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Victorious Victoria Day Challenge - April 28th
You have three weeks left to surprise yourself :bigsmile: I have surprised myself a number of ways in these various challenges: I now consider elliptical easier exercise, I do strength training and sometimes enjoy it, and I have to limit the new exercises I'm trying, so I can save some for later. I would love to surprise…
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Victorious Victoria Day Fitness Challenge April 26th
It's awfully early on the weekend to be awake. I perpetually find it hard to believe people willingly get up at this time. At least it's the weekend and we got rain last night. Yesterday I did the elliptical as promised. I was so tired by the afternoon, I didn't do much else. Today is the 3 hour yoga stint, then probably a…
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Victorious Victoria Day Challenge -- April 23rd
One month from now, I'll be on the beach. I was hoping to be closer to my goal by then, but I'll get there eventually. I can't decide if I should cut about 50-100 calories a day, just to get ready for vacation. 2 pounds a month can seem really slow sometimes - especially when the scale is stuck for a while. Still sore from…
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Victorious Victoria Day Challenge -- April 22nd
I will get stronger, leaner, and more fit. It might just take awhile. I went shopping yesterday. I'm in-between sizes, blarg. The only thing that would fit both my waist and my hips/thighs was workout wear. I've decided it's what I look best in. Kinda weird wearing it all day though - would make it easy to do quick…
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Victorious Victoria Day Fitness Challenge April 19th
One month from today and the challenge will end. How will you look back on this challenge? I hope to say, I kicked butt :bigsmile: I have until Sunday to create my next month's calendar. Husband is on board, so we are doing weekly reports - don't want the refrigerator to get too full. One thing he's doing is 2 hours a week…
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Victorious Victoria Day Fitness Challenge April 18th
Hello again weekend! Do you guys realize that a month has past in the challenge already? I'm going to have to make my weekly calendar harder starting this Sunday. I should put yoga on there. It would be easy next week since I'm teaching 4 classes, but after that it would be difficult. So yesterday I took grandmother-in-law…
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Victorious Victoria Fitness Challenge April 17th
It's going to be an exercise weekend so watch out! I've been asked to: go for a bike ride, meet someone at the gym, and go for a hike with husband. Austin in April is like fitness central. It's crazy. Yesterday I went to water aerobics. Couldn't wear the HRM so entered it under mfp calories - like just under 300. Haven't…
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Victorious Victoria Day Fitness Challenge April 13th
Ready to change lazy Sundays? I like to think of Sundays as lazy because there's nothing I "have" to do - just stuff I want to do - like exercise! Yesterday I did elliptical and weights and went for a nice walk with husband. We're having a wonderful week of weather. I think more walking is in store today. Also some house…
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Heart Rate Question
Ok, went to spin class today. HR reached 187 (I wear a polar F11). This is beyond my max at 184 (I'm 36). How dangerous is this? Also I spent the over 50% of the class in the 170s - but with a long warm up (I was there early) and cool down, my average was 153 - now here's the kicker - I burned 500 calories. How the hell do…
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Victorious Victoria Day Fitness Challenge April 11th
Here's to yelping butts! :drinker: I didn't do BL yesterday. I thought about it, and I wanted to do spin today. As it is only my second spin class, I thought it best to be in top condition. I did 50 min elliptical and Yoga Core Cross Train. Sounds like a hard yoga practice right? Nope. I bought it unreviewed and unwatched…
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Yeah Yoga
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080410/hl_nm/yoga_taller_dc;_ylt=AiaQz0gN26yFPNBe9j4wlQMDW7oF Yoga helps older women balance and stand taller NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Elderly women showed measurable improvements in their walking speed and balance after a nine-week yoga program -- and they gained a centimeter in height, on…
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Victorious Victoria Day Fitness Challenge April 9th
Strength day! I've come to love my strength class. I don't know if I love it enough to get up early on Saturday (class is at 9:30) - but love my Wednesday evening class. Yesterday I did 50 min elliptical and 50 minutes of yoga. Also did 10 minutes of a video from Netflix. It was one of those 10 minute solutions videos. Not…
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Victorious Victoria Day Fitness Challenge April 8th
First off, I have to know if Viviakay did approx 2 hours of BL, plus spinning, walking, and weights? Which BL did you do? Also, can you sit down today? Enough lunges for you? Yesterday, I didn't make it to the Intermediate Yoga video. I ran out of time and did 50 minutes of walking and 20 minutes of weights - did the BL…
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Cheap Polar HR monitor
You only have 4 hours from now to get one, but Amazon has a great deal on a Polar F4 http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/ref=cs_top_nav_gb27/104-8461668-8387166
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Victorious Victoria Day Fitness Challenge April 7th
A new week, a clean slate, new challenges. Last week I got all my challenges - only one dessert, 2 hours of weights, and slowing down the eating. I can't tell you guys how much the slowing down has helped me. Actually, I can tell you: last weekend I went to Dallas and didn't log calories, went out to eat, but still…
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Victorious Victoria Day Challenge - April 3rd
Happy Almost Friday! HRM update #5 Wore the HRM to the weights class yesterday - approximately 375 calories/hr. This is a really hard class and at one time I hit 174 hr. My highest hits were during: lunges with shoulder raises and jump squats with presses. I think there was too much time where she was demonstrating the…
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Victorious Victoria Day Challenge - April 2nd
See Julie's post.
