Exercise Accountability -- June 2007
 

It's a new month!

Get to exercising, everyone. :carrot:

A new month...Hmmm. I'm less excited about this one.

32 mins treadmill (300 cal)
Upper body training.

52 minutes - The Firm: Bootcamp

Good workout today and a great start to the month!

Baffled - get that energy up! Its a WHOLE NEW MONTH! WOOOOO!

OK, yeah, not really feeling it either. Ah well.

50 min elliptical.

my new plan - swim or bike 3 days week (30mins cardio, walk to pool to warm up, few mins cooldown/stretches)
brisk walk on other 3 days, with warm up and cool-down
flexibility stretches - 10mins a day (must stick to this! I am not going to develop the spine and muscle probs my family have!)
i' devised this using the article 'fitness fundamentals', which is a sticky on this forum. it's very good. it taught me that i wasn't warming up and cooling down properly, making my body enter into cardio unprepared. i've been on plan for a week now. exams are over so it's all go! walking will easier when i'm home cos we keep corgis and they (well one of them) is a great walker x

17 mins treadmill, 17 mins elliptical; 300 cals
lower body strength training (my poor quads!)

We're going away for the weekend to visit my MIL. She has a treadmill and I think I'll bring my sneaks so that I can squeeze in a run or two. The up-side of visiting MIL is that she lives in a real city with real shops! I'm a woman in desperate need of new clothes for the gym and I might just be able to buy some. Hooray!

Go baffled! Gym clothes are a good motivator. I hereby confess to once wearing pyjama shorts in the gym. Don't *think* anybody noticed....

40 minutes - Pilates

55 min on the rebounder, bouncing away. It was a compromise between "I don't want to exercise" and "I really need to move my butt"

3 mile run in the rain!

Friday I did 100 crunches (60 bicycle & 40 basic) and did 200 steps on my LTT. Y-day & today, nothing.

I've done about an hour on DDR yesterday and today. For me that's pretty darn good. Since usually I go five minutes and quit. :p I'd do more but my feet hurt. :)

45 minute fast walk at the mall - new weekend exercise is to walk and walk circles while my little boy plays in the kid area. Plus 30 minutes on my mini stair step tonight and 20 minutes weights Total 95 minutes of exercise. I'm getting started again after letting myself get out of shape, aiming for 30-45 min per day cardio, 20 min 3x week weights and abs 3-4x per week.

Thanks for starting the June thread Canary :wave:

Sunday -- 30k bike ride...
Monday -- Gym -- Legs :strong:

Did 2 15 minute segments (1 mile each) on my walking DVD. Then did the 10 min stretching segment as well. 300 calories burned. Woo Hoo!!!!

30 minutes - Yourself! Fitness Cardio Workout
46 minutes - Burn & Firm Pilates

3.8 mile treadmill run/walk (3.36 run; the rest walk) -- 45 minutes

I really don't feel well today. Tried to work through it, did 50 min on the elliptical..but it didn't really work. Ugh...nauseous.

Walked, jumping jacks, walking lunges, sprints- 60 min
Plus yoga for families with my boy - dvd - 40 min
Does shopping count? 25 min with grocery cart walking around procrastinating.

Mon.- 200 stepss LTT
Walked 25 minutes

Today I will do 20 crunches, 30 bicycle crunches, 1 rep pushups, 30 sec plank hold, 200 steps on the LTT and walk again.

6.28k

Hi! I'm new and SO excited that I found you! I haven't had a chance to fill in my profile, yet--hopefully by tomorrow I can do that. I have such a hard time staying motivated to exercise...I always have a great plan in the morning and by late afternoon, I can feel it starting to fall apart! Yesterday was the last day for that! I know what I need to do, now I need to do it--consistantly! Tonight my plan is 30 mins of cardio and upper body weights.

:welcome: mj5 :wave:

Welcome mj5

I'm back from my sinful weekend away and back in the gym! Phew!

11 mins elliptical (100); 21 mins treadmill (200)
Upper body strength training (approx 100)

I got some really cute new workout gear in Distant Big City. Hooray!

circuit training
 

does anyone have experince with curves or ladies workout express? I just joined and it seems so easy, I just hope this works for me.:)

Hi mj5 - welcome!

60 min of mixed strength training. I don't understand why i'm still sort of nauseous...its bizarre and I'm not pleased about it. But at least today I seem better able to work through it.

Thanks for the welcome! Well, I did it! Ok, almost all of it...I only did 20mins of cardio (had planned on 30) because my knee was killing me after 10--I pushed it to 20, but didn't think I should go any longer. I also did my upper body (weights). I wish I could bottle the 'after workout energized feeling' that I have and save it for those afternoons when I feel like I am fighting w/ myself to get to the gym.

Have a great night!

3.8 mile run

52 minutes - The Firm: Bootcamp

60 minutes fast on exercise bike, 20 min weight training, trying to LOSE

55 min mixed cardio

:welcome: Katjax :wave:... I don't personally have experience with Curves or the other ladies only gyms but if you are finding it too easy now, I hope you didn't lock yourself in a one year contract. If you did, make the best of it by brisk or hill walking... When your contract is up join a real gym and get some lessons with a personal trainer...

60 mins of walking fast and 20 minutes of strength training. 400 calories burned!

I think Curves is just for extreme beginners. My mom joined and locked herself into a contract but we had a death in the family so she got out of it. How about trying the walking dvd's, people seem to like those that are on this site, Leslie something? Or join the local ymca so it wouldn't be as much pressure as a co-ed gym? I'm in one and there are people of all ages and sizes. Getting back in shape it's very comfortable not being the only one in a big shirt rather then a sports bra. They have lots of classes and one is a circuit routine similar to Curves where you go in a circle (but you don't do cardio inbetween machines, you do it all afterwards).

11 mins treadmill (100)
lower body training

My legs felt too, too tired to get back on the treadmill after my lifting--I managed another 3 minutes on the treadmill before quitting for the day. This is why I like to do my cardio first!

Horsey - are you talking about the Walk Away the Pounds videos with Leslie Sansone? She has a 1-mile jog that I love...but she is annoyingly perky sometimes. Then again, almost all fitness video instructors are, for me, irritatingly perky-tastic. Except the Aussie who does my kickboxing tape and keeps yelling "Do it like you really mean it! No smiling!"

Baffled - I tend to do whatever I like least first. That way, when I finish the first part of whatever I'm doing, I am looking forward to the second part. I -love- strength training, so I make sure to do it after my cardio. Otherwise I'd finish my strength training and be WAY too likely to go "but I don't WANNA go do my cardio...I'm TIIIIIIRED" and skip it.