THE Team Week 6 - 3/13/09 to 3/19/09
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Hey all! Just came in for lunch and to check in. I am planting in my garden today ~ Big Boy tomatoes, Creole tomatoes, Italian Basil, Sweet Basil, Rosemary, Banana peppers, Cilantro, and Thyme. Also planted a bunch of Salvia, Peonies, Lariope, Mexican Heather, and a Camellia bush. I'm sooooo excited! Spring comes early down South. This past weekend I prepared my beds, added top soil and fertilizer to everything, and got all the leaves raked up and put in the compost corner. I LOVE this time of year!!:bigsmile: :bigsmile: :bigsmile:
Kristi ~ I forgot about that crazy gun-totin' cat! Well, I'm thinkin' a pound of cat nip might be just what that crazed feline needs ~ and as for those dogs, I'm bringin' bones, dem bones, dem beef bones! That scale will... be... mine mmmwwaaahahahhaa!! (Did I sound maniacal enough?)
Zano - New floors, new paint - I'm so excited for you - and yes! We will absolutely need to see pictures!! You are such a great encourager and you are doing beautifully with your wogging and meeting your goals. Thanks for being you!
smontoya and chanty ~ Ruuuuuuuunnn girls ruuuuuuuuunnn!
Anita - a job for DH - that's fantastic! Congratulations! And great workout ~ good for you!
Swignol - way to go motivating your sister and your cousin! It's awesome when we work to change ourselves for the better, but even more meaningful when we strive to bring others along for the journey! Yayyy on the measurements! You are doing a great great job!
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LOLOL... CM musta been looking in my fridge and saw cabbage! Im actually not making corned beef, but I am making cabbage rolls in the crockpot today. My kids LOVE them!! My youngest made sloppy joes for dinner last night. THey turned out pretty good, considering they were manwich. We just rinsed all the grease of the hamburger before dumping in the sauce.
I hit the gym with adopt4 this morning, then came home and proceeded to clean up outside all the crap that blew into my yard over the last couple days. Washed down the driveway and the deck and started hubbys car and moved it into the driveway and off the street.
I just came in and made lunch and I gotta say Im a bit impressed. I still had mushrooms left over and some yellow bell pepper, so I put some them both in a sauce pan with some olive oil and minced garlic. Then I tossed in the basalmic vinegar and sauteed it for a few minutes, then threw in a heaping handful of spinach and some chopped tomatoes. Let that cook down, stuffed it into a pita with some feta cheese... OMG... WOW!!! Im definitely making THAT again!
Anyway...Im off to run some errands and drop $ off to my daughter for her team track pictures today.0 -
Healthymom2009, fantastic job with the run. 3.5 mi in about an hour! I know I wouldve been tired and confused just counting up to those laps, great job!!!!
LOL This reminded me of a little trick we used to use when I was part of the Team In Training a few years ago. We did laps around the track and so many people would forget just how many they did. It does get very hard once you get past 7 or 8 laps to remember how many your at, especially when your just walking and talking to someone else. Anyway... at the start of the laps, the coach handed each of us a certain number of skittles. The numbers of skittles= how many laps we had to walk. Once they were gone, your laps were done...as long as you didnt eat more than one or all of them at once.. LOL I just thought it was a pretty funny way of "remembering" how many laps you had left to do. Worked great for me at the time.0 -
:laugh: Skittles. That's awesome.
I sense another 3,500-calories day for me (yep) if I did that. Once I start on sugar, it's all over for me..:noway:
How about edamame? Protein and good fat...lots better for me than Skittles.0 -
Well guys, My sister is such a butthead... well I waited to go to the gym until 4:30 so that I could do water areobics and my siter was supose to meet me.. she text me and said she wouldnt make it in time so I was getting dressed to go on the machines... I text her back and said I did my work out after water areobics so get to the gym... well needless to say she has stood me up again... boy does that fuel my fire...
I also didnt realize how hard it is to work out after you do water areobics!!! man am I sore today...I only got 1 hour of water areobics and 25 minutes on the eliptical then I did some weight...so I only got 1hour and 25 minutes of cardio in today and I feel horible...
Then I came home from the gym and my Hubby had dinner ready and because I was hungry I ate fast and now I feel even worse... grrrrrrrrrrr.0 -
Lulu - Oh I love gardening! A little to cold here still to do anything, but it is getting warm!!
Cmr - Edamame is reallly yummy, and a great source of protein along with a crap load of other good things. I make edamame salads, and things like that mmmm I want to make one right now!!
