Exercise! - Exercise Accountability -- May 2007

WoooHooooo a whole new month to beat the fat into submission! LOL!

Have Fun!!!:D

Hope it's okay that I started this thread.

A new month! I have exercised and the sun is shining. What could be better?

45 mins elliptical: (According to my new HRM, 430 cals)
20 mins upper body weights: (124 cals--*much* higher than the Nutridiary estimate for light weight training).

10 minutes warm up and stretching
10 minutes low impact Aerobic's
40 minutes High impact Step-Aerobic's
a few crunches.

Yay for May! hehehe.

75 min yoga class!

1 hr bike ride :ebike: 20k

Diva it's extremely OK that you started this thread... thank you :D

For me -
May 1st - 20 mins bike, 20 mins treadmill, 15 minutes arc trainer - all bumped up a level

May 2nd - aqua aerobics - 60 minutes

You're very welcome!!! My goodness you stay up late Ilene! I can barely make it til 11 pm on nights to watch my shows....LOL!

30 mins elliptical; 22 mins treadmill: (500 cals--hooray!)
15 mins legs (55 cals--boo!)

Walked 2 miles up and down hills. I thought I was gonna die! LOL!

Walked 2 miles up and down hills. I thought I was gonna die! LOL!

Yes, but just think how cute your butt is going to look :)

Hehe! As long as this bad boy get's a good lifting, I am happy! I secretly long for the J-lo booty! :D if only walking gave us a booby lifting too, I'd be good to go!...sigh...

Ran 3 miles on treadmill = 29:41 minutes

15 min incline treadmill
20 min UB weights
30 min elliptical

Diva, hills are killer, but after doing the hill interval workout on the treadmill i can honestly say my behind has lifted.... of course, it's still spanned FAR too wide but that's another story. :lol: point is, hard work pays off! Good for you!

After ages of not doing as I should....

About 1 mile walked yesterday, and 1.5 miles today.

Approx 55 mins treadmill (510 cal)
30 mins upper body. Learned some new exercises!

May 3rd - walking - 25 minutes, 10 minutes abs
May 5th - aqua aerobics - 60 minutes

About to head to gym for 60 min on the elliptical.

25 mins elliptical; 25 mins treadmill (460 cals)
30 mins legs, back, abs (130 cals)

40 minutes - chest weight training
40 minutes - ran 4.5 miles on treadmill

Today
57 minutes - biceps/triceps weight training
30 minutes - ran 3 miles

OK, so no exercise this weekend. There are a couple reasons for this, though. First, my house is a nightmare with all of the wedding gifts...to the point where I can't use my kitchen. No kitchen = poor food choices. Second, having a mess of a house ruins my routines and stresses me out. So I see this as a choice - one weekend with no exercise, where I buckle down, do my spring cleaning, and get my wedding stuff put away, or several weeks of being stressed out and having problems with my routine.

That being said, if you clean for 12 hours, re-organize, assemble furniture, box up old stuff, put away new stuff, etc...its hard work! Being that I've hardly sat down all day, I think I'm good.

Off to scrub the shower, then finish unpacking from the honeymoon and onto washing the kitchen/bathroom floors and neatening the pantry.

60 min strength training.

Good job, Amanda. Hope your house is all spic and span :)

Today: 5 mins elliptical; 26 mins treadmill. (300 cal). I had a stitch today and couldn't seem to power through it. I don't usually get a stitch and I'm not sure what I did to deserve one. So only 30 mins cardio :(

25 mins upper body strength training. (140 cal).

Today
40 minutes - Treadmill

Walked 2 miles today. I wanted to do more but I got very little sleep last night and have no energy. :(

Gods you ladies are really inspiring me to get moving. I enjoy working out but I had to stop in January due to major surgery. I am back at the gym, doing my eliptical for 40 minutes, 4x a week, but I just haven't felt motivated for weights. I'm getting back on them ASAP. Thanks!

Run to and from gym
back and biceps at gym
19k bike ride

Ilene. You are my hero. Your bike rides are legendary!

Illene. You are my hero. Your bike rides are legendary!*blushing*

60 min on the elliptical.

