Leslie Sansone May 2024 Walk and Workout Challenge
texasgardnr
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WELCOME to all walkers!
May 2024 is here! And time to start another new monthly challenge! Surely beautiful flowers 🌸🌼 and other signs of spring are finally here! You know.... April showers bringing all of those beautiful May flowers that we looked forward to last month. Hopefully we shall have some extra sunshine to brighten our days, as well as our outdoor walks
This group is open to any and all 🚶♀️ walkers 🏃♀️. Many of us use Leslie Sansone as well as other favorite instructor's walking or workout DVDs 📀, as well as those great walks or hikes outside on the trails or pathways that are available to us, or a walk in our neighborhood, or on the treadmill. All of these many options count toward our miles, steps, or minutes.
However you get your walk in, come on in and join us! Whenever you are posting what you have accomplished please remember to also share any strength 🏋️♀️ training 💪 or other types 🧘♀️ of workouts 🤸♀️ that you are doing. We all benefit greatly by learning from one another and getting new ideas.
The goal that you choose is your own personal goal for this month 👟📅.
If you find this group any time during the month it doesn't matter which day of the month that you join in. Just set your goals to reflect what you hope to accomplish during the remaining days of this month. It is never too late to join in
, you are always welcome!
We are a happy, supportive group, and I promise that joining this walk challenge will motivate, challenge, as well as inspire you!
Let's tie up our shoes and get some water, and walk strong, together 😃😉😄, because....
Together we can do this....
texasgardnr 🌺🦋🌷
May 2024 is here! And time to start another new monthly challenge! Surely beautiful flowers 🌸🌼 and other signs of spring are finally here! You know.... April showers bringing all of those beautiful May flowers that we looked forward to last month. Hopefully we shall have some extra sunshine to brighten our days, as well as our outdoor walks
This group is open to any and all 🚶♀️ walkers 🏃♀️. Many of us use Leslie Sansone as well as other favorite instructor's walking or workout DVDs 📀, as well as those great walks or hikes outside on the trails or pathways that are available to us, or a walk in our neighborhood, or on the treadmill. All of these many options count toward our miles, steps, or minutes.
However you get your walk in, come on in and join us! Whenever you are posting what you have accomplished please remember to also share any strength 🏋️♀️ training 💪 or other types 🧘♀️ of workouts 🤸♀️ that you are doing. We all benefit greatly by learning from one another and getting new ideas.
The goal that you choose is your own personal goal for this month 👟📅.
If you find this group any time during the month it doesn't matter which day of the month that you join in. Just set your goals to reflect what you hope to accomplish during the remaining days of this month. It is never too late to join in
, you are always welcome!We are a happy, supportive group, and I promise that joining this walk challenge will motivate, challenge, as well as inspire you!
Let's tie up our shoes and get some water, and walk strong, together 😃😉😄, because....
Together we can do this....
texasgardnr 🌺🦋🌷
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Happy May Day!!
May Goals
Mileage tracked 80
Apple Challenge: 12 workouts of 5 minutes or more for the month.
I hope to continue to add more strength training this month.
We're looking at 70's through the weekend so I'm hoping to pop out early and get my walks in.
Ry continues to gain some strength back. He had an excellent visit with our Chiropractor yesterday and slept decently last night. He's still having to pace himself but maybe we can get him out for a small walk around the house this afternoon.
During the episode, I remained fairly calm and was more in a protection mode instead of panic. I know what he needs and can assess him b/c I'm with him 24/7. The nurses were just guessing and grabbing at him, which made things a little worse. Once they figured out it was a stroke or heart attack most of them left. Then it was just 1 Nurse and myself. That allowed me to leave him and run to the car to get our go-bag. It was also how I figured out I wore the wrong bra that day! 🤣🤣0 -
Got my walk at the Park in 1st thing this morning and even played around with the fitness court.
A little bit of rain and then we settle into a lovely weekend.0 -
I didn't get much sleep last night due to some storms that came through. I had to be up early for my mammogram today too. Taking today as a much-needed rest day. Tomorrow, I should be back at it and on Sunday I'm going to the Lantern Festival at the Zoo with some friends. I know I'll get some mileage that night.0
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20 min walk with Leslie and 6 minutes of Arms with Jessica to start my day.0
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May Goals: Accumulate More than the 88 miles achieved in March on my Garmin!
