No, I love my butt too much !!
First session at gym-personal trainer Ricky took me through all the machines, weights, cardio etc, is planning a routine that I can do in an hour, first day of real toil tomorrow, I will report back with more details then.
I will be doing 20-30 minutes of strength/toning work followed by 20 inutes on the rower-moving to 40 minutes as I get fitter, three times a week. I will also run 6 miles twice a week.
I have an issue with spending more time on aerobic machines than about 20 minutes to warm up. I'd rather walk someplace for 40 minutes, but do I do that? No.
Hiama, looks good - I had a chat with my personal trainer in the morning, and he recommended that I continue with the same program which I had before I stopped completely.
15 min on the bike (random program so I dont know what is gonna hit me)
15 mins on the elliptical trainer (again a random program)
15 mins on the treadmill - running at 9mph
And then weights...
Jeez !!
9 mph! That's fast. I don't work out in a gym anymore, but when I did, I was very proud to get to 7 mph.
see that's 45 minutes of aerobics I might not get bored of.
littlek - I only get very bored when I am running - so what I do is to get on the treadmill behind an attractive bottom - and think of it as "running towards my goal" - helps me to run faster as well Soz !!
I see how that could work. But, the gyms I've been to, the treadmills are all pointing at TVs, not lined up front to back.
autam,
I read somewhere recenly that its better to do the weights first so it warms your muscles up and stretches them for the cardio workout.
Thats why I am doing it that way round.
I like your routine, like Little K I can't run on treadmills it does my head in, I'd rather go for a tramp in the woods, sometimes I even catch him !!
hiama - I dont stick to a sequence - I just pop on to the first available machine or as my mood strikes me !!
Routine bores me
The first three letters in diet are DIE.
Exercise is either boring or painful.
I'd rather drive a nail into my shin than run on a treadmill.
I haveta say I love treadmills. Running, not walking. Get into a very zenny state, and it's the single best physical way for me to stay in shape. It bored me to death when I started, since I've always been a sprinter and wanted to go as fast as I could and then collapse from exhaustion rather than plod along at a fastish pace for a long time, but I converted.
HIAMA - what do you do with the tramp when you catch him/her? Wait.... tramp as in roamer or tramp as in hussy?
i hear ya, sozobe. i can drive myself to work out so that i am not able to move without significant pain for 3 days after that. what can be better than pushing when you think you can't do a single push/pull/lift anymore? (chocolate?)
Yeah, I'm really bad that way. I have no patience for namby-pamby exercise even when I am in no shape for anything but namby-pambiness. I'm very all-or-nothing, which is why this motherhood thing is probably good since I'm in "nothing" mode gym-wise but am genuinely getting a lot of exercise without thinking about it.
OK, you guys are seriously making me want to get back to the gym, though. I think there's one nearby that offers free childcare... hmmm...
I hate gyms..... I wish I didn't.
"All or nothing?" So you're the type of women who stand in the mirror beet-red, getting mad, slapping yourself in the face while getting fired up before hitting the stairmaster?
Kewl.
Uh, yeah.
Sorta.
Not really.
My face does turn alarming colors, though.
