The getting back in shape thread

[Cazzi]

Good plan!

I've not been overactive the last couple of weeks with spinning heads, knackered knee & the latest, dodgy elbow & having visitors etc but I started back with a vengeance today!
Taking the swimming easier though, I need to get my knee fixed, there are talks of hill walking & hiking coming up in the nicer weather

[Rapscallion]

Got quiet in here. My knees were awkward last week and I had a load of manual work, so I decided to avoid straining them.

Today? 35 minutes, 608 calories.

Rapscallion

[Cat]

2 hour 15 min hike!!


Then I celebrated by eating chocolate and chips....heehee. Still under the cal count

[BookstoreEscapee]

Monday - 40 minutes on the treadmill

Today - 50 minutes plus a few arm machines

[Cat]

Fate hates me, the b*&%$.

Allergies kept me from working out, as I mentioned. Yesterday, I'm feeling GREAT so I decide to hit the gym....nope, car radio catches fire (sorta). SO I just go for a quick calm-down walk.

Gained a little weight....its either muscle or water-weight, as I don't look too different (if its muscle I am happy, water I am annoyed at nature)

Will yet again try for the gym....hope I make it!

[Cazzi]

But I AM doing something!!

Meh.. the something turned out to be lugging heavy bags around town for an hour or so, didn't realise I needed so much stuff!

Tomorrows exercise will be gardening...I'm having a load of landscaping bark delivered

On the plus side though, today's weigh in saw four pounds off!
Its a bank holiday weekend this weekend though & I'm having visitors & BBQs & beer etc.. I can see it all going back on next week

[Cazzi]

How many people 'cheat' and do quicky workouts at the grocery store? I do! I do curls with jars of peanut butter, I do basket lifts and use my biceps/triceps, I also stretch sometimes when I'm stuck in line.

Cutenoob

At the slimming group I attend, all that would be counted as exercise.. anything from gym & swim down to ironing, cleaning windows & leg lifts & torso twists sat in a chair watching TV

These grrrrrr allergies have kept me from doing any work outs, and I feel like a blob

Not allergies (yet) for me, but I managed to really ruck my knee up by pushing myself too hard swimming.. then last week developed a nice case of labrynthitis so not been out of the house in about a week apart from my trip to the docs on Friday!

I'm barely dizzy now so definitely going to slimming group tomorrow then can't decide on a gentle swim or taking a book to gym & just parking my bum on one of the recliner bikes for half an hour or so

But I AM doing something!!

[Cat]

These grrrrrr allergies have kept me from doing any work outs, and I feel like a blob I miss my hiking endorphins.


I *did* do an hour og Wii Step and lifted weights during it, without being winded, so allergies are indeed clearing up and I haven't lost any strength.

I'm trying to plan 2 "major" hikes before NH....a ten-mile trek in a nearby park and another summit of Mt Everett.

[Der Cute]

I did a brisk walk the other day (was pissed) but it helped.

800 calories, Raps? Wow. I think it would take me working out for an hour or so to get that.

How many people 'cheat' and do quicky workouts at the grocery store? I do! I do curls with jars of peanut butter, I do basket lifts and use my biceps/triceps, I also stretch sometimes when I'm stuck in line.

Cutenoob

[Rapscallion]

Nearly forty-six minutes, 800 calories.

Rapscallion

[Cazzi]

I pulled weeds for two hours.

Hmm in that case I declare 2 hours mucking out a teenage boys bedroom! Housework is exercise

*shudder* the socks I found.....

[Evil Queen]

I pulled weeds for two hours.

[Rapscallion]

Forty-five minutes, 802 calories. Damn, but I went for it.

Rapscallion

[Cazzi]

Had a quick workout weds before slimming class where I found I'd put on half a pound But I did have a swollen knee & hormones
Had to cut it short yesterday too as I needed to get back for an engineer to come fix my heating & hot water!
Today I was going to make up for all that but instead am just about to go off to the docs as my head is spinning,.... I feel drunk without the alcohol

[Cat]

Been doing my lunchwalks and hiking after work....so I've been good

Sadly though, my allergies hate me and I wasn't able to do anything, though I will try to get some Wii in later.

Tomorrow is the boy and my 3rd anni, so it's gonna be a big dinner and wine night....hope I get a hike in soon!