Leslie Sansone May 2019 Walk Challenge
texasgardnr
Posts: 2,617 Member
May (2019)
WELCOME to all walkers!
May is here! And time to start a another new monthly challenge! Surely beautiful flowers and 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
Having Leslie's, or other walking DVDs, to pop in the player continues to be a great alternative to walking outdoors. Because of the warmer weather walking or hiking outdoors will be a pleasant alternative to the DVDs for those who enjoy getting their miles, minutes, or steps in outdoors. Especially after the long winter or extra rains many of us have had.
This group is open to any and all walkers. The majority of us use Leslie Sansone Walk At Home DVD workouts, 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, and on the treadmill, as well as other Walking DVDs. All of these many options count toward our miles, minutes, and steps. However you get your walk in, come on in and join us! Post your miles or minutes or steps that you have walked, however you do it... it is all good!
We are a happy, supportive group, and I promise that joining this walk challenge will motivate, challenge, as well as inspire you!
Set your goal for how many miles, minutes, or steps that you want to walk, indoors or out, this month. This is your own personal goal
. Post your results daily, weekly, or whenever you like.
If you find this challenge in the middle of the month it doesn't matter which day of the month that you join in. Just set your goals to reflect what you want to walk for the remaining days in the month. You are always welcome
!
So if you are new to the group please feel free to start today so that by the end of the month you will be that much closer to your health and fitness goals. It is never too late to join in.
It is always fun to read which DVD, whether Leslie or another instructor, that you used. Or whatever form your walk took, whether outdoors, on the treadmill, or anything in between. We all could use some new inspiration sometimes, or inquiring minds sometimes just want to know. So please share if you would care to
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Come on in and let us start walking the Monthly Walk Challenge together. I am truly grateful for each one of our precious walkers who continue to inspire and motivate mile by mile, and step by step, each month.
And now... let us lace up those walking shoes and get our water... and we will begin to walk into May of 2019!
Blessings,
texasgardnr :flowerforyou:
WELCOME to all walkers!
May is here! And time to start a another new monthly challenge! Surely beautiful flowers and 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
Having Leslie's, or other walking DVDs, to pop in the player continues to be a great alternative to walking outdoors. Because of the warmer weather walking or hiking outdoors will be a pleasant alternative to the DVDs for those who enjoy getting their miles, minutes, or steps in outdoors. Especially after the long winter or extra rains many of us have had.
This group is open to any and all walkers. The majority of us use Leslie Sansone Walk At Home DVD workouts, 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, and on the treadmill, as well as other Walking DVDs. All of these many options count toward our miles, minutes, and steps. However you get your walk in, come on in and join us! Post your miles or minutes or steps that you have walked, however you do it... it is all good!
We are a happy, supportive group, and I promise that joining this walk challenge will motivate, challenge, as well as inspire you!
Set your goal for how many miles, minutes, or steps that you want to walk, indoors or out, this month. This is your own personal goal
. Post your results daily, weekly, or whenever you like.If you find this challenge in the middle of the month it doesn't matter which day of the month that you join in. Just set your goals to reflect what you want to walk for the remaining days in the month. You are always welcome
!So if you are new to the group please feel free to start today so that by the end of the month you will be that much closer to your health and fitness goals. It is never too late to join in.
It is always fun to read which DVD, whether Leslie or another instructor, that you used. Or whatever form your walk took, whether outdoors, on the treadmill, or anything in between. We all could use some new inspiration sometimes, or inquiring minds sometimes just want to know. So please share if you would care to
.Come on in and let us start walking the Monthly Walk Challenge together. I am truly grateful for each one of our precious walkers who continue to inspire and motivate mile by mile, and step by step, each month.
And now... let us lace up those walking shoes and get our water... and we will begin to walk into May of 2019!
Blessings,
texasgardnr :flowerforyou:
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@VeggieGirlforLife @PinkyPan1 @AnnofB @Texasgardnr
Great job meeting April Goals! We are SWEATY WOMEN!3 -
My Goal for May will be cut a little as I will have company for a week. Not going to set how many days a week this month.
So I want to do 100 Workout miles and 175 watch miles.4 -
I plan to walk with Leslie 5 times a week. While I enjoy an outdoor walk, I think I'll be walking mostly with Leslie. I'll probably log my walks weekly because I don't always log into MFP.
