<p>I’ll take the steak, baked sweet potato and a green salad with some of that Bobby Flay vinaigrette.</p>
<p>Happy to get out of the house and back to work today after 2 1/2 days of being homebound due to weather. Celebrating with a skinny Chai latte. :)</p>
<p>So I ordered a garmin watch from amazon on Saturday and I have prime. It says it still hasn’t shipped. I know that the weather is bad. But why hasn’t it shipped. Waiting (unpatiently)! </p>
<p>32 minutes on the treadmill. Boring, boring, boring. </p>
<p>I want one of those skinny chai lattes.</p>
<p>deb- it’s shipping from a third party store, probably, which can take longer. Some of my amazon stuff comes practically the next day and other things take longer. No pattern… We now have to pay sales tax on amazon purchases as of the first of the year, which is a big hit for me, but I understand the issue since I work for a retailer…</p>
<p>Stretch/strength/core</p>
<p>Highlights:
A set of 6 stability ball pikes. Yay! Very pleased with this.</p>
<p>5 each side of the santana pushups using 6# dbs. Yep, rotation and pushups, though the pushups weren’t going very low. Would be better for me to use lighter dbs. The pushup portion, ugh. This is one tough exercise! Did it to see if I could do it.</p>
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<p>I did these exercises early in the workout so I’d have full energy for them. Fewer reps for the benchless bench press as a result (6 per set instead of 8).</p>
<p>It may be too soon to say for sure, but I think I’m going to really like this whole run/walk thing. Today I did 3.3 miles in just under 40 mins. I was running for 3 mins and walking for 1. I was on the treadmill, so used the timer on that, which worked fine. But the GymBoss timer will set me free from the treadmill when the weather improves, which is good – otherwise I’d go batty!</p>
<p>Though I can run 3 miles straight, I have found that if I run for 10 or 11 minutes (a mile for me) and then just walk for under a minute each mile, I can go longer distance wise - more than 3 if I want. In a race they have pit stops (water) every mile or mile and a half (or whatever) anyway, so if it serves you well then to walk for a few secs, why not during your regular exercise routine?? I say do it! </p>
<p>When I started running I had a couple of friends who would ask me - “do you run those miles straight?!!” - which is amazing to non-runners/exercisers. The fact that you slow down to a fast walk (not like you’re sitting on a bench for 5 minutes!) for a few seconds STILL means you ran “straight through” IMO.</p>
deb, which garmin did you order? I really want to get a 220, but I can’t justify it since my 210 is still perfectly fine. I just wish it had the vibration feature for my interval running.
<p>Yes, I’d like to hear about the Garmin, too, Deb. Sometimes I play around with the idea of ordering one of the new little ones, the Forerunner 10. Doesn’t have a heart rate monitor, and while I’d be interested in that additional info, I don’t want to wear a chest strap while I run. These days I don’t even carry a regular watch on my outdoor runs. They’re the same paths so I already have distance estimates, and I kind of enjoy relaxing since I pay a lot of attention to pace when I’m on the treadmill. For new territory it would be nice to have a Garmin.</p>
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<p>I think that exercise is “gracious plenty” even with no DBs. It’s like burpees… you are adding a challenging exercise on top of pushups (which are challenging by themselves). 5 on each side with 6lb DBs is impressive.</p>
<p>LOVE MY Garmin! It’s a 305. But I seem to have lost it! I don’t need all the fancy features, so I may just get a Forerunner10. I don’t think I would have kept up running without the Garmin. I enjoy tracking my distances and times.</p>
<p>I have a horrible cold, but I’m determined to run. I suppose I should go change and find out what’s on TV to keep me going on the treadmill.</p>
