Typically, I try to work out 5-6 or so times a week with weights thrown in 3 of those times. It just ain't happening. I have lost my drive. It is hard when there is only so much time in a day to give 2 hours to the gym.

So, my plan is on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays (possibly Sunday), I will do one hour of cardio. On Tuesdays, Thursday, and Saturdays, I will do an hour of weights.

The above I think I will follow through with.

Anyway, today I did a hour of cardio and did only 45 minutes of weights yesterday.


You know what Kelt? If you were a femme I would so be in love. Concours events and retirement talk. Hot. :drool:

Today I did 60 minutes on the Arc Trainer (similar to elliptical), Interval program. I watched Dr. Oz and his tai chi expert talk about and demo tai chi. Here is some of what I learned:

1) Tai chi is super popular in China, and if you go outside in the morning everyone's doin' it.

2) Tai chi massages the inner organs.

3) Tai chi has been clinically proven to boost the immune system.


Pretty cool. Here a little handy dandy summary of tai chi:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/tai-chi/SA00087

After that I did a half hour of yoga, stretching, abs, and weight lifting, while looking up and watching CNN now and then on the T.V. Sometimes it's impossible to get away from televisions at gyms!

Kelt, your plan sounds great to me. I love outdoor swimming! There is nothing more fun to me. It's a hundred times nicer than indoors for those of us who love the sun and outdoors! That was such a smart idea to separate the gym and the pool. Great call. I also travel a long distance to my gym, even though there is a gym every block in my own neighborhood. It's completely worth it to me, after having tried out just about every gym and pool in NYC.

Daktari, I usually always rally during a work-out unless I am getting a cold. Usually even if I'm tired from lack of sleep, the gym pumps energy into me, particularly by lifting weights. Sometimes I go to the gym on several nights of not enough sleep and can't really enjoy the work-out the way I normally would. I call that (in my head) a "struggle" work-out, and I say to myself, "Maybe this awful feeling will remind you to prioritize your sleep next time." It's the boot camp coach in my head :D. However, it's extremely rare that I am too tired for a long work-out unless I can relate it back to lack of sleep or am getting sick. When it happens without either of these factors (maybe once or twice a year), I just listen to my body and go home!

I knew you'd go for dirty talk. :tease:
A bromance built in car heaven, yes, Saturdays are made for detailing.

I also know why that shift console trim piece had to be leather. *wink*

note to Daktari
 

Yes, like you, I sometimes feel I suffer from lack of energy. I think I push myself working outside on weekends that by the end of the day (7-9 p.m.) on SAT and SUN, I am about to flop. I went into work exhausted this morning sort of hobbling around. Then after work, I went out on the back patio and worked on a 5 tier wooden storage shelf until 9:25p.m. Also created a man-pooch-cave under lowest tier for Kevin. Kelly, my female bully, is sometimes selfish with the fort I built for them and won't let him come in. Now he will have his own space when she acts out. I am puttting a two inch wooden platform down for him so he won't be on the concrete. Kevin seems pretty excited about it. It's not finished and he keeps going in it. I have to make him get back, afraid I'll drop a board or drill on his head. I think he will like it.

I'm rambling .... sorry!

Ok, gang, I am feeling like I am back on the pony (*cough* Gemme).

Three days in a row. Today, according to above plan I only had to do weights today. I decided to do 45min of cardio, too. It feels good to see it as more of an "add on", so that I wouldn't feel crappy if I didn't do it. Hell, whatever works, right?

60 min (otherwise known as an hour) Arc Trainer, interval program, level 7, while watching... hmm, this and that.
then 30 min weights, yoga, abs, stretching

Devilish (or not) thing I did while at the gym: went behind the desk, reached in the "remotes" drawer and muted the t.v. near where I planned to do yoga. very satisfying!

Yes... I can do it !!
 

Very briefly test drove the ankle on the beach this morning. Very soft and slow, stayed close to where I could exit. The very first twinge and I was out. Maybe 3/4 mile tops.

I was proud of myself for quitting! Normally I would just overdo and make worse. I must be getting old or something. But it went well.

:theisland:

I did the treadmill for the first time yesterday. Killed my arch. Which I knew it would, which is why I use the elipitical. Haven't been on a treadmill in eons because walking on them (or very, very fast walking on the ground), creates great arch pain. I have known for years I should go see a podiatrist and look at getting those inserts, but the cost is ridiculous (or at least it used to be). I think my issue is flat feet...meaning, I have little arch.

Ideas? I remember seeing something at some pharmacy of a thing you step on to determine what inserts you need. Maybe I will try that first? Otherwise, I should look into a running store like Gemme, maybe?

Advice, please, my friends! It would be nice to have the option to do the treadmill.

Geez you are becoming a slacker! Only 60 minutes of cardio? :winky:

My gym (if you can call it that), has a not so efficient approach to audio. There are 3 TVs. Two you can change the stations on. Meanwhile there is an overhead speaker system that sometimes has a radio station on. There are never any staff there (well, maybe during the work day, I dunno....again, remember peeps my gym is at my job...a medical hospital), so I have no idea how to turn the damn thing off, which I would like to do so I can hear/watch SVU or something to pass the time (they only have like 15 stations we can choose from, and an hour show makes it easy).