Happy walking!4 -
New to this group but did Leslie’s walking videos some years back and loved them! Just started workout and diet last month, I use my Fitbit daily to count steps but would like to make it a personal goal to walk at least 1 mile or more OVER what I do on my FB daily! Let’s do this! 💪🏾5
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I realized that it is taking a lot out of me, right now, to do any kind of exercise due to being in such poor condition. It’s been way too long since I’ve done any exercise on a consistent basis. It is taking me a very long recovery time. So, will try, again, a little more slowly.
The last one I did last Sunday (Burn 30) and have been completely exhausted since then. I just now feel recovered enough to do it, again. I hope that I build up, soon.
May Goal: Cardio exercise 2 times per week. Strength exercise 2 times per week. Also, earlier bedtime (midnight or earlier).
Linda4 -
Happy May everyone! I exceeded last month goal by 2 miles. It's a rainy start in my neck of the woods but it looks like we will be drying out over the weekend.
May's milage tracked goal is 85 Miles.
Start logging food again as I'm still stress eating.
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My Goal for May will be cut a little as I will have company for a week. Not going to set how many days a week this month.
So I want to do 100 Workout miles and 175 watch miles.
5/1 Workout #99 5+ Mega Miles. Heart rate was so high I had to cool down after mile 3 didn't realize I walked a mile cooling down but I did take about 15 just walking around the house and garden.
May Miles 6/100 2019 418/1000
May Watch miles 6.37/1753 -
I am in for 125 miles. Between golf, the Gazelle and walking Einstein this should be very doable.
7.12/125
7.12 miles golfing this morning.4 -
What a great start to the May Walk Challenge, y'all
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@knjstolt, yep! we are all sisters in sweat
Excellent goal! Enjoy your company. Knowing your track record you'll burn a bunch of cals getting ready for them too :laugh:
@Yana220, welcome! We shall enjoy reading about your miles every week!
Welcome, @lsrose06, I'm glad that you are back to walking with Leslie's DVDs and walking with us also. Nice goal!
@Elbee1, Happy to see you back for this month! Perhaps you might consider starting out even slower/ gentle-er. Burn 30 would definitely be a rough re-introduction to walking /working out. Oh, my. Maybe look for some of Leslie's 5 minute walks on YouTube and see if that helps you not be so exhausted and thus be increasingly consistent. Also on the Just Walk mix & match Walk Blasters DVD there is a "Light Walk" which would be a gentle reintroduction 10 minute walk. She also has the "Flexibility Walk" which she uses for a cool down/ stretch walk that you may be able to work in somewhere at the end of your walk.
Be gentle and compassionate with yourself as you ease back into workouts and strengthening your body. You can do this !
@Deeder522, that is cool that you exceeded your April goal!! Yay for bonus miles :bigsmile: . Great idea to restart logging again to get a handle on the stress eating. We are so blessed to have these tools available to us, especially when times are rough .
@Deeder522, your goal does sound quite doable for you! Especially with your Einstein walkin' with you
My goal for May is to continue to be extra active in some way and/or workout at least 5 days a week.
May 1st: 1 1/2 hours yard/ garden.
:flowerforyou:
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Thank you, @texasgardnr, I"m happy to be walking with you all!2
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@texasgardnr Thank you!!!
May Goal: Cardio exercise 2 times per week. Strength exercise 2 times per week. Also, earlier bedtime (midnight or earlier).
5/1 = Push-ups (10 reg. floor, imperfectly, 10 bent knee, imperfectly, 30 wall push-ups), Triceps Dips (1st set: 15, 2nd set 10), Back exercises including crunches & planks. Going to bed earlier: 12:40am3 -
Hi - starting over again. I've walked to pretty much all of Leslie Sansone's DVDs. I just pulled out the 5 mile miracle walks (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 mile DVDs).
My goals are pretty simple since I'm just getting started - just to get moving again!
Walk the 2 mile DVD on MWF, and alternate with a half hour on the treadmill (3pmh) on T&TH.
My goal is to do at least this amount of walking until I have a few weeks of getting used to MOVING again.
So far this week I did a half hour on the treadmill Monday and Tuesday, and did the 2 mile miracle walk yesterday (which kicked my butt!!!). I'm so out of shape (but hey, round IS a shape right?!).
Tonight I plan on doing the treadmill for 30 minutes, tomorrow will be the 2 mile miracle walk.5 -
10.53/125
3.41 mile walk with Einstein this morning1 -
I have a couple of Leslie’s DVDs. I will dust them off & get started!4
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Welcome back @CorkyLaRue and a great plan to get moving again.
Welcome @MzRuthy , dush those DVD's off and then put them in the player. I dust my DVD's too but tend to forget the "put them in the player part", weird.