50 mins treadmill (455 cals)
20 mins legs (90 cals)

20 minutes - Pilates
40 minutes -Treadmill

60 elliptical

20k bike ride, 1 hour

Today was a bit of a bonus workout--I'm tired and sore and would have taken the day off but I had my body fat test and had to go to the gym anyway.

25 mins treadmill (stitch again!!!)
20 mins elliptical
15 mins upper body (pretty half-a$$ed, actually)

Today was a bit of a bonus workout--I'm tired and sore and would have taken the day off but I had my body fat test and had to go to the gym anyway. Do tell!! How was your body fat?

run to and from gym
chest and tricep workout
weather permitting, bike ride tonight

Do tell!! How was your body fat?

Ah, Ilene, I am a total narcissist: I started a thread reporting that information. (I can just imagine that everyone will be as fascinated by it as I am :) )

20 minutes - Pilates
40 minutes -Treadmill

bike ride done, 23k :D...

35 min elliptical, 25 min ub and abs, 20 min incline treadmill

60 elliptical.

1 hour run, 1 hour bike ride, back to back ...
Total Calories Burned: 948
:carrot:

20 minutes - Pilates
40 minutes -Treadmill

60 min elliptical

Ugghh...i've been out of town for work and haven't been able to get my excercise in like i wanted....oh well...it's a new day for me to start again!

Ran 5 miles yesterday :D

Hadn't used my resistance bands in forever so thought I'd break them out and see if they were still challenging. Oh boy were they - got to jazz up some of my old staples with added resistance, and once I got started, I just wanted to keep going. So I went 15 min over my lunch break for a 75 min session. I did the following (4 sets of 15x unless otherwise noted):

Bicep Curls
Lat Pulls
One arm rear flies - 12x per side
Overhead Presses
Squats - 12x
Butt Blasters (12x per side, 3 sets...they were HARD)
Rear Delt Flies
Tricep Extensions - 12x
Leg Raise Crunches w/ band

And without the band...
Lower Ab/Inner Thigh Ball Squeezes
Bicycle Crunches

I was low on energy at the gym today. Don't know why. Still getting stitches when I try to run. Don't know why that is, either.

33 mins treadmill (300 cal)
25 mins legs, abs, lower back (115)

20 minutes - Pilates
40 minutes -Treadmill

Can't wait for my fitness game to come in the mail next week. I'm getting a little bored of the treadmill being the main source of my exercise.

60 elliptical and feeling like a POWERHOUSE today. But I broke my shoe :-( Off to sports authority I go.

Walked 2 miles today up & down hills.

20 minutes treadmill
15 mins elliptical
300 cals

I'm still having problems with stitches while I'm running. I've had one every day this week! Anyone have any clue how to prevent them? It's really beginning to interfere with my workouts.

Yesterday
20 minutes - Pilates

Today
REST!

No gym for me today, but I did take my dog for a lovely 70 minute walk.

(No one has any wisdom about the stitches?)

Yesterday:

60 min weight training
Ran 4.5 miles - 45 minutes

Baffled -- Here's an article The Side Stitch (http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/injuries/a/aa053100a.htm) , hope it helps ...

Yesterday and Friday -- Rest

Today -- 5.75k run
23k bike ride

Saturday - rest/housecleaning
Sunday - 2 hrs gardening

I walked 4 miles up and down hills carry a backpack.
Then I swam laps for an hour. I was told 36 laps (across and back =1) is a mile.... So I guess I am going to say I did 5 miles today.... I am sooooo sore...

Question: Is swimming good for our tummy muscles too? They feel like they've been worked, so I am wondering if I should skip the crunches today?

Swimming works *all* the muscles. It's great exercise. And of course it works your abs as well.

I haven't gotten to the gym yet--I'm going in about an hour--but I'm going to burn 350 cals on the treadmill and then do my arms, back and shoulders.

As promised:
39 mins treadmill (350 cals)
25 mins upper body (125 cals)

2 mile/45 min walk, am going to do some arms with resistance bands and some crunches.

3.75 miles on the treadmill (3 running; .75 walking = 47 min)

10 min stairclimber, 50 min elliptical.

20 minutes - Pilates
40 minutes -Treadmill

It may be too late to post to this thread...

1 circuit beginner fluidity bar today!;)

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Sunspell - it is NEVER too late! Welcome!

