During my cardio one day I was thinking how interesting it would be to know how many minutes I exercise in the period of a month.

So I am posting my exercise minutes daily in this threat and you are welcome to keep your data here too, so we can keep ourselves motivated.

I started it last April and I was shocked to learn that in 3 weeks I worked out over 3,000 minutes!!!!

What a motivation!!!
It has helped me to keep going, because I want to see the numbers of the minutes go up each day in this threat.

You can even break the months down and learn how many minutes you worked out each week (and use the info to analyze your weight loss in that period) or maybe after 12 months you could add all the numbers you’ve got and see how many minutes you exercised during the whole year.

You don’t really have to post every day, as long as you keep track of the minutes from previous days and post it at once. It is up to you...

* Make sure you get your minutes from your OWN last post.

You can see my threat from August here:
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/exer...re-august.html

This is an example of how I am doing it:
Before 30
Monday (May 3) 30
Total 60


Before 60
Tuesday (May 4) 45
Total 105

Lets MOVE!!!

Ok I'm game! I have an ap on my phone where I log all my calories and exercise minutes but it'd be fun to do it here where there's more motivation and support.


1st: 42 min (3.09 mile jog)
50 min (2.8 mile walk)

Previous: 92 min

Today : 60 min (One on One w/ Jackie intervals)

Total: 152 min

@ tafadhali, I'm wayyyyyyyy slower (takes me like 50mins to jog 3 miles), so I'd LOVE to be at 42mins. Working on it though. (UPDATE: at the start of September, it took me 51:59 to jog 5km, on Sept 28, I did it in 47:58, thus shaving 4 minutes of my time!!! It's still super slow I realize that, but for me it's very exciting!!!!)

@ topic, I'm in, I've just realized I should be doing this (logging my workouts).

Week 1: Starting Weight: 236.5
1: 73 (41 Jogging+32 Yoga) TOTAL: 73
2: 52 (27 30DS L3D2+10 Step Machine +15 Yoga) TOTAL: 125
3: 92 (44 Jogging + 15 StepMachine +33 Yoga) TOTAL: 217
4: 90 (43 Yoga + 27 30DS L3D3 + 20 StepMachine) TOTAL: 307
5: 46 (46 Jogging) TOTAL: 353 (Today was a struggle. I really didn't feel like exercising but I did it!)
6: 94 (27 30DS L3D4 + 67 Yoga) TOTAL: 447
7: 57 (24 Yoga+ 23 StepMachine) TOTAL: 504
TOTAL @ WEEK 1 ENDING: 504 minutes

Week 2: Starting Weight: 236 (think it was just a bad weigh in day, but we'll see)
8: 42 (42 Jogging) TOTAL: 546
9: 114 (72 Yoga + 42WiiFit) TOTAL: 660
10: 82 (46 Jogging + 36Yoga) TOTAL: 742
11: 98 (72 Yoga + 26-2mileWATP) TOTAL: 840
12: 39 (27 30DS L3D4 + 12-1mileWATP) TOTAL: 879
13: 82 (47 Jogging + 35Yoga) TOTAL: 961
14: 63 (38-3mi WATP + 25Yoga) TOTAL: 1024
TOTAL @ WEEK 2 ENDING: 1024 minutes

Week 3: Starting Weight: 234 (Tues/Wed seem to be real crappy weigh-in days but ah well...)
15: 83 (83- 6mi WATP) TOTAL: 1107
16: 26 (26 Yoga) TOTAL: 1133
17: 52 (52 Jogging) TOTAL: 1185
18: 118 (72 Yoga + 46 Jogging) TOTAL: 1303
19: 67 (67 Yoga) TOTAL: 1370
20: 94 (39 Jogging + 55 Yoga) TOTAL: 1464
21: 59 (38- 3mi WATP + 21 Yoga) TOTAL: 1523
TOTAL @ WEEK 3 ENDING: 1523 minutes