May 1-Miles 2.3: Total Garmin Miles 2.3
May 2-Miles 1.7: Total Garmin Miles 4.0
May 3-Miles 1.1: Total Garmin Miles 5.1
May 4-WAH: 2 Mile Power Walk: Miles
I have come to the conclusion that my life is going to be too chaotic to have much of a plan for the next two months beyond moving as much as I can. Dennis has decided to buy a new truck, so we now have added appointments for that. He is having knee replacement surgery and we have classes and appointments we have to do before that happens on June 3, and now we have mice to deal with! All of a sudden, my life is not my own! :laugh:
In case you did not know this, mice can get into your dishwasher!!!!! :noway: I opened my dishwasher on Monday to add my dishes and a mouse ran out of it and one was dead in it!!!! :sick: I had to unload the whole thing, wash the dishes, sanitize the dishwasher & all its filters, reload the dishes and sanitize them. Apparently, this is not an uncommon problem and Maytag dishwashers are known for it. I have a GE and have never had this problem before. Then, I went to get my peanut butter pretzels and apparently, the mice like those too as my upper cupboard had been raided and this never happened before either. Mice are usually a fall problem, but this spring has been awful for them. I came downstairs to do my workout and my desk is covered in droppings so they are in the ceiling. UGH!!!!! So now I am cleaning everything and spraying with peppermint to drive them out with the added benefit of also driving out the spiders!!!! This better work because mice are destructive and yucky and causing me a ton of work!!!!! :explode:
I am so glad to hear that Ryan is getting stronger again. He is lucky to have you. I do very well in an emergency, but I fall apart after and am useless!!! You have incredible stamina and I am not surprised that you need some down days.
I am going to workout when I can, but track here every day whether I can work out or not. I need accountability and I will probably do more (like walk around the hospital, car dealerships etc) knowing I have to log it. I need my job back!!! Life was so much more predictable when I worked! :bigsmile:1 -
May Goals: Accumulate More than the 88 miles achieved in March on my Garmin!
May 1-Miles 2.3: Total Garmin Miles 2.3
May 2-Miles 1.7: Total Garmin Miles 4.0
May 3-Miles 1.1: Total Garmin Miles 5.1
May 4-WAH: 2 Mile Power Walk: Miles 3.0: Total Garmin Miles 8.1
May 5-WAH: 1 Mile Heart Healthy: Miles
We have decided we need a vacation from the woods. Both of us have noticed a complete lack of energy or desire to do anything and we think we need a change of scenery. So, we are headed to Watertown ( a small city about 2 hours away) for a long weekend in a couple of weeks. He wants to go to the Seaway and the winery that is up there and the Commissary at Fort Drum as well as some other places. We find that we miss traffic and people, believe it or not, if we stay in the woods too long. Hopefully, this will cure our malaise.
I was on my feet cooking all day, but it did not amount to too many steps so I added a 1 mile workout in and I feel better! Leslie is right, even a mile helps.
No mice today so maybe the peppermint did the trick as there have been no spiders either. Last night, I was down in my office, which is under the kitchen, and I heard what sounded like a mouse so I banged on the ceiling and about scared Dennis to death!!!! He was in the kitchen and the noise I heard was him getting a snack! :laugh: That will teach him not to raid the cabinets when I am away. :bigsmile:1 -
May Goals
Mileage tracked 17 / 80
Apple Challenge: 12 workouts of 5 minutes or more for the month. 6/12
I went to the Lantern Festival last night and had a great time. It took about 90 minutes to walk through the whole thing. They had it broken down into 3 sections: Chinese culture, Ocean, and Insects. Glad I mentioned it to some friends otherwise they probably would never have gone.
As most people like to take a vacation to the woods, a vacation is rightly due if you live there. Even if it's only a mini one.😁 Poor Dennis, lol. He'll have to make announcements about getting food from now on.
This morning I tried a new 1 mile Power Walk on the Walk at Home YouTube page. They posted the new video a few days ago. The guy leading, Tanner, did ok but it just isn't Leslie. 😕 It was still a decent walk with a few minutes with the stretchy band thrown in.
I saw that the new page I found, Improved Health, just posted a new 10-minute workout. I'm considering doing that tomorrow.0 -
May Goals: Accumulate More than the 88 miles achieved in March on my Garmin!
