<p>thanks idad for the videos for the BOSU. I have a stability ball but I just really like this BOSU much better. My back has been balky and just laying on it really stretches me out.
I also do planks and the bridge. </p>
<p>mousegray…sorry about the deltoid. Getting sidelined is NO fun. I’ve went off weights because of tennis elbow (almost a year!) and I’m finally getting back to them even though I still feel some tweaks. Hope I don’t aggravate it. </p>
<p>IDAD…on the diet. If you eat healthy stuff long enough, you will actually really like AND crave it. My theory. Cause that’s what happened to me. I use to like Pringles too…now I think of them as “frankenfood” —yuk.</p>
<p>Thanks, all, for the support! I need it right now.</p>
<p>It was a healthier day. I ate healthy and did go to the YMCA. It was 88 degrees here after supper and I just didn’t want to walk in it. So off to the Y I went. It felt so good.</p>
<p>The program I have is audio MP3 only. Downloaded for the iPod or any MP3 player. It comes with PDF guides for each day’s workouts with pictures of each exercise. And, the guy who puts them together posts YouTube videos so you can pretty much see all the exercises if you want to. You just put on the iPod and he walks you thru five minutes of warmup on a cardio machine, two or three circuits of exercises, one or two segments of intervals on the cardio machine, and five minutes of cool down. You could put together the same workouts yourself, but it’s good to have a fixed schedule and a trainer motivating you. </p>
<p>He sends copious e-mails – at least one a day – motivational, links to new videos. tips and tricks. It’s good marketing, but the regular contact serves a good purpose in keeping you on track. It’s low key. The best feature (for me) is that it is all easily adaptable to an overweight, fifty something, ex-smoker who is exercising for the first time in a couple of decades. A lot of workout programs I see would just be absurd for me. Maybe after six months, but use newbies have to be patient and realistic. It’s couter-productive for me to dive into workouts that I can’t do. That’s just demoralizing.</p>
<p>I have the Fitter U ipod series. I just downloaded one of the Treadmill Trainer running workouts. It’s the same kind of thing for runners who want to do intervals either running outdoors or on a treadmill.</p>
<p>I’m curious if anyone else has found good programs. I didn’t do a lot of hunting, but I wasn’t finding a lot of great options. I’ve tried to follow some programs from fitness books and it just wasn’t working for me.</p>
<p>Thanks idad. I was wondering what the system was. My husband thinks he might have an ipod around that still charges. (Am I the only person that doesn’t have an MP3?!). I did order the BOSU thing this evening.</p>
<p>So far this week I’ve been trying to do something different each day. Today I walked for 15 min, did 15 min yoga and weeded for 90 min. May not sound like much, but it’s a start.</p>
<p>Have any of you fitter people tried the P90x series? My d. just started it and said it is kicking her butt. She only made it through 20min of a 60 min workout and said she is so sore this evening that she moans when she has sit down or stand up. My niece has gotten through 60 days of it, and if she is any indication, it works great.</p>
<p>I’ve actually craved salad, veggies, and fish ever since I quit smoking.</p>
<p>The junk food was always my downfall. Just getting rid of that has been enough for me to lose 2 pounds a week. I really haven’t changed my cooking for meals – other than trying to use a bit less oil and trying to stay away from the most egregious menu items, like buffalo wings deep fried, slathered in butter hot sauce, and dunked in blue cheese dressing. </p>
<p>I’ve been tempted to try to diet more aggressively and lose weight faster, but I can’t find anybody that recommends that approach. I could do it, but I think it would lead to problems eventually transitioning to a sustainable mode. Other than putting the Pringles back on the shelf and not opening the Breyers ice cream, I don’t feel like I’m depriving myself at all. As long as I keep losing two pounds each week, I’m content to keep doing what’s working.</p>
<p>Some young’in here has been doing that. I watched a little bit of their aerobic workout on YouTube. I wouldn’t make it through the warm up. I have a better chance of climbing Mt. Everest than making it through a 60 minute P90x workout.</p>
<p>To me, that’s demoralizing. I want to feel good about exercising and feel like I’m making a little progress. </p>
