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I just added everyone on this thread (did anyone know you could only add 5 friends in a 10 minute period?). I just started the program on Tuesday. I know at least some weeks I'm only going to get 2 workouts in rather than 3, but I'm going to do my best to always get at least two. I get sick a LOT though (bronchitis and…

I go to Fitness 19. I paid $10 enrollment fee and now pay $11/month with no contract. That is for the home gym only. It is a little more expensive if you want to go to any location. They don't have classes or a pool, but I wasn't interested in those anyway.

They are okay, but sometimes the ones I rented from my library felt a little rushed. I get that you are trying to get the most out of 10 minutes, but the trainers seemed to be doing the reps faster than I like and were jumping from one exercise to the next faster than I could get into position. I feel like I get the most…

I wonder if those padded bras could help those of us who are nursing babies and have to use nursing pads?

I'm not sure I'm any help. As of this week I've decided to temporarily stop logging food. I'm starving all the time and no matter how healthy I try to eat and how I try to keep to my calories for maintenance plus 500 extra for nursing, I'm still starving all the time and it is making me grouchy and irritable and hard to…

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I'm following this topic too... my baby is 3 weeks old and just this week I've started trying to do light exercise again. I took her for a 20 minute walk in my Baby K'tan baby carrier a couple of days ago and have tried to work in little spurts of exercise here and there. I have a treadmill at home (which I love) but…

Have any of you who are doing this program ever done Chalene Extreme 90 Day? I had been thinking of ordering Chalene but now that I see that Jillian has this program I'm not sure which I would rather order. I would love to hear from someone who has done Chalene Extreme and can give their opinion on how the two compare and…

Read Jeff Galloway's book "Half Marathon: You Can Do It". It advocates a run/walk method for training and even has a training schedule for absolute beginners who have been running less than a month (also has schedules for more advanced runners too).

1. To have a healthy baby (due date is Feb 2nd) 2. Get back down to my pre-pregnancy weight of 143 lbs 3. Be able to run 1 mile without walking (no time goal) 4. Progress to being able to run a 5k without walking (no time goal) 5. After reaching Goal 4, start training for a half marathon that I want to do in Spring 2013.…

I was having this problem. Every time I started trying to do C25K I would get sick with a lung infection around week 3. I actually got pneumonia 4 times in the course of a year. I suspect now that I was overtraining and that the C25K program was progressing faster than my body was adapting. I recently read that one of the…

I can go about 3 days without cardio before I start going a little crazy. Cardio always relieves stress so wonderfully for me and makes me feel so good that I miss it if I can't do it. Unfortunately, I have a tendency to get bronchitis and pneumonia really easily and anytime that happens my asthma also goes out of control…

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1. Lose the baby weight from the baby I'll be having in late Jan or early Feb. I've done it before (with hard work, diet and exercise so I believe I can do it again). 2. Train to actually RUN a 5k without having to stop to walk. I'll probably be modifying C25K to make it a slower more gradual progression than the program…

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Sadly Exercise TV is going away at the end of the year according to their website. I've used a few of their videos in the past and will miss them.

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Definitely! I'm a much happier and more relaxed person when I'm able to exercise (cardio). Any time that I've had to stop for more than a week due to illness, asthma or other circumstances I start feeling my stress level increase incrementally. My husband has commented that I'm much less irritable too when I'm exercising…

I'm in my third trimester and I mostly just walk for my cardio. How fast and hard is just determined by how I'm feeling on any given day. Sadly the speed I walk these days is slower than what my cool-downs were pre-pregnancy and yet I'm still feeling my breathing get harder during the workout so I know I'm not working too…

When I was breastfeeding my son I wore a DD and the only bra I found that would allow me to run on the treadmill without bouncing was the Enell bra. Expensive but worth it.

I'm going to have to modify the challenge a little. Now that I'm finally over my 3 weeks of bronchitis I'm starting to walk again. However, after consulting with my OB and Perinatologist it looks like for the rest of the pregnancy (2 more months!) I'll be sticking to just 30 minutes of cardio a day (down from 1 hour…

I greatly prefer cardio. Cardio workouts leave me happier, more relaxed, lessed stressed and in a much better mood than before I worked out. DH has even noticed a huge difference in my happiness when I've been working out and we even argue less. The improved mood is awesome and a great motivator to wanting to exercise…

I generally only ever let my 2.5 yr old watch tv when I'm on the treadmill. So I play 1-2 episodes of "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" and he is thorougly engrossed and doesn't give me any trouble. Before I started doing that it was practically impossible to get my workout in until he was in bed (DH takes college classes in the…

Yes, love mine. I pretty much wear it 24/7 (except for baths/showers). I used to use an Omron Pocket Pedometer and it worked fine, but it was bulkier and if I was wearing clothing that didn't have a waistband (like a dress) then it didn't fit comfortably in my bra and also the Omron didn't count the steps right in my bra.…

I'm surprised your doctor hasn't had you try Singulair or Accolate which are oral meds that help asthma. I'm on Symbicort like you but it wasn't doing the job by itself. I noticed a big difference when my Pulmonologist added Singulair. One time I ran out for a few days and I noticed almost immediately that my asthma…

I'm giving up for this month. I've now been sick/asthma problems for two weeks and no improvement in site and my OB is now referring me to a pulmonologist and thinks it could be possible I might have to be hospitalized for my asthma before I get around to having this baby (due date is still 10 weeks away). Hopefully the…

The amount of exercise you are doing isn't enough to interfere with trying to conceive. Very high amounts of exercise can actually cause some women to stop having their cycle and that would be a problem, but these days most doctors are fine with you continuing your exercise routine during trying to conceive and even once…

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A heart rate monitor is at the top of my list. I've been browsing online to find the right one and since I hate weight training (but love cardio) I've started giving myself a few dollars for each strength workout I do that I can put toward my heart rate monitor once I decide which one I want.

I take prednisone when my asthma goes out of control. I'm actually on it right now because I came down with bronchitis last week and my asthma couldn't handle it. Prednisone can cause an increase in appetite and also can cause water weight gain. If you're diabetic it can make your numbers skyrocket through the roof (like…