Health & Fitness Update

[sarahmichigan]

Saturday July 12:
-Rest day
-Full upper/lower body stretch
-Flossed, read for pleasure

Sunday July 13:
-17 min. walking on track
-Full upper body weight routine
-15 min. elliptical
-Full upper/lower body stretch
-Flossed, read for pleasure, played w/ cat

Monday July 14:
-25 min. yoga DVD
-Flossed, bandaged thumb

Tuesday July 15:
-21 min. circuit training (weights/ cardio) DVD
-10 min walk
-Additional stretching
-Flossed, read for pleasure

Wednesday July 16:
-A lot of slow, non-cardio walking
-25 min. yoga DVD
-Flossed

Thursday July 17:
-Slow non-cardio walking
-12 min. treadmill
-Full upper body weight routine
-13 min. stationary bike
-Partial stretch routine
-Flossed

Friday July 18:
-22 min. outdoor walking
-Full upper/lower body stretch
-Read for pleasure, flossed, ate 5+ fruits/veg

Activity Summary for July 12 - July 18:
Total days I got some form of physical activity: 6 out of 7
Total days I did weight lifting: 3 out of 7
Estimated total hours: minutes of all activity (excluding stretching): 4:30

I wanted to work some yoga back in this past week, and I did that. Flossing and stretching were OK if not perfect. I haven't been thinking about my Spring and Summer Goals much. Keeping on track with regular work outs gets me closer to Goals 1 & 7, and J. and I are working up our stamina for a long bike ride (Goal 6). The only one I've had in mind much at all is being able to do more girly push ups (Goal 3). I'm doing sort of a modified version of the 100 Push Up Challenge only with the knees-bent version of the push ups, and I'm not using their exact counts, but a similar idea of doing them to exhaustion and working my way up day by day and week by week, incorporating these into one or two of my weekly weight routines.

Comments

[theal8r.livejournal.com]

If you think you could stand being around us, I would love it if you would join healthymomma and share your health, cooking and wellness tips with us.

We are all of us "trying to lose weight" but all of us trying to do it in healthy, body-positive ways and having someone who is friendly and fat-positive would be a great thing (we've all had experiences with people who dogged on us for trying to lose weight, rather than listen to what we're actually trying to do). I would, of course, completely understand if you weren't comfortable with that, too.

[sarahmichigan.livejournal.com]

I've surfed over there a few times. I tend to purposely avoid diet-talk, weight-loss talk, and calorie-counting talk on purpose, not out of judgment but out of an attempt to preserve my own mental health. But I, of course, totally support you getting healthy in whatever works for you. I'll keep peeking my head in there, but I'm not sure if I'll join. Thanks for thinking of me. :)