Keep track of your own monthly exercise here! (JUNE)
 

During my cardio one day I was thinking how interesting it would be to know how many minutes I exercise in the period of a month.

So I am posting my exercise minutes daily in this threat and you are welcome to keep your data here too, so we can keep ourselves motivated.

I started it last April and I was shocked to learn that in 3 weeks I worked out over 3,000 minutes!!!!

What a motivation!!!
It has helped me to keep going, because I want to see the number of the minutes go up each day in this threat.

You can even break the month down and learn how many minutes you worked out each week (and use the info to analyze your weight loss in that period) or maybe after 12 months we could also add all the numbers you’ve got and see how many minutes you exercised during the whole year.

You don’t really have to post every day, as long as you keep track of the minutes from previous days and post it at once. It is up to you...

* Make sure you get your minutes from your OWN last post.

You can see my threat from May here:
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/exer...-here-may.html

This is an example of how I am doing it:
Before 30
Monday (May 3) 30
Total 60


Before 60
Tuesday (May 4) 45
Total 105

This is a great idea :D!

1st June: 60mins (gym) + 45mins (in total walking) = 105mins
2nd June: 60mins (gym - Stepper/Climber) + 45mins (in total walking) = 105 = 210
3rd June: 60mins (gym - weight training) + 45mins (in total walking) = 105 = 315
4th June: 60mins (gym - Stepper/Climber) + 45mins (in total walking) = 105 = 420
6th June: 60mins (gym - Stepper/Climber) + 60mins (in total walking) = 120 = 540
7th June: 60mins (gym - weight training) + 45mins (in total walking) = 105 = 645
8th June: 60mins (gym, resistance, core muscles etc) + 45mins (in total walking) = 105mins = 750
9th June: 60mins (gym - Stepper/Climber) + 60mins (in total walking) = 120 = 870
10th June: 60mins (gym - weight training) + 45mins (in total walking) = 105 = 975
11th June: 60mins (gym - Stepper/Climber) + 60mins (in total walking) = 120 = 1095
12th June: 60mins (various) = 1155
13th June: REST DAY
14th June: 60mins (gym - weight training) + 45mins (in total walking) = 105 = 1260
15th June: 60mins (gym - various) + 45mins walking = 105 = 1365
16th June: 60mins (gym - Stepper/Climber) + 45mins walking = 105 = 1470
17th June: 60mins (gym - weight training) + 45mins (in total walking) = 105 = 1575

Tuesday, June 1:

I'm gonna try to do a separate post for each day.

45 minutes spin class, and so sweaty afterward from high humidity that I looked like I'd been splashed with water, like in one of the "Flash Dance" routines where the dancer has a pail of water dumped over her head. (The spin instructor had a tape with a lot of 80s hair bands set to the usual disco exercise beat, which is why my mind went there.)

I also worked with dumbbells. My right wrist felt pretty good & I was ambitious, so I tried 10-lb and 12.5-lb dumbbells where usually I'd use 8-lbs. I also tried three new moves, which I got from the Stumptuous.com Web site in the "All Dumbbells All the Time" section. I'm not sure my form was all that great. I am feeling it in my upper back & shoulder blades tonight, a place where I am not usually sore. Either 1) it's working or 2) I did something weird to myself.

Before: 0
Tuesday (June 1) 60
Total: 60

Before: 60
Wednesday (June 2) morning 55
Total: 115

Wednesday, June 2:

60 minutes on the stationary bike at the gym at my company headquarters, resistance set at 8, random intervals, for a new record total of 15.89 miles.

I'd been working out more at the gym near my home than the one within our office's headquarters, particularly taking spin classes. But I decided to stay after work tonight. As sometimes happens, the only woman there with about nine or 10 guys. Two of them who are friends & lunch buddies had heard me say I think I worked harder in spin class because the instructor tells us to sprint. So they thought it would be funny to stand beside me on the bike & yell through an actual megaphone at me like drill instructors. Well, it was kind of funny. I did sprint for them, partly as a showoff, which may have led to the personal record.

