LA Weight Loss - Up Your Activity Level - what did you do today?

I need some exercise ideas / motivation and accountability – I don’t think I will ever get to goal if I don’t add some exercise regularly. And I don’t think I will ever maintain if I don’t make exercise part of my life. Right now I still eat on plan 5 out of 7 days, the other 2 days I’m not terribly bad, but most times don’t get all my food in. So if I’m not losing weight this way, I know I need to exercise. So my goal is to get everyone to post daily what activities they are doing for exercise and me as well – I want to keep this thread toward at the top of the list, so help me out!

Today I walked up 3 floors of escalator 2 times. I am going to the gym after work to do 30minutes on the ellipticalX 2.5 miles in 30 minutes, but will normally post a day behind just so that you guys will know for sure that I actually did it since I come with my gym bag everyday and leave with it just the same!

Julie, I plan on doing my 8 minute abs and 8 minute arms DVD tonight when I get home tonight, just for some toning which I've not been doing a lot of lately.

I have been to 4 1 hour spin classes in the last week.

I went to a park and walked for 25 minutes on my lunch.

I walked 1.5kms (about a mile) into work from the carpark and 1.5kms back to the car

After work I went to the gym and did 30 minutes running on the treadmill at 12.2km/hr (7.6mph) and then a Spin class.

Today I will do the usual walk into and out of work and then run 4kms to the gym - do my weights session (about an hour) and then run the 4kms home again.

:)

Walked my dog this AM and will again afterwork tonight! :dizzy:

Cecil - great idea about the X after each completed task!

What an eye opener, my 'workouts' seem really wimpy now! You guys rock!

Today I will do:
2 Gilad's shows
100 crunches DVD

I've been feeling so run down lately and the last thing in the world I wanted to do tonight was exercise...but I forced myself and it started feeling good! And I pushed myself to do 5 minutes more on the elliptical than I have been able to do so far....in just a few weeks I have doubled my time!

I'm impressed by all of these workouts! Way to go! I usually need to fit my workouts into 30 minutes first thing in the morning, so this morning I did my Easy Steps tape.

Ok - this is exactly what I normally do - big plans, but no action. I didn't get to do my 2 shows yesterday, or my 100 abs workout. Time got away from me... So what I did was I took my walking shoes to soccer practice with my son. I have a really hard time walking while he's practicing because the 2 little ones are just pains in the butt! I thought I had the perfect solution, I had them take their Nintendo's and they seemed content to sit and play while I walked the perimeter of the fields, but after only 15 minutes my daughter was done with that and wanted to go with me - which never works because they walk too slow and they get frustrated and want to stop... so I just stopped after 15 minutes.

Today I brought my gym bag and will be doing the elliptical after work.

Julie! I am challenging you! You will go to the gym tonight. We are meeting there. Not in body but in spirit. So if I don't see you there I will assume you ditched me! So see you there lady! ha!

Julie, I didn't do my planned workout either. Oops! My DH talked me out of it at night, saying he'd do it with me the next morning and then he woke up with a headache. Oh well, I did get up and go to spin class this morning, and we had a substitute instructor who was challenging. I need to do more than just spinning class though, I've fallen into a rut.

Cecil - on my way! Gotta catch Rachel Ray - do you think that's bad to watch cooking shows while working out???

Thanks for his thread Julie I need it :)

I went on the Eliptical trainer for 20 min and did a class at my gym called group power. It is a 1 hour high rep strength training class but you sweat like it is cardio because it is so fast paced.

Graet Job pushing yourself Kristen :carrot:

I did 30 min bodypump dvd and 20 minute pilates ab dvd on Monday, 30 min elliptical (also 2.5 miles and 400 cal burned) on Tuesday, this morning I did bootcamp class for an hour and tonight I'm supposed to go to my 1.5 hr yoga class, tomorrow is circuit-training at the gym for at least 1 hr (and it's also my weigh-in-day), Friday is 1-1.5 hr trail-run or hike, and I usually do a 1-2 hr mountain/cross-country biking session with a group on the weekend. That's my usual workout week.

Makes me wonder why I'm not a stick??? lol.

So I went to the gym last night and did 25 minutes on the elliptical 2.25 miles. I just felt like such a Joelle (from TBL), I actually talked myself out of the last 5 minutes because I needed to go to the bank. I fight with myself constantly that it's too hard and sometimes need to even tell myself to push through! Am I crazy?

Today will be extra challenging for me, my DS has soccer practice so I can't go to the gym after work. I did bring my walking shoes so that I can walk for 15 minutes on my afternoon break and then hopefully I can get another 15-20 minutes walking at practice. I would love to get to do the abs workout, but we will see how everything plays out this evening...

Yesterday I did end up doing the afternoon walk - I walked 10 minutes and did elliptical 10 minutes. At soccer I ended up gabbing with the other soccer moms... I felt bad because one of them was dressed for walking, but I never actually said "lets walk" because I knew that my kids would eventually interrupt and so I didn't want her to be victim to that as well and we ended up just standing around talking... I brought my gym bag today... we'll see what I do.