Ohhh I love my little HRM, I went on the elliptical and it said exactly what my watch said for my HR, and calories and I was like wtf? And then I realized it said polar heart rate ready, it was soo cool! I burned about 650 calories today 1 hr at the gym + 1 hr of DDR. I took the calories my HRM said for the exercise, and subtracted what I would normally burn in each hour, so it is pure exercise goodness!0 -
Lulu - Oh I love gardening! A little to cold here still to do anything, but it is getting warm!!
Cmr - Edamame is reallly yummy, and a great source of protein along with a crap load of other good things. I make edamame salads, and things like that mmmm I want to make one right now!!
Ohhh I love my little HRM, I went on the elliptical and it said exactly what my watch said for my HR, and calories and I was like wtf? And then I realized it said polar heart rate ready, it was soo cool! I burned about 650 calories today 1 hr at the gym + 1 hr of DDR. I took the calories my HRM said for the exercise, and subtracted what I would normally burn in each hour, so it is pure exercise goodness!
We are all headin' to New Orleans with NW scales to do some gardening...we'll swing by Kristi's in Utah for her scale - she works nights - so she won't know.
Luckily the Polar HRM has a little night light on it, so we can be stealthy AND keep track of calories as we sneak in. Isn't it great to know that we will have the exact HR (including the adrenaline??)
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Did you notice that the HRM transmits to the elliptical or treadmill or whatever you are on? My favorite machine is the Precor AMTi. But people on the adjacent machines also get your readings :laugh: so I tried to always have a "buffer" of one machine on each side of me empty, and there would be my HR, beating away on the two machines next to me. Kinda funny.0 -
okay, here I go on Tech Class again: This one is really Low Tech!
Anita,I have to get my DH to take a picture and you know I am always so embarassed to ask him... I just went a lot blonder and had 2 inches cut off the length.. It was too long... But I love it.. What is it that simple things like that make you feel like a million bucks...
All my profile pictures (and most everyone else with "headshots" on MFP) are taken by us. Just hold the camera at arm's length and take your own picture. Then you can take 30 pictures with differing amounts of Sexy, and decide which one you like best. Or you can use a web cam, but the pictures aren't as crisp.
Full body shots the same way - just use a mirror.
Let's see some cute blonde girl. :glasses:
Ok, I will try that tomorrow after I am ready for work... I want him to take a full length picture for that site called weight view.. He said he will and that I am retarded for the way I think "smile".. Years of being insecure I guess...0 -
Luckily the Polar HRM has a little night light on it, so we can be stealthy AND keep track of calories as we sneak in. Isn't it great to know that we will have the exact HR (including the adrenaline??)
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Did you notice that the HRM transmits to the elliptical or treadmill or whatever you are on? My favorite machine is the Precor AMTi. But people on the adjacent machines also get your readings :laugh: so I tried to always have a "buffer" of one machine on each side of me empty, and there would be my HR, beating away on the two machines next to me. Kinda funny.
Oh you make me laugh:laugh: ! Yeah that is what I was talking about, how neat it was Ahha, oh well you should not trust those things anyways!! There is just a whole bunch of like 70-80 year olds walking soooo slow on the treadmills, my HR will make them think they are having a heart attack:laugh: :laugh:0 -
Hey team I did it, I went to my cousins and we walked to the park and then through the park for a total of 4 miles.... I cant beleive it last year I couldnt walk two houses... yay then I came home ate lunch and then I went to the gym and did the elipitcal for 35 minutes and the weights.. so I treated myself to tanning..
Sheila :drinker: :flowerforyou:
That's so awesome Sheila! Especially about the part of you doing four miles and then doing some more gym work..I did four and called it a day..Great job!0 -
ohh I just got a polar hrm...oh yayy!! Now I can see if the exercise equipment at the gym is right (I hope not!..hr wise)
I hope everyone else is having a good day, I think eating a bit more really helped me!!
Tell me how the hrm works out for you...I've been wanting to get one but I'm not sure if the money would be worth for me. I heard a personal trainer say that there's different heart rate levels that you always want to keep at when you're trying to do certain things like, build muscle or burn fat..so confusing!0 -
ohh I just got a polar hrm...oh yayy!! Now I can see if the exercise equipment at the gym is right (I hope not!..hr wise)
I hope everyone else is having a good day, I think eating a bit more really helped me!!
uh, oh, you know they are usually way high in the estimated calories on gym machines, right? So if you think you have been burning 400 kcals, it will be more like 320......
