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<p>The harder part is remembering new exercises I want to try with the equipment while I’m at the gym. 
Got in a couple of them today – face pull and one arm standing cable row.</p>
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<p>I promise, it’s not good memory!</p>
<p>I don’t do very many exercises in a workout, so that helps. And, I am either writing down my own workouts or following a written one from a book. So, I can just look at that!</p>
<p>I don’t always remember to list everything, for example SLDL (single leg deadlift with 15#) today. I’ve gotten a lot of ideas over time from workouts others here have posted, books that have been recommended, and YouTube videos. Before I started posting on this thread, way back when ;-), I watched YouTube videos to check form. I remembered various exercises from a workout video one of my roommates had in college, and I started with several of those and a few exercises with dbs.</p>
<p>I’m just running right now, so it’s easy to remember! A month or so from now, I will start adding stuff. I want to make sure my running routine is very well-established first, though.</p>
<p>I pulled an all-nighter and worked until 6 am. So I am switching my rest day from tomorrow until today!</p>
<p>Thanks for the link, abasket. </p>
<p>Die, interesteddad? You’d rather die? How can anyone not want to dance when Roar comes on? ;)</p>
<p>Beyonc</p>
<p>4 miles on the dreadmill…3.4 mph and random incline was all I could manage today. Knee is a little wobbly but got it done! :)</p>
<p>I like Rihanna’s “Cheers …I’ll drink to that!”</p>
<p>Count me in the Rihanna and Beyonce corner, but I don’t listen to music or watch television when I’m exercising. </p>
<p>4.3 miles on the dreadmill as it is foggy and snowy here. </p>
<p>Pour me a glass, NM!</p>
<p>You don’t see me posting my routines! Although, I do mostly the same things in the same order whenever I am at gym.</p>
<p>I think Eminem is brilliant, but I don’t enjoy listening to him. I really don’t like Beyonce at all. Katy Perry’s tune is very catchy, but I’m already tired of it.</p>
<p>Mathmom, why not? I’m interested in seeing your routine if you feel motivated to post it sometime. I do a lot of the same stuff regularly, thus “home workout” or “stretch/core/strength” as a description, but I figure it’s probably helpful if I list content at least some of the time, lol.</p>
<p>Just Do It</p>
<p>"… but I don’t listen to music or watch television when I’m exercising. "</p>
<p>Neither do I. If Mr B does not turn the TV on, I have no urge to reach for the remote. 
I like to “reflect” when I run (or if the run is really long, I practice my arithmetics skills by trying to figure out what fraction of the planned distance I just ran when I look at my Garmin).</p>
<p>I would highly recommend 8tracks music. DJ’s (basically anyone) can make a playlist and you can sort through the different options and choose a list. You will need to be able to stream music from a wireless device. I listen all the time from my computer at home and when I walk from my iPhone.</p>
<p>I really enjoyed Alex and Sierra from the X-Factor and was able to find several playlists of their music. Basically, 8tracks pays a royalty to the artists and we listen for free. A good alternative to the other streaming services because you can find a DJ with your tastes and learn new music. Discovered a lot of Indie Rock and Mash-ups and Remixes. They even have categories for work-out mixes.</p>
<p><a href=“http://8tracks.com/explore/all/popular[/url]”>http://8tracks.com/explore/all/popular</a></p>
<p>Dreaded Airdyne intervals. Dreaded Airdyne 1 mile intervals. My latest kick after successfully avoiding them for nearly two years. Yes. They are that bad. Three minutes is a long interval on the Airdyne. Not in any danger of breaking my personal record, but I knocked 6 seconds off the time from last week on the three intervals. And wasn’t dying – although I did see a pretty impressive heart rate – 96% of my max.</p>
<p>All this talk of fitness playlists. I don’t actually pick my exercise music. I have an iPod shuffle playlist that selects – at random – 400 songs I’ve rated at 5 stars and haven’t heard in the last nine months and then shuffles through that ever changing list in random order. So, it’s like Forrest Gump. I never know what I’m going to get, I just know it will be good…</p>
<p>So what pops up to drive me through the third dreaded Airdyne interval? The appropriately named Little Feat song:</p>
