Maintainers in Motion, Marching Toward Health
 

We're moving into this transitional month as fiercely as lions, hoping to depart from it as meek and calm as lambs.

The only achievement you need to be aiming for to be part of this thread is your own health.

You don't need to spend hours in the gym or in your home exercise room or out on the roads. Every step in a walk around a block counts. Housework and lugging groceries and gardening counts.

And I'm far from militaristic, but I liked the big smile on the Korean soldier nearest to the camera. Looks like she's having fun with her high kick.

http://onthefiringlines.com/wp-conte...-marching1.jpg

Saturday, March 1st:

60 minute spin class, the usual peddling
60 minute Pilates mat class, absolutely packed, like everyone's taking advantage of dry, clear roads (despite the lingering frigid temperatures) to be with other people & in other settings before the coming snowstorm shuts us all in again.

March 1: 60 minutes weight lifting (lats delts biceps)
P 90X Yoga (67 mins)

Thanks again for starting the thread, Saef.

March 1: 100 minutes bikram yoga; in the afternoon I ventured to the pool at my gym to try swimming laps. It was as I thought....hard! I made 12 laps and was dying! I'm sure I'll have to build up endurance. Maybe 15 minutes swimming? And swimming makes me so hungry!

Totals:
1 workout
115 minutes

Sunday, March 2nd:

30 minutes Cybex arc trainer, hill intervals, resistance at 10, nowhere near as difficult as the StairMaster -- but I looked at that thing and felt bored with it.
45 minutes shoulders, bicep & tricep routine
45 minutes leg routine

March 2: 10 miles running treadmill (1:28:30)
30 minutes foam rolling

My spring fever has also manifested itself by an irresistible need to organize and clean. This meant a trip to Lowe's yesterday and over 4 hours today scrubbing, painting, moving things - I am WIPED. I had to burn some cals though!!

March 2: I was just exhausted today like way more than I should have been! And starving! All from swimming 12 laps I'm not used to??
100 minutes bikram yoga today

Totals:
2 workouts
215 minutes

Whew!

Saturday, March 1 (I typed "May" accidentally, I WISH!): 3.06 miles treadmill running (26 and something), 10 minutes backwards treadmill walking/forwards incline walking. Almost threw up because I went too soon after eating.

Sunday, March 2: rest day

Monday, March 3 AM: 1 mile warmup on treadmill, barbell squats: 1 x 8 at 55 lb, 2 x 8 at 95 lb, 1 x 6 at 100 lb. 50 KB deadlifts at 45 lb. Calf raises, 3 x 8 Bulgarian split squats (40 lb), planks.

Monday, March 3rd:

Treadmill, running for 30 minutes straight, but slowly, from 4.5 to 4.8, then walking and sprinting from 5.3 to 6 to 6.3

Deadlifts, five sets of five, with the bruised shins to prove it.

March 3: 50 minutes elliptical 30% ramp angle 5 resistance
30 minutes foam rolling

Tuesday, March Forth!

30 minutes StairMaster, still only partly mastered
60 minutes shoulders, chest & triceps routine

March 3 PM: 1 mile on treadmill, DB bench press, DB shoulder press, DB bent over rows, DB tricep extensions, bench dips, planks

March 4: 20 min HIIT on arc trainer. Wiped out from double weights day

March 4: P90X Core Synergistics (57 minutes)
7 miles running treadmill incline 2% (59:26)
30 minutes foam rolling

March 5: very rushed again. 1 mile on treadmill in 7:44, lat pulldowns, 100 glute bridges with 45# plate (owwww), planks

Wednesday, March 5th:

45 minute spin class, again skipping the weight-lifting intervals to pedal away, and feeling delighted to have gotten in my exercise at 6 AM, leaving the evening free for whatever