50 min cardio (20 stairclimber, 30 elliptical)
50 min UB/abs (with a few squats thrown in)

:welcome: sunspell :wave:

A very good workout today!

34 mins treadmill (300 cals). I ran MUCH longer than I usually do today and did less walking. I actually managed a 7 minute stint at 6.5! Hooray! (I'm a 2-pack a day smoker, and I usually run out of lung power pretty quickly.)

25 mins legs, abs, lower back (144 cals).

While I was doing the leg press today, one of the trainers (who often helps me out and gives me advice) came up and added 25lb to the machine. I managed to finish all my sets with the extra weight, but, my lord! My legs feel as though they are made of jelly! I think I'm going to have trouble walking later :)

Planned rest day - tonight is girls night.

Yesterday
40 mins - Treadmill

Today
46 mins - WATP 3 Mile Walk
10 mins - Kickboxing

45 min step aerobics class and 60 min bodysculpting class

1 hour Step Aerobics.

33 mins treadmill (300 cals)
30 mins upper body (177 cals)

I upped all my weights today! I'm gettin' muscles :)

hi baffled; i'm here! thanks; i didn't know you guys had something like this! :D

Welcome, Dc! Now, get to exercising!

im there! I already met my weekly goal of 215 minutes, so now I'm geared up for the next week!

40 mins - Treadmill

45 min run...felt good to get out and do something different!

44 mins treadmill (400 cals).
Taking a break from lifting today because I'm anticipating a very busy night of waitressing and will need my legs to be working properly.

New Milestone: I ran a mile today! Without changing speed at all--I stayed at 6.5 the entire time. I've never run a mile before. Yay me! :)

40 mins - Treadmill

New workout dvds coming soon. Last time I'll have to force myself to use the treadmill, I hope!

50 min LB/abs focused (with a little arm thrown in) strength training

3 mile run

60 hardcore minutes on the elliptical

2.9 mile run

Had a great 9.15k run this morning only the second one this week and it felt awesome... After my run I hopped on my bike and did 17k... It's going to be a good day :sunny:

Rest day - but I'm going fishing tonight, and that always works my arms.

Rest day for me, too. But I took my dog on a 30 minute walk and bought a bike at a yard sale along the way! I haven't owned a bike since I was a kid. Very exciting! I'm waitressing tonight--that always burns a few calories.

20 minute hike.

20 / 300

Hey Strong Ones! :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2:

30 min walk
30 min swim

Jay

40 mins - Pilates

4 mile run
30 min resistance band workout
60 min yoga

Lots of stuff today! :)

60 min in the pool. Love It!

31k bike ride, about 1hour 45 mins...

33 mins treadmill (300 cals)
25 mins legs (150 cals)

mind if I join?

15 minutes elliptical, 25 mins upper/lower/abs resistance circuit, then 15 more minutes on the elliptical

9k run this morning
20k bike ride this afternoon

:welcome: peaceful :D ...

Welcome peaceful!

45 minutes - Yourself! Fitness Cardio Workout

First time using this and I love it. Really felt like I got a workout.

3 mile run (32 min) and 40 min elliptical

16 mins elliptical
17 mins treadmill
(300)
30 mins upper body

My new favourite thing is the "Heart Rate Control" setting on the treadmill. I just set it for 155 and the thing adjusts its speed and incline to keep my heart rate up. Nice!

20 min of walking today, for a total of 115 /300 this week. :carrot:

3.25 mile treadmill run and 20 min recumbent bike

45 minutes - Yourself! Fitness Cardio Workout
30 minutes - Strength Training

60 on elliptical.

Does coughing up ones lungs count as exercise? LOL! Hopefully I can get back on the exercise track next week, the Wonderful dude of my life passed on some sort of flu-like bug, isn't he sweet? sigh....

20 min walk last night

20 min walk this morning

15 min walk this afternoon.

190/300

I might still decide to go to the gym today, but I wanted to try something different--riding my new bike! I managed 30 minutes before my dog looked like she was about to collapse into a big, slobbery heap, so I only burned 191 cals (and only half of those 'in zone').

I feel absolutely terrible now though--I got home and my dog's feet are completely torn up and bloody. I am a horrible, horrible dog owner. I thought that bike riding was a form of exercise I could do with her, but I have INJURED her. Now I know, I guess....