Julie, That is why I go to classes, as I won't walk out on a class, but I just can decide for a whole lot of reasons to quit early otherwise. I am not having the best exercise week ever. I was going to do the elliptical at home both last night and this morning, and I just worked until 7 and then didn't, by the time I cooked dinner and ate and digested, it was just late, and my DH was out late, so I stayed up too late and just woke up tired... Oh well, I've got to do better, to have a bigger variety than just the spin classes... I need some weights and some abs in there somewhere....

I've somehow talked myself into the idea that making petit fours would be exercise... I don't think I can get that thought out of my head - not that I want to eat them, I just really want to make them for the kids, neighbors, family, etc. So I will probably skip today and just go for a quick break walk and then exercise over the weekend.

Haven't been feeling very good, think I got a cold. UGH! But I plan on still going to the gym tonight. My plan is to walk on the treadmill for 30 min at 3.8 MPH every 5 min I will run for 1 min at 4.7 MPH. Then I will do the eliptical for 20 min. And then I will go tanning! HA! I will update tomorrow with an X after each completed task. Have a great night!

Cecil, Sometimes when I"m not feeling 100% I just cut back my intensity level a bit and go and do it anyway. So maybe skip the sprints if you are feeling off when you go, but still go. I think having the occasional low and slow workout is good for you. Just get up to say 65-70% heart rate and stay there at that level for an extended period of time... no pushing yourself anywhere near breathless.

I did my 3rd spin class in 3 days this morning. I even did some abs this morning before class. I really need to do more of those! I hadn't realized how little I've done on them until I was there doing crunches on the stability ball and really feeling it.

Thanks Barbara. Acutally that was from last week. I just copied and pasted it so it was a new post. Sorry that was kinda confusing. I shouldn't have done that.

Cecil, I hope you are all better! You did fantastic for not feeling all that great. You should be a toned and tanned wonder by the time you go to Mexico!

Today instead of risking getting stuck behind non walking escalator riders, I took the stairs, 5 flights of them to be exact! I will also be taking an afternoon walk and since the weather looks like no soccer today, I may walk my neighborhood.

I almost didn't go to the gym. I had convinced myself not to, but in a spur got up and started driving there. I did 30 min on the climber and a tricept and shoulder workout. Felt pretty good after.

I did get a little walk in the afternoon in, but nothing once I got home from work... I've got 3 out of 3 kids sick along with myself!

Oh Julie that sounds horrible. Good for you for getting something in :)

I forced myself to go again today and got in 30 min of mixed cardio, I am going for a 1 hour class tomorrow!

I shoveled a crapload of snow today!

Hello there! Just reposted my progress!
02/09 Eliptical 20 min X Treadmill 30 min X
02/10 Eliptical 20 min Treadmill 30 min walk for 5 min then run for 2min walk for 3min run for 2min. X
02/11 Eliptical 20 min Treadmill 30 min walk for 5 min run for 2min walk for 3min run for 2min X
02/12 CLASS No GYM
02/13 Eliptical 20 min Treadmill 30 min walk for 5 min run for 2 walk for 3 run for 2. X
02/14 Eliptical 10 min Treadmill 30 min Walk for 5 run for 2 walk for 3 run for 2. X
02/15 Basketball Open gym. 1 1/2 hours X
02/16 Eliptical 20 min Treadmill 30 min walk 5 min run 2 min walk 3 min run 2 min. X
02/17 Eliptical 20 min Treadmill 30 min 5 min walk 2 min run 3 min walk 2 min run X
03/02 Treadmill 30 min Walk 5 min run 2 min walk 3 min
Eliptical 10 min X
03/03 Treadmill 30 min walk 5 run 2 walk 3 run 2
03/06 Treadmill 30 min walk 5 run 2 walk 3 run 2 10 min on eliptical
03/08 Treadmill 30 min walk 5 min run 2 walk 3 run 2
03/09 Treadmill 30 min walk 5 min run 2 walk 3 run 2
Eliptical 20 min
03/10 Biggest loser dvd 20 min and I want to die!

I LOVE the dance videos on On Demand. I even tried the Fit and Flirty one - it is sort of transhy but fun. The Carmen Electra Hip Hop video was fun too and my 1 year old was dancing along with me!

Last night I had class until 10:30 and then a 40min drive home, but I was wired and watched TBL on TiVo. Since I felt like a slug after sitting all day at work and then for 6 hours in class, I did planks and pushups and some pilates while watching. I felt good!

Tonight - BodyPump class at the gym.

3 straight days of spin classes, so I'm back on the exercise wagon after feeling like I had slacked off when my family was in town. Boy are my legs tired today though.

Ok I must say I'm on that wagon aswell! I went to check out the Curves center yesterday and did 1/2 hour of intense workout. I find that their program is really fun and not like a traditional gym at all!! It's very motivating! I guess that's what I lack most..motivation. So I have 2 more sessions to try out to see if I will subscribe. Maybe this will help me loose those last pounds. Lets hope so! We've gotta stay motivated !!