I hope I'm wrong....but that has been the general consensus on the boards, the gym, and it has been my personal experience with my HRM as well. :ohwell:
Yes I do, I am glad I have the HRM now to tell me the truth! I do not really believe those machines anyways, they just do that I think to make people think they are burning more, or just do not have the technology to measure everyone correctly
Oh no :noway: !!! I never knew that...I always put in the weight that I want to weigh instead of my actual weight, does anyone know if that affects the burned calories shown? Good to know tho, that'll just make me work longer and harder so I can make sure I don't underestimate the calories I burned off.0 -
Lulu – spring???? Are you kidding? There is still 4 feet of snow on my lawn! You are quite the gardener: my mother would be proud (she’s the gardener in our family). Plus it does burn lots of calories! :bigsmile:
Swignol – great job on the inches! Hurray! Forget the scale...and remember to take the exercise slowly 1hr 25 min is awesome! :flowerforyou: My supper ritual is drink one glass of water before I start to eat and then another one with the meal to slow me down. But I know what you’re talking about. Have done that myself.
Li4g- I would have to use “smarties” to count laps. I just remember 8 laps=1 mile. So I only count to 8. Not too difficult. Hmmm...smarties.
Chantybear – awesome exercise today! I would not want the marathon jogger next to me to see my heart rate. How embarrassing!
After my BIG lunch today I was able to add that extra 30 min. at the gym and burn it off. Hey woggers - I had a great time today 18:30 that's 30 seconds off my usual time. Did it with intervals. Will have to try that again - I am getting so bored - still tired, but need a challenge for the mind or new workout music...:laugh:0 -
Actually, if you are putting in less weight than you are you are burning more calories than what shows. I know as my weight has dropped, Ive had to work harder and longer to burn the same amount.. :grumble:
WHICH, is why I went and got an HRM today! :laugh: Ive been wanting one for a while and found a brand new timex that is waterproof and came with a chest strap. Ive been sittin here reading the manual trying to figure it out and I think I got a handle on it. Now I wanna go to the gym and give it a test drive!! LOL... maybe I'll just go for a walk instead around the neighborhood. Its not raining, actually a nice night tonight :happy:0 -
Ok, that settles it. I'm buying stock in the Polar Company.
I also have AIG, GeneralMotors, Citibank, (had WAMU, but there's a sad story), let's see, what OTHER genius picks has my stock person made? - OH Starbucks, Lucent, Dell..........
Polar. That's my pick.
smontoya, I've had mine about a year. Once I hit that six-week plateau, I decided I needed it. I love mine (Polar F6). If you buy one, just make sure it comes with the chest strap transmitter. I like the F6 - $100 on Amazon - it doesn't get interrupted by other peoples' transmitters like the less expensive ones do - but that's an issue only if you use it at a gym or other group activiity.
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I asked a friend who hs been a gym rat all her life to explain Training Heart Rates.
The formula for figuring your Heart Rates varies depending on whether you are "non-athletic, fit or athletic."
I figured my HR as a "Fit" person. You can go online and look up the formula for the other two categories - "fit" is
Your age divided by 2
Subtract that number from 211
The total is your maximum heart rate.
Then just figure the percentages for 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%
So for a woman in the "fit" category I take my age (54) divided by 2, then take 211 minus that number which gives me 184.
184 should be my maximum heart rate. That being said, these are my targets:
55% 102
60% 111
65% 120
70% 129
75% 138
80% 148
85% 157
90% 166
95% 175
100% 185
Where should I train?
For Training Heart Rates
Fat Burning -The optimal target to get to for fat burning is between 60 and 70%, BUT you must do this for a long period of time, such as 1 hour or more. If you go slow and keep your heart rate here and go for over 1 hour of training, you will be in the best zone for fat burning.
Cardiovascular Improvement - Between 70% and 80%. In this aerobic zone your body will transfer oxygen to your muscles, heart and lungs, which will push the carbon dioxide out which will improve your overall health. Depending on the level of your health, you will want to be here about 45 minutes to 1 1/2 hours.
Anaerobic State - between 80% to 90%. When you work in this zone, your body is no longer burning fat, but burning glycogen instead. When you burn glycogen you will begin to build lactic acid, that's when you develop cramps in the muscles.
Red Line Zone is anything beyond 90%. This is where athletes get their speed, you can only train here for minutes at a time, this is where athletes develop their "fast twitch" muscle fibers which allows them to have explosive power, but the explosive power last for only seconds.
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Shoot for 60%-70% for Fat burning ( for more than 1 hour )
Shoot for 70%-80% for Cardiovascular improvement
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whew doogies! [drags herself in, collapses in front of the computer with a glass of water and loosens foundation garments. Hard to know why she uses an exclaimation previously used only by Jed Clampet!?] What a day! You all worked out, and I am exhausted! Have you seen that movie with John Candy and hmmmm... she's the striking, older Irish actress, was in the origional Parent Trap with Brian Keith and Haley Mills??? Dang, can't remember her name. Anyway, she is John Candy's mom in the movie. He has a line he repeats over and over, "Sometimes its good to be a cop." Well, sometimes its NOT good to be a social worker. Actually, its usually very good, but some days its just hard work. Oh well.
