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Do you keep a workout journal?

August 29, 2010 By 6 Comments

Do you keep a workout journal to keep track of your daily workouts? I have a ton of journals for various things and I carry around a cute little notebook with me at the gym to keep track of everything I do.  This week I also started mind mapping my workouts and LOVE it.  I’ll show you sometime what that is all about.

Do you keep a workout journal?

Sorry I missed posting last weeks workouts.  I had one personal training session and one spin class before I left on my business trip. And I didn’t workout AT ALL while I was traveling unless of course you count dragging my almost 50 lb broken suitcase (thank you American Airlines LOL) all over the airport.  Last time I went to this conference I woke up extremely early to workout in the hotel fitness center before all day sessions started but was actually worn out by lunch every day because networking goes late in the evening so I got no sleep. This time I just made it a point to walk to restaurants and only hitched a ride out to eat once with a friend.  My food choices were not that great this time around.

But this week was good.  I got in some good workouts but wait until you see the schedule for this coming week. Yikes!

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Mat Pilates workouts here I come

August 27, 2010 By 2 Comments

I can’t believe I will be subjecting myself to this because a while back I took a Pilates class or two with Kevin (hubby) and I did not like it at all.  Don’t get me wrong, I love the instructor but I didn’t care for mat Pilates workouts.  I would much rather be standing more like you do in Yogalates (another class I took a long time ago).  So starting Tuesday I’ll be back at it because I really want to see a difference in my body over the next 6 months.  I know I need this class and once a week won’t hurt me right? or will it?  HA!

Some of you may not be familiar with Pilates so here is a link where you can read more about it.

What is Pilates?

And since I am still so new to mat Pilates workouts, I can’t really tell you the difference between all Pilates workouts so I would like to guide you to this article.

I have been told that it is best to begin by doing mat Pilates because you can modify it as a beginner pretty easily.  My main goal with taking the Pilates class is to strengthen my core to help me master my vertical knee raise challenge but it has many other great benefits.

Benefits of Mat Pilates workouts

  • Great for balance, flexibility and strength.
  • Low impact
  • Great for ab/core strength
  • Improves posture
  • Body awareness
  • Whole body fitness

and many more!

I have no idea how many calories I burned when I took Pilates class but once I send my HR monitor for repair and get it back, I’ll be sure to check to see how many calories I do burn in the class.  I think this will be a good addition to my normal routine of spinning, running, personal training, etc.  We shall see!

Do you do Pilates workouts?

 
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Monthly Check In for August

August 15, 2010 By 7 Comments

Free coiled tape measure healthy living stock photo Creative Commons

My monthly check in stats are down below under Friday’s workouts.  It was a pretty good month but I sure hope to blow those numbers out of the water with my Sept. check in.  I have a long way to go but I am starting to feel really good and know that I can do it.  This weeks workouts were decent but I know I can do better.

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Healthy Living Conferences, Sports Bras, Low Carb Cooking & more

August 14, 2010 By 2 Comments

Happy Weekend!

Here are some of my favorite links that I came across this week……

Nelson over at The Breakfast Cook has a low carb cooking challenge this week. I have never done low carb so I don’t really know anything about it so check it out.

There are two healthy living/fitness conferences that I would love for Kevin (hubby) and I to attend one day.  There are mostly women attendees from what I have seen but I’m sure he wouldn’t mind. Ha! You might be familiar with the conferences Fit Bloggin ’11 & Healthy Living Summit.  They are both on my future wish list.  Speaking of them Healthy Living Summit is in CHICAGO this week and I couldn’t get a ticket because they sold out in like 12 MINUTES. Bummer!  Roni, the creator of Fit Bloggin is cool!  I have had the great pleasure of meeting her in Chicago a few years ago when a group was here for a Quaker sponsored event and they planned a blogger meet up.  Check these events out and I hope to meet you at one or both of them in the future!

Shelley over at My Journey to Fit has a great post on sports bras.  Perfect timing as I really need a few new ones and have no clue where to go.

One of my favorite blogger fitness inspirations is Tina from Carrots ‘N’ Cake. She just did a few videos for Fitness magazine recently and they are so cool.  You have to watch (scroll down a bit to see the videos but also be sure to enter your best tip for staying hydrated)!  This was all about 80′s fitness fads.

Did you find any great links/blog posts this week?  Feel free to link in the comments.

 
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Decisions Decisions

August 13, 2010 By 1 Comment

Question?

Remember this post back in January, where I mentioned that my husband and I were thinking about signing up for the Reggae Marathon 1/2 marathon?  Well we did decide to go ahead and sign up that same month and I have been trying my best to run since then and to be honest I’m truly struggling.  It’s not something I really enjoy YET but I decided to still go for it until I started having breathing issues as I was running outdoors and sometimes indoors too.  I have been given instructions on how best to breath while running, I have a book on breathing and I’m still failing miserably.  I definitely don’t want to give up however I am really thinking about downgrading from the 1/2 marathon to the 10k at this point.  I still want to participate and after speaking with the race director I can choose the run/walk for either the 1/2 or the 10k but I think I would really like a medal and finisher’s certificate instead of the possibility of having to back out during the 1/2 and then get disqualified and get nothing.  Does that sound crazy?

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My Vertical Knee Raise Challenge

August 8, 2010 By 6 Comments

So my new trainer had me try out this new (to me) piece of gym equipment where you can do a variety of things but he tried to get me to do vertical knee raises and I completely failed LOL  I have now challenged myself to be able to accomplish this task by the end of September.  It is so hard because I have hardly any really good upper body strength.  Hubby can hop on it and go to town and not only do knee lifts but leg lifts too.  I have a really long way to go!  Have you ever seen this vertical knee raise machine?

I have tried it a few times now and just have to laugh every time because I really do look like a total fool on it HA HA!  It’s going to be a major challenge.  Please send good thoughts my way because I’ll really need them LOL

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