May 1-Miles 2.3: Total Garmin Miles 2.3
May 2-Miles 1.7: Total Garmin Miles 4.0
May 3-Miles 1.1: Total Garmin Miles 5.1
May 4-WAH: 2 Mile Power Walk: Miles 3.0: Total Garmin Miles 8.1
May 5-WAH: 1 Mile Heart Healthy: Miles 2.6: Total Garmin Miles 10.7
May 6-WAH-1 Mile Happy Walk: Miles
I spent all day deep cleaning my upstairs because it was so beautiful out today. I opened all the windows and just let all the dust fly out! :blushing: Tomorrow, I am doing the same thing on lower floor. The spiders are going to get the message that my house is no place to build webs!!!! Still, I am trying to keep to a workout schedule, even if it is only 1 mile. 15 minutes I can always find.
I am very worried about @texasgardnr though. The floods in Texas are awful and seem to be covering much of the state, Houston is a pond. I hope she is OK and lives on high ground.
Yeh, I have tried a couple of the new walk leaders and I just do not like them. I use Leslie's older ones most of the time because I just feel old when I look at the new leaders in their muscle bound workout gear. I am very anxious to get into Improved Health as well. I am hoping that I'll have some time to focus on that site in the next few weeks.
You are racking up the miles this month!!! You go!! :bigsmile:
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Took a rest for today. We had a new dryer delivered yesterday, and we had to finish the installation b/c the poor young kids had never seen a ridged vent before and broke 2 elbow joints. They felt so bad and were very honest that they had never seen a setup like that before and were very impressed by it. But all that put me a bit behind so I did laundry catch-up today.
Luckily, the laundry room is right by my office, and we were working with e-mail issues for most of the day.
We just had tornadoes south of us in the Kzoo / Portage area. It doesn't sound good right now. Some hail 4" in diameter was reported, and multiple touchdowns. 🙏🏻
It may show up on national news tomorrow. We only got a little rain.
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My errands this morning kept me from a workout but I'm looking at later afternoon or evening to still get some time in. Ryan may attempt a few laps on the bike.
Laundry catchup continues.
So work is starting to flow in again, which is needed.0 -
I'm caught up on laundry, but I took some extra rest days just because.
Ryan made a couple of laps around the farm, but he's still tired. At least he's moving forward with recovery instead of having setbacks.
Tomorrow looks like a good day for a morning workout.
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Last night, we got lucky to see the Northern Light like most of the country. I think Ryan and I spent 2 hours running in and out of the house getting pictures. Fingers crossed for a repeat tonight.
This morning I did 1 Mile from Walk Away the Pounds on YouTube. Then it was into the Kitchen to make up Ryan's breakfast mix for the next several days. After breakfast, I ran a few errands. Lunch and then a few errands with the kid which, included stopping by a local ice cream spot for Dole Whips. They had Strawberry and Orange flavors, but we had them twist it together.
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May Goals: Accumulate More than the 88 miles achieved in March on my Garmin!
May 1-Miles 2.3: Total Garmin Miles 2.3
May 2-Miles 1.7: Total Garmin Miles 4.0
May 3-Miles 1.1: Total Garmin Miles 5.1
May 4-WAH: 2 Mile Power Walk: Miles 3.0: Total Garmin Miles 8.1
May 5-WAH: 1 Mile Heart Healthy: Miles 2.6: Total Garmin Miles 10.7
May 6-WAH-1 Mile Happy Walk: Miles 4.2: Total Garmin MIles 14.9
May 7-Miles 1.7: Total Garmin Miles 16.6
May 8-WAH: 1 Mile Happy Walk: Miles 2.3: Total Garmin Miles 18.9
May 9-Miles 1.5: Total Garmin Miles 20.4
May 10-Miles 1.6: Total Garmin Miles 22
May 11-WAH: 1 Mile Happy Walk: Miles
We heard that MI had tornados at EF-3 strength in Kzoo, but when we looked at the online news, it said Portage in Kzoo county. I was always worried about them when we lived in MI. The scariest thing is those tornado sirens. I will take 48 inch snowstorms any day over 1 EF 1 tornado! :blushing:
I am so glad to hear that Ryan is steadily improving. That has to be such a relief for both of you.
LOL we loved our rigid vent in MI. It was code in Genessee county if your dryer was below grade (i.e. in the basement) and ours was. It was so much easier to clean out once year and did not really collect the kind of lint this flex vent does. When our dryer needs to be replaced, we are going with a ventless one. My son has one in Netherlands and they do such a great job drying and you do not have to worry about lint in the vent. We did not know it, but they are available here as well so we are getting rid of the vent hole for the dryer and using it for a bathroom exhaust fan for our downstairs bathroom.