The good news is, I had one slice of pizza with a salad (graduation party) rather than three or four slices of pizza and a bunch of bread sticks and soda. Also, I had the extreme veggie rather than the "Mountain O' Meat" It feels like a real accomplishment. And, I know I CAN eat just one! Also, I have been doing this new lifestyle thing officially a month today. Also, I found an old food journal I had been keeping during my various stops and starts at dieting for several years. I weigh less than I have weighed since late 2004.
Madeline O'Hare! I think that's her. Anyway, love you guys, good job, especially swignal!! Lots of work-out time, inches lost, increased endourance, way to go.
Lulu, and cmr, tonight would be a good night to sneak up on me, I will be dead to the world when my head hits the pillow. :yawn:0 -
One last thing...Ok, that settles it. I'm buying stock in the Polar Company.
I also have AIG, GeneralMotors, Citibank, (had WAMU, but there's a sad story), let's see, what OTHER genius picks has my stock person made? - OH Starbucks, Lucent, Dell..........
Polar. That's my pick.
AIG, really?? What kind of a liberal, sushi eating, prius driving hippy are you, anyway? That was the quote, wasn't it? "sushi eating, prius driving" as though they were bad things. Ah, politics, thats a subject for another website.0 -
I guess I'm still behind with the reading. :huh: Just dropping a line to reassure you that you'll be hearing from me tomorrow at the weigh-in . Today the scale was my friend, so unless I totally mess up tonight (guests arriving in the afternoon), I am hopeful I'll have good news.
Exercising was not my friend this week (I was active, but no aerobic class and no sit-ups ) and now gotta wait till Mo, cos I can't let my guests go out for a drink alone, can I . Maybe we'll go on a trip/hiking on the WE, though - that should do, right? :glasses:
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Smontoya: I love it, but I mainly got it for long outdoor runs, and too keep an eye on my stupidly high HR...:grumble:
And...
The machines at the gym ALWAYS over estimate for some a little, or others could be actually only burning half that..!
Healthy - Thanks, and there are some hard core exercisers at my gym but mostly elderly...:ohwell: I just goto the community centre gym, because it comes free with my tuition, and it is a decent gym! I am actually making an appointment about my resting and exercising HR...because it is so damn high (and shouldn't be!!!). Good job on the exercising!!
Li4g - That is good! I saw some timex, but polar is like super popular (and for good reasons), I like the simplicity of it!
Dewdrop - As long as you are active, it does not really matter how many situps you do or w.e...as long as your are feeling better! Hiking is fun0 -
Good morning everyone.. I am running so late.. I only got in 45 mins of cardio this morning for only 385 calories burned.. Love that HRM... When I win the lottery I will by a Polar but for now I am sticking with Reebock, its pink and cute .....
Ok so I am deciding not to weigh myself tomorrow .. DH took the scale away again.. So it's really not a choice.. He thinks I focus on it too much.. It's my TOM and when I weighed myself last night (not normal for me) I got frustrated with the weight gain so in he came and off when he and the scale... He said he would give it back in a week.. Butt head he is I tell ya.. Men, they drive me nuts..
I think about CM saying to Kristi "step away from the scale, the scale is the Spawn:devil: walk towards the light and I just crack up.....
LI4G you will love that little HRM.. they are so nifty and I can't imagine working out without it now ever...
Good morning everyone else...
Have a great day.. I am off to that horrible job of mine..
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Good morning everyone.. I am running so late.. I only got in 45 mins of cardio this morning for only 385 calories burned.. Love that HRM... When I win the lottery I will by a Polar but for now I am sticking with Reebock, its pink and cute .....
Ok so I am deciding not to weigh myself tomorrow .. DH took the scale away again.. So it's really not a choice.. He thinks I focus on it too much.. It's my TOM and when I weighed myself last night (not normal for me) I got frustrated with the weight gain so in he came and off when he and the scale... He said he would give it back in a week.. Butt head he is I tell ya.. Men, they drive me nuts..
I think about CM saying to Kristi "step away from the scale, the scale is the Spawn:devil: walk towards the light and I just crack up.....
LI4G you will love that little HRM.. they are so nifty and I can't imagine working out without it now ever...
Good morning everyone else...
Have a great day.. I am off to that horrible job of mine..
