Got up at 6:30 and did 30 minutes of aerobics and have just been for a 1.5 mile walk in the lunchtime sunshine

Am determind to build some muscle to get rid of the fat

yesterday treadmill...today chucking logs :lol:

OK what have I done since Monday - lots

Tues - walk
Wed - swim
Thurs - swim
Fri - walk and areobics
Sat - aerobics
today - a wee rest I think

Have great plans for next week too, have been working my butt off. It will pay off in the long run - won't it ?

Great Job Carol..you deserve a rest ;) what have i done since Tuesday? nowt :lol: so i'm going to treadmill at 2pm when the movie comes on :D

Didn't have a rest - ended up doing 40 minutes of aerobics in the evening

Today I have just walked nearly 2 miles (my estimate - need to buy a pedometer) in the spring sunshine.

That will be me for today

Got my @rse on my treadmill as promised so i'm a happy camper today :)

Washed the cars, the spring sunshione was showing all the winter dirt from the roads.

We now have 2 lovely clean blue cars, probably means it will rain tonight and ruin all my hard work, I put a lot of effort into getting them cleanish !!!!

Am going to have a go at Kathy Smiths Pilates for ABS tonight. A friend lent it to me and she says it's a good one, she really enjoyed it. Wish me luck, I have no idea what I'm getting myself into with this.

Chris let us know what the vid is like :^: i walked for 4.25mls yesterday and 'burned' 465 cals if my treadmill tells the truth :lol:

Hellooooooo, ok this is what I thought about the vid. It's great if you can do pelvic floor exercises, hold your tummy in so you can make a curve (think about keeping a marble in place above your belly button), lift your bum up all nice and tight and make your ribs feel like knitting needles by poking them out, all at the same time while lifting your legs, head and arms in different motions. What was this pilates? A contortionist? I must say, I found it all very interesting, but unless I lose all the fat to be able to make these curves and such, I can't see me doing it very well. Kathy Smith also keeps telling you to breath, and quite fast which I found quite difficult and was always on an in breath when she was on an out.....I think I'll stick to Tae-bo for a bit longer :)

Am definately going to avoid pilates, sounds painful.

Got up this morning and did 30 minutes of calanetics, am beginning to get there with the stomach exercises, managed to do 50 roll ups of the first one, she says to do 100 and I managed 30 of the next 2 and 15 of the last one. Am getting better at it but it is hard.

Walked at lunch time with a colleague from another office who is working with me for a few days. But I walked slower than usual although with all the chatting my tongue got a good workout - not sure if that counts

Went for a walk tonight, reckon I must have gone about 2.5 miles and carried a load of shopping back for the last one of them.

All this is supposed to be good for you, but all it is doing is making me sleep.

:lol: sounds more like a childbirth class than an exercise class Chris :lol: totally different to the one i bought these girls go like the clappers :eek: before i've done one 'rep' and tried to follow what they are doing they've finished and started something else :yikes: needless to say i have'nt tried doing it again :lol:
I have'nt tried Callenetics again either..i really need to set up another tv..one to watch and one to play video's..then i'll get the best of both worlds :dizzy:

It did put me in the mind of child birth actually, legs akimbo going in different directions whilst in some pain and trying to breath...LOL! Needelss to say, I gave it a miss tonight and watched 24. It was very exciting and I even hada few tears at a soppy bit. Does crying burn calories I wonder?

Crying must use some cals cause the body needs to do some work to produce them, think you may have to cry an awful lot for it too make any difference.

Got up at 6:30 this morning again and did the back to front work out on my Lorraine Kelly tape - will no doubt ache tomorrow night

Went for a stroll again at lunchtime and a real walk tonight when I got in from work.

Am hoping to go swimming tomorrow night, but the local pool has a ladies only night and you can guarnatee it will be mobbed, not my idea of fun, am going to go surfing in a wee while and see if I can find any details on the pool in the next town.

This is a pilates exercise that I was shown and found very helpful but its not at all like the video Chris tried (which I won't be buying just yet!). This exercise is really effective:

Lie on your stomach on the floor and grip your forearms then rest your head, face down, on them. Try to lift your tummy button off the floor (imagine you are holding your tummy button away from a spike that is sticking up through the floor) and hold those muscles tight for a count of twenty. Relax then try again. Remember to breathe! I couldn't do ab-crunches until I tried this exercise and it made a difference in a couple of days.:)

Managed 32 lengths swimming on Tuesday and also tried "combat aerobics". Ahem. This was great, it consisted of someone standing behind me holding the middle of a giant elastic band taut. The band had a handle at each end and I held one in each hand and had to punch the air, in different directions. It was great fun with our trainer telling us to imagine it was our husbands! Backs of my arms ached yesterday.