Turbo Jammers 09/07 - 09/13

Morning Everyone

I got my 3 miles in again. It seems to be getting easier...I shouldn't say that I'll probably jinx myself. Maybe it's because I have a friend that is riding along with me. She just had a baby the end of July so right now she just bikes along side me. It's nice to have someone to chat with, makes it go by quickly but I miss my tunes!!!

Ghanie-best of luck to your hubby. Job market is tough. I've been jobless for almost a year and a half. Hope he gets it!!

Angel- I hear ya on the lee way in calories. I like to leave about 100 just for human error.

Erica-Injuries can really be motivation killers. Great job on getting out there and burnin some calories. The maid fairy didn't find her way to my house but the nap fairy found my daughter so I got my cleaning done :laugh:

Erika-I know how hard it can be to find time to workout when your chasin kids around. Just remember something is better than nothing!! It may not be the big workout you wanted it to be but be proud of yourself for getting a workout in amongst a crazy busy day!

Casey-sorry to hear of your tummy troubles. Hope that it doesn't give you too much trouble between now and your appointment. Great job on getting a workout in even though you didn't feel well.

Well I'm thinkin it's gonna be a pretty lazy day from here on out. I do need to wash the bedding, but I got most of the household chores done yesterday. And a bonus I don't have to cook tonight. We are going out to dinner for a friends birthday!!!

I hope you all have a wonderful Friday!
Lyn

Hi! Still getting my workouts in but have been bad about posting. I will try to remember to do so after tonight's workout.

I am now juggling Turbo Jam and Hip Hop Abs! It is giving me some fun variety for my cardio workouts. I'm still doing the CE program as well.

Erica-I hope you feel better soon.

Ghanie-Good luck to your husband! I will keep my fingers crossed for your family!

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for the kind words. Yesterday was a bad day at work again- it's hard to do surgery when the anesthesia machine breaks and instead of just seeing yorkies (like normal) I had a 90lb lab and a 70 lb golden. Needless to say my shoulder is screaming :explode: and I'm glad I have the next 2 days off to recover! Going to try to run today between studying- my goal is to run for 20 consecutive minutes and then break up 40 minutes with walking 5/running 5 (I should probably say jogging b/c I'm a slow poke!)

Casey- I hope you have some good days coming up. Can you email me those links at ecrb77@yahoo.com about the mileage?
Angel- you're a beast- thanks for being a good motivator.
Ghanie- good luck with your 15 hour days. Hope your husband hears good news soon.
Drevans- 3 miles is awesome! Way to go!
Spiralgirl- it's great to hear how much you're getting done!

Have a great day everyone!
~Erica

Good evening Jammers!
It was a pretty lax day for me today, I decided not to go for my AM run...instead rocked out with my mom and did TJ FB! I hadn't done that one in awhile, so it was nice After breakfast I headed out for a bikeride...another thing I haven't done in awhile..haha! I finished up allll the lagging things that I can never finish from the week (pay bills, clean up, etc) and finally ended up doing about an hour of pilates mid-afternoon, and later evening completing a TJ 20-minute! I felt good, but for some reason I feel like I did not accomplish that much today:ohwell: ..maybe because my calorie burn was lower today...but I shouldn't be bummed I was still very active! I think I was just feeling under the weather today, kinda exhausted and in need of a lower day..I also feel like I maybe shouldn't have eaten so much today:laugh: ..but I am still left with about 100 cals, negative 3 carbs and a few proteins...I guess going over by a little is ok? I hate feeling nerved when my numbers are red! lol! how stupid......:blushing:
Anyways, I hope to get my butt up and out the door for my run tomorrow AM, then an afternoon with Push1 and probably some other exercises
Oh, I had a question about resting calorie burn-should I be subtracting from my exercise cals that my HRM says I burned?? I usually have been leaving around 100 cals at the end of the day to accommodate, but I heard somewhere to subtract about 80 cals per hour exercised...:huh:
Erica- I am really sorry to hear about your shoulder still! I HEAR ya bout the yorkies!:laugh: There's nothing quite like lugging 90lbs dead weight onto the sx table..lol! Be safe, be careful girl! And rest!
Fitnesspal-YES TurboJam works! I've been doing Chalene's workouts since January and I still can't get enough:smooched: I have (and several others on here) started the ChaLean Extreme program which is her circuit training program lifting heavy weights, but for the cardio you want-TurboJam baby!:laugh:

Morning Everyone,
I haven't fallen off the planet but I haven't been as careful as I need to be with the food for the last month or so, and It shows. No weight loss... no gain either but no loss which is the goal. I stopped logging my food for like 3 weeks!! MFP even sent me a couple of emails(that's a first!) Trying to find my mojo again - the exercise is still a priority and I haven't stopped the w/o's but I want to get the eating clean back on track again and I (once again!) realize I can't do that without your help. Seems like it's so easy to make an allowance here and there - then all of a sudden i turn around and i'm just not as careful as i used to be.
Anyway - enough of the whining:laugh: , I've logged my food for the day and i'm sticking to it. DH got us a membership to the gym in our subdivision (i am so not a gym person but i'm trying to be open minded ) and we went last night for the first time together! He has come on board with the fitness quest so we've been run/ walking together on the weekends. How cool is that!! A big positive change for our family.
I did 20 min of stationary bike at a pretty vigirous level and i amde it through 10 minutes on the ellipital machine (ouch!) plus goofed around with some of the weight machines for a while. We we're there for a bout an hour and I was drenched with sweat - have no idea how to calculate the burn but I do feel it today in my glutes/ hamstrings
Planning on some TJ after work and probably back to the gym w/ DH tonight.. we'll see.

