Tuesday, April 13: I hour weights, 30 minutes rowing machine.

Tuesday: 2 hours of belly dancing :cb:

Tuesday

1 Hour Tennis.

managed to drag my lazy butt away from puter, and do my WATP, yesterday. today trying for the same. only adding the 1 mile to it to make 3 miles total. wish i could get the 4 mile Jennifer talked about would be so much easier than doing 1 mile, then 2 mile. lol

edited to say : I did my workout today. , pats self on back, good girl. :p

30 minutes of Pilates this morning :sunny:
and 4o minutes of walking

Wednesday, April 14, 2004: rest
Thurday, April 15, 2004: 30 minutes treadmill, jogging. 30 minutes elliptical. 30 minutes treadmill, walking on incline.

Wednesday:

Bowling. 174 184 116. http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/sign/1/sign68.gif to that last game!! hahahaha

After taking a couple days off because of a horrible cold, I climbed back on my GAZELLE today.

Thursday...30 minutes of pilates

rapid speed cleaning most of day. took old queen bed outta kid's room, set up new bunk beds ( by myself) and so much more didn't stop moving until after 3 hours at least. the sun was shining i couldn't help myself. must clean..:p

I cut the back yard today... Least I could do since the other portion of the day I have been asleep. Our back yard is about 3/4 an acre on just enough of a slope to kick you butt while push mowing it. My next door neighbor whom I have nevet met kept looking over, or should I say peaking over to make sure I was still breathing. Tell you what it kicked my butt.

Friday, April 16, 2004: 45 minutes treadmill on incline. I must have hurt my neck earlier this week, it's so stiff and sore I can't turn my head. So I'm dialing it down until Monday. Bummer.

Saturday, April 17, 2004: 45 minutes walk/jog treadmill on incline. Neck is starting to feel better. I always seem to injure the right trap, upper and lower, in the same places. Why?

Walking for 45 minutes today.

Seek...how did you hurt your neck? Maybe be it is in the same place all the time because you have a habit of moving a certain way that you are not aware of.

to the park today to walk the track., and let the kids play and burn there energy at the park, and collect straw for my besom. multi tasking gotta love it.

I don't know, Mauvais, I wish I did. There's just a certain spot in the deep levels of the upper right trap that gets torn and then seizes up the whole neck. Ditto for a certain spot on the lower right trap near the spine.

I guess I should go to a sports medicine doctor. A regular doc will only say "don't do that anymore" which is no help at all, since I don't know what I did to cause the injury! Thanks for asking, it's starting to feel much better today. :D

Seek, I'm glad your neck is starting to get better! I know how painful that can be.

Had a great, 1 hour cardio workout at the gym today. Started running again. And I'm not dying on the elliptical anymore. :)

Way to go ellis! :cb: BTW check your private messages dahling...;)

Glad your neck is better Seek!

Thanks, everyone! :hyper:

Sunday, April 18, 2004: 30 minutes elliptical, 45 minutes treadmill on incline. Tomorrow if all goes well I'll start my training program, learning to run again, not just a walk/jog. I found a ten week interval-training program on the Runner's World web site. I'm going to try that first. If all goes well I could be running by July 4th weekend. If I'm really lucky, I could maybe enter a 3K by Labor Day! :crossed:

Did my Gazelle and I am eating "Clean". --Pookie

SEEK, I would love to try an elliptical -- they look like fun.

I did 40 minutes of semi HIIT on the treadmill. Well, it was high intensity to me, but probably not 'really'.