Perhaps I need to figure out how to work that ipod I bought eons ago, but never used. :blush:

As an aside, since Sunday I have noticed more people are coming to the gym. I believe that I have told you all that it is usually deserted. I am not sure how I feel about the increase in people. It is such a small space and there is hardly any room to move around between machines.

I have to be somewhere right after work today. I need to commit to using my eliptical at home tonight.

Have a great day, my "moving our bodies for health", people!

Sounds like the beginning stages of plantar fascia. Is the arch area tender when you first get out of bed? For the first 6-8 steps? Not to be messed with, I spent 6 years and thousands of dollars on this by ignoring it. I'm no Dr but you need to figure out what this is.

Flat feet or high arches, it doesn't matter, anyone can get it. We weaken the support muscles by walking on flat hard surfaces with poor support. It is very common in people over 40.

Get some good 4 way arch supports, the step on quasi-custom might be a good place to start. Make sure it is a hard molded support, not cushioned, you can add some cushion over it if needed.

I would stay off anything that aggravates this until you know what is going on. Good shoes and good support are worth every penny. (And you know I'm a cheapskate :))

I'm off to do another tiny walk and then this afternoon my first swim lesson.

If I don't come back it means I drowned. :blink:

Looks like we have a whole bunch of foot gimpy's in here!

I survived my swim lesson :cheesy: I learned to get in and out of the pool, walk, sort of back float, kick on the side of the pool and starting kickboard. That was 45 mins (supposed to be 30) and then I stayed another 45 on my own to practice.

I stand in complete awe of Jennifer. On the drive home I wanted a nap right then and there. Or a banana. Both actually. I is tuckered.

My tiny beach walk this morning went for 1 mile without twingeing (sp?), but I took the exit anyway to be prudent and save some for the pool. It went well.

This ankle business has me thinking. I figured out the what, so I have been thinking about the how/why. It's possible I am guilty of over tightening my shoelaces. That is something that can cause this problem. About three weeks ago my (4 month old) old shoes developed an issue that had me sending them back for an exchange. Thank you Zappos. Having brand new ones I was cinching them down good and tight.

I think I may try something. Since I will be starting at a gym soon and will need shoes for that, I think I will try to de-sand these since they are practically new and repurpose them to gym shoes. Then for the beach, these same shoes are available in a mid-high; I will get those for the beach for the added ankle support since I now have a weak link. I know these are great shoes out there, it is my 3rd pair in 3 years. The sand kills regular cross trainers at a rate of about 1 a month so I use a 'light hiker' which is just a beefed up cross trainer with a vibram sole that can take it. They are also a brand that I can 'gut' and put in my own custom inserts and light pads.

Okay, what is 'Frenching weights'? It sounds nasty. :seeingstars:

over an hour at the resort gym (i have to combat the eating!)

30 mins elliptical

30 mins bike


15 upper body stuff

Okay, I have been waiting for the air to cool down
a little so I can go out and walk for 45 Minutes.
At 11:20pm it is still over 90 degrees!
I can't do it...
I will either drop of heat exhaustion or get mugged.

I am so bummed to miss (at least) a day, due to the heat wave.

Today was similar to yesterday.

Tiny walk on the beach around 1 mile, all good, being careful.

Went to the pool by myself and did reasonably well. Considering it was only my second time in a pool. The lanes here run side to side instead of the long way so I took the shallow lane next to the shallow open area for rec swim. It was 4'6" all the way across so my head and top of shoulders would be out when I was standing. I got a kickboard and started to practice. Push off wall, arms stretched out, kick like mad. Coast as far as the push off sent me and then, still kicking furiously, go no where. Stall. Again. Again. Again. Watching the lane divider to check myself. Yep, total stall every time. Checked having a lifeguard watch me. Kept going past the stall point, kicking hard.

Backwards. Yes folks, it's possible.

Have next lesson scheduled for Saturday morning. May need to check style. The good news is that I didn't let it discourage me. I decided to just feel good about showing up and getting in. I was clearly exercising, huffing and puffing, woop-ass workout. I concentrated on what I could during my little glide-kicks and focused on keeping my chin in the water. (Perilously close to my not-clipped nose.) I was feeling pretty brave about that. The coach had told me to hum if I though I would inhale through my nose and it works.

So, I kicked and hummed, kicked and hummed, the width of the pool (20yds) about 25 times. I kind of lost count, but that is close. They say 36 times is a mile. It took me an hour and twenty minutes and that included two times stopping to practice back 'float' for a couple of minutes.

I are, in the vernacular of Daktari, "knackered". I did remember to take a banana and afterwards grabbed a chaise near the deep lanes and sat in the sun to watch the good swimmers do their thing. I can learn a lot from watching these folks. I can't wait to get some skills and get to do some of those things.

