Daily Workout Thread 4/5

[MissAva]

Good Morning Ladies! Today was an easy day cuase I hurt my foot

and cannot do weights. I walked five miles and then went home. It feels good to get my blood going again. I hope everyone else is having a great and less spastic day.

 

[fountainfairfax]

Hello to everyone!!!

I''m back on the workout scene

but I changed my workouts to evenings when i feel that i can''t get up at 5 am- so I went last night after work, did 45 min on the arc trainer. Tonight I''m going to try a beginners sculpt class- maybe i''ll be able to get some cardio in before or after!!!!

Keep up the wonderful job ladies!!!!!

 

[fountainfairfax]

I meant to add- sorry to hear about your foot, matatora- but 5 MILES!!! you put me to shame!

 

[Buena Girl]

Matatora- I hope your foot feels better soon!!

fountainfairfax- Great work!!

As for me, my foot has improved, but I still can''t walk totally normal. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks it will be good as new

In the interim, I bought the Swiss Ball book that njc suggested. I''ve looked through some of the exercises and I am ecited to give them a try. And last night I finally bought a Swiss Ball! Now I just need to get the stupid thing pumped up. I was told that I could go to a gas station and use those things that puts air in tires.

 

[ammayernyc]

Hi all.
I missed the workout thread yesterday!

I had a bad, bad, bad eating weekend. Pizza and wings, chicken picatta and mashed potatoes, lots of wine and martinis (had a wedding). However, at the wedding we did dance for about four hours. Boy, I have never in my life missed that hour of sleep like I did this weekend!

I did an hour of cardio yesterday. My leg was really begining to hurt but I was good and didn''t wuss out. Today I had my trainer and used some heavier-than-normal weights.

I''m going to the Bahamas on May 12 so I want to be ready for it! I might have to buy a scale to check my progress, but I''m afraid those numbers are going to discourage me...

 

[ky6]

Hi all-

Matatora: I am impressed that you were able to walk 5 miles with a hurt foot! Talk about dedicated.

fff: Good job on changing your time and sticking with it rather than just blowing it off for the day.

buena: those swiss balls are amazing. we just started using them in my cardio class. i have always had pretty strong abs (due to a lifetime of upper respiratory problems and coughing a lot!) and have never been sore the next day like I was after doing just crunches on one of those things.

amma: Great job on not wussing out and up-ing your weights. As for the bad food weekend, I think you definitely made up for it with the 4 hours of dancing!

Let''s see, Friday I was a total slacker and didn''t do anything, except go eat lots of pizza (bad, I know). But Sat morn I went to cardio. Afterwards, I went to bf''s house and helped put up a privacy fence (plank by plank)- so that was a fair amount of exercise. Sunday, I was totally lazy, and lounged pretty much all day. But I don''t feel bad about that, because I normally go work a full day on Sunday and it was nice to just have some weekend time to relax for once! Last night I went to cardio. But before that I ate myself silly. I got off work a couple of hours early and sat at home (I had cleaned the night before, so I sat on the couch and watched daytime). Anyhow, i got up to look for a snack and ended up eating 2 oatmeal cream pies, 2 pkgs of easy mac, and a solid milk chocolate bunny from Easter (dipped in a jar of peanut butter of course!). OMG, I felt like I had cement in my shoes that night at cardio. Anyhow, I am thankful that I do not sit at home all day (and be tempted to eat crap like that).

Tonight I am going to weight lifting.
Good luck everyone on sticking to your routines and keep up the great work (oh and stay away from chocolate bunnies- they are evil

)

 

[njc]

Good job Mata... hope the foot gets better soon! Are you back at school now?

FFF - I could NEVER get up to go to the gym before work. I started doing the right-after-work workout. I love it. Some days i really have to talk myself into it, but then when i get home i can sink into the couch knowing i can rest all night!

Buena - You are going to LOVE that swiss ball. Mine actually came with a little foot pump. If you dont mind spending another couple bucks you could probably pick one up at wal-mart/target. Doesnt the book explain the moves really good? Its like it doesnt over complicate it.

amm - Have you ever measured yourself? That might be a better alternative to weighing. I weighed myself at the gym the other day to the sound of a 2 pound loss (YEA!), but once i thought about it, 2 pounds in 4 weeks didnt sound so hot. But then FI reminded me of all the lifting i had been doing and that i was going to see results in inches, not pounds, which is true. I noticed over the weekend that all my ab stuff has been working (mostly the swiss ball Buena!). My little "pooch" is starting to go away!

ky6 - I love that you dipped the bunny in the PB! That sounds soooooo good right now!

 

[ammayernyc]

I''ve been surprisingly good with not cheating -- I have about two boxes of Godiva chocolate in my house from when I had a brunch party about a month ago. One of them is still sealed, so I would feel enormously guilty opening it, but the other is open and I''ve only gone in there once!

I cannot workout after work. I am too tired and find too many excuses. I find it much easier to just wake up in the morning and go. That way, when I''m done with work I''m done for the day. I also find that workout out makes me less hungry (unless it''s swimming... then I could really almost eat my cat I''m so hungry when I finish).

