6 week PUSH YOURSELF challenge, Week 5

Week 5 I lost 3.6 pound...woo hoo!...i burned 3,123 calories...i need to update my ticker more often and log my exercise...lol. I got in all my water and then some everyday. I didnt meet the 3,500 but I was close. I looked back and added my loses for the last five weeks and ive lost 7.8 pounds... I thought I had lost 6 in four weeks but it was actually 4.2 I added an extra week by accident. But I have it right now 7.8 in five...so awesome...so proud of myself. I would love to do this challenge again! Everyone congrats you are all doing a great job,lets rock week 6!!!

I am feeling there is light at the end of the tunnel for this cold. Still gripping me, but I am breathing slightly better and was able to walk just a tish faster today before I would begin to cough. All the coughing has my chest and throat so sore! I can honestly say I would rather be sore from working out than from coughing. Ugh!

So, here is what I managed to accomplish today, Day 6, WEEK 5, WOW!

I did a 62 minute walk and burned, per my HRM, 592 calories
I did a 35 minutes, slower, bike ride, and burned, per my HRM, 460 calories

I have had 12 glasses of water so far today

I am going to count today's bike ride as "other" because it wasn't really cardio but more just getting some exercise in. I kept my heart rate right at 101-103 BPM's because if I go over that I am coughing and having a hard time breathing. So, it was more a leisurly bike ride than a cardio one.

My weekly results, so far, are 343 minutes of cardio and 115 minutes of strength, and 209 minutes of other for a total of 667 minutes

Well, I have had a head cold, since Tuesday, and as of Wednesday it moved into my chest and lungs. Well, I still did quite a workout on both Wednesday/Thursday and I think I totally wore down my body. I had all the intentions to do the same thing on Friday, but managed to barely get a 30 minute walk in with my dogs. It was tough. So I gave myself a break and took the rest of the day to lay on the couch, cough, take tons of medicine, and try to sleep here and there. Slightly better today, but still have it in my head and chest.

So, my results for Week 5, Day 5

I did a 30 minute walk with my dogs and burned, per my HRM, 300 calories

I drank and drank and drank water because of all of the coughing and because the medicine made me feel really parched. I think I finished the day out with 22 glasses of water.

My weekly results, so far, are 343 minutes of cardio and 115 minutes of strength, and 112 minutes of other for a total of 570 minutes

Okay, here are my results for today, Week 5 Day 4 and let me tell you, this was one day that was REALLY hard to complete due to a horrible head/chest cold going on!

I did a 40 minute walk with the dogs and burned, per my HRM, 422 calories
I did 25 minute circuit training of half cardio half strength and burned, per my HRM, 337 calories
I did a 45 minute kettlebell class and burned, per my HRM, 606 calories

I have had 17 glasses of water so far today

My weekly results, so far, are 343 minutes of cardio and 115 minutes of strength, and 82 minutes of other for a total of 540 minutes

Here are my results for Week 5, Day 3

I did a 42 minute walk with my dog and burned, per my HRM, 405 calories
I did a 60 minute workout with my personal trainer and burned, per my HRM, 1046 calories
I did a 45 minute step aerobics class and burned, per my HRM, 736 calories

I have had 12 glasses of water so far today

My weekly results, so far, are 283 minutes of cardio and 105 minutes of strength, and 42 minutes of other for a total of 430 minutes

Here are my results for Week 5, Day 2

I did 45 minutes on the Elliptical and burned, per my HRM, 633 calories
I did a 70 minute Muscle Pump class and burned, per my HRM, 711 calories

I have had 19 glasses of water today

My weekly results, so far, are 213 minutes of cardio and 70 minutes of strength for a total of 283 minutes

I began feeling a head cold coming on, last night, during my second class, and by the time I got home my body was weak and I felt exhausted. I took tons of medicine before bed and felt slightly better this morning, but it was in my chest and head. It really hurt to workout today. So, while I put in the minutes I didn't PUSH it as hard as I usually do. I was glad it was a Muscle Pump class, on the schedule, for tonight, because it was just the speed that I needed to go with this cold.

How are the first two days going for everyone else?

So, here we go week 5! Here are my results for Week 5, Day 1

I did 80 minutes of run/walk intervals and burned, per my HRM, 1078 calories
I did a 44 minute Hula Hoop class and burned, per my HRM, 661 calories
I did a 44 minute Kettlebell class and burned, per my HRM, 688 calories

I have had 17 glasses of water so far today.

That puts me at 168 minutes of cardio, thus far.

Hey gang!

Hope everyone had a great Sunday.....and a Happy's Mother's day to all you moms in the group.

So here's my results for today:

47 minutes-walk
120 minutes-cycling Finally starting to feel like my cycling legs are coming back to me. I was not sure how I would feel after 2 days of longer rides but they felt great today. I would have kept riding but had to get to lunch with my parents.

6 glasses of water (this continues to be my biggest struggle)

(I forgot 15 minutes of walking on Friday when I walked to all of my staffings.)

Total for the week: 1251 minutes and according to MFP I burned 10594 calories.

I gave myself an extra challenge this week....at the start of the month, I was looking for other challenges to join as I have really enjoyed this one. One that I looked at was to do 24 hours of exercise in the month.....I wanted to see how close I could get to that number in just a week. Missed it by 189 minutes but very happy with my efforts.

Hard to believe that we are heading into the last week of the challenge....need to find something else to motivate me! This has really helped me to get moving every more!

Jenn

102 minutes today and 14 glasses of water.
544 total minutes for the week. All waters + each day.
Really can't believe we are entering week 6! This challenge is really what I needed to push myself, so glad I saw it!!! Thanks Tracie! Great work everyone!