SWaT Walking Group

betterchoices

Hello all :flowerforyou:

I logged in another 2.75 WATP miles for the last two days! .75 was a warm-up before my strength training today.


Luneytoonz ... That's awesome!!

seana22

today i walked 9.6 miles i shoulda womaned up and went and made it an even 10 but whatever lol theres tomarrow :bigsmile:

1QueenB

Did one mile during lunch today!!!

DesertCowgirl

What a wet day!!! The storms just keeped moving in. But I did get my three miles in the morning and again in the afternoon. It was also down right cold this evening. Strange weather for Arizona.

iluvwdw

Another mile in!! I learned my lesson not to do 4 miles in one day again. My dr. is mad at me. Two I can handle.

Lesliet05

This morning I got in 2 miles. Wed are my busy day, have fun walking today and I will type at you tomorrow... Keep them feet moving

sandara

Hi everybody! Looks like a typical hump day, I had to force myself to do 2 miles. I knew I probably wouldn't get to walk tomorrow evening so I thought I should at least get in a short one tonight!

See you all later! Keep logging those miles! :flowerforyou:

panda742002

Hello,

I would like to join too. I have been walking 1 mile every day on my lunch break plus some at home. I have have the walking tapes. I will be doing those once winter hits. I would love to try to do 30 miles. I started walking 9/20 as well. So far I have 14 miles in. Not including this week.

What Else do I need to do?

sandara

Hello,

I would like to join too. I have been walking 1 mile every day on my lunch break plus some at home. I have have the walking tapes. I will be doing those once winter hits. I would love to try to do 30 miles. I started walking 9/20 as well. So far I have 14 miles in. Not including this week.

What Else do I need to do?

Hi Panda! Welcome to the group. Glad to have you walking with us. You dont' have to do anything else. Just walk and check in when you can. We set our own goals and everyone checks in when they can and cheers everyone else along. Happy walking! :flowerforyou:

bjpkwiltz

Is it too late for me to join?
I am a somewhat newbie to MFP, have been meal tracking for about 30 days, but need to "move it to lose it"!
One of my stumbling blocks is working 12 hour night shifts, with no set schedule, and I am so good at making
excuses.
My new plan is to walk the mornings after I get to sleep....that will get me going 4 days/week.....
will look for he Sansone DVD, that sounds like a good motivator....
Not sure where that will leave me mileage wilse, but we all start at 0.....
Nice to meet you all, Barb

maynard46

Is it too late for me to join?
I am a somewhat newbie to MFP, have been meal tracking for about 30 days, but need to "move it to lose it"!
One of my stumbling blocks is working 12 hour night shifts, with no set schedule, and I am so good at making
excuses.
My new plan is to walk the mornings after I get to sleep....that will get me going 4 days/week.....
will look for he Sansone DVD, that sounds like a good motivator....
Not sure where that will leave me mileage wilse, but we all start at 0.....
Nice to meet you all, Barb

Welcome to the group Barb! Happy to have you with us. :flowerforyou:

iluvwdw

One more mile tonight with my son. :bigsmile:

AZChatterB

Hello, All. Just a mid-week check in. Today was one of those blah days; I didn't go to work and stayed in pj's all day. Thanks for setting up this group because it motivated me to finally put on my workout clothes and do the WAtP 2 mile tape, albeit at 7:30 pm, but I still got it in.

Kudos to all who have set their goals and are working toward making them!

Make it a great week!

pmjsmom

Hi everyone. I haven't posted in a while--internet provider problems and just REALLY busy! I've been walking, though, just not as much.
I just joined the Slim Down in 8 Weeks Challenge at Everyday Health (http://www.everydayhealth.com/videos/8-week-slim-down.aspx) and have been using my walking as the cardio (and still getting in a mile or so every morning as part of my waking up routine!).
I don't know how much of the challenge I'll be able to do but I have gotten pretty good at modifying moves I can't do.
One thing--I WAS able to do the push-up moves (most of them, anyway)! A few months ago I couldn't even do a proper 'girly' push-up and now I can do some 'real' ones!

Welcome to all our new walkers. This is a great group!

maynard46

Hi everyone. I haven't posted in a while--internet provider problems and just REALLY busy! I've been walking, though, just not as much.
I just joined the Slim Down in 8 Weeks Challenge at Everyday Health (http://www.everydayhealth.com/videos/8-week-slim-down.aspx) and have been using my walking as the cardio (and still getting in a mile or so every morning as part of my waking up routine!).
I don't know how much of the challenge I'll be able to do but I have gotten pretty good at modifying moves I can't do.
One thing--I WAS able to do the push-up moves (most of them, anyway)! A few months ago I couldn't even do a proper 'girly' push-up and now I can do some 'real' ones!

Welcome to all our new walkers. This is a great group!

GOOD JOB ON THE "GIRLY PUSH-UPS" :laugh: I give you alot of credit for trying.

Checking in too. I got 2.5 today! Did I say I wanted to increase my miles? Seem like as soon as I said it my foot started hurting, dang it! :grumble:

sandara

AZ - I agree, there are days that I know I wouldn't have walked if it weren't for having to report in here. lol

Pmj - Pushups are an awesome accomplishment. I have never been able to do them. I have weak wrists (that's my story and I'm sticking to it) The closest I came was when I was trying the Slim in 6. I need to get back to some strength training too but I barely find the time to walk during the week.

