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Treadmill Time!
I had a decent day at the sweat box this morning. I ate crap last night and too much of it, so it affected how I felt this morning. There were very few running stints given to me by the program I set. I told you that T33 and I were bonding. She totally recognized my 'this isn't gonna happen' stride and adapted. Instead, I bumped the program level up a few notches throughout the hour so that I could get something extra out of it without it being too much for me. 65 minutes, 3.55 miles, 371 calories. The few running intervals I had were between 6.0-7.0 mph (4 total, including the minute I used of the cool down for one) and I started at level 3 and wound up at level 7. I didn't sweat as much today. Less sudden force effort, so that makes sense, but I didn't realize that when I don't sweat as much I always have to pee. Before I'm done. So the last 10 minutes were a battle between my organs and bits, because I was not stopping early for a potty break. Not gonna happen. Due to my medical history, these kind of battles can be tricky. When my kidneys and bladder say jump, I'm usually in the air asking how high, but today I got everything done that needed to be done in a timely manner and without shorting myself or springing a leak. I consider that a success! |
It was another quiet day at the gym for me. I did 60 minutes on the Stair Master (45/50 intervals), followed by a combined 30 minutes of core strengthening exercises and stretching.
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I want a Stair Master soooo bad. I had one at the Y in WA but I would have to pay for one of the high end gyms around here to get use of one. I could do stairs in my hallways but they are more metal and less rubber and I'm a bit klutzy. Bad combination.
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GOAL!!!
I think I will be moving my body more. I picked up one of those Nike FUEL bracelets today. Not the newest generation, an older one that they still sell at the Nike Outlet near us.
Today was my first day and the dog found himself with an additional walk so that I would meet my goal for the day. The bummer is that I only have an iPhone3 and I need a 4 or above to track it on my phone. I can check my progress on the computer, though. I doubt I will be able to reach this goal during the work week, though. I work in an office, with no real walking going on there. I would have to walk the dog for about a hour each night to reach this goal. We'll see what happens tomorrow. I go in late on Mondays, and I have been trying to get dog walk in before work. I am not sure how well this thing tracks on an eliptical. I know that on a stationary bike where there is no arm movement it looks as though you have done nothing. I mainly bought the bracelet for all the hiking/trail walking we do in the summers. I never now how far I walk and how much I burn in calories. But, now that I have worn this bracelet all day and saw the little flashing "GOAL" sign this evening, I want it to happen every day! God, I'm like a kid <eyeroll> |
This morning I did my rubber band torture early and then went for a really nice three-mile walk on the beach. I still have to do my balancing act this evening.
Is it just me that thinks having something track your walking and other leg based exercises by only measuring your arm swing is a little strange? Hmm… Hey Dapper, if you're still on an iPhone 3 you must of had your contract long enough now you should be able to get the 4s for free. Gemme, you can haul in my groceries anytime *third floor walk up*. :theisland: |
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Tunes are ready, heading out for my morning run and I'm considering stopping in for an early morning yoga session. Perhaps it will unlock some hidden intellectual power to help me study today. A girl can hope.
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It was a good day for me. I went to the gym and found the fans on a speed faster than slow, so that was exciting. I did my usual hour, playing with running intervals and incline. I did running intervals the first half and then turned up the incline for the second half.
65 minutes, 430 calories, 3.83 miles I like the random program because it's, well, random. Some days I get more incline and some days I get lots of running intervals. I started at level 3 and worked my way up to level 10. My running intervals were from 30 seconds to 1.5 minutes each and ranged from 6.0 to 7.0 mph. A fun bonus to my day was a sign I saw on my way out. My gym now has a vibrating massage booth thingy. I have a membership that allows me full use of it, so I tried it. Woo weee! Think of a curved triangle shaped standing tanning booth with pinkish-white bulbs and a vibrating rubber floor and music of my choice booming through the system. Supposedly, it helps to massage the muscles as well as the light helping with winter blahs and even helping to keep the skin clear if used regularly. Of course, there are skin care products that can be hawked with it too but my gym's so lazy, they never mentioned them. I read about the products on the poster inside the room. BUT I will say this. After a long workout, all of that vibrating did feel good and it changed in intensity, which was cool. I did feel happier when I got out but the tunes were awesome and would have pumped me up anyway. The light is SUPER bright so I teared up a bit (light sensitivity) but I do like that you can go in it fully clothed and not have to worry about anything. You can bring your own MP3 in there if you don't want to take a chance on their music. Next time, I'm trying the hydro massage table. I can lay down for that one. Sweet! |
I did an hour on the Stair Master (Intervals 45/50). Jill was next-door on the elliptical going at the speed of lightning. We exchanged eye contact, a smile and a "hey" nod. That was impressive.
