Daily Workout Thread--Monday, May 22

[monarch64]

Good morning ladies!!! How was everyone''s weekend? Mine was pretty good...walked 20 miles (which just about killed me) on Saturday, and then another 10 yesterday with just a couple of the troopers from my team. We didn''t start yesterday until 2 p.m., which gave me some recovery time. The actual event (Avon Walk) is in two weeks! The whole walk is almost 39 miles, so we figured by doing 30 this weekend we could definitely do another 9 in two weeks. I have some pretty nice blisters, and the usual aches and pains, but other than that I feel really good.

Tonight DH has agreed to go for a short walk with me (2-3 miles) so he can see where we''ve been walking on Saturdays the past couple of months. It will be nice to have him as a walker buddy. Last night he was kind enough to make dinner (eggplant parmesan and mostaccioli). My eating hasn''t been the best lately, but I''ve been doing so much walking I''m more in a maintenance stage right now. After I finish this walk in the next couple weeks I will get back on a stricter calorie budget, but for now I just want to make sure I''m eating enough to keep up my strength and continue to build muscle.

Hope you all had a great weekend!

 

[bee*]

After an extremely lazy weekend, Im just about to head to the gym to try and get some excercise done. Well done on all that walking-thats a huge amount to walk over a weekend. Its always nice to have your boyfriend go walking with you

 

[AsscherGirl]

Monarch - congrats on all the walking! Glad the hubby is going to partake in a little bit also

BTW - love the new avatar!!

Well, I have officially not worked out now for 11 days in a row

. Being sick last week really killed my routine, but I also lost a pound due to not eating. Not my favorite way to lose weight, but I''ll take it

.

Today I am officially heading back to the gym. I feel good & ready & can''t wait to get back into it. We are going on vacation in 2 weeks (where I know I won''t be working out!) and I''d like to get in as much gym time as possible. I think I''m going to run today, I miss it! But I really do need to get back into a weight lifting routine - I can feel my muscles being a bit weaker & I don''t like that.

Good luck everyone else! I hope to see everyone check in!

 

[Mara]

hehe Danielle, i know the only perk about being sick is that maybe you'll lose a pound or two for all the suffering!!! bah.

gosh monarch, you are the PS walking QUEEN. you rock girl!

anyway, i went for a 2mile walk this weekend, yay...i feel more securely back on the wagon. i also did a bunch of leg exercises on friday and sunday nights and did a bunch of stomach work and weights for arms on friday afternoon and sunday afternoon (trying to alternate days). good news is i am able to do more with my arm now and it hurts for less time. so i think i may go to the cardio kbox class tonite. and then if my arm feels okay, my harder core kickboxing class on thurs. so we'll see. but i also intend to walk at least 1-2m the days i am not working out to do something. the last 2 weeks were WAY too lazy to make me happy.

however, it seems like this counting calories eating thing may be paying off!! nevermind that my weekend was fraught with high-calorie and fatty foods from all the eating out, last week we did great on our eating on wed and thurs and i don't know if i mentioned it already but i have been experimenting with less quantities for breakfast and lunch but higher fiber foods to keep myself full longer and it's actually working out great. so i plan to make mon-thurs GOOD DAYS this week and then next fri-sat won't be so bad...as it was this last weekend (we had a few events and things with friends to go to).

but on a positive note, i do see some additional changes in my body, YAY....and i think it's from the calorie counting and just watching more of what i eat. also maybe the smaller portions. so i'm really excited because i was kind of not seeing changes for a while and this calorie counting thing seemed like a way to jump start eating better AND less and knowing more about what i was putting in my mouth and it seems like my body is responding. so YAY.

 

[sk8rjen]

Monarch -- Great job with all the walking!!! 2 more weeks -- I bet you''re starting to get excited about the marathon now (despite the tents!)right? It''s so nice your man went walking with you.

Danielle-- good luck! It''s always so hard to get back into the groove of things after being sick...

Mara -- Sounds like the calorie counting is really paying off. I''ve done that before and it really helped --- and is good as long as you can keep up the good habits when the journaling stops. You''ve inspired me to pay more attention to what I''m eating. At first I was just happy to start going to a gym, but now I want results! Now!

