@vhuber - TRX is bodyweight exercises with suspension straps (google for pics if you've never seen it) I've been doing that for about 4 years, one of my favorite things to do because there really isn't a limit to what you can do with it and you can make it as hard or as easy as you like, you can go deeper in moves like squats and lunges. I've done yoga on and off since college (got an A in that class). This was the first class so some bugs need to be worked out, but we did a variety of stretches and poses using the straps. An example is downward dog, you normally have hands and feet on the floor with your butt in the air. This time your feet are in the straps. Another is the lizard pose. One leg bent in front of you, with the other straight and behind you while you try to lean to the floor. This time the back leg was in the strap and OMG that was a great stretch, I may have gotten taller! This class is going to be given once a month with the other three weeks being an established yoga with weights class (light ones). I'm looking forward to trying that, since I like doing weights. This instructor likes yoga fusion classes. I've been meaning to do more yoga on a regular basis and this seems like a good way to spend a Sunday afternoon. I find I'm busy concentrating on a pose/sequence of moods and trying to breathe properly and I forget about what's going on outside the door. It's not a calorie burner, but it's a mental boost.

@lisah8969 My gym does a challenge like this, this year's was a grid of boxes and you try to make bingo by doing the tasks. They also incorporate some emotional/spiritual tasks too. Ideas - no alcohol for 24 hours, no refined sugar for 24 hours, write down 10 things you love about yourself (I kept getting stuck at 9), workout with a buddy, meditate for 10 mins, 50 of (they picked three exercises), jump rope for 10 mins, go a week without fast food, shoot a basketball 25 times. (the rest were gym related).

adding 2 miles of walking laps, then running them and the stairs during boot camp. My plantar fasciitis heel is mad at me.

6.5/35 miles

@ Janet: You are amazing! I just signed for the Pittsburgh Challenge to do the 5k and half. I will end up running with my kids too so it will be 4.1 on Sat. And 13.1 on Sunday. I cannot imagine my knees holding up to that many miles. As I said, my Galloway friend ended up crashing on mile 18 because he got sick. The balloon lady came rolling by him.
Jan. 7: Missed recording yesterday because I was on the phone with my pet psychic. So adding 10 miles of cycling because she she said I could. Yikes... what nutty folks.
Jan. 8: Adding 11.5 miles today. shoveled snow after work for an hour for my elderly neighbor. Thankfully my hubby came to the rescue with our tractor and plow blade.
My pup went through round three of chemo today. He did not want to leave because he was eating up all the attention from everyone. I also did a few miles of running along with walking today. Despite a quick 4 inches of snow, we are warming up to the 30’s and will be in the 50’s by the weekend. Isn’t weather so fickle.
TTD:81miles







@Lisa: Here is some things I have done with my kids or staff at school.

Plank Challenge: Start with 30 sec. to a minute and add 15 to 30 sec. per day. (I have my kids see if they can hold a plank through an entire commercial break of television.)
Different plank a day Challenge. Give them seven different planks and hold a different one each day.
Wall Sit Challenge: Sit against a wall for 10 sec. and add 10 sec. a day.
Balance Challenge: Balance on alternating feet or a Bousu ball for a set amount seconds per day or increase by 10 seconds.
Take a one minute walk every hour that you are sitting at work or at home. Set a timer.
Invisible jump rope: Jump rope without a jump rope for so many minutes per day.
Bicycling: Lay on your back and cycle for one minute each day

Drink 8 to 10 glasses of water a day
No sweets for a week
No munching after 7pm for a week. (I have done this through an entire challenge.)
10 servings of fruits and veggies each day. New studies show that there is a big increase in reduction of disease, increase in life expectancy when upping your intake.
Stress/decompress: Be aware of stressful moments and do deep breathing for 30sec.
Pay 10 people a compliment each day. When we make others feel good, we feel good.
Tell 1 person a day how much you appreciate them.
Eliminate sugary juices and drinks for a week, or no soft drinks including sugar free.
(I have had people do this for a month and they don’t drink it any more.)
No texting for a day or using cell phone for anything but making or answering a call.

1/1- walked 3.44 miles
1/2- walked 4.61 miles
1/3- walked 4.26 miles
1/4- walked 3.59 miles
1/5- walked 1.07 miles
1/6- walked 1.00 miles
1/7- walked 4.14 miles
1/8- walked 4.16 miles
26.27/ 85 total miles

7 Jan 18.33 miles
8 Jan 8.57 miles
9 Jan 4.2 miles

MTD 80.4 miles

@janet congrats
@dean thank you for the work you do with all the animals and putting up with difficult owners

Gym last night- 5 miles on the elliptical and 1 walking

4 mile walk
MTD 10.4/31

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Starting the month off with 12 miles out of 175.

Adding seven miles for 19 out of 175.

Adding 11 miles for 30 out of 175.

Adding 7 miles for 37 out of 175.

Adding 9 miles for 46 out of 175.

Adding 7 miles for 53 out of 175

01/08 - 01.0 walk at the river
01/09 - 23.0 miles turbo trainer

Total: 164.0 miles

3.75 walking & 7 from ex bike!
I was asked by ladies who are "may age" to lead a LOW impact/walking class because they can't do my Interval Class, so I guess before the nights I lead my Interval classes I will lead a 45 minute class for them!
Great ideas for the challenge!!!!

All I can say is....mad at pharmacy, mad at our specialty vet hospital and mad at hubby. Out $161.00 for a $25.00 med. All I can say is that all are in the dog house.

Jan. 9: Adding 10 miles
TTD 91 miles

Jan 10 7.7 miles

MTD 88.1miles

9 Jan 6.38 miles



MTD 49.98

Jan. 10: Adding 11.5 miles today of which 5 miles are walking, 3miles jumping rope (which is beat the snot out of my right knee) and 3.5 miles on x bike.
TTD: 102.5 miles





Why do older ( above 90) folks lose their filters and say things they shouldn’t? Yesterday my hubby took my dad to the doctor to see what he did to his back. My dad decided that he would try and help my lame fur baby up and he went to sit in his rolator and failed to lock the breaks first. It rolled out from under him and he fell on his butt. When the tech asked hoe many times he has fallen in the past year, he responded that it was just this one time. Big pause.....and he proceeds to say, “but that does not include all the time they (meaning my hubby and I) knocked him down”. Tech looks at my hubby and at my dad. Hubby says to dad that he can’t say things like that because people will take him serious. Dad response...haha, “I was just kidding”. In our area, there is a requirement to investigate elder abuse no matter what the comment. Now I am waiting for social services for the aging to come out and pay a visit. (They came to see my brother and wife when his MIL said at daycare that she wished people would leave her alone because they make her do things she doesn’t want to do. (Yeah, take medicine, change colostomy bags, feed, clothe and bath you). Who shows up...social services to investigate.

A colleague told me today that her grandfather did something similar a few years ago when boarding a plane. When asked if he had anything of concern in his carry on, he said no, just a bomb. He started laughing and said “just kidding”. Needless to say, they did not find it funny.

Needless to say this has been some whacky week and it is only Wednesday.