Then I did a combined hour of weight lifting, planks, abs, and yoga. I did a very small "plank fart." I felt a tiny "air bubble" during said plank and decided to just go for it (to silently discharge it during the plank, in order to multi-task). Now that takes true technique given that the ass and whole body are so tight during a plank. Sorry for the over-share, but it's not always easy to think of something that distinguishes one gym day from the next, and ya gotta go with what ya got... |
Tough act to follow :blink:
Todays beach walk was against about a 40mph headwind. Yep, "resistance" exercise today. It had the beach almost empty and there was an old guy (my age?) out there hitting golf balls and looking pretty pleased about it. Did he really think it was his skill with that much tailwind? :theisland: |
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Since Saturday, I have hit my "fuel goal" every day but yesterday. But, that was TF's fault. Kidding, but not really. EDIT: I just looked back and read where I wrote that I doubted I could hit the Fuel goal during the week. I have been walking the dog for aobut 20 minutes in AM and 20 minutes in PM, at high pace. Wearing it during the day (pleased to see it can be hidden under my dress shirts), helps me hit the mark. I know I need to up the exercise, but I am glad that I am doing at least something at this point. Today I did 20 minutes this AM, 15 this evening, and then hit the eliptical for 15, so I am getting there. Something else interesting. I wear this bracelet at all times and it starts over at zero at 12:00AM. It is interesting to see that I only take about 13 "steps" in my sleep when I am sleeping by myself, but when I invite the dog into bed (last night), I walked 165 "steps". Will be interesting to see how many "steps" I take while next to TF this weekend. |
My god this is tempting,
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No, actually, I just respect TF too much. Dang, it's just laying there! :seeingstars: |
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I realized I meant to say 65 steps, not 165! |
Today is my first private Pilates class. I am really excited and looking forward to it.
Next on tap, joining the Y, just down the street, to supplement Pilates with pool/aqua exercises. Thanks for that tip Chancie! Hmm, no swimming smilie? :swimming: |
Of course, as soon as Dapper gets a tracker I have to see this article:
Lots of Health Apps Are Selling Your Data. Here's Why I like the part about city planning, insurance companies not so much. :blink: |
Today I did an hour on the Stair Master (45/50 intervals), followed by a combined hour of weight lifting, leg exercises, and yoga.
During the first hour I made a blunder with Jill's best friend, a butch-lesbian-looking, African-Amerian trainer at the gym. She stands at Jill's Stair Master and socializes with Jill from the floor. The blunder I made is an intricate story involving shady shenanigans on my part as usual. An elderly white man was on my favorite Stair Master that is nearest the plug in the floor that I like to use when I watch DVDs on my old school DVD player (Today I was forcing myself through the "Snapped" tv series.). So I had to get out my extension cord and secretly weave it through the bottom of his Stair Master in order to use that one open plug. I try and make it inconspicuous because I'm not supposed to be taking over the gym this way. You could say I'm somewhat of a menace, and you'd be right. If you'll recall last time I did this, I accidentally tripped Jill because the wire to the plug is like a trap the way I have it set up but it's the only place to do it. So I solved that original problem (after tripping a few other folks), by placing a small pink gym bag on top of the wire. It was an interesting experiment that I was able to watch from the Stair Master. Now no one trips because their eyes fall on the pink bag so they step around or over; whereas before the wire did not stand out enough by itself to draw the eye and prevent a stumble. Sooo... today Jill's best friend came by and said to the elderly man, "Whose bag is this?" He said, "I don't know. It's been there a long time." So the trainer picked up the bag to take to the lost and found. All of a sudden, I realized what was happening and said, "I'm sorry, that's my bag!" Then I tried quickly to get off the machine to take away the offending bag, at which point, out of my rhythm, I knocked my elbow against the old school (very sturdy, never breaks) DVD player, and it went flying through the air crashing to the ground beneath the Stair Master. The trainer said, "Are you okay?" I said, "Yes, I just dropped something." She looked at me like I was crazy (I am), and I looked back at her and said, "It's just one of those moments..." She looked at me like I was acting even crazier (I was.). Things were very awkward, and I gathered all my trouble-making stuff and left for the weight lifting area posthaste. Jill was not there at that time. I was lifting weights, and there was poor air circulation in the gym (stuffy and hot). It was pretty empty in the gym and warm outside with an impending thunderstorm. Through the windows I could see that it was growing slowly but progressively more ominous and dark outside. A sense of doom began to overtake me. Especially after that mess I made at the Stair Master, I started to feel like I was too weird and alone in the world. What does it say when even Jill is not at the gym? Then staring into the mirrored wall ahead of me, I saw a reflection of Jill walking in her strange, muscular bow-legged swagger towards her preferred elliptical, and I breathed a sigh of relief. All felt normal again. |
I had to force myself to go to the gym today, though it was the perfect day for it. A holiday plus beautiful weather makes for a near empty gym. My favorite kind!
