The Exercise Motivation Thread - 2015

[Winchester]

Walked 3 miles during lunch today

 

[tammat]

I've had an excellent week of exercise. I worked hard and got all of my workouts in for the week and I've eaten very healthy clean foods
Today I did triceps and back that took about 50 mins and then I did another session later to work my shoulders and abs. That was a bit shorter 40mins? Maybe less?
Two days rest for me now.
Keep working hard everybody

 

[Winchester]

Good for you, Tammat! Everybody....keep up the keeping up!

3 miles walked today over lunch

 

[Norachan]

90 minutes walk through deep soft snow yesterday morning. It's so pretty out there.

1 hour of yoga in the evening.

@Tammat  you should come  and help me shovel snow! You must be pretty strong by now. 

 

 

[tammat]

Good for you, Tammat! Everybody....keep up the keeping up!

3 miles walked today over lunch

Where do you walk at lunch time Pam? Is it City streets or do you walk around a park?

 

[Winchester]

Where do you walk at lunch time Pam? Is it City streets or do you walk around a park?

I work in town, but it's more of a suburbia kind of thing; we live in a fairly rural county. So my miles thread through a residential neighborhood and, when there's no snow, a small park area. Right now, there's about six inches of snow on the park's walking trail, so I can't walk there. Normally, I get between 3 and 3.10 miles walking my route through the neighborhood. If I can add the park in, then it's closer to 3.5 miles. There's a lot of traffic because I still have to walk on fairly busy (for around here) roads to get from one place to another. But overall, it's not too bad.

The worst part is constantly watching for the "old folks" who get in their cars and back out of their driveways without watching for anything. I almost got hit one day because an old lady was busy talking to her friend in the car and backed out of her driveway. She didn't even look. I stopped walking and just stood there, and after she had backed out, she saw me standing there and almost had a heart attack. People don't pay attention at all.

We have a rails-to-trails walking area (also covered in snow right now) that's probably about ten miles long altogether, and I use that when I want to walk over to the library or out to the natural food store to get something. I walk that to get to our farmers market during the summer, too. If I can hit the natural food store and walk around the market, I've got 3 miles in. I also walk in to town (on the other side of the highway) to get my coffee k-cups or to go to our local homemade candy shop for chocolate-covered pretzels for Dear Richard, but that's only about two miles total. We will soon have a new supermarket well within walking distance, so I can walk there during lunch to pick something bread, milk, things like that. 

I like the idea of being able to walk to these places instead of driving. I really can't walk outside at home (I haven't walked at home since that old guy hit me the other summer....he wasn't paying attention) and I miss those walks very much.

As long as I get 3 miles in, I'm happy. When I get 3.5 miles in, that's even better, but it's not happening very often. I need to start using the treadmill in the mornings again, but it seems that whenever I increase my distance too much, that's when I end up with some kind of injury. My knee, my hip, my foot. 3 miles seems to be a good distance for me; at least that's what Rick says.

 

[tammat]

I work in town, but it's more of a suburbia kind of thing; we live in a fairly rural county. So my miles thread through a residential neighborhood and, when there's no snow, a small park area. Right now, there's about six inches of snow on the park's walking trail, so I can't walk there. Normally, I get between 3 and 3.10 miles walking my route through the neighborhood. If I can add the park in, then it's closer to 3.5 miles. There's a lot of traffic because I still have to walk on fairly busy (for around here) roads to get from one place to another. But overall, it's not too bad.

The worst part is constantly watching for the "old folks" who get in their cars and back out of their driveways without watching for anything. I almost got hit one day because an old lady was busy talking to her friend in the car and backed out of her driveway. She didn't even look. I stopped walking and just stood there, and after she had backed out, she saw me standing there and almost had a heart attack. People don't pay attention at all.

We have a rails-to-trails walking area (also covered in snow right now) that's probably about ten miles long altogether, and I use that when I want to walk over to the library or out to the natural food store to get something. I walk that to get to our farmers market during the summer, too. If I can hit the natural food store and walk around the market, I've got 3 miles in. I also walk in to town (on the other side of the highway) to get my coffee k-cups or to go to our local homemade candy shop for chocolate-covered pretzels for Dear Richard, but that's only about two miles total. We will soon have a new supermarket well within walking distance, so I can walk there during lunch to pick something bread, milk, things like that. 

I like the idea of being able to walk to these places instead of driving. I really can't walk outside at home (I haven't walked at home since that old guy hit me the other summer....he wasn't paying attention) and I miss those walks very much.