Afterward, Pilates, using some of the moves I've learned from our class & with the help of a book on Pilates to refresh my memory on the sequence & form. But I do feel funny on my back on a mat in the weight room with nine guys wandering around. Am I alone in this? Same thing when I've done yoga moves. (Not doing yoga much yet till my right wrist is a bit stronger.) In general, I am not a prude, but it just gives me a weird vibe to be on my back with my legs in the air with guys I work with in the background.

Hi saef
You are doing a good job on working out!!!
I hear you about the guys who you work with sharing a workout environment with you. Maybe if you didn’t know them it would be easier?!?!?!?

Before: 115
Wednesday (June 2) evening 120
Total: 235

Hey Belezura, how are you doing up there in Albany? Are you having a heatwave tomorrow?

Thursday, June 3:

60 minutes on the arc trainer, hands-free, at intervals, resistance set at 8
60 minutes Pilates class

Today I did what I think of as a split workout: Half in the morning, before commuting into the office, and half in the evening, after getting home from work. This is an anomaly because our usual Thursday morning 9 AM staff meeting was canceled. So I gave myself permission to get in a half hour late. Got up at 5:45 AM & headed to the gym after breakfast to put in a solid hour on the arc trainer.

Then, after working till 6 PM, I changed in the handicapped stall in the ladies' room at work (roomy & no one handicapped was about) & drove straight home to the gym in my neighborhood to attend the Pilates class, which was painful & challenging & intriguing as usual. I think that it helped me that I practiced some Pilates moves on my own on Sunday & also last night.

I think this is going to turn out to be a decent weigh-in week. I feel physically lighter. Also I've been salt-conscious this week.

June 1 rest day
June 2 40m burn circuit 2 - 20 min walking 60m total
June 3 40m burn intervals chalean extreme - 10m ABS Burn - 45m jogging. 155m total

Ok, I'll try to play.

June 1 - 5: 30 min + 30 min = 60 min so far.

A.

June 1 -
Strength - 41 mins
Stat. bike - 30 mins

June 2 - Rest

June 3 -
40 mins weights
30 mins stationary bike - 8.1 mi
40 mins running - 3.1 mi, 41 mins

Hi
I would like to keep track also I am in the middle of a remodel move thing right now so life is really wacky so my life is not in a normal or at least MY NORMAL routine! I figure I better start posting now before its to late! Let me introduce myself I am DEVA I am 58 am addicted to working out stuggle with about 5 to 8 lbs but feel and look great for my age or any age I am 5' 5" weigh today 130 usually weigh about 128 my high about 4 years ago was 174. I started exercising and fell in love with it. I am currantly doing a mix of INSANITY and CHALEAN CLX. And have done 3 rounds of p90x and I love kickboxing.
ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

June 1 CLX 35min, INSANITY 40min = 75min
June2 CLX 35min, INSANITY 45min = 75min
June3 CLX 35min, INSANITY 45 min Tamilee abs 20 min =95 min
TOTAL 245 min

Hi Saef. Definitely having a heatwave lately, which I love... have no complains :)


Welcome to the thread Devadiva!!!
It is so good to see other people also committed to a work out routine. It is motivating to me.
May I ask what are INSANITY and CHALEAN CLX? Are they DVDs?




Before: 235
Thursday (June 3) 115
Total: 350

Yes they are dvds by beachbody if you watch much tv you would see the adds for INSANITY lots of advevrtising on that! The Clx is A weight lifting womens program 8 to 10 reps compound moves maybe 12 exercises 5 days a week and Insanity is a very INTENCE HITTS anareobic progam 6 days a week. I did a complete round of both of them before my move but moved right after Mothers day and my life is SO hectic that my workouts have only this last week or so have started to get back to routine as it is I have to paint all weekend so might have to miss one day,
BY THE WAY JUST CALL ME DEVA. it hot here too!

Friday, June 4:

A great weigh-in this morning, which I had premonitions about last night. Also I woke up feeling ravenous.

60 minutes arc trainer, set at hill intervals, resistance at 8
Dumbbells, again at 10 lbs & 12.5 lbs
For the heck of it, a 30-lb deadlift. No problem -- what I was trying to learn about was the correct form you'd use.

