Alternachicks - Yay! I exercised today!

Just thought I would start a new thread for our exercise logs.

I am hoping to go to the gym afterwork tonight but it is really cold here.

Here I go braggin girls, but mostly I can't believe I did it. I have slowly been building up my weights for my legs and thinkning by the end of next month I could leg press 300 lbs, well, I was feeling strong yesterday and I did it. 300lbs!!!!! Can you believe that! It felt great! I can feel my body getting stronger everyday. Body for life and body building in general is the best thing I have ever done for myself. I also have upped my cardio, I now do 35 to 40 minutes of cardio as well. I love working out. It is my high. A year ago, I would think I was crazy, now I know I am, but also much healthier too. Thanks to all you guys and your support.
Love and hugs to all
Virginia

I went to the gym this morning before work! Eeep!

Virginia, I'd be braggin' too. Congrats!! I think tonight I'd better get that garage cleaning started to get my little home gym started. Yer gonna make me jealous. ;)

I understand that high Virginia. It it wasn't for that I would have given up a long time ago. The weekend sucked but

Sunday
I walked the plant

Monday
46 min elliptical
20 min pilates

GO CHRIS!

Monday Feb 17

43 minutes of upper body workout

My dear chickies... I haven't exercises in months. :( Please, someone motivate me to start moving again! It is just so difficult when the weather is cold and its dark outside and I can't afford a gym membership. I suppose I could pull out my videos but I need some encouragement...

42:47 for my 3.0 miles today
increased each weight by 3.0 lbs except bicep free weights that remained the same at 25 lbs. workout was longer, I was there for 2 hours so I am going to assume I did more reps ;-)

SOJO you can do it, any excercise makes one feel good and gives you a whole new perspective!
Miss Chris

Tuesday Feb 18

20 minutes on the bike

25 minute walk to work
30 minute walk at lunch time

WOW, EVERYONE IS DOING SO GOOD!!!!!:lol: :lol: :lol:

TODAY: Wednesday

45 minutes jog 5 minutes walk
20 minutes - situps, stretches and crunches.

HI Ladies!

I ran up and down the stairs all day for the chef!:chef:

By the end of the day, my knees are gone!

I could try someting else tonight. TOO COLD to walk.

Have a great evening.

25 minute walk to work
25 minute walk home
20 minute walk at lunch

Curses. I haven't been able to go to the Y for almost two weeks! I'm going to start next Monday. And I think I'll break myself in by going on the peace march on Saturday. Mauvais... Ruth... want to join me? Free exercise! :D

I would love to dahling, but alas I have my bellydance class, though I will dance for peace - bellies -not bombs! :D

I then have to go do groceries since we are having people over over for dinner on Saturday night.

You ladies intrigue me. I am too cold here to move! I can not wait for Spring! Then I can walk! I am ok at the Y inside, but not outside! It is amazing we get no snow, and yet I get chilled to the bone when it is 35 degrees. My mother says I just need a swift kick in the tail. (she just told me that a few minutes ago...) I freeze in the bath tub! I did do 25 minutes of stomach crunches and situps- this is good for me today.. I hate exercizing-love aerobics, but hate to move with no music. I would love to take up bellydancing. Our town is renovating an old hotel with a huge ballroom and I thought I might force the hubby to take ballroom dancing. Imagine that two old red-kneck's learning to dance. My children start tennis lessons in March, so then I can walk around the football stadium track. I wish I had half the energy you ladies seem to have. I am too young to feel this old.

Till tomorrow....................

Well I bundled up and headed out for a nice walk in our Wisconsin winter wonderland. You chicks are very motivating! It was a balmy 30 degrees and thankfully the sun was actually shining! Its amazing how my mind forgets how great it feels to get a little exercise. Its just one half hour walk... but its a start! :)

I ACTUALLY DO NOT HAVE TIME TO EXERCISE TODAY. I swear I am not lying. I will try to take more steps today and keep moving!! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!!!!!

Will exercise tomorrow. I will get back with you on what I do....take care!

Wed
Walked the plant and even gave a tour. From the top of the carbon columns to the furthest sac tank. No truck for me!!!!!

Thurs
Walked the perma pipe 3X which is about 1.5 miles. Responded to 3 emergencies which got the andrenaline going.

