Exercise Post.

[jademermaid]

Today was Physical Challenge which I hate, and it takes about 30 minutes. There is a physical challenge every ten workouts, where the program keeps track of your progress. Since I slacked off for a while and just started doing it again, my numbers are terrible, and of course it starts with a weight check. She does say that weight is not the important part, but it still sucks since I'm back up to my fat weight and I have to pretty much start all over again.

So here is what the physical challenge is like.

Weight: 230 (ouchy.)

It then has you take your resting heart rate and then you have to do cardio for 2 minutes It says jumping jacks but I can't do those because of my knees so I jog. The sight of me jogging is something more fit for cartoons than gyms, I must say.

after that, it's the challenges, which it keeps track of on a graph to plot your progress.

Squats 30
Crunches (full) 50
Pushups 10
Forward fold to check flexibility.

After all of that, I still had to do my workout. I can tell that my period is coming, but it's only 15 minutes more of hell, so I got to it.

15 minutes flexibility focus, Yourself fitness

2 sets of my homemade arm series with (I think) 4 lbs. in each hand:

10 bicep curls
10 overhead presses
10 lateral raises
10 tricep kickbacks
10 tricep extentions
10 bent over row
10 chest presses

I'm spent. I die now.

Comments

[elysiangirl.livejournal.com]

i did 20 minutes of fat burning and 5 minutes of cool down on the recumbent bike last night. tonight i have advanced class but tomorrow i'll do 25 minutes on the bike with a 5 minute cool down. it's my plan to add five minutes a day until i'm up to an hour. sometime between here and there i'm going to add some weight training, too. possibly next week.

[myrrhdusa.livejournal.com]

That's the best way to go, a little at a time. Before I would always start with a 30 minute cardio and then do a bunch of Pilates and walking, and I can keep that up for a month or so and then I start slacking off.

My plan this time is to do the 15 minute Yourself sections for at least three weeks, and only add on small mini strength or dance sections until I build a real routine. For me that is the hard part, getting to the point where I get up and go work out, instead of doing something else and pissing the day away, LOL.

I am glad you are going to do this with me, even though I hardly know you!

[elysiangirl.livejournal.com]

well, mebbeh this way we'll get to know each other better. :)

[myrrhdusa.livejournal.com]

Absolutely!

I have dreams of coming down for the teacher certification, but I have to save up the money. I admit I'm also a bit worried that I will be the fattest chick there, and that's sometimes a bummer.

[elysiangirl.livejournal.com]

noooooooooooo. don't think that! the beauty of our dance is it is for all of us, right? i'll be there!

[myrrhdusa.livejournal.com]

Really? If I do go, I will not have any transportation, I may hit you up for a ride to the studio from the hotel or whatever.

[elysiangirl.livejournal.com]

honey, if i can, i'll even put you up so you won't need a hotel.

[myrrhdusa.livejournal.com]

I may just take you up on that, all I need is a couch or a patch of carpet out of the way--I snore. :-)

Let's see if I can get the money together first!

[elysiangirl.livejournal.com]

i'm here when yer clear! ;)