I've talked, read and researched till I'm blue in the face, and you should give your muscles a day of rest in weight training... so you can do legs one day arms the next, or do legs and arms one day, rest the next... it was complicated so I didnt remember all the details, but every one I asked, or every site I went to it was the same info.. I'll look for the one book that stresssses that and typed it here

Hermione69
Member

07-24-2002

Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 5:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Reader, welcome back! I'm happy to see you!

6/16 run/walk intervals (in the RAIN! Is that commitment or insanity??)- 90 minutes; yoga- 35 minutes; total- 125 minutes.

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 6:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
6/16 -- 75 minutes (15 minutes run, 60 minutes weights/stretch with trainer)

Secretsmile
Member

08-19-2002

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 9:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
30 mins ellipical, 30 mins pilates, 15 mins free weights.... to who ever suggested lunges and squats, my leg muscles are hating you! (and why does the toilet seat seem 5 miles further down now?)

Denecee
Member

09-05-2002

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 10:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
6/16: walked 105 min, weights 15 min
Total for day: 120 min

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 7:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
6/15 - 15 minutes Easy Glide (it's really not easy, lol)
6/17 - 20 minutes Easy Glide

Denecee
Member

09-05-2002

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 9:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
6/17: walked 90 min, biked 30 min
total for the day: 120 min

Calamity
Member

10-18-2001

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
06/15 - Rhythmic Power = 52 minutes
06/17 - Rhythmic Power = 52 minutes
06/18 - Power Yoga 1: Energize = 51 minutes

Reader234: Thanks for the info. (And sorry for the small type! I use it to help whoever's making the chart separate my time logs from my babbling*.)

Mak1: I'm curious now...what was the yoga posture you demonstrated that made your friend cry?! Bow pose was the Mount Everest of the basic postures for me until recently - mind you, it's still plenty challenging but I'm getting better at it. Yea! Probably the most difficult one for me on this Power Yoga tape is Camel pose - even with blocks I can't bend my back too far. But I will someday! I hope. Really makes me appreciate good old Tree Pose - just stand there and balance on one foot with your hands clasped overhead. So calming.

Oh, and I've only had shin pain once or twice ever so I don't know much about it. But you may be right that your treadmill is a little more forgiving surface on which to run.

Secretsmile: Be careful you don't hurt yourself but...that's actually a good sign that your muscles ached some after exercising - means they got some much-needed work! Stick with your program and you'll be amazed at how quickly those aches will go away as you get stronger. You may even notice "everyday aches" that you just got used to having to live with will ease or fade away completely too! Good luck!

*See what I mean about babbling, Reader?


P.S. I love walking, running, whatever in the rain!!! - unless the lightning's too scary.

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Friday, June 18, 2004 - 5:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
6/16: another 30 minutes, walking in the evening
6/17: 30 minutes, walking
6/18: 60 minutes, walk/run, elliptical, weights, resistance, abs (on mini-vacation, in the hotel gym, with DH. We were proud of ourselves for getting up early to work out, but we really needed it after all the junk we ate the past couple days.)

In regular-sized type: Welcome back, Reader!

Calamity, lightning's always too scary! I don't know the name of the pose. You place your hands, in a praying posture (yavashu?), on your back, feet shoulder-width apart, bend towards the floor, hold for 5 breaths. My flexibility is quite good, balance isn't nearly as good yet, so I'm still shaky at times on the Tree pose. I love the peacefulness of it, too.

Secretsmile, the lunges and squats WILL pay off and if you can stick it out, it will get easier, too.

I set the hotel gym elliptical to do an interval program. Having never used an elliptical before, I didn't have it all figured out, when suddenly it began to go really fast...really, really fast, lol. My DH gasped, "you'd better slow it down...can you stop it?" All I could think of was Bill Murray's character in Lost in Translation when that happened to him on an elliptical, or maybe it was a treadmill, and he just hollered "Help!" Anyway, after controlling my laughter, and pushing everything on the machine, I got it slowed down. It was really funny, though a little alarming at first!


Hermione69
Member

07-24-2002

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 5:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Friday, 6/17- The Firm, Vol. 3, 65 minutes.

Today's run/walk training day!

Secretsmile, that was me who first suggested lunges and squats. Please don't hurt me, LOL! They are GREAT for your legs.

I love Yoga, but none of the tapes are captioned and I have no idea what the poses are named. That kind of bums me out.

Calamity, I actually had a wonderful time running the trail in the rain. It was very quiet and isolated. There was even a primitive feel to it. Many trees are still down from Hurricane Isabel that came through my area last September, so the forest is truly illustrating all stages of life right now. To go through it and see downed trees, healthy trees, and new growth, especially in the rain with water puddled everywhere, was eerie and beautiful.

Mak, welcome back from your getaway with DH! I loved your elliptical story!

Hi Ladytex! I was happy to see you post!


Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 12:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thursday, 6/17 - 60 minutes Ultimate Sculpt class
Friday, 6/18 -- none
Saturday, 6/19 -- 60 minutes Interval Step & Sculpt class (in the 85 degree heat with no air conditioning at my gym, no less)

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 6:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
6/19: 40 minutes walking

Yankee, I think that would make me melt! Hermione, thanks for the wb. I would like to have seen my elliptical experience on video. I'm sure it looked even funnier than it felt.