We have been in the car for most of the week either at the MDs or a class for the knee replacement or at the dealership for the new truck. Next week we are leaving on Wednesday for our mini-city vacation and trip to the seaway and the commissary. I am hoping we will be walking enough for me to get in some miles! I am planning to do 3 miles tomorrow, but we shall see! :bigsmile:1 -
May Goals
Mileage tracked 35 / 80
Apple Challenge: 12 workouts of 5 minutes or more for the month. 9/12
What should have been an easy drop-off of a new computer turned into 2 hours of troubleshooting and scheduling a return visit for later this week. 😖 So that kept me from my workout of the day.
Tomorrow, I'm hoping to try another Improved Health workout.0 -
Evening me had big "Go get 'em" energy when thinking about the next morning's workout. I woke up, fired up the computer, and looked at my planned workout. Then immediately look for a different workout. lol
Walking off the Weight from Improved Health. It was a constant move your body for 30 minutes. Not just legs but she had my arms in constant motion.
Now off to find something else to eat b/c the lone banana isn't enough.0 -
I managed a couple of laps around the farm tonight.
Sadly, the scale doesn’t lie and showed how poor my eating choices have been while stresed. 🥲
It’s been a full week of work which concludes tomorrow with an onsite visit for some networking.0 -
Yesterday I did a 20-minute workout with Improved Heath. She had me changing moves every 30 secs. So it felt like time passed quickly but boy was I moving.
Then we were at a client after that and they have 2 floors so that ended up being more running around between floors. So my watch recorded 46 minutes in all yesterday.
I'm calling for an active rest day today.0 -
Well, I guess I can say yesterday's active rest day went well. 3 loads of laundry, 1 load of dishes, and a complete deep clean of my bedroom closet which I have to complete today.0
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I am starting with Leslie Sansone's Walk Away the Pounds 5-day fit walk DVD. Starting with the 1mile walk each day.1
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May Goals
Mileage tracked 55 / 80
Apple Challenge: 12 workouts of 5 minutes or more for the month. 12/12 ✅
@Irishewes Welcome to our little group. Happy to have you. You chose a great DVD to get started with.
@texasgardnr Hope you are above water down there.
@zichab Looking forward to hearing how your mini-cation went.
I did a walking with weight session this morning. A quick 13 minutes to get my body going again. With chances of rain over the next couple of days, I'll be keeping my workout inside. I'm starting to look at next month, and I'm wondering if I should attempt some miracle miles.0 -
There was a new 1-mile power walk on the Walk at Home YouTube page. I did that this morning and followed up with 5 minutes of arm training with weights.
It looks like it will be a pleasant day but we're expecting storms overnight.
Ry put up a new surveillance camera on the garage to replace 1 that has been flaking out. We're considering putting up 1 or 2 more on the back of the house for security coverage and to get the skyline to the west. We can get some nice sunsets but it's neat to see the storm roll in from the West too.
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It's my Birthday = Rest Day!!0
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Today I got up and got right back into a workout. A 25-minute walking with weights workout from Improved Health. My watch measured just over a mile of walking. My arms measured completely tired after that workout. Different moves every 30 seconds for the main workout. There is also a warm-up & cool-down built in as well.
It was needed after Birthday Starbucks, Panera pastry, Soomthie, and Chinese. I had to split the smoothie in half. 24oz is just too much.0 -
I let work get in the way of my workouts this weekend. As we don't do much for the holiday, I should be able to get some good minutes tomorrow.0
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May Goals
Mileage tracked 75 / 80
Apple Challenge: 12 workouts of 5 minutes or more for the month. 12/12 ✅
Well, I ended up going to brunch with some friends and then watched 2 movies on the couch. 🤷🏼♀️
We're in the final days of May, let's finish strong to give some good momentum going into June.
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I started out this morning with a good quick 12-minute walk with Improved Health. I like that we change movement every 30 seconds. It keeps it interesting. I also found that she does monthly workout calendars that are posted on her website. This might be a nice change up @zichab.
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May Goals: Accumulate More than the 88 miles achieved in March on my Garmin!
