Well this week and weekend i hope to get atleast 3 gym workouts in, and get on the elliptical at home my busy days, which is like all week for me, people off work and filling in OT, and we are going to haev a heat wave here so nothing like working out in the sauna heat...
So Wed, Thurs, Sun my gym days...
Mon and Fri, Elliptical days...
However its been so hot, I think I've sweated out a couple pounds just doing normal activities....
Sunday 7.1: Nothing (worked all day and night until 2:30am on the ambulance)
Monday 7.2: Nothing so far, but the day isn't over yet
Tuesday 7.3: Nothing.
Wednesday 7.4: Nothing
Thursday 7.5: Nothing.
Friday 7.6: I finally did something! Yay! 40 reps on the ab-lounge, 10 reps of 4 different exercises with 5lb hand weights, 10 reps on each leg with leg lifts, and I'm *hopefully* gonna go for a walk, if my friend can go (I hate walking alone)
Saturday 7.7: Nothing except walking the halls at work, nothing unusual.
Sunday 7.8: This is what I plan to do today - 30 minute walk, 30 minute workout video, 20 minutes on the sationary bike, and 20 minutes of weight training/ab-lounge. All this to make up for lost time this week. And because I have a whole lot of energy for some reason today, so might as well use it!
Monday: 35 min. elliptical, 35 min. weight lifting, 15 min. stretching
Tuesday: 45 min. elliptical, 35 min. weight lifting, 25 min. stretching
Wednesday: 37 min. run
Thursday: 20 min. walk
Friday: 40 min. run
Saturday: 20 min. walk
Sunday: 35 min. run, 15 min. walk, 10 min. stretching
Lalique - I bet working on the ambulance is a work-out!
I did well on my exercise this weekend, despite obsessing about a grant deadline on Tuesday. I swam on Saturday, then planned on going for a walk that night. Since I was working that night, I didn't get out when I had planned. Then, at midnight, I walked down the stairs to leave and I discovered my 3-year-old on the stairs drinking her dad's soda. So, I couldn't leave until I had brushed her teeth (I didn't even know she could open it!) and gotten her back to sleep. I think the caffeine must have kicked in because it was 3:30 before she FINALLY went back to sleep. Since I still had work to do and I didn't want to break a hard-earned habit, I went running at 4:00 a.m. - 2.5 miles! It was beautiful to see the sun rise. I then went for my normal evening run on Sunday and took my 13-year-old daughter with me. We pushed each other, and I upped my distance to 3 miles, even mixing in some sprinting with my very slow running pace! So, a good weekend, though I didn't go swimming this morning as I usually do. No sleep and a deadline throw me off track, but I am hoping to go for the swim in the early evening and maybe a short walk later.
3 mile run today. I have 7 planned for tomorrow, but it's my anniversary and I'm thinking about getting up early and cooking breakfast for my husband (something I pretty much never do). I'll probably try to get up early enough to do both.
I have found that as the weather gets hotter here in Texas, I am having a difficult time in wanting to exercise. I have a gym that I will join but some friends of mine are going to start walking around in the early morning hours in Wal-Mart. There aren't many people there at that time and it's nice and cool.
Tammy
Lalique - I bet working on the ambulance is a work-out!
Oh it is!!! But not nearly enough to help me lose weight. And I really need to get better strength in my arms because lifting the cot with a patient on board is nearly impossible for me (most of my fellow crew members don't even expect me to do it), we're supposed to be able to lift half our body weight (that would be 110 pounds for me) to above-shoulder level... And that isn't even as heavy as lifting the cot with a person on it, because the cot itself weighs 50pounds, and the average person weighs at least 150lbs (most men weigh 200pounds), so that means lifting 250 pounds to chest-level just to put the cot in the back of the ambulance. And everyone can do that except me.
The other day was a good workout. I was in the 106 degree weather with a black uniform on for almost 3 hours on a major car wreck. It put a new meaning to the saying "sweating like a pig"
So this was buried on the fourth page, no wonder I didn't see it. I haven't been ontrack this week. It shows in my exercise:
7/1: Walked Trixie, 30 minutes
7/2: Logged over 7000 steps on my pedometer
7/3: Nothing
7/4: The Firm Cardio Sculpt, 55 min and mowed the lawn, 30 minutes
7/5: Nothing
7/6: Nothing, unless you count walking around Wal-Mart pushing the shopping cart
Weekly Exercise Thread, July 2-8
40 reps on the ab-lounge, 10 reps of 4 different exercises with 5lb hand weights, 10 reps on each leg with leg lifts, and I'm *hopefully* gonna go for a walk, if my friend can go (I hate walking alone)
SAPF!
Way to go on another 10, Lisa!