Hermione69
Member

07-24-2002

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 8:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sat. 6/19 Run/walk intervals- 60 minutes

I am SO SORE today. I think that Firm tape from Friday kicked my butt. I haven't done a tape in awhile. Plus the running. It is funny how acclimated your body gets to a certain type of exercise and so when you mix it up-- PAIN!

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 6:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
6/20: 80 minutes, walking

The trainers tell me you're supposed to mix it up that way, Herm, but it sure does HURT.

Hermione69
Member

07-24-2002

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 7:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
6/20 Walk (no run!)- 60 minutes; Yoga- 35 minutes; Total- 95 minutes.

Yeah, I need to keep mixing it up. I know it is the best way. I was just surprised at the degree of soreness! I feel like Secretsmile! The toilet seat seems awfully far away and the steps on my stairs feel like they are spaced at 2 feet intervals! I hope the Yoga helps the soreness. It felt good to stretch. In any case, I'm having a Lasik enhancement tomorrow so I know I won't be working out tomorrow. Your vision tends to be loopy that first day. So my body can rest tomorrow while my vision is loopy!

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, June 20, 2004 - 9:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
6/20 -- nothing. It's too d*mn hot.

Best of luck with your enhancement tomorrow, Hermione.

Dahli
Member

11-27-2000

Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 9:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hmmmm, ok I'll try and remember...
6/21 60 minutes
40 min treadmill
20 min weights

6/22 60 minutes
40 min treadmill
20 min weights

6/23 50 minutes
40 min treadmill
10 min rebounding


Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, June 23, 2004 - 9:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Glad to be back on the boards. Here's my workout log since Monday:

Monday, 6/21 -- 90 minutes (60 minutes Power Core class, 30 minutes walk/run with my JRT)

Tuesday, 6/22 -- 60 minutes (Super Step class in the boiling heat -- I don't think I've EVER sweated so much!)

Wednesday, 6/23 -- 60 minutes (weights/resistance with trainer -- it's cooler today so it was easier :-))

Denecee
Member

09-05-2002

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 9:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
6/21: walked 135 min, biked 30 min, weights 10 min
6/22: waked 45 min
6/23: walked 90 min, biked 30 min, weights 10 min

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 1:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
6/21: 90 minutes, walk, resistance/weights, abs, stretches

6/22: 40 minutes, walk

6/23: 160 minutes, walk, weights/resistance, abs, stretches, yoga class

I'm glad it's getting cooler, Yankee. I can't do as much in the heat, it just melts away my energy.

I hope you're doing well post-lasik enhancement, Herm
.

Hermione69
Member

07-24-2002

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 4:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i'll do last week's chart tomorrow, guys.

the surgery went well, mak. i wasn't allowed to work out for the first 3 days following it.

however, today is day 4 and i am just in a very dark mood. can't seem to get motivated. can't seem to care. hard to believe i woke up in a good mood this morning. i'm very sad inside right now. not sure what's going on. oh well. i have about 60 minutes to get my butt to the treadmill before the gym closes. don't know if i'm gonna do it.

well, sorry for being such a downer. bleck. tomorrow is another day.


Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 4:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
{{{Hermi}}}, I hope the black cloud lifts tomorrow. If not, we'll all huff and puff and blow in your direction. Glad the surgery went well!

6/24: 50 minutes, walk, abs, stretches

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 5:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
{{{HUGS}}} Hermi, I'm grabbing the chain with Mak in helping to pull you too! I know there are always dark clouds following, its looking for the rainbows that get me thru - may you find your rainbow!

Mon - 45min Curve
Tues - 3 mile walk
Wed - 45 min Curve
Thurs - wimpy workout (app 20 min not very motivated)


Hermione69
Member

07-24-2002

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 7:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
THANK GOD for you guys. Just looking over your workouts from the past few days motivated me to get up off my butt and go treadmill. I feel a little better.

For the most part, I try to put on a happy face for the boards, but the truth is I am fighting a depression, have been for almost two months now. I know how much exercise helps. I don't want to think about where I would be if I didn't have you guys keeping me moving. I know it has helped me immeasurably.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE IN THE WORKOUT THREAD!


6/24 - treadmill - 85 minutes; Yoga- 35 minutes; total 120 minutes.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Thursday, June 24, 2004 - 8:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
and I thought it was just me!!

I mean really - I like it when people realize its all abou t ME!!! Its really so rare that we are selfish, and every now and then, its a good thing that it is!! GO FOR IT - - be selfish dear hermi!!

Putting on a happy face can be a good thing, as long as you recognize the depression, and move from that point, trying to change, help yourself.. but dont forget YOU!!

and I have no idea about exercise having benifits, cause I just hate it, i'm tired, I'm lonely, I feel sore, (not pain mind you!) I know poeple get endorphins that supposedly work, but I just dont get them!!

I dont want to be a whiner, or dont want to 'burden' others, but i need something, dont know what it is, but I am using the boards and hoping that will help me (remember I said it was all about me!! BUT if you want you can do the same thing!! *grin) (what was it nungas? that's what i hate the most my nungas are too big for this exercise crap!)