My biggest New Year's Resolution is to get serious about my exercise program. My weight loss slowed drastically the last 3 mos of the year, due to a lot of reasons, but I'm sure exercise will help kick things back in gear. The problem is I am basically a very lazy person, and also absolutely clueless when it comes to exercise. I have limited resources, since I live in a tiny town, and the closest gyms are about 20 minutes away. I don't have time to get to them on lunch hour or in the morning, and I wouldn't know what to do once I got there anyway! I have been walking, but that is it.
So, my current plan is to step up the duration and intensity of my walks.
My friend and neighbor has a Bowflex, and has suggested we get together several times/wk to use it. I am so clueless that I don't really even know what that means. When we were discussing it the other day, I mentioned that I wouldn't have any idea what to do with it, and her husband gave me a surprised look and said, "well, you just push on it." So, I'm assuming it's a weight/resistance training kind of thing. Anyway, I'm sure she will show me how to use it, and that's a start. Other than that I wonder if I need to add some cardio? What about exercises to firm up other areas like the stomach or butt?
I know lots of you chicks work out, and any advice you have to get me started would be appreciated.
We have a big new municipal center in town, which is practically across the street from me, and hardly gets used for anything except scouts meetings and town meetings, so I'm going to take the initiative to try and find some people to teach different exercise classes there, but I'm sure it'll take a while to get that going.