Anita
Obviously, your husband is in cahoots with the scale snatchers! Better watch out! :laugh:0 -
CM, nice to see you back in your av. :happy:
If that is you...... For all we know, you could be a 67 year old retired coalminer with a wooden leg and a collection of antique button hooks. I note your profile mysteriously changes from time to time. :huh:0 -
WAIT!!! It was Maureen O'Hare.
Madeline was the atheist, right?0 -
Stillkristi, I just love it when you post.... you always crack me up.
Well, I've been doing good all week at working out 450-500 calories (one day 600+!) and although I have seen the water weight leave (finally!) I don't seem to have lost any real weight (I know, I know, I still kept weighing, it was like an obsession, wondering when the scale would stop rising!) After weigh-in tomorrow I'm only going to weigh in on Fridays from now on, at least for awhile.
I think I've hit my first real plateau, though. I've been stressing a lot this week which may be why, I've been pretty prepared to hit one every month and so I've been proactive in shaking things up in my workouts. One of the trainers told me she'd take a class with me on Sunday. That was nice of her. I think she's shocked that she's seen me & LI4G there every dang day for 2 months (for me) and more than that for LI4G (I think she's been in the gym 2 weeks longer or so?).
I did buy some new shoes last night for the gym, the ones I've been wearing are either the wrong size (a size too big) or really old and pretty worn... so I am excited about that, I can totally tell my feet were sitting different (and in the right position!) today. So hopefully that will help with some hip soreness too. I was just looking at Fred Meyer and these seemed really good, had a removable insert, which I would need if I get orthotics, and also had an added arch support you could put in... so I took them up to see what the price was (figuring they were too much for my little budget) and they were on clearance! Got 'em for $25!!!
Going back to the gym tonight with hubby, he's meeting with a trainer and I may watch, or do some weights. Haven't worked my legs this week yet, just have done my back (which I'm still feeling that!)0 -
Good Job Adopt4.....
I don't know if you read my post.. My husband took my scale away for 1 week.. :grumble:
Oh well, he is doing what he thinks is best I guess...
Kristi I love your posts too.. You and CM crack me up...0 -
Well team, i am not having a very good day... I am not feeling the motivation today... I havent got out to go to the gym.. it is 3:30 in the afternoon and I feel like doing nothing... I cant believe i feel this way man I need someone to drag me to the gym I know I will be okay once I get there.. Its just getting there and time is running out on me....
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Swingal, I had motivation issues this AM also. If it werent for buying the new HRM and wanting to give it a shot... I woulda been trying to talk myself out of it. I didnt sleep too well last night, although I went to bet at about 9:30 and woke up at 7:30. You'd think after 10 hours of sleep, I woulda had all the energy in the world! :grumble: Anyway....I didnt sleep good. Woke up at 1:30 and my body said it should be 6ish... boy was my brain disappointed when it saw the actual time. Allergies really mess me up this time of year so once I got up and got in my allergy meds and had breakfast.. I FORCED myself out the door.
Get up and get going girl! You know you will feel much better once its over and done with. Also, do you take a day off from the gym? I usually take 2 days during the week... Thurs & Sundays. But since I cant go Saturday, I decided to go today instead. If you dont take a day off....maybe you just need a rest day. If you do, and you just cant motor to the gym today, count today as your day off and GO on the day you would normally take off.0 -
SO... I posted a question about the HRM results I got at the gym... heres the link...
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Swingal, I had motivation issues this AM also. If it werent for buying the new HRM and wanting to give it a shot... I woulda been trying to talk myself out of it. I didnt sleep too well last night, although I went to bet at about 9:30 and woke up at 7:30. You'd think after 10 hours of sleep, I woulda had all the energy in the world! :grumble: Anyway....I didnt sleep good. Woke up at 1:30 and my body said it should be 6ish... boy was my brain disappointed when it saw the actual time. Allergies really mess me up this time of year so once I got up and got in my allergy meds and had breakfast.. I FORCED myself out the door.
Get up and get going girl! You know you will feel much better once its over and done with. Also, do you take a day off from the gym? I usually take 2 days during the week... Thurs & Sundays. But since I cant go Saturday, I decided to go today instead. If you dont take a day off....maybe you just need a rest day. If you do, and you just cant motor to the gym today, count today as your day off and GO on the day you would normally take off.
I dont normaly take a day off.. but today seems to be a great day to start taking one off :frown: I know if I just go and do cardio I will be fine..its just getting my butt up and going... well it is now 4:30 and still no gym..0 -
If you dont normally take a day off... then taking today wont kill ya. From what Ive seen you are working pretty dang hard on your gym days. Arent you working out like 1 1/2 hours on the days you go? Maybe you just need a rest day to get you back in the groove tomorrow. :happy:0
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