Heather - here is a 4 Mile Express video on ebay for 2.99 so far. They are vague though on the shipping and handling...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...672921651&rd=1

Way to go chicks! :tread:

Sunday

Thoroughly cleaned the house for about 5 hours. 1 less thing to worry about while down for the count tomorrow. Did about 2½ hours gardening. Planted an oak tree, and 4 other shrubs, plus made a cactus garden out of my river rocks & purple cacti. Pics later for ya when it all blooms. :smug:

Jennifer thanks for the info. you rock :)
noodles, am gonna miss you take care and hurry back.
no exercise yesterday took a day of rest with hubb. but today am doing 2 mile WATP. and cleaning like the obsessed woman i am. :p

30 minute walk this morning :)

Will be walking to WW and then walking home from there....about 1 hour total

Weight Training
 

Hey guys. So, I've been really good lately as far as my aerobic exercise goes. Brisk walking twice a week about 1.5 miles and Curves 3 days a week. It was high time for me to start weight training (insert ominous music of your choice here.) So on Saturday I started a full-body beginners workout ... It was awesome while I was doing it :D As soon as I finished I noticed that my thighs were like JELLO! Today they are on fire (a moment of silence here for my quads ... :flame: ) I was able to go on my walk yesterday, strangely enough once I got going I felt MUCH better. Hopefully the same will hold true tonight at Curves ... we'll see. Anyway, it's just going to get better from here on out (right?) (Anyone have any suggestions, words of wisdom etc. ?)

Pookie: Hi there! The elliptical is just a godsend, especially if you're injury-prone like I am. There is very little impact on the joints, and the arm handles help develop the shoulders, upper back, etc. I highly recommend it. You may find you can work out longer with it than with the treadmill, as it is not as stressful on the body, especially the feet.

Grace: "Delayed Muscle Soreness" is what you are experiencing. Working out actually damages muscle, to some extent, which eventually irritates the nerves, hence the soreness. As the muscles repair, they get stronger than they were before. Working out a second time doesn't really get rid of the pain, it just gets "masked out" by the work you are doing-- the nerve sensations of the work override the nerve sensations of pain. Eventually you'll be able to work out at this level with no soreness at all, because the body has adapted. This whole thing is a natural cycle and nothing to be worried about.

You can lessen the soreness by doing this: before you work out, take 2 aspirin (if that's o.k. for you). After the workout, get to the shower and use the COLDEST water you can stand, for at least 10 minutes. Massage yourself all over in the shower. Keep moving gently for the rest of the day-- i.e., don't collapse on the couch-- you'll stiffen up. Then, in the evening, draw a warm bath and put some epsom salts in it, soak in that for at least 20 minutes. Make sure you have some quality protein in your evening meal, so the body has something to use to repair the muscles as you sleep. The point of all this is to lessen the inflammation that you get with exercise, so the natural soreness reaction is not amplified. Good Luck!

Monday, April 19, 2004: 60 minutes intervals, run/walk

Did my GAZELLE today. I also did a lot of WALKING around a mall.

SEEK: Thanks for the reply about the elliptical. Sometimes I wish I had a different machine than the Gazelle. Don't get me wrong I do love my Gazelle, but sometimes I think I could be getting a better workout on another type of machine. It looks like ellipticals really give you an intense workout.

Thanks also SEEK for coming over and visiting us at the WLS forum.

--Pookie

My pleasure, Pookie-- I've learned a lot from visiting there, as well as lurking in other forums (or is it fora? I'm confused.) Of course, if you join the gym, you'll find a lot of other toys to play with-- it's just a great big playpen for grownups. :lol:

Tuesday, April 20, 2004: 45 minutes rowing (with a jo-heave-ho and a bottle of rum...) plus 30 minutes weights.

Tuesday...1 hour of bellydancing :cb:

Tuesday, 20 minutes HIIT.

30 minutes of Pilates! :D

Wednesday, April 21, 2004: 1 hour treadmill, inclines. I wish the rain would let up so I could go play outdoors!

Yay exercisers! :cheer: We are all doing great...:D

One hour weight workout with my trainer, and 25 minutes of cardio. :dance:

1 mile WATP , yesterday
2 mile WATP, this a.m
! mile watp to do at noon with Tina.

1/2 hour on the treadmill (walk/run)
1/2 hour on the elliptical

Thursday: April 22, 2004: No exercise today. Husband has generously given me his 24-hour bug. Thanks, honey! But, it's a good/bad: tonsils swollen, don't want to eat. And so to bed. Goodnight, all.