The areas around my shoulders and the middle top of my back are really sore from yesterday as well as my triceps and forearms. I'm thinking it might be from the death grip I had on everything yesterday. I worked on loosening up a bit today and I think it went alright. I'll know more in the morning.

:theisland:

I thought I'd get up early, order a healthy smoothie and fruit platter and THEN work out. And so I did! I usually don't work out in the morning, but it felt really good, and I must remember to consider this AM option when I return home from vacation.

30 mins elliptical

15 mins recumbent bike w/small hand weight exercises as I pedalled

...now off to snorkel...does that count as exercise? :)

I wrote this fantastically long post this morning, but needed to wait to finish after work. It is now gone. Short version:

1) Gemme - I french the weights. There was something else I said to you, but I don't remember

2) Since I have been doing the "you don't have to do cardio on weight days", I have been doing cardio on weight days

3) Kelt-awesome with the swimming! Thank you for the thought of plantar fasciitis. I see how you think that may be it, but it is not (had that over the winter). This has been an issue for me since I was about 23 years old and have avoided treadmills and speed walking on hard surfaces.

4) I love that everyone checks in most days. :-)

ETA: Oh, and I have been doing what I am supposed to be doing exercise wise! Staying on schedule!

I do cardio everyday even when I do the weights. usually I do the rowing machine and the elliptical, I do weights every other day, and then a reward myself with a nice long leisurely swim. today at the end of my workout, I found the pool closes early on Fridays. dammit! I feel like I worked out for nothing. I really look forward to that swim.

:(

It totally counts.

I prefer early morning workouts. Basically, when I can, I roll out of bed and tidy up, get ready, eat my banana (and peanut butter if I'm weight training) and I go. That way, I have the rest of the day.

Usually, if I wait until later, I either obsess about it or talk myself out of it....too hot/tired/long of a drive/etc.

Welcome to the morning gloriers!

You talk a lot sometimes. I don't remember what you said either.

:blink:

I think it's reverse psychology. If you don't 'have' to do something, you're more likely to willingly do it.

In other news, I took an off day since I mopped the Hell out of my climate controlled building this morning and ate a good lunch. No cheating!

Tomorrow morning, it'll be up 'n at 'em. I'm going to go back to my old shoes for the workout and try the treadmill to see if my legs are better or still effed up. If they are better, then I have to determine if it's because of a day off or the shoes.

Either way, it's likely that the new pair will be going back to exchange for the only other pair they had in stock that fit my super wide ducky over-pronating feet.

With my recent luck, that will generate a whole new slew of problems.

:seeingstars:

Yes, I know that weights/cardio is normal on same day. I found that there were days that I was skipping the gym because I wasn't looking forward to two hour gym trips. So, I told myself on weight days I didn't have to do cardio, in order to get my ass to go. My point was that even though I was no longer "requiring" myself to do it, I was still doing it (which pleases me).

I spoke about the above a couple of times earlier in the thread. I was providing an update to that.

ETA: Just read Gemme's post. Exactly, reverse psychology!

Weights...I lifted that stuff today ;)

Well today after walking all over the aquarium trying to keep up with or find out where ms cinn had run off too and after a huge less then impressive dinner she made us go out to purgatory chasm to climb up this steep ass rock formation.

Then had to go walking all over Wally world looking for a fan. I got a lot excersise running back to find her so we could leave there. They want $65 for a $20 fan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purgato...te_Reservation

LOL I totally forgot to mention the Chasm...purty place. I was thinking it would be a good spot for an informal get together for the New Englanders from here :)

Slacker morning at the gym today. About 40 minutes of triceps and biceps work.

Right now I am looking at all the events I wish I could afford to go to.
One of the ones on the top of my list: the Sedona Half Marathon.
http://www.sedonamarathon.com/

It looks absolutely beautiful.

So a friend of mine wants to do 60 half marathons in 2014 for her 60th birthday. I know it's doable. It's totally doable. I am soo tempted. Financially it's a lot but it is very doable.

Shot hoops for an hour then swam for 20 minutes. AWESOME workout!:cool:

Today was really light day. It sounds weird to even say that, I guess this business of slowing down and changing things around is taking hold.
I think that rotating activities and having to think about what I'm doing instead of just being on autopilot.

There was no swimming today due to Friday's having a little different schedule at the pool, and me having some other appointments to attend to this afternoon. I took a little bit longer walk this morning and it went pretty well. I did some little short pieces back-and-forth staying close to the exit. I made it 2.5 miles before the first tweak in the ankle. I was good and got off it right away.

Tomorrow will be upside down. I have my second swimming class in the morning, and then perhaps some walking on the beach in the afternoon depending upon how cooperative the tides are with me.

Just now a Zappos box turned up on my porch, it should have my new mid-high shoe/boots in it. I will test drive them tomorrow afternoon.

Dapper: Very glad you don't have PF. Now, what do you have? Great work on faking yourself out! :cheesy:

Gemme: I'm signing up for the morning gloriers (which also sounds vaguely nasty) Maybe it's just you. :blink:


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