Fri
30 minutes of aerobics
10 mins of abs
5 min of naked Yoga

Miss Chris

Sun. Feb 23rd
1.69 miles on the treadmill and a sad showing at the weights but I did work out

Mon. Feb 24th
25 min Pilates
10 min Yoga even checked my poses
Planning to walk the plant out in the -2 F windchill lucky me

Miss Chris

1/2 hour of bellydancing :cb:

I would love to bellydance!! My husband thinks I am CRAZY- but it would be so much fun.


I climbed stairs all day- I counted atleast 16 rotations- that has to count for something!

Gee, I had to hunt for THIS baby!

Finally, after three weeks of illness, I went to the Y today with DH. I'm still pretty sick. And weak. I walked a whole half hour on the treadmill :rolleyes: and did some weights. Just about had a heart attack. But I'm very glad to be getting back into it. :dance:

The usual walks to and from school, plus a walk to the post office and library (probably about 3 miles all together)

Plus crunches, situps, and a little running in place (I prefer this to the treadmill somehow), and some bridges (for the rear end, sort of like a crunch but backwards)

Lidian

walk to and from work 25 mins each way
1/2 hour of bellydancing ,which by the way Sarajane is a blast! Go for it! :cb:

I did a couple of trips between the restaurants on property. It has been awful rainy here but I tried to catch the breaks . Still running up and down stairs.
Lots of pain in the legs from an accident last summer - but I can not let that stop me.( I know have honeydews for knees!):lol: They hurt much worse with the rainy weather.

I did lose 3.8 lbs!!! (guarenteed not by exercize)

Have a great night!

I love my treadmill, so gratifying to see those calories burning. Not quite sure about the accuracy...as we all burn calories differently depending on how much we weigh? right? Anyone know about this? I don't really care, but it would be cool if I was actually burning more than say a 112 pd. woman using the same treadmill yet getting the same reading.
I just realized that this probably didn't make much sense!
blessings,
blackbird

I think you're right, blackbird. The exercise bikes at the Y (and some of the treadmills and other equipment) get you to enter your age before you start. And the treadmills ask for your weight as well. There must be reasoning behind it...

Sarajane, congratulations on the weight loss!! :cb:

From what I've read, generally speaking, the more you weigh, the more calories you need to expend keeping that weight in motion. Also something else I've read - (I'm not sure whether all treadmills are designed this way or what) - they measure the gross calories expended, not the net calories. If you want to get your true caloric burn from the walking alone, you need to subtract 30%. I'll see if I can find the link to that article. Again, this all subjective, YMMV.

I spent 2 hours dancing at the club last night! :cb:

Tuesday
Walked the plant in freezing conditions

Wed and Thursday
NOTHING :-(

Friday
Yoga 5 min
Walked the planet! The furthest coner of our plant I ended up walking back and forth there 3X. I thought about taking the truck seriously, but we saw my Wed and Thurs performance

Sat
25 min of pilates
10 min of Yoga
walk the plant

Miss Chris

Monday Mar 3rd
Day 1 of 84 B4L Challenge
Upper Body workout kicked my booty!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!
Miss Chris

Monday March 3
1/2 hour upper body workout
1 hour total body tubing exercise class

Yesterday... an hour and a half of Yoga! My first time... it was GREAT! Although my arms are KILLING me this morning! :D

Good for you Ellis, Way to go!
Virginia

Tuesday March 4

20 min on the exercise bike
1 hour of Total Body Blast exercise class

HI all - I was in Atlanta today and intentionally parked several blocks from the conference center I was going to . The weather was gorgeous! I began raining as we left the city so we lucked out.

March 4
20 min elliptical

Miss Chris who has very sore arms today

Griffin woke up this morning and said he wanted to go for a walk. So after my bath, I put him in the stroller and we walked 10 minutes to the park. We played on the play ground for about 15 minutes. The swings still make me dizzy! And the slides are slipper than I remember, maybe I am just heavier!!! We walked around the park chasing sea gulls. We took a long route home. Grif walked for about 10 minutes and rode in the stroller for about 15. I need to do this everyday. Today is apsolutely gorgous, I even have my windows opened!!!!

You're not going to believe this, but I'm counting grocery shopping and going to the library as major exercise for today. :dance: Since I've been sick, that's the most activity I've done in WEEKS, and I'm exhausted! Woof!

Ellis - seems you are feeling a bit better. I am glad.

