Maintainers Moving in January....
 

Hope no one minds if I take the reins and start this thread!

January 1: 6 miles on the treadmill (51:53)
5 minutes foam rolling
45 minutes ab work

Thanks, Jen, for starting the new thread!


New Year's Day

20 minutes Stairmaster stepmill, aerobic, resistance at nine
60 minutes shoulders, chest and triceps routine
40 minutes back on the Stairmaster, same setting, which is hard to get through

This was not my strongest session.

Jan. 1: spin class

Tuesday, Jan 2nd:

45 minute spin class with weight intervals

January 1:
-Sat in a car, except when I was walking from the hotel to Chez Cora in Montreal, and then walked around Walmart in Plattsburgh.

I spent a week in Montreal several years ago, loved it. The exchange rate at that time was in my favor and I SHOPPED ! I had to go buy a new suitcase to fit it all, I swore my friend to secrecy, never to tell anyone I went to Montreal and went to KMart !
PS the trip to Kmart was to fit all my purchase from a great mall. I just couldn't resist when the salesclerk would "Madame, is perfect". I was going through a temporary thin period in my life at the time.

January 1: nothing-- not a great way to start the new year but I was flying back home and didn't have time before or after all of the travels.

January 2: 90 minutes Birkam Yoga

Totals:
1 day
90 minutes

Jan. 2: 18 min elliptical, power class (which was really hard today for some reason), 40 min dog walk

January 2: 50 minutes weight lifting (legs and glutes)

:D That's awesome!

January 2:
-30 min upper body weights (renegade rows, bench press, lat pull down, shoulder press, planks), 15 min jogging at 7.2 mph on treadmill. My quads are still absolutely destroying me from two days of leg press last week.

Thursday, Jan 3rd:

60 minutes elliptical, random intervals, resistance at nine, really a killer when it hits 13
60 minutes Pilates mat class, a humbling experience after my remarking to someone that my abs are visible now (though not chiseled, certainly, due to loose skin & some excess pounds)

January 3:

Ran late this morning.

-10 minutes running on treadmill at 7.2 mph
-10 minutes on arc trainer, resistance between 30-50

January 3: really fantastic 95 minutes Bikram Yoga

Totals:
2 days
185 minutes

January 3rd - DVD - Bob Harper's Pure Burn Super Strength (66 mins)
6 miles running on the treadmill (52:00)
5 minutes foam rolling

Jan. 3: 23 min elliptical, spin class, 40 min dog walk

Jan. 4th:

20 minutes Stairmaster stepmill, resistance at nine, random intervals
60 minutes back & biceps routine
40 minutes back on Stairmaster, really trudging for the last eight minutes or so & counting them down second by second

To the new people at the gym: I welcome you all, because I was once new myself. But ... do not use the seat of the lat-pull machine as a stand for your coffee and cellphone. It is not a small cocktail table. Nor is it a coat rack. Particularly if you are not using it. Otherwise this makes me keep glancing back at it, to see if it's unoccupied yet, and messes up the sequence of my workout, as I try to work around it -- and makes me anxious, because I am watching the gym's clock before work, worrying about whether I'll be able to finish my routine before I need to be home again & online. And I am a sensitive person who dreads any unpleasantness, so it's hard for me to say, "Excuse me, are you using that?" Because half the time, when I say that, no matter how politely I phrase it, it puts the listener on the defensive. So please don't use the equipment to hold your stuff. That is not what it's there for.

I hear you, saef. All the benches at my gym were occupied when I went to do chest presses. At least there were people on them, though, instead of being used as lockers.

Jan. 4: 35 min elliptical, 20 min rowing, a little ab work, 40 min dog walk

Hearing these stories I am so glad I don't have to go to a gym!

January 4: 5 miles running on the treadmill (43:25)
60 minute Yoga DVD
10 minutes IT Band exercises

January 4: 90 minutes Bikram Yoga

Totals:
3 days
275 minutes

Jan. 5: 23 min elliptical, spin class, 40 min dog walk

January 5 - 6 mile walk with dogs (1:35:57)
50 minutes weight lifting (lats and delts)
10 minutes IT Band work

Saturday, January 5th:

60 minutes spin class with weight intervals
60 minutes Pilates mat class, ugh, the leg part coming after spin was excruciating

Sunday, January 6th:

15 minutes Stairmaster stepmill, resistance at nine, aerobic intervals
60 minutes shoulders, biceps & triceps routine
45 minute spin class, straight up. At least five new people in the class, really new, new not only to spin but to the gym itself. The instructor was very welcoming and mentioned running a free wellness program at the gym, which is very intriguing to me.

January 6: 7.42 mile walk with dogs (2:01:33)
3 mile treadmill run (26:58)
5 minutes stretching
15 minutes IT Band work
6 minutes foam rolling

January 5: 90 minutes Bikram Yoga (only 13 people in class, and I was one of only four women)

January 6: 95 minutes Bikram Yoga (full class-- at least 35)

Totals:
5 days
460 minutes

Jan. 6: 30 min dog walk, 40 min dog walk, power class

January 4: Weights and 20 minutes HIIT sprints on treadmill.
January 5: -
January 6: 4 mile jog on bike path on icy snow. Amazed I didn't fall.
January 7: Woefully underfueled weights session - bench press, lat pulldown, barbell in the corner shoulder press.