May 1-Miles 2.3: Total Garmin Miles 2.3
May 2-Miles 1.7: Total Garmin Miles 4.0
May 3-Miles 1.1: Total Garmin Miles 5.1
May 4-WAH: 2 Mile Power Walk: Miles 3.0: Total Garmin Miles 8.1
May 5-WAH: 1 Mile Heart Healthy: Miles 2.6: Total Garmin Miles 10.7
May 6-WAH-1 Mile Happy Walk: Miles 4.2: Total Garmin MIles 14.9
May 7-Miles 1.7: Total Garmin Miles 16.6
May 8-WAH: 1 Mile Happy Walk: Miles 2.3: Total Garmin Miles 18.9
May 9-Miles 1.5: Total Garmin Miles 20.4
May 10-Miles 1.6: Total Garmin Miles 22
May 11-WAH: 1 Mile Happy Walk: Miles 2.5: Total Garmin Miles 24.5
May 12-Miles 1.1: Total Garmin Miles 25.6
May 13-Miles 1.6: Total Garmin Miles 27.2
May 14-Miles 2.0: Total Garmin Miles 29.2
May 15-Miles 1.4: Total Garmin Miles 30.6
May 16-Miles 1.6: Total Garmin Miles 32.2
May 17-Miles 1.8: Total Garmin Miles 34
May 18-Miles 1.2: Total Garmin Miles 35.2
May 19-Miles 1.4: Total Garmin Miles 36.6
May 20-Miles 1.9: Total Garmin Miles 38.5
May 21-Miles 1.8: Total Garmin Miles 40.3
May 22-Miles 1.9: Total Garmin Miles 42.2 Happy Birthday @Deeder522!!!!!
May 23-Miles 2.0: Total Garmin Miles 44.2
May 24-Miles 2.4: Total Garmin Miles 46.6
May 25-Miles 1.3: Total Garmin Miles 47.9
May 26-Miles 1.3: Total Garmin Miles 49.2
May 27-Miles 1.8: Total Garmin Miles 51
May 28-Miles 1.8: Total Garmin Miles 52.8
Things kind of went off the rails here in both good and bad ways! The good is that we went to the knee replacement class and also to the anesthesia class. Next is the physical therapy class and we should be prepared!!! I did not have this many classes to have a baby for goodness sake!!! :laugh: He starts breathing into a spirometer tomorrow and begins antiseptic showers on Saturday, so the process is finally beginning.
We put off our vacation by one week so we could take our new truck, which we got last Thursday! My goodness new vehicles have so much technology!!! This truck tells us how it is doing health wise and when it needs to go to the shop for service. LOL We have not driven an automatic in 49 years, so that is taking some getting used to as we slam our foot into the floor every time we want to stop! We still have our car, which is a stick, so that may continue for awhile. :blushing:
We spent the weekend at the St. Lawrence Seaway and had a great time as 3 Lakers, 2 tankers and 1 salty went through the lock in 7.5 hours. That hardly ever happens, but they said they were backed up as some ships wanted to get into the lakes before the holiday. It was a nice relaxing long weekend away from the mountains, but we were glad to see them on the way back.
The best news is that we seem to have gotten rid of the mice!!!! We got 6 of them in traps and there have not been anymore for 9 days. I need to be more diligent putting dryer sheets around the heat pipes as that is what they travel around the house on. We cannot figure out how they get in as the house was totally sealed and resided 5 years ago, but everything I read says all it takes is a tiny whole and we did not reside under the deck so maybe they come in there.
Clearly, I am way off my workout goal and next month will probably not be much better as I will be taking care of Dennis, but I really want to get a workout in at least every other day because the scale is not being kind to me at all!!!! :grumble: Tomorrow we will be gone all day getting haircuts, shopping for 3 weeks, going to DMV and the physical therapy class and generally getting set so I do not have to leave Dennis alone for a couple of weeks. My hope is that I can work out while he is resting/reading/on his iPad etc, but somehow, I think I may be running around getting stuff done then. I have that Weight Loss workout from Improve Health loaded and I am going to check out her calendars as maybe that will help me get back on track! We'll see how it goes! :bigsmile:
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Last night, I did a single lap with Ryan around the farm field.
This morning was 2 miles with Jessica.
I can't believe the surgery is finally happening for you & Dennis, @zichab!
Woo-whoo, to being mice-free again. When we switched from a manual to an automatic, it took me a while to stop slamming my foot into the floor. Now almost 8 years later I still do that once in a great while. lol0 -
2 miles with Leslie to end the month of May.
It's hard to believe it's nearly June. It feels like we were just figuring out how to jump-start the year.
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