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Victorious Victoria Day Challenge. . .March 30
The word aerobics came about when the gym instructors got together and said, "If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it jumping up and down." ~Rita Rudner I hope all our fellow challengers will come back to us. We miss you! :brokenheart: Here's an update on the HRM's calories burned: The elliptical read higher…
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Victorious Victoria Day Fitness Challenge March 28
Happy Friday! For those that are curious, I wore my HRM yesterday while cleaning the house and burned 223 calories in 1 hour. My average HR was 100. It was mostly vacuuming and mopping. I forgot to wear it to the gym though! :laugh: Yesterday just did elliptical for 45 minutes. I'm still having stomach cramps (since my…
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Easter Fitness Challenge March 16th
I miss Niccole! Ah lazy Sunday - long walks and bike rides. I don't know why I think of Sunday as lazy, maybe it's the sleeping in. Yesterday was a day off. Went for a 30 minute walk. I only went over by 100 calories. I was amazed. I kept thinking I was forgetting to enter something. The big bummer was the veggie…
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Easter Fitness Challenge March 15th
Happy Saturday! We have a very happy Saturday in store - we're going down to San Antonio for a Cirque performance. Also going to San Antonio's only veggie restaurant for lunch. Really, SA is twice the size of Austin and only has the one veggie restaurant. Austin has about 5-6. Because of the driving involved today, I'm…
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You know you're on a diet when....
You rank food by the number of "bites" : donut = 4 bites = bad; gelatto = 20 bites = good. Your making something as low-cal as shirataki noodles, and you pull every single noodle off the paper towel. You stop working out when you've reached a set number of calories. I've gone so far as to stop the treadmill when it matches…
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EASTER Fitness Challenge Check-In March 8th
See Niccole's post.
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Thoughts on calories burned
I went to a strength class today. It's a really hard class, so I wore my heart rate monitor. Most of the time I was between 60-75% of MHR (Karvonen Formula). It's an hour long class. I know I burned more than regular weight training - what do you think? I guessed it would be the same as when I walk uphill and sit around…
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Fashion help - again!
Are there shorts you can buy that don't ride up in the middle when you walk? Regular shorts - not spandex. What am I doing wrong?
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EASTER Fitness Challenge Check-In March 1st
First day of March - what am I doing up this early!?! Oh, yes, three hours of yoga. I've never been a morning person. I thought I was accomplishing something by working out at 10am. I ate a little extra for breakfast hoping I won't crash half way though this yoga session. Enough complaining! Getting paid for exercising is…
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Psychology Today discusses weight loss myths
The first one was the only piece of news for me. I think bigjug? mentioned the 95% stat at one point. The 14% is about the same as quitting smoking stats (if not greater). So as long as you stick with it and try and try again - you'll get to be in that 14%! http://www.psychologytoday.com/rss/pto-20000301-000017.html Weight…
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EASTER Fitness Challenge Check-In February 24
Howdy! Had a great workout yesterday: 1 hour bike ride with husband, 30 minutes of weights, 10 minutes on elliptical, and 10 minute stretch. More beautiful weather here. Part of my great workout was that I saw the beginnings of a deltoid. I've always admired deltoids and wanted one (or preferably two) of my very own. There…
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EASTER Fitness Challenge Check-In February 23
Ahh, the weekend. We eat more so we need to exercise more - at least that's true of me. I learned last night that all the good fitness book themes are taken. I was at our used book store and saw, "Punk Rock Aerobics". Not kidding. I flipped through it. It was really, really, bad. People dressed up in torn clothes doing…
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Being Picky
Questions: 1. When calculating time worked during a video do you: A. count the entire running time of the video - say aerobics 45 mins B. count only the active part of video for aerobics 35 mins, and 10 mins stretch 2. When doing weights, how should you feel when you are finished? I feel like I can't pick up my gym bag…