I decided to use a different program today. I used the personal trainer option, which allowed me to set my caloric goal for the workout but it was less helpful than I hoped. All it did was literally kick into cool down as soon as I hit my goal of 300 calories. I did play with incline and some running intervals, as I tend to do. In the end, my stats are: 322 calories, 2.79 miles, 49:13 minutes. |
My day
My exercise experience today was less than optimal. I cooked, cleaned my entire first floor of my house, prepared one flower bed for flowers this week and cleaned the porch. Other than that handful of calories burned I took a nice risk walk this am. You are all inspirational to me. If only my back would cooperate maybe I would get more accomplished in my days.
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Because of my knee issues I am on a lite work out plan that means I can do what ever dosn't cause me to use my left leg in any way.So I have gotten invnative but it still isn't what I would like to be doing.What I miss is doing abb work cause that is my biggest problem,today I found this gizzmo in a catalog that should work for the abb work I have been missing,I may be blowing $$ down the drain but I gotta try and see how it works out.I am also on metformin for the last month,it has really done a good job of keeping my sugar down to a way better count...I also have lost 7 pounds sense I have been taking it med.The doc said it may help me lose weight but I didn't expect it to do this much,I sure hope it contenues I am liking the smaller numbers on the scale.It has been a long time sense I saw 253.
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I ran a very snowy five miles this morning. I'm feeling pretty ready for the Bolder Boulder race that's coming up on Memorial day, it's nice to be back at full pace a year after tearing my ACL.
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Well, I planned to go for a half hour after work but I wound up working harder at work than I anticipated and decided enough was enough. Too pooped to pot tonight.
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Walked 2 3/4 miles
10 flights of stairs Finding it really hard to get back... |
I'd love to say I did anything worthwhile today. Sadly I did not.
We are having a hot snap of weather so my game plan is to hit the beach early tomorrow morning before it's too warm and also beating the tide. I may have car washing on the agenda as well, it's so dirty I'm embarrassed to drive it and have been afoot for four days. :theisland: |
I tended the big garden , grilled dinner, collected eggs, did dishes...watered all the critters and chased a crazy guinea bird for a half hour.
considering I've been having great difficulties with walking due to back pain, especially on the uneven ground of the farm...this was a good active day |
Mission accomplished. :cheesy:
I was on the beach by 7 and it was beautiful, sunny and already 65°, I did my basic 3 miles and tacked on 1 more mile barefoot in the softest sand to exercise my feet. Also got the car washed in my neighbors driveway and put it back right where it had been having driven a grand total of 1/2 block. I have switched to doing the bulk of my PT at the beach where it actually gets done. I've been slacking and even though I've been told what I'm doing won't help, I still think it is a good idea on principal. For whatever reason I am just a lot better at getting my exercise done outdoors. Even if I do look rather foolish with some of it. I am thankful I have a good outdoor spot to use. :theisland: |
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File under "careful what you wish for", the normal high for this day is 67°. Right now is 92° and rising. Tomorrow is supposed to be warmer. I had better get out early again. What air conditioning?? This doesn't happen here. :tanning: |
I loved when I got to do some of my exercises on the beach last summer's vacation and use the sand as my "mat." It was really the best times of the trip for me. I'm looking forward to it again for our week this August. For this summer's vacation I went in with family members and a friend on a house in Fire Island that has it's own little pool. We've never done that before, and I'm excited about it.:hk21:
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I was scheduled to go back to Pilates tomorrow and am very bummed I have to cancel. I am having quite a bit of discomfort in my neck and across my scapula after getting rear-ended yesterday.
I will give it another day or so, just to make sure everything is ok. I miss Pilates already. It was a crazy contradiction of very hard but very easy at the same time. I didn't feel any discomfort until the next day and that was strictly in my abdominals and inner thighs. I want to jump back on the reformer as soon as I possibly can. |
Early morning workout today. I'm a bit under the weather, so I opted for a long, steady workout. Nothing too drastic and no running, interval or not. Turtle, not hare.