-Walked this morning--30 minutes
-30 minutes cross-trainer at gym
-upper body weights workout at gym

C'mon gals! Workit workit! :coach:

Jay

45 minutes - Yourself! Fitness Cardio Workout

Oh no, baffled! Poor puppy, and poor you! I know you'll take great care of her, though, and she'll be fine in no time.

I skipped the gym yesterday, but cleaned out a closet and did a lot of lifting of heavy things.

30 minutes on the elliptical today (first time ever without a break after 15 minutes!) and 30 minutes in the sauna.

30 minutes in the sauna sounds like just the kind of exercise I need today* :) But congrats on the 30 minutes straight! That must feel fantastic!

We've bandaged up my dog's feet and she's sleeping it off a little bit. Poor thing was hobbling around like a broken race horse. I feel really terrible. 3 of her pads are almost completely ripped off. Ouch.

*My Y has a rigid class structure where only people who pay an extra $20 a month to use the special changing rooms get to use the sauna or whirlpool. Meanwhile, I'm at the gym 5 days a week with aching muscles and no way to relieve them... It's tragic, and, I suggest, unjust!

60 min bike ride, 23k...

25 min spinning
10 min elliptical

yesterday:
21 min spinning
10 min elliptical

45 min step aerobics class, followed by 60 min bodysculpting class

50 min elliptical.

1 hour run/jog/walk...

32 mins treadmill (300 cals).

Oh Heart Rate Monitor, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways...
I actually ran today for 30 straight minutes (lifetime record!) with the help of my HRM and the "Heart Rate Control" setting on the treadmill. It had me running the entire time, and, after the first few minutes, much more slowly than I usually run. I think keeping my heart rate steady at 155 enables me to do more intensive cardio overall than running for a few minutes and getting my HR above 160 and then walking for a few minutes and letting it drop to 140. And plus, I *ran* for 30 straight minutes!!! (Although I did drop to a walk a couple of times so that I could grab a quick slug from my water bottle.) Hooray! My HRM is the coolest toy ever. :)

So, my regular gym time today got interrupted by an unexpected invite to go out to dinner with family. No problem - figured I'd just go on my lunch. Well, lunch rolled around and an emergency meeting got scheduled...fine, but now i wouldn't have time to go all the way out to the gym, so I'd have to make do at the apartment gym...it has a stairclimber, again, no problem. Walk over there, and it is inexplicably locked...someone I guess locked it with a key, but management doesn't HAVE a key, so they are quite confused.

At this point, some inner part of me (we'll call her lazy fat amanda) started making noise like "well, this is a sign". Normally, I would have used today as my a rest day, but I'm donating blood tomorrow and don't always get out there in the morning before my appointment, so I wanted to reserve that for tomorrow if I needed it. So I went -back- to my apartment and did a couple of ondemand videos. Was it the most challenging cardio I've ever done? No. But it was 60 minutes and my heart was pumping, so I'm calling it a victory.

50 min cardio.

270 /300

wow, that's awesome! i think after the second snafu, I would have totally given up. good for you!

So, my regular gym time today got interrupted by an unexpected invite to go out to dinner with family. No problem - figured I'd just go on my lunch. Well, lunch rolled around and an emergency meeting got scheduled...fine, but now i wouldn't have time to go all the way out to the gym, so I'd have to make do at the apartment gym...it has a stairclimber, again, no problem. Walk over there, and it is inexplicably locked...someone I guess locked it with a key, but management doesn't HAVE a key, so they are quite confused.

At this point, some inner part of me (we'll call her lazy fat amanda) started making noise like "well, this is a sign". Normally, I would have used today as my a rest day, but I'm donating blood tomorrow and don't always get out there in the morning before my appointment, so I wanted to reserve that for tomorrow if I needed it. So I went -back- to my apartment and did a couple of ondemand videos. Was it the most challenging cardio I've ever done? No. But it was 60 minutes and my heart was pumping, so I'm calling it a victory.

45 minutes - Yourself! Fitness Cardio Workout
30 minutes - Strength Training

32 mins treadmill (300 cals).