A trainer came by & saw me with the New Rules of Lifting for Women book open when I was doing the deadlift & called it a "cheat sheet." We struck up a conversation. He gave me a couple pointers. Said I couldn't hurt myself with a weight like that so it looked okay. He advised moves that work multiple parts of one's body. I said, "Oh, that doesn't sound so good for my bicep curls & tricep kickbacks." He said people can choose do those for their aesthetic. I also pointed out all the machines around the room that simply move a single part of one's body. He said if he had his way, they'd all be out of the gym & on the curb.

FRIDAY Having a Dizzy day will explain someday NOT a good thing only got one off my workouts in have to take care of myself today{I HATE THIS THING!}

JUNE 4 CLX intervals 45min =45min

Monthly Total =290
Have a great day DEVA

Hi Deva... Thank you for your answer...
I need to check out those DVDs. Sounds like a good plan you have there.

Before: 350
Friday (June 4) 115
Total: 465
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Saturday, June 5:

60 minutes elliptical, set at random intervals, resistance at 7
60 minutes Pilates class

This day is all about humidity. I wanted to turn on the air conditioner & drink iced tea & read the NY Times all morning, but I made myself dress for the gym. (Putting on the clothes really helps me. I don't know why.) And worked up a sweat even walking over there. I got on the elliptical instead of the arc trainer for a change. At resistance set at 7, and intervals, the machine goes up to 10. And that is a killer when going backward. The small of my back ached afterward.

I had 20 minutes to cool off before Pilates & it barely felt like enough. I could actually feel a film of salt coating my legs & arms & chest.

Pilates was crowded & difficult & great. Aside from abs, we lay on our backs & our sides & put our legs up in the air & did excruciatingly tiny movements. I could feel muscles inside my butt being worked. Something around my hip flexors began trembling & practically seized up. Thank goodness for long & varied stretches afterward.

I wonder about holding a muscle till it trembles. I suspect it's good & means I am getting a good workout. But somehow it's humiliating to me when it happens, to be in the position or pose or movement & shaking. I think it calls up memories of other kinds of shakyness. Like having to get up before the class & give a report. That always sent me into paroxysms. I was a shaky kid in general. I know exercise-induced shakes is something else entirely, not nervousness but a muscle sort of spasming, but it has some kind of psychological effect on me nevertheless.

Sat June 5th SAME TOTAL 290 MIN

Today was spent painting the living room squatting and reaching for about 4hours but it doesn't count in my book my husband is around this week end and we are working on the new house,
I am still dizzy trying to fight it!......I have a growth on my BALANCE NERVE and I have to fight for my balance from time to time it was de abiliting for about 6 months last year HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I make the best of it I FIGH T IT WITH EXERCISE!
SAEF your class sounded fun and hard pilates does get those tiny little places in OH that special WAY! I love the elliptial I can't wait to get mine moved into the house when we are done painting!
BELE What kind of workouts are you doing?

Sunday, June 6:

Dumbbells and barbells, about 30 minutes at the gym

Swimming class, 60 minutes

Back in the pool at the swimming class at the community college. They've combined intermediate & advanced class into one because just a few people signed up for the summer. We did drills for the length of the pool for most of the class. In my freestyle stroke, the instructor wants me to put more force in the arm & hand going back. I finally connected this movement with tricep kickbacks. At the endurance section, she wanted eight consecutive lengths. I was only able to do six in the time allotted.

I am feeling this plus the weights in my upper body tonight, in my back & shoulders, in a good way.

6/1: 25 minutes C25K
Total: 25
6/2: 60 minutes zumba
Total: 85
6/3: 60 minutes zumba
Total: 145
6/4: 0 minutes - day off
Total: 145
6/5: 60 minutes zumba
Total: 205
6/6: 30 minutes walking, 60 minutes zumba
Total: 295
6/7: 60 minutes step
Total: 355
6/8: 0 minutes - between work and a family obligation i had no time =[
6/9: 25 minutes, C25K
Total: 380
6/10: 60 minutes zumba
Total: 440
6/11: 60 minutes zumba
Total: 500
6/12: 60 minutes zumba
Total: 560
6/13: 120 minutes zumba
Total: 680
6/14: 60 minutes step
Total: 740
6/15: 25 minutes C25K
Total: 765
6/16: 60 minutes zumba
Total: 825
6/17: 60 minutes zumba
Total: 885
6/18: 0 minutes - day off
Total: 885
6/19: 60 minutes zumba
Total: 945
6/20 - 6/22: 0 minutes - between TOM and a slump, didn't do anything and feel horrible about it
Total: 945
6/23: 60 minutes zumba
Total: 1,005
6/24: 60 minutes zumba
Total: 1,065
6/25: 60 minutes zumba
Total: 1,125
6/26: 0 minutes - had to stay late at work =[
Total: 1,125
6/27: 60 minutes zumba
Total: 1,185
6/28: 60 minutes step
Total: 1,245
6/29: 0 minutes
Total: 1,245
6/30: 60 minutes zumba
Total: 1,305