I used the hill program and started at level 3, increasing the level as I grew comfortable with the pace, until I was at level 14. Stats: 383 calories, 3.23 miles, 65 minutes |
Im fixin to go on an approximately 3 mile hike...theres some good uphill involved...and its a beautiful day. I question whether it even counts as exercise! :)
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Oy!!
Had PT appt this afternoon. The good news was an hour in AC during unseasonably (un-geographically) warm weather. The bad news was WOW! They gave me all new goodies to do in addition to the old. How many kinds of squats are there? Lots of the one legged variety apparently. So now I'm doing those with pole, furniture slides, foam roller, and rubber bands. All the little compensating tricks I have been using for the last several years have to be undone now. I tilt when I'm not supposed to, and have to learn how to stick out this or that body part in what feels like totally unnatural ways. :seconddoh: Other than that, 3 miles on the beach this morning with the old PT and some dips and push-ups on the pylons for good measure. :theisland: |
After work, I walked part way home (over 100 blocks) for 2.5 hours by the river. I had prepared for a colder temperature with what I was wearing (long sleeves, long pants) and ended up feeling clammy. It was foggy with no sun. The fog can be pretty on the water with all the sailboats, and the sea air and smell of being by the river is nice. An ocean and sand instead of concrete would be much nicer, but I'll take what I can get.
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Something I like about the beach I go to is that it is a "workingmans" beach, at least that is how I think of it. It isn't fancy and neither are the people, not at all what comes to mind when saying "California beach". It's on San Francisco Bay, not the coast, so it is rather like a really big lake that has tides. No fancy people or pristine sands. During the week it is just folks like me going to do exercise or stopping for lunch. Birds, seaweed, and coarser sand. On the weekend it's common to see personal trainers bring out small groups for boot camp type classes and there a three volleyball nets in pretty much constant use with regulars, kind of reminiscent of bowling leagues. Lots of families bring their kids but there are all types of cultures and lifestyles also, quite a few gays too. This time of year the schools come out quite a bit with athletics like track coming out for sand training and all the biology classes spend a few days out when the kids get antsy for the end of school. I used to get a bit self-conscience when I started there but with other folks doing everything from yoga and morning prayers to a couple of guys that bring their kettle balls in wheelbarrows, I may not be the oddest one. :theisland: |
I am still doing the easy workouts but doing them twice a day,I weighed yesterday at 254.
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I got in a quick 30~40 minute hike before work. The sky was looking ominous so I figured it would be my only opportunity :)
its the same trail I was broken down at. I only got to go so far...today I went a lil further...now I want to spend a day perusing there. Maybe tomorrow after work :) |
I’m officially dubbing the new workout “Pain in the Ass” because it really is.
All my glutes are pretty much on fire but I really enjoyed doing it on the beach. Of course the inevitable happened, one of my park ranger buddies snuck up behind me and started laughing her head off at what I was doing, in addition to the group of 5 elderly Chinese walkers (who I smile and wave with all the time) who literally stopped, gathered around me, and had some sort of conversation about it pointing and snickering. Hey, they do goofy looking tai chi things too! I had paced off about 30ft and drawn lines in the sand to mark it and then while in a half squat position with my knees tied together with the rubber band from hell go back and forth side stepping in 8in steps. I looks even worse than it sounds. Combined with other tricks like “Cowboy” (bowlegged) walking and touch squats on a pier I put on quite the show. Even though functionally crippled from this+ I did manage a couple of wobbly miles of regular walking and then a half mile of barefoot to finish out. Combined with some calithetics I’m now saying "Aww f*ck!" whenever I try to stand up and I still have a couple more things to do this evening that I can’t do at the beach just yet because I need a mirror. :blink: Okay, I’m a wimp. :theisland: |
Today I did 30 minutes on the Stair Master (45/50 intervals). I encountered no problems. What a relief.
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I went back to the earlier hiking spot...just to take a lookieloo...scout out a future hike... but.... once I got started....I wanted to see over "one more" hill....around "one more" curve...so... a look turned into a trek...during which I got....ahem...misplaced...geographically....but I hiked a good 3 hours....and it was 99% fantabulous :) |
Couldn't sleep. Got up and jumped rope for 24 minutes.
Front planks: 57 sec. hold Right side plank: 46 sec. hold Left side plank: 40 sec. hold Might as well have coffee. I couldn't be more wired. :| |
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