I haven''t weighed or measured myself since I began my serious workout routine. I think I''m just afraid. I''m going by the how-loose-are-my-clothes method. Good news is they''re not getting any tighter (except for my jeans which I accidentaly put in the drier). Today even my newly dry cleaned pants fit without being even a bit tight. OH... the big news, I guess, is that I wore my formal dress again -- the one which sparked my seriousness when I saw myself in a video in it and I looked like a pregnant hippo... It has always fit, but when I asked my bf if it looked any better he respond first (and correctly) that he always thought I looked beautiful in it

, but that it was much easier for him to zip up this time. Yeah!

Sorry for ranting...

Everyone else is doing such a great job I wanted to share!!!

 

[Mara]

ama..I highly agree on the measuring thing vs weighing...I swore by the tape measure last year when I was getting ready for the wedding, the scales always lie in my opinion.

i have always weighed more than what i look like since i started running track in high school. also they scales must be calibrated correctly AND if you have more muscle than fat then you weigh more etc. Measurements for me were more accurate, and I knew where I wanted to be. I measured myself when I started and then from that point on about every 2-3 weeks. It was mostly my waist and hips/butt that I was interested in seeing a change in. When I started cutting back carbs to about 1/4 of what I had been eating before, I lost another inch at my waist in just 2 weeks which was amazing for me since I have kind of a straight waist and not alot of curve there, and don''t lose weight in that area normally.

that said, Bahamas on May 12! That''s my 1 year anniversary. Have fun!!

 

[teebee]

Hey ladies!

Well, yesterday was my rest day and today I worked out at home. I had wanted to get to the gym to get in some extra cardio but had so much to do and ran out of time. But there''s always tomorrow!!

My eating has been totally 100% clean. YAY!! My only problem is sometimes I eat a little later than I should in order to get enough calories in... otherwise I''ll fall below 1200 calories and I know from experience how that slows my metabolism to a complete halt... I know I need to get started earlier in the day ~ but mornings are not my friend!!!

Other than that ~ having a little knee situation... Not sure what to do about it. It doesn''t necessarily hurt, but it feels slightly ''whopperjawed'' (anyone know that word?) or out of whack. Sorry for all of the technical jargon!! I''m just thinking for right now I''ll keep using the arctrainer & recumbant bike at the gym and hope that continuing to strengthen my muscles without much impact will help? And I''m taking glucosamine & chondroitin for whatever that''s worth.

Amma ~ definitely agree about the measurements vs scale. THE SCALE DOES NOT TELL THE FULL STORY!!!! I have a good friend that weighs about 150 lbs but man, she is ROCK SOLID. Not bulky or overly muscular, but very lean & no fat; wears a size 2. Just looking at her, I''d guess she weighs about 115 but that muscle is so much more dense than fat. So, really I try to use my scale as just 1 tool to measure my progress and I place a much heavier emphasis on what the tape measure and the fit of my clothes tell me.

 

[Mara]

a comment about eating late being bad for you...last year i read an article that noted it was a total myth...which was interesting. it noted that your body does not burn any less or more calories if you eat late vs eat earlier, as long as you don''t eat and go straight to sleep, or something like that...the article was noting it was WHAT you ate that was the problem regardless of whether you ate it early or late.

anyway i was glad to see it as we eat late, aka i have no yet had dinner yet, so will probably eat around 9 and then go to bed at 11:30pm or so..and i figured all of that food regardless of what it was was going to my BUTT...but this article noted that was not the case.

i will have to see if i can find it, a friend fwd''d it to me last year.

another random comment about working out and fat/body changes...i told my mom this the other day when she was complaining that her stomach is not getting flatter even though she is doing tons of crunches a day. she is also still eating her fave sweets and fatty foods. my kboxing trainer pointed this out to me last year. he said...you can do crunches until you pass out. but it will not get rid of a ''fat roll'' or a poochy stomach, that is FOOD consumption and *what* you are eating and how much of it. you may have a six pack hiding under your stomach and don''t even know it! so it''s a combo of doing the workouts and eating right...i know for me carbs go STRAIGHT to my gut and bloat me out right away...but i do not cut all carbs out, i try to eat the healthier ones (aka fruits and veggies) and not processed...of course that does not always work but i swear i can see my stomach pop out the minute i eat a piece of bread or something. it''s somewhat interesting and very sad...i love bread! i have never had an absolutely flat six pack stomach since i was all of 14...but it helps to know what causes that..oh and bad genes. thanks mom!

 

[MrsFrk]

Scales suck rocks. Feh!

I run marathons, yet according to my BMI I am verging on obese. Oooooo-kay. My husband calls me the dwarf star, I am so dense. Short and muscular, I am shaped like a Turkish weightlifter.

I don't even know what I weigh, I don't look when I go to the doctor, but I would guess 135-140-ish, I wear a size 2-4.

To get rid of the pooch, you gotta ditch the carbs, eat lots of lean protein. I always had a flat stomach (god gave me a huge ass but a flat tummy) until I turned 29 and acquired a getting-ready-to-have-babies pooch. I eliminated everything white (sugar, flour, rice) and only ate complex carbs. Didn't alter my workout routine (I basically just run a lot, with some Pilates thrown in) but the pooch vanished. Good riddance.

Matatora, I love your Boston, and I hope your foot heals up quickly.