Signining off for now ,
(recommitted) Janet

Good Morning Ladies...I feel like I've been away so long! Had a VERY long weekend, and food was not my friend this weekend at all. First time I've not eaten well in probably a year! We got new floors in the mail level of our house, so while my hubby and brother were putting them in, I had to keep my 2 boys (ages 4 and 6) as well as my 2 nephews (ages 3 and 9 months) confined to the basement for 2 full 12 hour days. It was brutal! We had to stay out of the way so the guys could get the work done, but had to go upstairs to eat and use the bathroom. It was crazy!!! But, I made it, and am glad to be done!

I still got a run in on Saturday morning (ran a 5k instead of walked it at a fundraiser event), but no workout Sunday. I ate pretty much anything I could grab while trying to feed the little and big boys! But, I'm back on track now! Whew!

This morning was Shape Bikini Body Program 2 and Hip Hob Abs Booty Shakin. I was so tired, I wasn't really feelin the HHA, but I'm sure I'll be back to normal tomorrow...just need some sleep!

Hey all,
I finished out my day yesterday with some core work over lunch and then CE Lean 1 (only 2 more..thank god!). Man you burn some cals with CE strength...got my hr monitor back! This am I did my usual am run...and stomach problems continued (it's never a good thing to be swearing at 5:30 in the morning:mad: ).
I am going to do some yoga later....
Ghanie: Love the new photo:)
Fitz: Hey we all have those times...you seem like a straight shooter so I wouldn't worry! I bet those boys burned off all those calories you ate keeping you busy!
leshawnturner: Great to "meet' you..and welcome! I like ChaLEAN as I am so busy I like to just go home and worout! I am lucky as I get gym memberships for free (as I work there:) but it saves if you do!
Janet: Great to hear from you! I get busy too and can't always get on here to post..we know you are here in spirit. I agree..tracking helps...it's so easy to forget litlte things you ate or not realize how much cals you are eating. Welcome back:)
Casey

Hey ladies! I hope everyone is having a great Tuesday thus far! I am at work (on lunch break actually) and decided to check in. I was feeling a bit lazy yesterday when I got home (I had to work all day when Mondays are usually one of my days off) and so I only got to doing Push2 (was planning a short run too but just decided to give myself a break:ohwell: .) I'm feeling a little guilty about that...:frown: Anyways, tonight is Burn Intervals and Ab Burner, have been eating ok, but craving bad this week:explode: I don't really know why...
I looked a little more into how many calories I should be eating daily (checked different websites and such) and all say around 1800 net calories! I have MFP set to lose 1/2lb a week but really I am trying to just maintain:huh: Maybe I should change my setting? I really don't know about eating that much PLUS my exercise cals so any suggestions?? I am a pretty active person as far as working out (I'm sure you all know lol) and consider my job "lightly active". :huh:
Ghanie-Love your new pic, super cute!
Casey-I hope you feel better soon girl, it's been going on tooo long I'd be dying in your shoes Good job pushing through the workouts though-Your definitely an inspiration to me!
Hope everyone else is doing well also! Check in later!

Thanks for all the help, I am still trying to get everything figured out..once I finally think I do I get confused again because something in my routine changes!:explode: ..lol I am eating 1460 plus exercise cals right now, so yea I'm gonna leave it there, usually ends up about 1600-1700 a day, with the exception of my rest day where I eat just around 1460.
I am feeling kinda crappy right now and want to get this off my chest-well I am actually quite mad at myself because my dad came home with Oreos-one of my previous enemies- welllll like I said I have been craving alot the last few days and I ate more cookies than I should have:blushing: I can't believe myself, I have been doing so well..maybe too well and I just gave in:sad: THAT doesn't help my calorie intake for the day-with that said, I really pushed myself with my Burn Intervals tonight but still doesn't help my feeling horrible..I guess I just have to take it and get back on track RIGHT NOW:devil: ugh..I can't believe myself..:frown:

Hey Ladies! What an absolutely upside down, crazy week for me. My eating has been horrible--mainly in the evenings, as I'm running from work, pickup the kids, sports, home, back out again for another deal and home and to bed. This is night #3 of this, and I'm wiped out. I am dragging through my workouts in the morning, and come mid afternoon, I'm rushing from one thing to the other and lucky to get food to my mouth in the few seconds I have. Yesterday I did back to back presentations for a client from 9am-3pm. I was stuffing almonds in my mouth in the 30 seconds I had between presentations and had about 10 minutes to stuff as much lunch as I could. By the time I got home at 5:30, I was shaking because I was so tired and hungry. I had 5 minutes to eat before the whole night got crazy. So, my cals have been either way high or way low...no consistency! And, I'm eating what I can grab and run with :grumble: But, hopefully by this weekend my work and home life will calm down for awhile...I'm not sure I can handle much more of this!