<p><a href=“Formerly”>url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb-yB4OxGBA</a> Fat Man in the Bathtub</p>
<p>More cowbell…</p>
<p>My exercise was “hijacked” today and yesterday to help my daughter work through a car accident yesterday afternoon. This is on the tail of her returning to a flooded apartment in Atlanta last Wednesday and needing to move to a new apartment. My day seems to get “hijacked” a lot. The “hijacks” and the lousy outdoor weather have contributed to my being inconsistent. I have decided to work out beginning very first thing in the morning before the day gets “hijacked.” I will try out a gym if the weather doesn’t allow for outdoor walking. I did my best historically when I did masters swimming at 5am-- many years ago. Not much could get in the way of that other than fatigue. Building routine and structure is such a challenge!</p>
<p>I continue to be inspired by all of you!</p>
<p>Mathmom- I agree with you about eminem being brilliant. I am reading a very interesting book on him by a USC professor.</p>
<p>I did a 7-mile walk early this morning (went with 2 friends–we’re starting to train for the 3-day charity walk we do at the end of May). I was going to skip my regular yoga class in the afternoon, but decided to go. I was surprised at how good I felt when I class was over.</p>
<p>If I’m walking by myself (especially if it’s longer than a few miles) I’ll take my iphone and listen to podcasts (mostly This American Life). I don’t listen to music that often, but I do like the music in spinning class. I can really get into it and it does help the time go by faster.</p>
<p>Peacefulmom- So sorry about your daughter’s accident and flooding. Ugh.<br>
IDad- I get to have some input on our new company fitness center for our new corporate HQ. maybe I should suggest an Airdyne!</p>
<p>Debora T, I find that rap music makes me feel antsy. I think it’s partly all those rhyming couplets - I can’t stand Dr. Suess either! But it makes me feel like I have to listen to e v e r y s i n g l e w o r d. I do like the rap duets where you have tunes playing against the rap. There’s one song like that that plays a lot in the gym and I keep thinking I should figure out what it is and buy it. I’ve got pretty eclectic taste - I started off listening to mostly folk music, picked up classic rock at parties, got introduced to prog rock and the Rolling Stones by one boy friend, Art Tatum by another, early rock for jitterbugging to by another, and I learned to like country music driving across the country in 78/79, listened to singer songwriters in the 90s. My kid got me into metal, Finnish bands and most recently Arab rock.</p>
<p>I put an eclectic music on my phone that has enough of a beat to make me want to dance and then shuffle it when I am exercising. The most recent additions were 1980’s German bands.</p>
<p>So my routines:</p>
<p>Gym routine:</p>
<p>Warm up:
squat to stand
lunge with twist
lateral lunge
jumps foward and sideways</p>
<p>I do three sets alternating between arm and leg machines so I don’t have to rest between sets.
Pectoral flies /Quad
Chess press / Ham string curl</p>
<p>Two sets of these:
Assisted chin ups
Assisted dips</p>
<p>Free weights (two or three sets)
Combo squat and over arm raises
Sometimes kettleball swings (but the balls at the gym are really too light)
Sometimes 3 point dumbbell row</p>
<p>Curling machine that supports your back (3 sets straight, 2 each for obliques)</p>
<p>Cable machine - anti rotation press</p>
<p>Mat - plank (1 45-60 seconds)
bird dogs (5 to 10 each side)
sometimes some pushups</p>
<p>Roman chair/hyperextension (45-60 sec)</p>
<p>Calf raises</p>
<p>Then I go spend half an hour on the elliptical and try to do some intervals. (Two or three all out bits from 30 to 60 sec.)</p>
<p>At home
1, 2 or 3 sets of pushups, kettleball swings,goblet squats and three point dumbell raises</p>
<p>**or **
I go through one of the routines from: [One</a> Month to Muscles : Experience Life](<a href=“http://experiencelife.com/article/one-month-to-muscles/]One”>One Month to Muscles)</p>
<p>Wow. This is creepy - I just got a spam email from Amazon suggesting their Airdyne deals. I have not looked at any exercise equipment on Amazon! Lol. </p>
<p>Meetings, meetings, meetings… Ugh. No time for anything but a few core exercises.</p>
<p>I year ago today, I started my diet–er–change in my way of life. </p>
<p>I’ve lost 30 pounds. I’ve peeked in here occasionally for support and gotten it, so thanks.</p>
<p>Really, truly. Thanks.</p>
<p>Awesome! 30 pounds means you get six 5 pound parties! Pass the noisemakers!</p>