<p>I didn’t have an iPod. I was in charge of iTunes and keeping my wife’s nano loaded with music. Her first generation nano battery started getting weak, so my daughter send her newish nano to my wife (put out of service by an iPhone), and I did a battery replacement on my wife’s old nano. That’s now my workout, walking, and exercise bike iPod.</p>
<p>I agree. I need to do something that I feel good about and that I can actually keep doing. My problem in the past has always been that I would get very motivated and try and do too much for my physical fitness level–then I hurt too much or would have some kind of pull or strain which gave me an excuse to give up.</p>
<p>I would be very, very happy with 2 lbs a week! That is great!!</p>
<p>Today I ordered some meals to be delivered next Monday. We have a restaurant here that sells packaged fresh meals that can be used within 5 days or frozen. New menu each week. They are “light and healthy”. Thought I’d get a few and save them for those evenings when I don’t want to cook or h. is out (those are my nights that I’d hit Wendy’s or Bojoangles). Price for these is less than I would spend at a fast food place, but will have to see if the portion is enough to live on till morning!</p>
<p>My brother & his wife do the extreme workouts and have been for several months now. He’s buffer & fitter than he ever has been & he just passed 50! He’s always been much more active than I, running marathons and the like.</p>
<p>I consider walking a lot on errands and the yoga I used to engage in to be pretty good. I need to start back on my yoga.</p>
<p>Bojangles steak biscuit and a sweet tea counts as diet, doesn’t it? We don’t have good food like that in Massachusetts. You can’t even buy country ham here.</p>
<p>Ha. I just checked the Bojangles nutrition. A steak bisquit is 680 calories. Wow. The country ham bisquit is not bad. 270 calories. The cajun fried chicken biscuit is not too bad: 480 calories.</p>
<p>I’ve done a couple of their work outs. They’re pretty hard. You have to start slow and if you only make it half-way through the first time, big deal. Just try to continue building everytime.</p>
<p>Whenever I get Bojangles tea I think of my oldest son’s college friend. They went to school at Elon and the friend was from NJ. Before all the stringent rules went in on airlines, this guy used to carry gallons of Bojangles tea back home on break—that stopped when he dropped a gallon in an airport and made a huge mess!!!</p>
<p>Sweet tea is easy enough to make. You just have to add the sugar while the water is still boiling hot to dissolve enough sugar. It won’t “take” all the sugar if the tea is not hot.</p>
<p>It’s a half cup (8 tablespoons) of sugar for each quart of tea. So a 16 ounce glass of sweet tea has 4 TBS of sugar (184 calories). Add second glass, because it’s SOOOO good, and there’s 360 calories to go with the 680 calorie steak biscuit for a light lunch.</p>
<p>Don’t get me started. I LOVE Bojangles. Biscuits. And Sweet Tea! Fortunately, we have learned to make our tea at home unsweetened, so it has zero calories.</p>
<p>Did 30 min yoga this am, then got called in to work so haven’t done anything else yet.</p>
<p>Yes, Idad, we too do the unsweetened tea at home and if I get Bojangles I usually get unsweetened or at the most 1/2 and 1/2. Their sweet tea is so sweet it almost hurts your teeth!</p>
<p>My hilly river walk this afternoon. Knocked 2 minutes off my previous best time. Went out fast with arms swinging. Shortened up my stride on the hills, but was able to keep a pretty steady pace going. No pauses – touch the fence post at the halfway mark and turn around for the inward leg.</p>
<p>My heartrate and breathing now recover after the steep uphill parts even while continuing up slight uphill grades. Singing with the iPod on the downhill stretches.</p>
<p>I’ve now lost enough weight where my body actually feels different walking and exercising. That’s a terrific motivation.</p>
<p>Idad, thanks for the YouTube suggestion. Believe it or not (I’m so freakin’ proud of myself!), I do squats on the bosu, holding a five-pound weight in each hand. Weights out to the side while I’m standing, then to the front as I squat, then out to the side as I stand up. It was very hard to get into the groove but now I can do it – literally – with my eyes closed.</p>
<p>As some of you know, I’ve had as a goal running 2.5 miles in 30 minutes. I’m definitely not making progress – tonight I did around 2.2 in 30 minutes, and that was just fast enough, thank you very much. No point in running faster if it’s going to hurt me.</p>
<p>The metric is for a 60yo, 165lbs, in the optimal BMI, 14miles confirmed several different ways.</p>
<p>?? You think that the cal count is too high for the fries? A possibility since I don’t seem to be gaining any weight. and I have lost weight since Nov.</p>