Before: 465
Saturday (June 5) 115
Total: 580

Before: 580
Sunday (June 6) morning 120
Total: 700

Before: 700
Sunday (June 6) 70
Total: 770

Deva: I always do cardio and lift weight.
I would love to swim and do some kind of classes, but I can't afford a gym that has those things... :(
When the weather is nice outside and I have time I also like to roller blade (I am still learning). I don't really count that in this thread though.

Hey Belezura, here was my solution to finding a pool to exercise in. I did not like the local gym that has a pool. It's part of a large chain that always seems to be on the verge of bankruptcy, and it is not convenient to my home. I preferred a gym that was just one block away from my apartment, where I could easily make it part of my life's routines. So I looked into swimming classes offered by local high schools with pools in their adult education courses. I ended up at the local community college, which offers many exercise classes & has several levels of swimming classes.

Monday, June 7

60 minutes stationary bike
30 minutes Pilates routine

Yes, after using the bike, I was on the floor at the office gym, lying on a pair of mats, doing the Pilates routine that I'd worked out for myself, with a book on Pilates at my side as a prompt or study aid. The routine is based on exercises we've done in my twice-a-week Pilates class. I took about seven moves & made a sequence from them, with the book's help (it has some sequences). So I do my exercise & periodically check the book at my side. It doesn't look as strange as it might otherwise, since this is a gym at my company headquarters & people often bring paperwork or BlackBerrys with them to their cardio stations. You see them leisurely peddling on the stationery bikes, looking over a report from their briefcase which lies beside them on the floor. I cannot do cardio & read. But anyway, this is probably why no one seems to think it's weird that I'm glancing at a book after doubling up over my abs with my hands patting the air beside my thighs in The Hundred position.

June 1 rest day
June 2 35m burn circuit 2 - 20 min walking 55m total
June 3 34m burn intervals chalean extreme - 10m ABS Burn - 45m jogging. 145m total
June 7 35m burn circiut 1 - 40m walk 220m total

Before: 770
Monday (June 7) 135
Total: 905

Tuesday, June 8

45 minutes spin class
About 40 minutes with weights, 10-lb & 12.5-lb dumbbells, 30-lb barbell, 37.5 lbs on pulldown machine

I really, really needed this. I'll be off on Thursday & going away on vacation for a few days. It's hard to attain escape velocity from this job. It takes some long hours on the days immediately preceding the last day.

Hi all been pretty busy still a little dizzy but dealing with it we painted all weekend , hiked in he mornings. We drove to our other house and I am
working as a FILL in secrtary for my husband for 5 days part time in DEATH VALLEY where I live in the winter IT is horrible right now it is LIKE 118. I have been doing some different workout as did not want to bring all my equimpent with me its been kinda fun!!! But have not had as much time as I like and its TOO HOT after I get off in the house to workout after work ANYWAYS....
Before 290
June 7 Kelly Coffey Brown Intervals 40 min,Kickboxing 40 min =80 min
June 8 Kelly coffey brown Lower 30 min, Kickboxing 40 min= 70min
TOTAL=450

Got this mornings done
June 9 Wed Kcb Upper body 30 min, Cardio kickboxing 50 min =80 min
TOTAL=530

Before: 905
Tuesday (June 8) 60
Total: 965

Before: 965
Wednesday (June 9) morning 55
Total: 1,020
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Wednesday, June 9

60 minutes stationary bike, set at 8 resistance, just over 15.45 miles
30 minutes of Pilates routine

Rolling around on my mat in the gym at the office, with one other woman in the room on a bike, the rest all guys. There is one big guy who uses the weight equipment incorrectly. (He's doing pretty badly if even I, who am just now learning it, can see problems with his form.) But the big issue is that he's a grunter. One of my coworkers cracked me up during Pilates rollups when he came over & whispered in my ear, "I think he's about to pass that object that's inside him."