Oh Heart Rate Monitor, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways...
I actually ran today for 30 straight minutes (lifetime record!) with the help of my HRM and the "Heart Rate Control" setting on the treadmill. It had me running the entire time, and, after the first few minutes, much more slowly than I usually run. I think keeping my heart rate steady at 155 enables me to do more intensive cardio overall than running for a few minutes and getting my HR above 160 and then walking for a few minutes and letting it drop to 140. And plus, I *ran* for 30 straight minutes!!! (Although I did drop to a walk a couple of times so that I could grab a quick slug from my water bottle.) Hooray! My HRM is the coolest toy ever. :)

Wow, that's great! Was thinking of getting a heart rate monitor.

Wow, that's great! Was thinking of getting a heart rate monitor.

I love mine. I originally got it because I like to measure my cardio by calories burned--I find that to be motivating. But I really love the fact that I have concrete evidence of my increasing fitness every time I get onto the treadmill. I can see that it takes me longer to get to my target zone, and I can see how much more quickly I recover from high-intensity exertion. I literally see an improvement in my fitness every single week. Love it! It was a great reward for reaching goal.

32 minutes elliptical (I'm working up to 60) followed by a nice 30 minutes in the sauna.

52 minutes - The Firm: Bootcamp

Had to get my exercise out of the way as I'm going away for the three day weekend.

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Have fun Canary :wave:

20k, 1 hour, bike ride
40 min UBWO

20 min yoga/weights, 20 min walk. DONE!

310/300

Grrr.

Only 40 min UB strength today, because I was supposed to donate blood. But then I got deferred for spending less than 6 hours in a city that I ASKED THEM ABOUT before I left for my honeymoon and they said would be fine. Then I called AGAIN and double checked when I got back so I wouldn't waste my time going in for an appointment if I was going to be deferred...nope, still fine. So I take my lunch hour, get my finger pricked, waste half an hour of my time (it could have been cardio!) only to be told that I am deferred from donating for a YEAR because of -one- stop on my cruise that I pre-cleared with them.

Well, if I was ever going to get a tattoo, this would be the time, as I'd always considered it but didn't do it because of the 1 year donation deferral.

I repeat, grrr. May have to take an extended lunch and do some form of cardio just to burn off the frustration.

30 minutes elliptical

45 mins treadmill. A very good run!

50 minute bike ride (374 cals)

yesterday -- 5 mile run and three shows on FitTv (90 min of yoga and strength training)

today: 4-mile Walk Away the Pounds DVD (it's been a while since I did that!) and a few yoga poses

Argh! Stymied!

Gym is closed today so I decided to take my new (used) bike on a 7 mile ride around the wheatfields. Alas, I got there and discovered that my bike has a flat tire and I had no clue how to fill it up with air. (No pump). So I'm back home now (and my bf tells me I could have taken the bike to a gas station to fill it with air...Duh!) with zero exercise to report.

I'm due a day off, but still...

Saturday - 40 mins Pilates

Today - 45 mins Yourself! Fitness Cardio Workout

I did LOTS of walking and gardening this weekend, more then I normally do. Managed to drop another pound! :D

Fishing yesterday. I do not know a better tricep exercise than all day fishing. I even switched my casting arm so both arms would get a workout. Not to mention the up the hill, down the hill, up the hill from the site where we were set up.

10 mins running on treadmill
Lower body workout
26 mins elliptical
About 500 calories total.

4 mile treadmill run

60 min of the firm today....

my monthly goal is met! now, I have to make the best of the weekly goal...

60/300

60 min run
60 min bike ride

45 minutes - Yourself! Fitness Cardio Workout
30 minutes - Strength Training

60 min elliptical

Rode my bike 1 mile
Did 20 minutes on the Fitness Ball

35 mins treadmill (320)
30 mins upper body

60 min total body strength training.

Later, 60 min elliptical or other cardio planned.

45 minutes - Yourself! Fitness Cardio Workout

30 min pilates. I am in a "keep on keeping on" mode today. Want to do 10 more minutes of -something- before I go to the gym. Time to explore the on-demand selections!

15 minute jog away the pounds video on on-demand.

60 min elliptical.

Today's Total - 2 hrs and 45 min. Holy heck.

And to close out my May exercise goal....60 min stairclimber.

3.6 mile run

45 minutes - Yourself! Fitness Cardio Workout
30 minutes - Strength Training