I'm in this thread this year...

January 1-4: no formal exercise, sick. Did some halfhearted yoga during those days trying to clear my head, but nothing real.

January 5: 10 min warm up stretching. 20 min weight circuit workout, 45 min elliptical, 10 min cooldown
January 6: 3.2 miles of treadmill intervals, mostly running with a few .25 mile high incline walks for a change of pace

Shannon!!!! WELCOME!!!!! You are one of the people whose athletic efforts I so admired when I joined this forum a few years back. And Jessica was training for a triathlon; now she's training to grow & deliver a baby. And Becky was swimming & swimming. And Meg was training people, I believe. I miss Meg.

Monday, Jan. 7th:

55 minutes elliptical, resistance at nine, random intervals, a weird number because I warmed up for 10 minutes before my training session, then went back for 45 minutes more afterward.
60 minutes circuit training class

I'm not counting the training session with its deadlifts and attempts at a clean-jerk and military press, and the few minutes on the abductor/adductor machine, because we went light with the weights and I worked on form. So very little sweat, very little heart-rate increase. Just ... learning. Watching, learning, doing, correcting.

Krampus, that is scary, and I know what you mean, from my two years of urban powerwalking & running out-of-doors in all weather before I joined a gym. Please google "Yaktrax." That was my solution. Those things are amazing. I don't run out of doors in snowy or icy weather anymore -- arthritic big-toe joints limit my high-impact efforts -- but I still wear mine just for walking places in this area in bad weather. And they are not just for the athletic, they have really helped a few of my older relatives, who had confided their fears of walking in the snow to me.

Jan. 7: 35 min elliptical, 52 min swim (2000 yds), 40 min dog walk

January 7: 45 minute Zumba DVD
60 minutes weight lifting (back and legs)

That's amazing! I may invest in some, and suggest them to my mom, who is super wary of wintry terrain ever since sustaining grievous facial injury falling on ice back in 2004.

January 7 (afternoon): DB bench press, leg press, 12 minutes sprints on stair stepper.

Tuesday, Jan. 8th:

20 minutes Stairmaster stepmill, aerobic setting, resistance at nine
60 minutes shoulders, chest and triceps routine
40 minutes Cybex arc trainer, hill intervals, resistance at 10

And in the evening, 60 minute yoga class, to try it again.
Re-learning what I'd forgotten: Nothing makes me feel more ineffectual and anxious than a yoga class at the gym. I was, once again, the heaviest woman there. This is not at all like the classes that I took at CNY Yoga Center in Upstate NY, which is what helped get me through the aftermath of the flood. I already know that I don't like yoga classes held at gyms as much as yoga classes at yoga centers, but somehow, I forgot.

krampus - I've never used Yaktrax, but I've heard great things about them. I think Jessica was talking about them a couple of years ago, too.

Saef - thanks for the welcome! I'm not doing anything particularly inspired on the workout front right now. I remember those workouts of a few years ago, oh how the mighty have fallen. The one I did last night was light compared to those and I thought it was going to kill me. :)

Jan 7: I got a new workout application for my tablet and am using their workouts to try to spice things up a bit. Right now I'm doing bodyweight, fast transition programs. This one was called "President's Victory Workout" and was rated as "Intense" on the burn level, 18 min target time. It felt intense. :)

A 10 mins: WU(from Women's Health mag)- 10 bw squat, 10 push up, 10 window washer, 10 mountain climber, 10 forward lunge, 10 good morning, 10 spiderman, stretching
B. "President's Victory Workout", 19:30
1 round of: (AMRAP) 30s big forward arm circles, 30s star jumps, 50s lateral hops, 30s basketball shots, 30s side shuffles, 60s rotating lunges, 15s rest
1 round of: (AMRAP) 60s staggered arm spiderman pushup, 30s rest, 60s forearm dolphin pushup,30s child's pose
1 round of: (AMRAP) 60s sit up with reach ups, 50s hollow body hold, 20s rest
2 rounds of: (AMRAP) 60s thread the needles (side plank to thread the needle, reverse side second round), 60s Y-T-A, 15s rest
1 round of: (AMRAP) 60s bottom to bottom squat, 60 second squat front kick, 15s rest
1 round: 30s camel pose, 30s cat/cow, 60s sphinx
C. Elliptical - 30 mins, 1.75 miles
D. Stretching and cooldown - 10 mins

Jan 8:
10 mins stretching
45 mins elliptical
5 mins shoulder flexibility exercises

January 7: 90 minutes Bikram Yoga-- I'm not ready to face the craziness of the January gym so I'm sticking with yoga for now....

Totals:
6 days
550 minutes

January 8: Running 6 miles (50:08) OUTSIDE WOOT!
40 minutes Core, ab, IT Band work
10 minutes foam rolling

Jan. 8: 10 min elliptical, 11 min rowing machine, spin class, 40 min dog walk

January 8:
-25 minutes HIIT on treadmill at intervals of 4.0 mph and 9.5 mph. Phew!