Week 4: Starting Weight: 233 (TOM + midweek weigh in = blegh!)
22: 45 (27 30DS L3D5 + 18-1mi WATP) TOTAL: 1568 (Been feeling kinda run down but staying motivated to exercise).
23: 64 (27 30DS L3D6 + 37 Yoga) TOTAL: 1632
24: 32 (27 30DS L3D7 + 5 -800m-race) TOTAL: 1664
25: 27 (27 30DS L3D8) TOTAL: 1691
26: 61 (61 Yoga) TOTAL: 1752
27: 0 (Nada! I feel bad about skipping for the 1st time this month but will be back tomorrow) TOTAL: 1752
28: 70 (48 Jogging + 22 Elliptical) TOTAL: 1822
29: 67 (67 Yoga w/Cardio) TOTAL: 1889
30: 64 (47 Jogging + 17 Elliptical) TOTAL: 1953

TOTAL WORK OUT MINUTES FOR SEPTEMBER: 1953
ENDING WEIGHT SEPTEMBER: 229.5 (-7 LBS)

Ohhh girls... this month wont be a good one for my workout... I have too much going on and will have to skip few gym's days.
No exercise on September 1st - I went to a concert and ate terrible too! Pizza and beer!!! oh well... I am right back to the wagon today...

Thursday (September 2) morning 60
total 60

Toastedsmoke, the fact that you're running 3 miles is awesome! I'm thrilled I'm able to do 3 miles. I shouldn't focus on time but I want to enter a 5K in Dec and I don't want to embarrass myself. Of course, even if I get faster I'll probably cry or do something equally rediculous (like a fat lady doing a victory dance on the finish line) when I finish the race.

Tafadhali, TRUE! I remember struggling to jog for 5minutes so even though it's discouraging when everyone's slowest times seem faster than my fastest, I still try to keep it in perspective. Plus, trying to get faster keeps it interesting/ gives me something to work on.

9/1- 1 hour 15 minute walk. TOTAL= 75 mins
9/2- 20 minute walk. TOTAL= 95 mins

Before 60
Thursday (September 2) evening 150
total 210

It will be a tough few weeks for me. No much exercise as I'll be out of town. But will get right back on track once am back home.

Before 210
Friday (September 3) 120
total 330

Before 330
Saturday (September 4) 150
total 450

Before 450
Sunday (September 5) 120
total 570

Monday (September 6) NONE

Please help me out!!!
I went on vacation last week, eat like a pig and now I came back exactly when my gym membership expired and I am having a hard time to go back to my moving groove of 2 1/2 year.
I need your help chicks!!! I need words of encouragement...
Please HELP ME!!!

Belezura, leave the vacation blip where it should be left- last week. Ok you had fun and maybe ate a little more liberally than you should have and ok possibly took a break from your usual exercise schedule, but now you're back and it's never too late to fix things. It was only a brief blip.

I doubt that in the one week you were away you've gained back all you've lost and gotten super unfit. In your posts, you seem like you were pretty hardcore with working out and you can and will be again. Re-do your gym membership ASAP if you can and until then you can do workout dvds at home or go running or some other non-gym work out. You don't have to slam yourself back into 2-hr workouts immediately. Maybe since you seem to have been used to 2-hr workouts, you can commit "only" 1hr to working out per day and I'm sure within a week you'll be back in your groove.

Take a deep breath, calm down and don't stress alll your vacation relaxation away. Make concrete plans to work out today and re-do your gym membership.

HUGS!

awww toastedsmoke. Thank you so much for come to my rescue. I knew someone would come with nice words of wisdom trying to "reboost" my motivation!
I got back to the gym yesterday and worked out just like I was doing before... I even went today too.
It still a bit hard to get me there, but I am hopping everything will be back to normal soon!!!
Thank you very much again
Bele!!!

Belezura is back baby!!!!

Before 570
Tuesday (September 7) 120
total 690

Before 690
Wednesday (September 15) morning 90
total 780

Before 780
Wednesday (September 15) evening 60
total 840

Before 840
Thursday (September 16) morning 95
total 935

Before 840
Thursday (September 16) evening 50
total 985

Yay, you!!!