Ah, those are dead bugs! Try doing them on a bosu

I can't get my legs sore anymore. This is a little discouraging. Generally I only get sore now if I do something really extreme

Mel

Okay Mel. So if we ever do get a bosu at our gym how is it done? Does the rounded surface go on the ground and you balance your back on the flat side or vice versa? Is it your back you center on the ball or another body part? I tried to google it and didn't find it. More importantly, have you really done this or are you just messin' with me now?

Tomato,

I think I need to take a dance class or something to justify those as a purchase but they are awesome

I did running this morning and then went to my first swimming lesson. Swimming lesson is good but I suck. Swimming teacher is ok with me sucking.

Totally voting for messin' with you there, Lydia. I for the life of me can't visualize it, plus wouldn't it hurt your back? Yikes.

Oh wow Alena, I just looked these up and they come in RED! too. Wow.

Glad I'm currently taking yoga though. It's one activity that doesn't require a new pair of shoes.

Actually the whole idea of bare feet really wigged me out for a long time. One of the reasons it took me so long to even walk into a yoga class. Feet. ugh. And there are some really ugly feet out there. Isn't that funny. I'm getting better though. I'm almost over it but that first night was hard. Really. To add to it there was a young woman sitting on a mat next to me who was picking her toes before class began. I was totally grossed out thinking "Stop that!" "Don't you know how hard this is for me."

Your hips go on the rounded side of the bosu, and yes, my week day workout partner and I do them. We've come up with some pretty crazy ab stunts and have only landed on our heads once

Today was a yard work workout. Why am I more sore (and not in a good way) from that than from deadlifting over 200 pounds? Must be all about form

Mel

Nelie, you need to sign up for Zumba; that's why I need them. My instructor just returned from a Zumba event in Florida and she got those in FUCHSIA. (or a very similar model). The fuchsia is nicer than the pink - I am just not a pink kinda gal. Oh well - all I care about is they fit.

Hah, Lydia, so you are into red! :-) Actually if the red was available in my size, I would have gotten it.
Sorry to hear about the woman picking her toes. That is gross - blech!
I, too, cast my vote to Mel messing with you. :-)

Yeah Mel, I wouldn't believe a muscle exists that you haven't found a way to isolate in the gym, so that's weird. But I have no doubt that you will come up with the leaf raker's workout sometime this week that simulates it in the gym, right?

Say........., what do you guys think would be the minimum amount of protein you'd need to get each day to have successful weight loss and build muscle? Not talking the rda, but I guess it will come in somewhere between the rda and 100g. I'm just wanting to make sure I'm doing all I can, w/o going down the kidney stones path again, to enable my efforts in the workout arena. THe weight is not dropping which has freaked me out this week (remember, I got tons to go and it should still be melting). However, I registered a 5%-age point drop on my bodyfat this afternoon, so that's cool. (cumulative, not just this week! ) Makes sense why my scale isn't being friendly, but I'm ok with trading fat for muscle.

Hey chicks! So, I'm not hobbling anymore. You gals??

It was my intention to repeat that sculpting video yesterday but I just didn't. No worries, got it done today After a 6 mile run

While I wasn't hobbling, I was moving more slowly than usual and grunting a bit thanks to those squats and lunges... that I just did again!

And in honor of my DS's 7th upsoming bday, I let him use my 2 pound handweights while we did the vid. He's so cute. They challenged him.

Have a mellow Monday, chicks!

HUGE congrats on the 5% drop in body fat, Sportmom! You rock!
I am having a retest at the gym tomorrow but mine won't be nearly as impressive as yours - maybe 0.5%? :-)

I followed through and did my NRLW S1WA1 this morning after my C25K W3D1 run. Everybody get that?? I am going to hurt tomorrow, but my knee is behaving! I added some protein to my breakfast in the form of nuts and extra nonfat dry milk in the coffee but still haven't come to terms with the protein powder. Maybe after the baby formula is out of the house.

I decided to suck it up and just go to the gym on Thurs for workout B. Yes, I dislike it, but there are so many more options there, that it just makes sense. I'm going on Wednesday to scope it out--I've been away for more than a year (maybe even 2!) and I think they've rearranged everything.

I have to run to get to work--lifting killed my surfing time this morning. I'll try to stop in tonight and chat more.

Thanks for all your support! It is very helpful.

Anne

I'm a bit hobbly.

Saturday - Physical therapy with walking around downtown DC.
Sunday - Longest run EVER, swim lessons and a few hours of chores/cooking.
This morning - Increased difficulty in runs by extending run interval. Walked dogs after run. This afternoon I have physical therapy again.

No kettlebells there which make me sad. Maybe tomorrow.

Oh and to note, I peeked ahead at my run schedule and next monday has me running 2 miles, no walk breaks!!! (well unless I absolutely need one)

I'm petrified although honestly this morning I had 4 minutes walking intermingled with my 20 minutes of running (32 minutes total for warmup, run/walk intervals and cool down).

can you explain this? sounds exciting-- is bodyfat calibrated w/age as a factor?

Hi Kitty, no, age has nothing to do with it. It's a measurement of your body composition - lean muscle and tissue vs body fat. I have a Tanita scale that measures it, and while people have opinions on the accuracy of the measurement (with most saying it measures too high), it is accurate for measuring trends. So when I started this I was at one number which measured my % of body weight which was fat, which we'll call X and now I am at X-5. Hope that helps.

Unlike bmi, body fat % is totally accurate and realistic. BMI takes into account height and weight and not much more. Most of the muscular women on this thread would have weird bmi's - ones that look much larger than they should, merely because they pack a ton of muscle and weigh more than a non muscular woman of the same size. There's no accounting for body composition in the bmi. That's why we all like bodyfat better - in fact, when we go to the dr and get our bmi noted we all have to bite thru our tongues to not launch into why that measurement is a complete waste of time!

i just realized--- %-age= percentage, duh!

very cool, sportmom. ain't progress grand?

I am less hobbly (good word Nelie) today. When I was doing the sculping vid, I did not use the 8lb handweights (didn't use them last time either), only the 5s. I think that has something to do with my mobilty. slowly slowly, I will work up to the 8s.

Something kinda cool struck me today.. I can see some abdominal strength in my obliques. neat-o. the rectus muscles are all stretched out and pulled apart. don't know if I'll ever get those back. gonna start trying, tho. won't know unless I try, right?