I did manage to get in 2 more miles this evening (didn't think I would be home in time). I did the 2-mile Big burn with intervals. It's a very good 2 miler!

Tomorrow is Friday FINALLY! YAY! :drinker:

DesertCowgirl

Had Dr. appointment yesterday and got my flu shot. Don't know if that was the reason for my aching body last night or if it was because of the sudden turn of weather. Anyway, did just two miles this morning and skipped the walk this evening. Figured it wouldn't hurt to ease back for a day.

iluvwdw

I did another mile tonight, don't see that my post showed up. My ticker info seems to be gone, so will have to check that tomorrow.

I am now up to 26 miles so far for my own records. :bigsmile:

Lesliet05

well yesterday I had no energy for nothing, but today feeling better, got 3 miles in,

pmjsmom

Sandy--My problem with push-ups is my shoulders. I was in a bicycle accident 9 years ago and caught myself on my forearms. It wasn't a problem at the time as we were all much more focused on my very badly broken leg. Long story short--I don't want to have surgery because of the possibility of losing my fine motor skills. I wouldn't be able to make my jewelry if that happened! They just ache every now and then but they have obviously gotten much stronger!

I did a mile this morning and plan on another couple of miles. I am going to try a walking workout by Chris Freytag that I have downloaded from exercisetv.tv--just to try something new!

sandara

We had Fat Friday at work today! 2 birthday cakes. And yes I had a little of both. Should have said "NO" but too late now. There is a fall festival going on in our town about 3 blocks from my work so I walked down and did some looking. They actually had fried twinkies. OMG! I took my pedometer and got in 2 miles. Then I did the 4 mile punch up your walk tonight to make up for the second cake! Gonna hafta really push it this weekend or that pound I was down this morning is gonna jump right back on that scale.

pmjsmom - let us know how you liked the new walking workout. I've never tried one by anyone other than Leslie Sansone. Might be interesting.

Everybody have a great weekend and "take those muscles for a walk" as Leslie says! :happy:

DesertCowgirl

Everything is back to normal today. No aches or light headedness at all. So, I got in my 3 miles in an hour this morning and again this afternoon.

maynard46

Hey everyone. Beautiful weekend weather here in Wisconsin. I've got a feeling this is Indian Summer for us now and its just going to get colder after this. Im going to enjoy it as much as possible. The trees should be at their peak color next week. Thats always beautiful.

Friday besides getting the grass cut AGAIN with my pedometer on, my daughter and I went to a new area to hike by Lake Michigan along the beach. Alot of climbing up and down felt like a halfway decent workout by the time we were done. So I totaled 3.5 miles. Today my husband enjoyed the dog park and went for a 2.5 mile walk.

Got a feeling cortizone shots for the feet are in the near future for me though. Won't be the first time I just want to put it off as long as possible. It sounds like most of us have some kind of ache or pain doesn't it? :ohwell: Just have to make the most of the good days right?

Hope all of you are enjoying your weekend so far.

Keep walkin!!!!

pmjsmom

Sandy--So far I really like the Chris Freytag routine. Naturally there are a lot of the same moves as Leslie's' videos but she puts them together a bit differently. The video also has strength training intervals which are really good. It is fun and I am enjoying it.

I actually bought a package that was supposed to have 2 videos in it but I only received one in my download library and so now they are finding out what went wrong. The second is more advanced so I don't really need it yet as this one is pretty advanced, too!

I am going to do it again today even though today is my 'rest' day. We had company yesterday and I know I ate too much so I want to kind of make up for that today.

DesertCowgirl

Got my 3 miles in the morning and again in the afternoon yesterday.

sandara

Desert, Glad you are feeling better.

Maynard, It's been a beautiful weekend here in Georgia too.

Pmj, I'll have to check out the Chris Freytag workout. My problem is I don't have a laptop and I don't have room in my bedroom where the computer is. Can you burn downloaded stuff onto dvd's that will play in a dvd player? Not real savvy about that stuff.

I did all 5 miles of the 5 day slim down this morning. Wanted to get it in before I headed off for grocery shopping.

Back to work tomorrow! :sad:

EVeryone have a great week!

AZChatterB

Hope everyone had a productive weekend. I let Fri and Sat get away from me, but back on track today. i completed the WAtP 2 mile along with Short Cuts (her upper body workout; just came across the tape and needed something for that arm jiggle. Does anyone have any other suggestions??? Thanks!).

Nice to see fall has arrived; cooler weather should give us a boost!

Have a great week!

DesertCowgirl

Got my 3 miles in this morning and then went out to my horses. Good exercise grooming them. ehehe No walk in the evening. Get enough of that while grocery shopping. LOL

pmjsmom

Pmj, I'll have to check out the Chris Freytag workout. My problem is I don't have a laptop and I don't have room in my bedroom where the computer is. Can you burn downloaded stuff onto dvd's that will play in a dvd player? Not real savvy about that stuff.

You can. You buy the workout so it belongs to you. I've never tried it because the 2 computers I use--1 is a netbook and has no dvd or cd drive and the other is old and the drive no longer works! I could burn them on my son's laptop but I really have no need for that.

You can also purchase it as a dvd but it does cost more ($19.99 vs. $14.98, I think)

I got to do the whole workout yesterday. It is more intense (or I was more sore! LOL!) and there are some floor moves towards the end. I did it, though, and I do think I am going to use it often.

Time to get ready for work. have a great day, all!

Lesliet05

well it was just a rough weekend, So didn't get any walking in. This morning I got 4 miles in