21 day Challenge - JOIN IN

REALLY didn't want to head back to school after I left to go attend to the hour or so of work that was scheduled for tonight. But, with the Saturday seminars starting this weekend, I've had to make adjustments. That means lifting will have to be AFTER labs (or work on Monday) just so I can get the study time I HAVE to have during the long lay-over between classes earlier in the days on Monday/Wednesday. So, I resolutely turned back to school after work, and hit the gym. (Major NSV there! I despise back-tracking for any reason. Even when I run errands, I try to ensure it is a loop from point A through anywhere else, to origin. So long as none of the stops require me to travel back over the same road in the same direction I've already gone once.)

Round 6, day 19

57 min walking around campus (1.9 mi),
30 min stretching,
90 min lifting,
25 min elliptical (1.6 mi)

Wonderful that you have company to keep you moving. Hope they stick around for a while. I know I enjoy it when I have someone to work with myself. (At least when I'm not in the water. Pool time is MY time, and you'd better not bug me. ::Grins::) Just seems to make the time/distance/effort go by so much easier when you have friends along.

Sounds like you had a beautiful couple of days, and your garden is going to be stunning once it has a chance to get the new soil settled in. You are doing great, I love "hearing" your reports.

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Round 6, day 19

Expected to be sore from lifting on 09-09 at work, but that went fine. It wasn't until I hit the pool that the DOMS decided to set in. Owwie!

49 min walking (2 miles - mostly around campus, some with work),
3.5 hours cleaning (work),
3 X 400 m medleys with breast stroke, free style, back stroke, side stroke (No life guard, so wasn't going to risk trying to drown myself on the butterfly today.)

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Round 6 day 20 (09-11)
Almost done with another round. Wasn't sure I was going to survive though! The arms are STILL screaming at me, and today was another lifting day. Supposed to be a total body day, but I wound up cutting several lifts out because I just couldn't make the muscles cooperate. Don't know what I'm doing different, but I'm doing SOMETHING different enough to make it seriously felt!

Walking 57 mins (walking around campus, 1.77 mi),
stretching 10 min,
Lifting 80 min,
elliptical 25 min (1.65 mi)

I can definitely tell my cardio is shaping up. The burns are starting to fall off now, and I'm having to work harder to get the same monstrous results I've gotten spoiled with.

Well, if the round was a TINY bit slower, that just means a bigger burn, right? ::Grins::
Glad you had a wonderful day on the course. Congrats on ending your round with a HUGE bang! Doing great!

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Round 7, day 3

Nope, no swim today. ::Massive pout:: I was lucky to get accomplished what I did. I wound up living on Alieve, where usually 1 horse pill is enough to get things subdued to where I can ignore it. Almost had a dangerously low calorie day because of the problem. (NOT a fun day, but well accomplished)

60 mins walking (pacing through the house in agony),
20 mins cleaning (once I started feeling better),
30 min folding laundry (Bulled through the worst despite the pain, just so I'd have work clothes for the week.)

I'll take every one of them minutes too! Felt like I was being cut in half, despite the Alieve I was popping all day. Now to see how tomorrow goes. Fervently hope it is better! Never had it this bad before, and I hope this isn't a trend starting!

Don't knock shredding paper. Especially if it's by hand! One of my clients has been doing that, and I know they WORK. I may be there for a couple of hours or four, but they always keep their hands busy while I'm working on the rest of the house. I see the way they sweat just sitting there and ripping up old magazines or old paperwork for me to carry out to the trash. Good work, because I know how cleaning out filing can be physically taxing, even if it doesn't feel like it.

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Round 7, day 4

Still confined to walking, walking, walking. I miss the gym, but with my unwelcome guest, I'm not giving it any more chances to go through my wardrobe. 2.06 miles covered today in 45 minutes. Most of it carrying or dragging my school bag (About half weight today because of the weird composition of books/notebooks for tests or study materials on the wrong days. Full load tomorrow.)

Sounds like you're having a blast with this round! Keeping things fun and interesting is part of what keeps you going back for more. Keep it up!

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Round 7, day 5 (09-17)

1.5 hours cleaning [work]
25 mins walking

Back decided to try to slip out and lock up, so didn't do much except what I couldn't rearrange for work and walking to/from doctor's offices. Seems I'm losing enough MORE of the fat layers under the muscles they haven't been able to keep up the tone needed to keep the lower back from going out. Going to be interesting to see if I can stay out of "Chiropractor'sville" this time around. Really hope so!

Round 7, day 6 (09-18)

43 min (walking to/from car carrying book bag [approx 30 pounds today] + 2 flights of stairs up and down carrying said bag),
30 mins prepping breakfasts for the week (finally!)

Feeling MUCH better today, and it was too wet to drag my bag on its wheels. We actually got some of that mythical stuff that falls from the sky last night!