My knees are still very bad during this rain, so I have not done much today. I try to park in the fartherest parking spot from where ever I am going but I am not sure if it will do much good....

I am tired of the flip flopping weather - rainy and cold one day, sunny and warm the next and now it is raining again!!!!! Happy for your pretty weather Flower. Enjoy it for me as well.

Thanks, Sarajane!
ANY exercise is better than nothing, hon. :yes:
Arthritis in your knees? I've got it in my hands, and I always know when it's going to rain. :(
But seriously, I'll take rain over this snow ANYDAY!!

Not arthritis yet, got hit head on in July by a 16 yr old with no liscence, insurance, or brakes.My knees hit the dashboard. The surgeon says I should have arthritis with in 5 yrs. Now my insurance company is trying to decide exactly what my knees are worth. Thanks to this kid I had to have my first mamogram at 29!!! and one every 6 months until the knots are gone. (what is that worth???)

My husband says I my knees sound like cracking crab legs...

Gotta take a break Bush is speaking. I know you guys have opinions on this war thing, but we ARE with in the destruction range if someone bombs Atlanta...... It terrifies my children. They want to move somewhere far away.

Check back in soon....

Oh, I'm so sorry about your knees, Sarajane! :(
Yes, we all have an opinion about this war thing. WE DON'T WANT IT!!!
If you think it's any safer, you may all come up to Ottawa. I'm fairly close the Parliament buildings, though. :D Haven't built my fall-out shelter yet...

Thanks - WE DO NOT WANT IT EITHER, but my son likes to listen to the President and I make sure I am there to explain the Presidental legal talk. I sometimes do not understand it either and we have to consult the hubby.

We are planning a trip to Greece in the fall, but if we are at war- we will not go. We are supposed to stay in Turkey overnight at some Bizaar to shop, but are they going to be American friendly?????? They make movies about this stuff. We will go to Disney World instead. (much safer?!?!?!?) My children want to move to Iowa. (my son says no one lives in Iowa)

We all have a place and time for life to begin and end and we can not totally control the outcome. There are certain destinies that fall in our lives. And I for one believe that there is a greater being than Goerge W. Bush that watches over our destiny.

We donot have the plastic to cover the windows, or the bateries in the radios, or for that matter the 3 day supply of bottles water....I do have several cans of tuna.....


Why can't we all just be happy????

First of all, I see NO WAR in my crystal ball. (knock on wood)
Secondly; Sarajane, here's a tip for you on your trip. Don't let this out, because we don't want everyone doing it. :D
Wear a Canadian pin, and you will be fine.

March 5
Lower body workout

March 6
25 min Pilates
20 min aerobic interval

Miss Chris

Ellis I like your crystal ball.

I will be in Quebec in May I 'll be sure to pick one up.

Oh my... I don't think they HAVE anything with a Canadian flag on it in Quebec. :lol:

Ya Think!!!!

Ellis I've been saying the same thing as a joke...I'm going to Finland in August and I said I'll just tell everyone I'm Canadian!!

War or not I am going, but very oddly I keep thinking if there is war will the 'EU ALLOW me into their borders? Isn't that odd.

Well on to exercise. I go daily. Today I did interval work with quick walking and sprinting. I ended up with 3.9 miles in 41 minutes. At one point I was running at 8.5 MPH. I had no idea I could; it was cool!

Sandi:smug:

March 7
Upper body workout (It wasn't sore anymore, now it is again!)

Miss Chris

Just think- if we get stuck in Greece I will have some amazing stories! Not so sure about Turkey though! We will in all practicality end up at Disney World.....As long as I am with my family AND thinner I will be happy no matter where we are.

TONS of icing in the house today for all the cakes, it is hard not to eat it up!!! I am now giving away the Girl Scout Cookies just so I will not eat them

Well I am going to England in April and I'M going to tell everyone that I AM CANADIAN too...oh wait I really am Canadian :o Hey get lost all of you imposters! :lol:

I took the dogs for a walk for about 30 minutes today. Not the most strenuous activity, but we all really enjoyed it. :) I think I might actually try to do a mild interval training session today. Just so way do NOT want to reinjure that back.

Update:

I did 50 minutes of walking, with intervals of 1 minute runs every 6 minutes. I had to experiment with the running speed to find out what was too much for that minute, and right now, 6 mph is too fast. Right around 5.2 or so seems comfortable for a minute at a time.