Maintainers Moving Through October
 

It's autumn, a time of summer ending and the colder months beginning. It's a transitional time, which means it's a good time to make changes, to try new past-times and new ways of living. The air is sharp and crisp like a newly picked apple. So bite into it. Kick up any leaves strewn across your path. Enjoy the body that you've been given -- it's the only one you're ever going to have. And get it moving.

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Monday, Oct. 1st:

45 minute spin class, with two weight intervals
60 minute circuit training class. That thing where we do bridge pose and roll an exercise ball back & forth killed my hamstrings.

Monday, October 1:
-18 minutes HIIT on elliptical. Ran out of time. Round 2 in the afternoon!

Hike this morning preempted by nasty cold rain. 4mi tonight. 4 sets pushups/stretching.

Like the photo and the words, saef.

Oct. 1: I bagged the swim and walked the dog (40 min, 2.25 mi) and did 60 min on the elliptical in the cardio cinema. Evening dog walk was rained out (again).

JohnKY, thanks, as in that initial post for the month, when I do it, I think of myself as creating an inspirational or motivational poster. We have those things plastered on the walls at my office, mainly in the corridors and stairwells. Of course, there it's just propaganda to get more work out of us.

Tuesday, Oct. 2:

15 minutes Stairmaster stepmill, resistance at eight, aerobic setting
60 minutes chest, shoulders and triceps routine
60 minute spin class with weight intervals

Monday afternoon, Oct. 1:
-5 mile run on bike path. Perfect weather, great run. 45 minutes.

Tuesday, Oct. 2:
-upper body weights routine. OK session.

Oct. 2: two 40 min dog walks (2.25mi each), spin class

Wednesday, Oct. 3rd:

45 minute spin class, with weight intervals

Nothing October 1

October 2: 60 minutes UJam class

Totals:
1 day
60 minutes

10/02

3 mi hike in morning. 2.5 mi over steeper hills in evening. 4 sets pushups/stretching.

10/03

2 mi hike in morning. 2 mi tonight. 3 sets pushups/stretching

Oct. 3: two 40 min dog walks (2.25mi each), power class

Thursday, Oct. 4:

60 minutes elliptical, random intervals, resistance at nine, half of it going backward
60 minutes Pilates mat class, sparsely attended because of on-and-off torrential rain.

Originally Posted by traveling michele:
Nothing October 1

October 2: 60 minutes UJam class

Totals:
1 day
60 minutes

October 3: 95 minute Bikram Yoga class. Great class....

Totals:
2 days
155 minutes

Wednesday, Oct. 3
-3.88 mile jog in 37:30 - in the rain. booo

Thursday, Oct. 4
-Upper body weights. Weak. LOVE ME some Arnold presses.

Oct. 4: two 40 min dog walks (2.25mi each), spin class, about 20 min raking leaves

10/04

3 mi hike this morning. 2.5 mi tonight. After dark even. No coyote chorus this time. Nice clear sky though. 4 sets pushups/stretching

Friday, Oct. 5th:

20 minutes Stairmaster stepmill, aerobic setting, resistance at eight
60 minutes back & biceps routine
40 minutes arc trainer, hill intervals, resistance at 10, which turns out to be doable

Originally Posted by traveling michele:
October 3: 95 minute Bikram Yoga class. Great class....

Totals:
2 days
155 minutes

October 4: 95 minutes Bikram Yoga

Totals:
3 day
250 minutes

Oct. 5: two 40 min dog walks (2.25mi each), 1 hour tennis drills, 55 min mowing lawn

10/5

4 mi hike tonight. 4 sets pushups/stretching.

Saturday, Oct. 6th:

60 minute spin class, with weight intervals
60 minute Pilates mat class

I was able to fit this in, though my mother is visiting because of her tendency to sleep in late, and mine to get up very early.

Oct. 6: two 40 min dog walks (2.25mi each), 10 min elliptical, spin class

Originally Posted by traveling michele:
October 4: 95 minutes Bikram Yoga

Totals:
3 day
250 minutes

October 5: 90 minutes Bikram Yoga

Totals:
4 days
340 minutes

Sunday, Oct. 7th:

15 minutes Stairmaster step mill, resistance at eight, aerobic setting
60 minutes shoulders, biceps and triceps routine
45 minute spin class, my favorite Sunday spin, no messing with high, speedy intervals with little 3-lb weights.