Can anyone explain why even a homemade burger has to destroy my food intake for the day? I even had a small salad with it.
Tonight I have a walk in a local park, not the kind I'll be leading but I'll be shadowing for some tips and it's raining 3 -
My Goal for May will be cut a little as I will have company for a week. Not going to set how many days a week this month.
So I want to do 100 Workout miles and 175 watch miles.
5/1 Workout #99 5+ Mega Miles. Heart rate was so high I had to cool down after mile 3 didn't realize I walked a mile cooling down but I did take about 15 just walking around the house and garden.
5/2 WORKOUT #100 5 Mixed Miles. 2 Belly Blasting miles and 3 Walk off the lbs miles.
May Miles 11/100 2019 Miles 423/1000
Watch May Miles as of now 12.4/1754 -
@texasgardnr thank you... I am beginning to think you know me to well Mary! JK
@Yana220, @lsrose06, @CorkyLaRue @MzRuthy
Welcome to the group to you all or welcome back..... Just remember to listen to your bodies. We they say it is time to stop, YOU NEED TO STOP! Don't push it as start off slow and build your body resistance up. We are all here for help and encouragement if you need anything just ask.....5 -
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My goal for May is to do 30 minutes of some form of exercise 5 days a week. Got a lot to do in my yard and it's biting into my Leslie time.
Welcome all new walkers and returning Walkers!!!
@Isrose06 - I like that idea about adding an extra 1 to your daily FitBit count.
@Elbeel - You are off to a good start.
@Yana220 - You can do it!
CorkyLaRue - Once step at a time, you will get to where you want to be. Made me laugh out loud - (Round is a shape right?) You've already got the jump on this week.
MzRuthy - I live in fear that they will quit making DVD players!
PinkyPan1 - Here we are, spring and thunder storms galore, but your Gazelle is going to be a big help getting in your mileage if you can't get to the golf course.
texasgardnr - My goal is pretty much the same as yours. There aren't enough hours in the days sometimes!
Deeder - I want to know the answer to that too! Ha-ha.
knjstolt - Your mileage this year has been amazing. I know you are going to make that goal for the year.
It's SO good to have walking buddies!5 -
May Goal: Cardio exercise 2 times per week. Strength exercise 2 times per week. Also, earlier bedtime (midnight or earlier).
5/1 = Push-ups (10 reg. floor, imperfectly, 10 bent knee, imperfectly, 30 wall push-ups), Triceps Dips (1st set: 15, 2nd set 10), Back exercises including crunches & planks. Going to bed earlier: 12:40am
5/2 = Burn 30 I'll be back to report the bedtime... -- btw, I am exhausted. This is a tough workout for me. I hope that I build up, soon. I'm wondering if I'm getting my heart beat up too high. My face was pretty red afterwards. I think the highest my fit bit showed was 137. But, I'm pretty sure that my fit bit is not accurate on me....
Thanks for the support and cheers, @kngstolt , @AnnofB , and @texasgardnr .
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BTW, I wasn't sore from the exercises, yesterday,... until about 10:30 or 11 this morning. My arms and shoulders have been pretty sore since then... but it's been a good sore. 4
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Goal: 30 minutes of exercise 5 days a week.
5/1... 45 minutes of weights and some gardening
5/2... 38 minutes of the 5 Day Slim Down3 -
Ooooh, I'm late to the party this month! Sorry about that friends! Welcome to all who are joining our group this month! It's a bigger walk party!
Let's see...I think I'll set my goal for 160 miles. I had to rush to get in 155 last month ~ this month I will be adding time and days to my strength workouts, so it'll be doable, but still a challenge!
May 1: 5 Boosted Miles + lower body Pilates
May 2: 6 Miles ~ 3 Miles Walk Away the Pounds Express + Walk Slim 3 Fast Miles + lower body Pilates + 3 Circuits of Jillian Michaels Banish Fat, Boost Metabolism (holy cow, that was a sweaty workout, I forgot how tough that one is!)
11 of 160 miles4 -
I'm so out of shape. Doing the 2 mile miracle walk with the stretchy band on Wednesday really kicked my butt - I'm sore all over. I did do a pretty decent (for me) walk on the treadmill last night. Tonight the goal is to do the treadmill, tomorrow the 2 mile walk. This is usually where I fail - Fridays and weekends make me lazy. Excuses, excuses.4
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I've come to report that my group walk last night was a long walk in the misty rain. What should have been a short fast walk ended up being fast and nearly 3 miles long! Oh jeepers! I was not properly prepared for that long of a walk and have some very large blisters on my foot now but ended up with over 13K steps.
