It's August, and in the U.S., we're deep into summer.

It's time to get in touch with our physicality and to live inside our bodies, rather than in our heads.



What is keeping you from moving as naturally and thoughtlessly as a deer runs in the woods?

Wednesday, Aug. 1st:

45 minute spin class, hard to fit in after oversleeping slightly in my new apartment and negotiating my way past the furniture.

Wednesday, August 1 MORNING:
-10 minutes sprint/jog intervals on treadmill
-Back/biceps/chest routine with no rest between sets

Wednesday, August 1 AFTERNOON:
-10 minutes rowing hard on erg machine
-20 minutes sprint intervals program on elliptical, level 6/10

Thursday, Aug. 2:

60 minutes on elliptical, random intervals, resistance at nine, and going backward half the time. When the resistance on the hills hit 12, oh dear Lord.

August 1: none-- had the oh-so-fun colonoscopy and the doc said no exercise.

August 2: 60 minute walk with a friend; 60 minute Zumba class

Totals:
1 day
120 minutes

Friday, Aug. 3:

15 minutes Stairmaster stepmill, resistance at eight, aerobic intervals
60 minutes back and biceps routine, the one with lat pulldowns and assisted pullups
45 minutes back on Stairmaster, dropping the resistance to seven

Sweating like a horse, and feeling really hungry after the first hour.

Wow. You guys make me feel like a total slacker! The only formal exercise I did today (and all I intend to do) is a 3-mile jog.

F.

Friday, August 3:
-Back/biceps/chest routine minus bent over row
-Kettlebell swings, windmills, lunges
-6 minutes on the stair stepper at resistance 11/12

Had to cut it short due to cramps >

August 3: 95 minutes bikram yoga. My fave instructor whom I hadn't seen in at least six months. I thought she had moved. The studio never posts who the instructors will be so it's always a surprise.

Totals:
2 days
215 minutes

So my friends tell me. Being with an obsessive personality like me can make a normal person feel weird.

You're fine.

We're our own worst taskmasters.

Saturday, Aug. 4th:

60 minutes endurance spin, with weight intervals
60 minutes back in my Pilates class, with all the discomfort and the exhilaration that entails

How is it that even with glacial airconditioning, the humidity outside somehow creeps into the gym, and I sweat like a melting popsicle? I had toe and foot cramps during Pilates despite all the water I drank during spin class beforehand.

Electrolytes, saef. Water doesn't do it.

Yeah. This thread is pretty intimidating for me. In addition to walking all day with groups of big dogs I do yoga, weights, cycling, kayaking, and paddleboarding. I never post specifically about it though as I don't measure it the way the regulars do here.

Dagmar

Sunday, August 5th:

15 minutes elliptical, manual setting, resistance at nine, going backward all the while, inspired by soundless images of Olympic runners
60 minutes shoulders, biceps and triceps routine
45 minute spin class, which I prayed would be easy, as the weights took a lot out of me.

Well, partly, I'm recording it because I have certain measurable goals, which I am closer to achieving.

I want to be able to do a certain number of unassisted pullups, a certain number of different kinds of pushups. I want to bench press a certain weight. And I want to be able to run a 5K at a certain time.

I record my progress the way some people record their weight.

And some people keep a food diary. I've got an exercise diary.

I must say, I am astonished at the number of views this thread gets, so there's gotta be some interest in it, aside from us participants. Maybe because some people just methodically read all the "recently updated" threads, as I used to do, when I first joined this place, and this is among them.