As long as I get 3 miles in, I'm happy. When I get 3.5 miles in, that's even better, but it's not happening very often. I need to start using the treadmill in the mornings again, but it seems that whenever I increase my distance too much, that's when I end up with some kind of injury. My knee, my hip, my foot. 3 miles seems to be a good distance for me; at least that's what Rick says.

That sounds great. You've got lots of options. If your body likes 3 miles then I guess you have to listen to it. 3 miles is a terrific distance anyway. Keep going girl

 

[Norachan]

One hour of yoga yesterday.

It's been snowing all day today (Sunday) so I guess my exercise is going to be shovelling again.

 

[cyndilaupurrr]

I just had a dual chamber pacemaker installed 1 week ago so won't being doing much yet, but do have to start a program so will visit this thread often for updates if you would like me to share my progress with you

 

[jtbo]

We have bit of wind, actually wind is blowing stronger than it has in 5 years, 36mph winds are about 10 times stronger than what usually is strong wind here in middle of forest.

I think that I'm staying indoors today, wind blows debris from trees that are over 300 feet away and that debris is penetrating snow like and arrow.

I'm not used to this kind of winds at all.

 

[Winchester]

Thanks, Tammat. It's a fairly nice area for walking. Next month, I think I'll be starting my 13 (I think 13; I'll have to check) year of walking. I keep track of my walking mileage throughout the year, but then throw the stuff away at the end of the year. I should have logged it all from year to year, too, just to see how many miles I've walked in those years. Between that treadmill and walking outside, I'm sure it's a lot.

JTbo, I don't blame you for wanting to stay inside! I can do the cold and I can do the wind, but doing them both at the same time is just nasty stuff.

 

[jtbo]

Thanks, Tammat. It's a fairly nice area for walking. Next month, I think I'll be starting my 13 (I think 13; I'll have to check) year of walking. I keep track of my walking mileage throughout the year, but then throw the stuff away at the end of the year. I should have logged it all from year to year, too, just to see how many miles I've walked in those years. Between that treadmill and walking outside, I'm sure it's a lot.

JTbo, I don't blame you for wanting to stay inside! I can do the cold and I can do the wind, but doing them both at the same time is just nasty stuff.

Luckily we have only -5C so with windchill that is only around 4F or -15C, but without gloves that wind makes fingers freeze very fast, faster than -15C without wind, imo!

13 years is quite a long time and with your daily mileage that is indeed a lot of miles, that is 4745 days and if you multiply those days by your daily average, you should get rough estimate of how many miles you have walked in total, that is going to be incredible many thousands

 

[Norachan]

@Winchester  I think you should calculate how many miles you've done over the years and then work out where you would be if you'd gone in a straight line. Would you have made it half way round the globe by now? How many more miles until you get back home again?

@CyndiLaupurrr  That sounds like it's going to take a while to recover from. I'd be interested to hear what you have to do to build your strength up again. Keep us posted on how the program goes.

One hour of yoga this morning then one hour of shovelling snow, knocking icicles off the roof and chipping the outdoor gas bottle out of the ice so the gas man can come and change them for us. Life in the mountains, it's soooo glamorous!

 

[cyndilaupurrr]

 

[tammat]

I just had a dual chamber pacemaker installed 1 week ago so won't being doing much yet, but do have to start a program so will visit this thread often for updates if you would like me to share my progress with you

Welcome Yes do keep us posted. Best of luck with your recovery.

I'm supposed to weight train first then do cardio but I did cardio first today. FARTLEK running. 5 min warm up jog. Dynamic stretches, 5x 60metre run throughs, 20 sec sprints/ 40 sec x 10. 2 min jog, 30 sec sprints/ 30 sec jogs x 10 ( I struggled with this last 10 mins but didn't stop) 2 min cool down jog. That is such an accomplishment to get to the end. I love the end

Then this evening I did my chest and biceps. I think its a bit distracting to have the tv on whilst training but my fave new show was on. I couldn't miss it

 

[Norachan]

 

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• cyndilaupurrr
• Feb 9, 2015

Love this cartoon!

Now's the perfect time for you to have Cyndi in your life, cats have such a lot of healing energy. 

 

[AbbysMom]

It looks like there will be plenty of shoveling for exercise today.

 

[jtbo]

1 hour of bicycling on ice, snow and in the darkness, luckily it was not cold, only -4C.

 

[Winchester]

3 miles walked during lunch today.

 

[tammat]

Love the cartoon. :lol3:
Good exercising you guys
I did my back and triceps today.