Maintainers on the Move, Marching Forth
 

When someone says the word "march," I don't know about you all, but I think of several things: The month. A uniformed high school band with a huge drum. The family in "Little Women." And very persistent birds walking upright across frozen fields.

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Let us all show the persistence of penguins as we move through the month of March, maintaining our hard-won health and fitness.

[P.S., Yes, this title means I'm thinking of you, Lori Bell, and wishing good things for you in the coming month.]

Friday, March 1st:

30 minutes Stairmaster stepmill, resistance at nine, random intervals, and this was like punishment today
60 minutes back & biceps routine
30 minutes back on the Stairmaster, which is usually easier on the second bout -- but this time, it wasn't.

Look, I did it. It wasn't pretty today, and I didn't want to, but I did it.

March 1: a couple of hours of casual doubles tennis

March 1: 6.1 mile run (48:12)
1 hour yoga dvd

Hiking with a woman who runs a weight loss support group. I am one of her "wellness experts". We were going over the subject of the talk she wants me to give this month on eating your vegetables. I had to stop and laugh out loud at how much my life has changed. Former almost-couch potato who loved her candy and junk food, now an "expert" on activity and eating well!

Saturday, March 2:

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


Another lackluster workout session, this one again due to my not getting in enough sleep. I forget that part of the equation at my peril.

March 1: 90 minutes bikram yoga

Totals: 1 workout
90 minutes

March 2: spin class

Haven't any exercise to report, just wanted to say I love the title "March Forth". I kind of think of "76 Trombones" wlth all of us trying to keep in step.

Originally Posted by bargoo:
Haven't any exercise to report, just wanted to say I love the title "March Forth". I kind of think of "76 Trombones" wlth all of us trying to keep in step.

Marching is much better than waddling a la the penguins. :lol: Although if I remember the documentary correctly the emperor penguin males don't eat at all while babysitting their chicks - for months! They must all be really skinny by the end of that - no waddling due to corpulence there.

Dagmar :dizzy:

March 1st: 1.65 mile run
March 2nd: 1 mile run & 90 minute Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga class

I've set a goal to run at least one mile a day in March. I have a 5 mile race booked in two weeks and on Sundays I usually run at least 3. The weekends will be easy, it's during the week I'll have to really really work on it, but if it was going to be easy I wouldn't have to set the goal :)

March 2: 45 minutes weight lifting (shoulders, lats, delts)
Insanity Max Recovery (48 minutes)

March 2: 1 hour fitness walk

Sunday, March 3rd:

15 minutes Stairmaster, the usual setting, realizing that I sweat so hard partly because of the layer of warm air that has risen toward the gym ceiling & the height the machine raises me to
60 minutes shoulders, biceps and triceps routine
45 minute spin class

Originally Posted by traveling michele:
March 1: 90 minutes bikram yoga

Totals: 1 workout
90 minutes

March 2: 70 minutes Spin class-- the computer on my bike was wildly inaccurate and I quickly realized it was saying I was burning more calories, going faster, etc. than I actually was. I started having fun with it to see how high I could get everything to go. According to the computer, I went over 40 miles and burned over 1700 calories. Don't I wish!?:carrot:

Totals:
2 workouts
160 minutes