<p>I bought a 110 [Amazon.com:</a> Garmin Forerunner 110 GPS-Enabled Sport Watch with Heart Rate Monitor (Pink): GPS & Navigation](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003J2V8AC/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003J2V8AC/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1). I went round and round about which one to get and went with a more simple one. It does have a heart strap monitor which I did want. I went with the 110 because it looked smaller and I have small wrists and did not want a big honking watch. My BIL has this thing he wears and it is so big, wanted to avoid that. Besides my H has an edge and if I ever want to see maps I can borrow his. </p>
<p>This run/walk thing is working out well for me. I went 32 minutes this morning and felt good and that I could go more. But I’m trying to build up my time slowly as to avoid injuries. Crossing my fingers. </p>
<p>As I believe I am certifiable, today I signed up for a 10k Memorial Day weekend. I have no idea what has come over me. SIL is doing the half that day and I’m hoping to join in on her misery.</p>
<p>That’s AWESOME Deb922! I am inspired!!!</p>
<p>Cute story about setting goals - and exceeding them! [1,150</a> Miles in 2013 | Beyond the Miles](<a href=“Track your Run - ASICS Runkeeper Running Tracker App”>Track your Run - ASICS Runkeeper Running Tracker App)</p>
<p>4 miles today on the dreadmill in an hour. Ice and repeat. Even though it hurts I feel good being back in the routine! :)</p>
<p>5.2 miles outside at lunchtime. 34 degrees and partly sunny. Felt good to get outside after 2 dreadmill evenings, but my legs were VERY tired from said dreadmill and my HR was high. It felt hard- but good. Stopped to meet a Golden Retriever who was walking his person and she (the person) wanted to know all about my Hokas, since she’s a runner with plantar fasciitis. I was glad for the break! </p>
<p>I have Garmin 910 which I love, but I realize is overkill for many. It has great battery life and picks up the satellites pretty fast.</p>
<p>Hot yoga today (slow flow)–going to the gym with a friend to do 30 minutes on the elliptical this evening before dinner. I’m trying to work in another yoga each week–I find that I’m much better at the poses the more often I do them.</p>
<p>Took today off from work as a mental health day (before I was certifiable!) - still cold so I did 8 miles on the treadmill. Don’t ask me why! H had an early morning meeting so I was in charge of walking both dogs (usually we each take one). They seemed to enjoy it and so did I; H is not a morning person - not the best company. </p>
<p>Warming trend headed this way - supposed to be in the 50’s this weekend. Cannot wait.</p>
<p>deb, that’s AWESOME that you signed up for a 10k! You’ve got 4 1/2 months. You can increase your distance/time very gradually in that period. Expect a few setbacks, because they are inevitable. PERSEVERANCE is the key. Keep us posted and ask lots of questions! You are a lot like me. :)</p>
<p>8 miles, sabaray! You are not my virtual running partner today, because I won’t be doing that many.</p>
<p>Well, well, well. Look what comes up when my problem has already been resolved.
[Piston</a> Squats](<a href=“http://instagram.com/p/i65xguwlax/]Piston”>http://instagram.com/p/i65xguwlax/)</p>
<p>Unfortunately unable to link my next workout, but I saw it posted last night. It’s the 1000 workout. A series of 100 sets of 10 exercises. :)</p>
<p>3.2 miles on the indoor track. Bonus mile on the machine.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if this belongs here, but does anyone else have trouble keeping their sodium intake low? I’m lucky to get below 3000mg in a day on MyFitnessPal, and if I ever eat out, it’s almost always above 4000mg. I could go lower, but considering that some of my peers regularly eat out twice in one day, I’m not really sure how big of a deal this is. Part of my problem is that the RDI for sodium doesn’t scale with the number of calories, but I’m trying to eat an above average number of calories.</p>
<p>@Niquii77, Not sure if you’re able to do them already, but if you find that the pistol squats are too hard for you and want to try something harder than regular squats, you should look around for some progressions. I’ve been squatting onto a chair so I have something to push off of. But you could also try squatting on a chair so that the leg forming the pistol doesn’t have to stay up so much, or trying holding on to a pole for support.</p>