So, anyway, I managed to get the ex to take the boys for an hour Saturday and went to the gym by myself -- for me this is a major obstacle! And I did it and felt great about it. Didn''t slack off because I was alone and didn''t feel paranoid. See with skating, I was always the person people "looked up to" at my rink. I used to be used to winning or being the best and as horribly cocky as that may sound, I just have to say in my own defense that skating is not a team sport and you win for yourself. Anyway, I always dealt with performance anxiety (which can be good or bad) and now it comes back to haunt me at the rink. I''m not even CLOSE to being the athlete I once was. The only thing I might win if I tried right now would be an eating contest! I WILL NOT skate in front of other people b/c I''m not like I used to be. And so I just don''t skate, I only coach. And so with the working out at a gym thing, I am afraid of being looked down upon, or basically laughed at by the people who have been there who "know what they are doing," or from the ones with the perfect bodies. Sorry this is so long-winded but does anyone else feel strange working out in front of people?? I may be in my own little anxious world here. One way or the other, though, I have to overcome this!

jen

 

[Mara]

oh and i also wanted to say that i tried to use fitday.com but it''s soooo tedious to enter things into the little data collector.

so i''m going to stick with my method which is just journaling using notepad on my computer and looking up the calories for things online (or from getting the nutritional info off things at home)...it seems to be easiest and take the least amount of time. the way for me to stick with the journaling is to make it as easy as possible and the fitday thing took me like an hour yesterday to just enter in my breakfast and lunch. i like seeing the % of carbs/fat/etc and all that in the little pie chart but adding it all in was tedious. i may use it off and on to see how many calories something like walking burns etc but other than that i didn''t find it that useful. but then again i''m just lazy!!

oh and i wanted to throw out there for anyone who likes ahi tuna, we tried a seared recipe last week, i posted it in the fish thread in FHH, it was seared with a cumin, garlic, five spice crust/rub and it was SO GOOD. we loved it and the cumin made it SO tasty. not bad for calories either. we had it with some veggies. this week we are going to make another ahi tuna recipe, also we are going to do the yogurt chicken kebabs again (with less yogurt and way more mustard), tonite is grilled chicken kebabs pre-marinated from Whole Foods, and then i''ll have to get creative for the last nite of this week. hmmm.

sk8...yah i know what you mean about the gym thing, i am SO not a gym person. i prefer walking outside or doing a quick 45 minute class to maximize the burn and minimize the time to feel weird or like people are checking you out. i also hate having to talk to people at the gym, thats not why i go there! and it''s such a meat market half the time. totally not interested, hello i''m married! so i get around it by going to karate/kickboxing classes and walking and things like that. but good luck with it, just keep to yourself, bring some music and plug away!

 

[monarch64]

Sk8rjen, I don''t think it''s cocky at all for you to admit you were used to being the best. I have never been competitive athletically, but I did play the piano very well at one time (well, better than anyone else I knew) and was used to getting awards at state competitions, etc. Now, I have a hard time playing even in front of my DH! He can totally tell when I make a mistake and without meaning to offend me once, he said "you sounded a little rusty!"

It wasn''t that big a deal, but it made me really self-conscious because I AM rusty, lol! When you are used to playing (or in your case skating) in front of an audience when you are at your peak it''s hard to do the same when you''re not. I just wanted to tell you I understand the mental thing that goes along with being really great at something.

I also am not a gym lover--I joined a women''s only club because I didn''t want to deal with the meat market atmosphere, and I love it. There is absolutely NO posturing, everyone is very supportive, and we have all ages. There''s even a limited amount of daycare, which is nice, although I don''t have kids yet we will probably stay around this area and I can foresee myself utilizing that perk. Still, I like to keep to myself and get in and out without really chit chatting...I save that for these long walks with my team from the gym, lol!

Thanks everyone, btw, for the encouraging comments. Believe me, I''m not all sunshine and roses when I have to get up early and do all this walking. Not to mention the fact that I haven''t planted one single flower this year due to walking all over creation every weekend! I am getting excited as the event gets closer. I am even starting to feel I will miss it, and wondering what else I can sign up for to keep myself physically active the rest of the summer (that isn''t so time-consuming.) I think I will try the beginner running program some others here have started, and hopefully I can find a 5k run around here to work for!

 

[fisherofmengirly]

I started going to the gym again last week. And I promised my dog that we''ll walk every morning and evening again, now that it''s warmed up again from the winter. We used to walk 3 miles twice a day. I think today, we''ll aim for 2. Anyway, at the gym *we go at lunch time* we went a little over a mile on the eliptical, did some dumb back exercises (they hurt like mad at the time, but now I feel all stretched out and good), and did side stretches with the bar. I love stretch day.

Maybe I''ll visit here every day now and get some ideas for us girls at work. Maybe. My goal is to lose 15 pounds. I like to make smaller goals, though, otherwise I get obsessive.

Wow, Monarch! 20 miles is some feat! In college, I''d go 6 at a stretch, but that was about as far as I liked to go. I do like 10k walks, but 30 or so miles would bust me!