My goal for June is 800 minutes

June 6--Stationary bike 20 minutes, Walked indoor track 17 minutes, Eliptical 10 minutes
June 9 Aquacize class 55 minutes

Before: 1,020
Wednesday (June 9) evening 90
Total: 1,110

Before: 1,110
Thursday (June 10) morning 100
Total: 1,210

Thursday, June 10

60 minutes on elliptical, set at resistance of 7, random intervals, half of this going backward

I wanted to also work with weights, but this was a hurried exercise session, just as this is a hurried post. I am running, running from one errand & task to another. I had to work till noon to get a big assignment completed & handed in before setting out on vacation. (Translating Igor's pidgin English into good business English for our consulting clients.) And I'll be departing within the hour for another state. My clothing is packed & now I must take care of packing the special, special on-plan saef food. Urk. Signing off till at least next Tuesday night, or possibly Wednesday morning.

June 10
Progressive stregth [Spreen} 35 min,Cardio Kickbox{Staheale}50min =85 min

JUNE Total= 615

Bele: You keep this up I will never catch up to you!

Saef I love reading your posts

Hey saef!
Hope you have a great time!!!
See you next week!!! :)

Thank you Deva...
I try to be good, but sometimes is tough and I have to keep remind myself that I have to KEEP GOING! Just like the bunny from the batteries... LOL


Before: 1,210
Thursday (June 10) evening 60
Total: 1,270

June 11 weights 40 min ,kickbox 40 min=80 min

Total June 695

Have been painting at new house ALL weknd hope to go hikeing this afternoom PAINTING is like holding YOGA poses Ive decided! I am doing all th trim stuff and taping!!!

You know Deva, I should be doing some painting myself too... but just can't get to do it... I want enjoy the summer :/


Before: 1,270
Friday (June 11) 115
Total: 1,385

Before: 1,385
Satrday (June 12) 115
Total: 1,500

Before: 1,500
Sunday (June 13) morning 120
Total: 1,620

Before: 1,620
Sunday (June 13) evening 70
Total: 1,690

Friday, June 11: 59 minutes on stepper (!), set at 8, random intervals, climbing pace
Saturday, June 12: 59 minutes on stepper, set at 8, hill intervals, climbing pace
Sunday, June 13: 59 minutes on stepper, set at 8, hill intervals, climbing pace, then 30 minutes swimming
Monday, June 14: 59 minutes on stepper, set at 8, hill intervals, steady pace

In Pittsburgh, I stayed at a Comfort Inn that had a small exercise room with a set of aging Life Fitness brand equipment and a lovely fairly long pool. No elliptical, but a stepping machine, which I've tried before at another hotel in this chain. So I used that, handless this time, no railing-holding. Also I swam at the pool one evening, though the families playing made it hard to do decent laps.

JUNE 12=0
JUNE 13=0
JUNE 14 CLX Burn 1 [35 min],Insanity Plyo cardio Ciruit[40 min] abs [20 min]
=95min

Before 695

Total JUNE=790

Before: 1,690
Monday (June 14) 175
Total: 1,865

I did some extra exercise because I might not be able to work out today (Tuesday) due to the Brazil game on the World Cup. GO BRAZIL!!!!!

June 15 Clx Burn 2 {40 min} Insanity Cardio power{40 min} Incredibl abs[20 min
Total=100min

TOTAL JUNE=890

Walked dog and my exercise done now I'll tackle some paintinghave to primer this bedroom its painted DARK BLUE and I want it to be NAVAJO at least the trim is already white!
BELE hope ou enjoy your game!
SAEF WOW AN HOUR on the stepper with no hands YOU ROCK!!! And swimming in the pool with MARCO POLO going on can be SOOO distracting!