Workouts have been ok. I did CE Burn #1 today just for something different and went with heavier weights than I did when I first did Burn #1 and it was so easy I got terribly bored. I was doing the same weights at Chalene and never broke a sweat...not sure why it was so easy?!?! I find I get my HR up more if I do lighter weights and lots of reps these days. Hmm...still trying to figure that all out!

Ok, back to work. I gotta get on the road soon for afternoon and evening meetings. Won't be home from work until after 8 tonight :grumble:

Hey girls, It was a crazily busy Wednesday at work for me. I am certainly glad it is my "rest" day. I have done really good with my eating so far today, and I've got dinner all planned out just have to make it..haha. I am really tired tonight BUT I am going to do AbJam as usual and then just try to get to bed earlier tonight. I didn't sleep very well, and have had a little stress headache all day. I am looking forward to a AbJam, a shower and bed..:laugh:
Casey-Thank you for the support girl- I KNOW it is ok to eat "bad" once in awhile, it's not going to kill me or cause a 10lb weight gain but I HAVE been trying to eat clean. I just was very disappointed with myself for doing that...:frown: I had been doing really good, but it has been a ROUGH week:grumble: I am just going to shake it off and ROCK it this weekend cause I have off:bigsmile:
Erika-It sounds like you've had a rough week too! Great job keeping up with the workouts, I've been feeling the same way this week (dragging a bit with the workouts)...
Ghanie-I hope you're enjoying ChaLean as much as I am! Hiking sounds REALLY fun!!! I should try to plan some hiking trip out soon, but my biggest problem is there's nobody who'd really like to go with:frown:
Have a good night everyone!

Janet-I'm happy to see you as well

I haven't seen Megan in week or so....at least not here. She's bouncin around Facebook though so she's alive :happy:

Sorry I haven't checked in this week yet ladies, it's been a very busy week so far! I've walked/jogged every morning and did Zumba again Tuesday night. Hubby has started night classes again so my evenings aren't as "free" as they used to be. I'm off to bed...I'll have to catch up tomorrow.

Goodnight!

Good morning all!
Man it sounds like everyone is having a tough week..guess I am glad it's not just me! My health problems have taken a huge toll on me this week..not only physically but mentally as well. I have a vacation coming up and part of me just wants to stay home and relax (in addition to finding out what's wrong). We are flying to Miami and then on a cruise...not the ideal vacation for someone not feeling well..but I can relax in the room and try to avoid the crowds:) Never thought I'd see the day I wouldn't want to go on a beach vacation-but I really just want to stay home and sleep/relax:)
I did CE Burn Int this am-I think it' time for the upgrade for me-it's on the way! Will just walk and do some yoga/stretch later..perhaps CE Recharge.
Spiral: NICE-have fun with your hubby!
Drevansmom-Yeah it's odd to not see her on here isn't it? I know she hurt her back...so maybe that's partially it. Glad to see you are keeping active...
Janet: Good to see you pushing through. I don't think I devote any more time than anyone else on here..I just break my workouts up as I don't have long blocks of time to just gettr done! ha!
Lilangel: Sometimes our mess ups reset us and make us work harder! You'll be great:)
Ghanie: That sounds great...good for you showing her your stuff! A hike does sound nice...
Have a great day all-since we are having a tough week-let's all rememer to keep our heads up:):bigsmile:
Casey

Hey Ladies...I think the worst part of the week has finally come to a close for me...whew! I hope I don't get another week like that in a long time!!! I decided to start out my day with some Shaun T...a new HHA DVD I didn't have yet...fun, fun, fun! He makes me instantly get in a good mood!

I'm just starting to get the cold my boys have, so I'm feeling run down, but I'm going to push through it. Not sure why, but I've been sick more in the last 9 months, than I have in the last several years. Ever since I got on a workout routine...weird! Oh well, I'll kick it in the butt and be done with it!

My hottie UPS guy just delivered my Power90 DVD...yipee! I'm not quite ready for P90X, so thought I'd do Power90 instead. Can hardly wait to workout with Tony some more!

Well, gotta get my work done so I can go get the boys. Then, packing for a weekend at Mom and Dad's with my SIL and nephews.

One thing to look forward to....it'a just about Friday!!!

Aww nobody else has checked in yet! Haha, that's ok I just wanted to be the first to say Happy Friday all! I just finished breakfast (cheese omelet and a piece of cinnamon ezekiel w/cream cheese-YUM ) Anyway, I had a GREAT run-so happy I got up and out there this AM Oh! Thanks Casey-I used a couple different online "mapping" sites to figure out the distance I run-My longer run is just about 5 miles!!(4.97m) :laugh: I am so proud! I was expecting more around 4.
The plan for the rest of the day is early afternoon Burn It Off and Recharge, then probably the usual errands/cleaning up that has slacked this week lol.
I hope everyone had a good morning as well, Check in with ya later ladies!