George--
Good for you.
Joe--
Tomorrow will be good for you?
Soz--
Wonder Woman knows the better part of valor.
Jes:
Unpalatable truths of the universe. Exercise is good for you.
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Yesterday was a day and night of unwelcome purging--although the pound of bloat that has been annoying me vanished.
Tomorrow, the world.
Refinement for January --
Walk on even days, lift on odd days. It works better with my goofy eating plan.
Jan 15, Jan 7, Jan 1 -- shoulders, abs, back, chest (check)
Jan 14, Jan 8, Jan 2 -- treadmill 4.0 miles with varying elevation, 650 calories avg, 68 mins avg (check)
Jan 17,Jan 9, Jan 3 -- biceps, triceps, quads, hamstrings (check)
Jan 18,Jan 10, Jan 4 -- treadmill 4.0 miles with varying elevation, 630 calories avg, 67 mins avg (check)
Jan 19,Jan 11, Jan 5 -- calves, gluts, inner and outer thighs (ckeck)
Jan 12, Dec 31 -- treadmill 4.0 miles with varying elevation, 675 calories avg, 68 mins avg (check)
JPB--
You're starting your Third Week of Virtue. Good for you.
25 reps with the weights. That worked out all right -- now I'm up to hearing 3 or so songs when I pop in a CD and start exercising.
JPB -- great progress!
Noddy, purging is good. Get the bad stuff outta there.
Onward and upward ...
Jex--
Purging can be purification or punishment. This last go-round was not particularly uplifting.
After four days of slacking, my muscles are aching for action. I just finished doing my shoulder and neck routine while sitting on the bouncy ball. This was not good for my ego--can my balance really be that bad?--but the rest of me benefitted.
On to stretching and the motorless treadmill.
Joe's Fantasy Run
Okay. 24 degrees F with winds out of the North at 17-25mph. I dressed warm. It was still cold with the wind blowing right through my jacket and tee-shirts. When I got out behind the Cloisters my frozen brain began to plot a shortcut....maybe take the bus back ,,,, or hop on the subway at 191st St....then the unfrozen part had to remind the frozen part that we
hadn't brought any money or a MetroCard.... the frozen part sulked the rest of the way up the hill.
2.21 miles.
I am officially out of Central Park and up to about 154th Street.
Joe(Yeah. Only 995 miles to go)Nation
Refinement for January --
Walk on even days, lift on odd days. It works better with my goofy eating plan.
Jan 15, Jan 7, Jan 1 -- shoulders, abs, back, chest (check)
Jan 14, Jan 8, Jan 2 -- treadmill 4.0 miles with varying elevation, 650 calories avg, 68 mins avg (check)
Jan 17, Jan 9, Jan 3 -- biceps, triceps, quads, hamstrings (check)
Jan 18, Jan 10, Jan 4 -- treadmill 4.0 miles with varying elevation, 630 calories avg, 67 mins avg (check)
Jan 19, Jan 11, Jan 5 -- calves, gluts, inner and outer thighs (ckeck)
Jan 20, Jan 12, Dec 31 -- treadmill 4.0 miles with varying elevation, 675 calories avg, 68 mins avg (check)
Noddy and jes -- thanks. I hate, Hate, HATE to exercise. I'm always glad for having done it, but it isn't something that I ever want to do. Mr B has exercised almost every day since before I met him. It's part of his day. Historically he would cajole me into joining him (sometimes grumbling and moaning) but I wasn't very self-disciplined.
I recently read an article about eliminating choice from the decision tree and to make it part of one's daily obligations. Just like you brush your teeth daily, get dressed to go to work, walk/feed the dog, etc exercise should be a daily ritual. No self-discipline required when choice is taken off the table.
It seems to be working. That, and I'm highly motivated to complete January and see how it all comes to pass with the goofy eating plan.
JPB wrote:No self-discipline required when choice is taken off the table.
Exactly! I've been realizing that that's why exercise videos work so well for me--it takes away the part where I have to tell
myself what to do next, which always involves a continuous debate as to how many reps, do I
really have to do shoulder exercises today, etc. I do so much better with someone just telling me what to do, while I follow along and turn most of my brain off...
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It seems to be working. That, and I'm highly motivated to complete January and see how it all comes to pass with the goofy eating plan.
Okay, I gotta ask-- just what
is the goofy eating plan we keep hearing about?
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Day before yesterday was a day off, yesterday was my lower body routine, today will be abs and upper body, IF I can force myself to do upper body stuff on my own--I ordered an upper body workout video on ebay, but I got ripped off; the seller has disappeared... *sigh* the risks of ebay-shopping...
Refinement for January --
Walk on even days, lift on odd days. It works better with my goofy eating plan.
Jan 21, Jan 15, Jan 7, Jan 1 -- shoulders, abs, back, chest (check)
Jan 14, Jan 8, Jan 2 -- treadmill 4.0 miles with varying elevation, 650 calories avg, 68 mins avg (check)
Jan 17, Jan 9, Jan 3 -- biceps, triceps, quads, hamstrings (check)
Jan 18, Jan 10, Jan 4 -- treadmill 4.0 miles with varying elevation, 630 calories avg, 67 mins avg (check)
Jan 19, Jan 11, Jan 5 -- calves, gluts, inner and outer thighs (ckeck)
Jan 20, Jan 12, Dec 31 -- treadmill 4.0 miles with varying elevation, 675 calories avg, 68 mins avg (check)
Bingo re the choice thing. It's very comforting, in a wacky way, to be able to just turn the page of the book, it says Monday and that's what I do and I keep turning the pages, do the exercises, until the page says Tuesday and I know it's time to stop. So much easier than figuring it out on my own.
For our walkers/runners:
http://www.mapmyrun.com/
Did a little over four and a half on Saturday.
Took Sunday off and put in a frosty two and a half today.
[Pawtucket RI to Providence RI]
[Within Providence to Roger Williams Park]
Week 3:
22.3 miles
Scheduled cumulative mileage: 60
Actual cumulative mileage: 64
I fit into those jeans I had mentioned a few pages back.
Now, it looks like I have quite a muffin top, but I did get them on and get them zipped all the way up, with no help and without having to collapse my lungs. I walked around in them, stretched a bit. I should be able to actually wear them in maybe a week or so.
3.1 miles done under a frosty full moon.
I'm at the tip of Manhattan
On the long run
Done a bit over 40 K. during the month.
Still a bit behind schedule.
Best "performance" (BIG quotation marks): 2.26 in one 500 mts. "dash".
boxing and step aerobics yesterday (also some weights and sauna)
boot camp today (also weights, ran 1.5 miles and sauna)
tomorrow boxing and total body
thursday SPAMALOT
friday some sort of gym workout
saturday boxing (technical)
sunday SHREK 3
Oh, that's what I'm doing wrong..... .
not enough Musicals and Animated movies,,,,
Joe(been doing my yoga though.)Nation
yoga... does it taste like tofu?
Still grinding away at 25 reps. Definitely felt it in the lower abs last night.