Originally Posted by traveling michele:
October 5: 90 minutes Bikram Yoga

Totals:
4 days
340 minutes

October 6: 90 minutes Bikram Yoga

Totals:
5 days
430 minutes

Friday, Oct. 5:
-12 minutes HIIT on treadmill, 10 minutes on arc trainer
-Dancing at the bar...

Saturday, Oct. 6:
-Rest day

Today, Oct. 7:
-Raking leaves all afternoon most likely

Originally Posted by traveling michele:
October 6: 90 minutes Bikram Yoga

Totals:
5 days
430 minutes

October 7: 60 minutes Zumba, 60 minute walk with work colleague distributing flyers for upcoming bond measure-- up and down stairs in an apartment complex. Was going to go to Bikram too-- got dressed, got in the car, and decided I was done. Went back in and took a long bath. Now I'm trying to type without getting bit by a very happy Wilbur-- when he is really happy he purrs and love bites.

Totals:
6 days
550 minutes

Oct. 7: two 40 min dog walks (2.25mi each), power class

Monday, Oct. 8th:

45 minute spin class with weight intervals

Full of guilt tonight. Usually I go to an hour-long circuit training class on Monday nights. I laid out the clothes for it but made a conscious decision not to attend, because I wanted to work on painting something with this rather cool Martha Stewart distressed-look crackle paint. I got my task done but felt some guilt last night and again this morning. But the world did not end and my body did not deteriorate overnight. And I got up & went to the gym the next morning, as usual, so it didn't signify the crumbling of my will or my routine.

Oct. 8: two 40 min dog walks (2.25mi each), 65 min elliptical

Tuesday, Oct. 9th:

15 minutes Stairmaster step mill, aerobic, resistance at eight
60 minute shoulders, chest and triceps routine
60 minute spin class with weight intervals

Originally Posted by saef:
Monday, Oct. 8th:

45 minute spin class with weight intervals

Full of guilt tonight. Usually I go to an hour-long circuit training class on Monday nights. I laid out the clothes for it but made a conscious decision not to attend, because I wanted to work on painting something with this rather cool Martha Stewart distressed-look crackle paint. I got my task done but felt some guilt last night and again this morning. But the world did not end and my body did not deteriorate overnight. And I got up & went to the gym the next morning, as usual, so it didn't signify the crumbling of my will or my routine.

I know it's easy for me to say-- and you know this-- but you shouldn't feel guilt over missing the gym ENTIRELY for a day-- we've talked about this before. Do you really think it is rational to feel guilt when you go to the gym once instead of twice in the same day? Of course not. Allow yourself some relaxation-- sounds like you did something you wanted to do!

Originally Posted by traveling michele:
October 7: 60 minutes Zumba, 60 minute walk with work colleague distributing flyers for upcoming bond measure-- up and down stairs in an apartment complex. Was going to go to Bikram too-- got dressed, got in the car, and decided I was done. Went back in and took a long bath. Now I'm trying to type without getting bit by a very happy Wilbur-- when he is really happy he purrs and love bites.

Totals:
6 days
550 minutes

October 8: very sore big toe so I didn't want to put exercise shoes on. That left me with Bikram Yoga, which I may be doing all week to let my toe heal.

90 minutes Bikram Yoga

Totals:
7 days
640 minutes

Tuesday, October 9:
-15 minutes HIIT on treadmill, 1.76 miles. I WILL be going back for weights tonight.

run/walk 8 miles.

Oct. 9: two 40 min dog walks (2.25mi each), spin class

Originally Posted by traveling michele:
I know it's easy for me to say-- and you know this-- but you shouldn't feel guilt over missing the gym ENTIRELY for a day-- we've talked about this before. Do you really think it is rational to feel guilt when you go to the gym once instead of twice in the same day? Of course not. Allow yourself some relaxation-- sounds like you did something you wanted to do!

Michele, I know it's not rational, but it's a big step for me NOT to go back for a second bout. That's as far as I can go, for now. I'm working on having no regrets about my choice to do something else.

In my excitement at returning to my gym, and its big menu of classes and instructors whom I like and am friends with, I have created a schedule that may not be supportable over a really long period of time. I'm just going to follow it & see how long I can do it before cutting back.

10/08

4 mi hike in evening. 3 sets pushups/stretching.

10/09

4+ mile hike tonight between a marathon soap cutting session. Came across some pretty tame deer obviously already bedded down for the night. 4 sets pushups/stretching.