Alright...5 weeks in now :-) today is supposed to be an off day according to my new schedule, but, who knows...if nothing else I'll get in some heavy duty cleaning in for some butt moving :-)
I started my running program today. I'm taking from Runner's World magazine that has a 10 week program to get you into running for a continuous 20 minutes by incorporating running and walking for different amounts of minutes every week. For example this week I am supposed to run for 1 minute and walk for 2 minutes and repeat this pattern 7 times for a total of 21 minutes. I decided that it was going to take me more than 2 minutes to recover from running for 1 minute so I did 3 minutes of walking and 1 minute of running (well really a slow run/jog, I'm not sure what the difference is between running and jogging). But I'm proud to say that I did it!! I felt like I was a fish out of water after each minute of running I was gasping for air so hard. BTW just in case anyone is worried I did pass this by my doc at my last physical and other than being overweight I am in perfect health so I'm not going to keel over from a heart attack. After all of that I kept walking to complete my 3 mile circuit. The nice thing is that it took me less time than if I was walking, so what was taking me an hour to do took 45 minutes with running for 7 minutes. Amazing huh?
Such a nice day, we've finally broke free of the evil clutches of mountain winter, and are quickly slipping into desert summer (no spring or fall here...) Ravyn and I walked to the casino to pick hubby up from work, then we all walked to the lawyers to sign some papers for the evil bankruptcy, then we walked back to the casino to get the car, and went to the wooden park to play for a good while before coming home for dinner... I'll be hitting the weights some too, probably before bed, rev up that metabolism before I sleep :-)
Unfortunately... the most exercise I get is at work. This is my dillema. However, considering the fact that I'm on my feet the entire time and if we're busy also walking (very briskly I might add) maybe it's enough to help. It's probably better than nothing. I have a membership at Bally's.... but I can never find the time to go. I should make the time since I"m paying for it.
(I'm a waitress by the way in case you were wondering)
April 3 - walked/jogged same as April 1. my knees and my left hip are killing me though. took a couple of Tylenol, taking tomorrow off for a rest day see how I am on Friday.
Tuesday = walked one mile
Wednesday = none rain! :*(
Thursday = JOINED THE GYM!!! walked/ jogged 1 mile, 30 min weight training (abs, arms, and light legs)
I moved my butt today. Went to the gym and was on the treadmill for 45 min. did 2.5 miles (yeah :sheep I am going to start this weight training thing next week, looking forward to it. It focuses on more on weights. You do weights 2 days then cardio on the third. Definately like this program cause I hate cardio . I'll be posting my butt moving tomorrow.
can a curious person from the low carb board jump in here???
nasus mentioned that she also posted on this board, and since she's one of my wise idols, i thought i'd check you ladies out....
just a bit of background... i've already lost at least 180 pounds, about half through weight loss surgery.
and i still have more than 100 to go.
and this BUTT MOVER thread is interesting..
a couple of weeks ago, i started doing the gilad bodies in motion programs. for someone who couldn't stand up last summer without collapsing, it was hard!!!! the first week i couldn't keep up for anything!!! i still have to modify a few things, especially the aerobics, but at least now i keep moving.
and all this is a long winded way of saying that i actually did 45 minutes of gilad all week!!!!!!! it's a warm up, upper body, then abs and butt, and thighs, and aerobics.
Butt Movers #5
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