I'm off to search for items to better equip myself.4 -
@CorkyLaRue, welcome! You definitely have an awesome plan in place. You can do this
@MzRuthy, Welcome to the walk challenge! Which DVD will you dust off first? ... knowing which one will encourage you to walk it
@knjstolt, maybe I know you b/c we are sisters in sweat ! I liked how you so wisely said: we definitely NEED to listen to our bodies... great advise!
@AnnofB, there is definitely not enough time for workouts and gardening when we finally get into spring. For me sometimes we can start having 100 degree weather even in April :noway:. So I have to "make hay (garden work) when the sun isn't shining so much" :bigsmile: . That is why I'll skip LS walks for harder/ longer gardening days. And I'll feel like I did 5 miles twice
:laugh: .
@VeggieGirlforLife, glad you made it to our walk party . Nice goal, and it is a well thought out plan!
@Deeder522, oh, no
! That was certainly an unexpectedly long walk for certain, when it gives you blisters 
. At least it earned you a lot of steps!
My goal for May is to continue to be extra active in some way and/or workout at least 5 days a week.
May 1st: 1 1/2 hours yard/ garden.
May 2nd: 45 minutes Gazelle, 1 hour in the garden.
May 3: 80 minutes: Tone Every Zone: 3 circuits, & 2 Walk Blasters (Light Walk, Flexibility Walk)
:flowerforyou:4 -
Goal: 30 minutes of exercise 5 days a week.
5/1... 45 minutes of weights and some gardening
5/2... 38 minutes of the 5 Day Slim Down
5/3... 30 minutes of weights and 35 minutes of the 4 Mile Super Challenge3 -
@Deeder522 I've never walked 3 miles in misty rain, but it sounds kinda fun! Except for those blisters! :frown: Ouch! I hope those heal up quickly for you.
May 3: 5 Mile Advanced Walk + lower body Pilates + abs floor work with Leslie
16 of 160 miles
Got a bit overzealous with that Jillian Michaels workout last night. My legs hurt too much to try that again tonight, almost like I pulled or tore a muscle! Better take it one circuit at a time I guess. A few years ago, I could do the whole DVD and I always worked up a sweat, but I don't remember being that sore!4 -
May Goal: Cardio exercise 2 times per week. Strength exercise 2 times per week. Also, earlier bedtime (midnight or earlier).
5/1 = Push-ups (10 reg. floor, imperfectly, 10 bent knee, imperfectly, 30 wall push-ups), Triceps Dips (1st set: 15, 2nd set 10), Back exercises including crunches & planks. Going to bed earlier: 12:40am
5/2 = Burn 30 I'll be back to report the bedtime... -- btw, I am exhausted. This is a tough workout for me. I hope that I build up, soon. I'm wondering if I'm getting my heart beat up too high. My face was pretty red afterwards. I think the highest my fit bit showed was 137. But, I'm pretty sure that my fit bit is not accurate on me....
Went to bed 12:20am—closer to my goal.
5/3 = bedtime was 11:45pm. Quite sore today. No exercise.
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May Goal: Cardio exercise 2 times per week. Strength exercise 2 times per week. Also, earlier bedtime (midnight or earlier).
5/1 = Push-ups (10 reg. floor, imperfectly, 10 bent knee, imperfectly, 30 wall push-ups), Triceps Dips (1st set: 15, 2nd set 10), Back exercises including crunches & planks. Going to bed earlier: 12:40am
5/2 = Burn 30 I'll be back to report the bedtime... -- btw, I am exhausted. This is a tough workout for me. I hope that I build up, soon. I'm wondering if I'm getting my heart beat up too high. My face was pretty red afterwards. I think the highest my fit bit showed was 137. But, I'm pretty sure that my fit bit is not accurate on me....
Went to bed 12:20am—closer to my goal.
5/3 = bedtime was 11:45pm. Quite sore today. No exercise.
Linda, I have never done Burn 30 before, but there are plenty of Leslie's workouts that have me winded and red faced at the end. I haven't been tracking my heart beat, but if I feel it's too much, I moderate the moves. I have a FitBit too. I read a few years ago that most trackers can be off by as much as 30 %, (no one said which way they are off - that you've done more or less that it measured) so take what you see with a grain of salt. I still think that having some form of tracking is helpful and motivating, so I'm not giving mine up. I do know it's normal to feel sore the next day or even two days later after a strength workout. You're doing great. Made it to bed before midnight too. 3
