I went XC skiing today. It was so much fun and I felt so much stronger. Everything that felt so hard last year, felt so easy today. I was very happy.
Then I ate a donut. It was amazing!
1 hour 30 minute spinning @132 heart rate. These spinning rides on trainer seem to be giving me a (euphoric) energy boost?
Yes, you’re right! Today, she had me “hiking” on the treadmill for 30 minutes, at inclines ranging from 5 to 12%. Whew! Then I ran a mile to keep up the streak. Then I walked 2.3 miles with my injured friend. I’d better be burning up some serious calories!
Wow, MaineLonghorn! Great workout. That’s awesome.
2.3 miles of speedwork on the dreadmill after work, so 4.5 miles for the day. A little bit with the jungle gym straps after the run, but I was being summoned for dinner.
This afternoon was Pilates class. Mr. Sabaray jokes it’s the class where I pay them to waterboard me. It is so hard. Planks, ab sequences, more planks, rollovers, Pilates pushups and all kinds of variations. It never gets easier.
Hard work people!!! ^^^^
Too much work prevented me from going to the gym as planned so came home and did 30 minutes of cardio, 15 minutes of strength training and BB’s 20 push ups - instead of 10 and 10 I did 20 in a row tonight! (“girl” pushups, that is). That plus my steps for the day.
It was fun (to say the least) to watch the Packers win last night. Next week may be another story, lol. Tough game ahead.
We bundled up this morning for a long walk in the cold. It was 7 degrees when we set out, but when we were moving or climbing, it wasn’t so bad. My sister and I had to really hurry the last part of the trek, thus we ended up trotting and sliding on the downhill slippery slopes. Seems like we created a new workout akin to prancercise: we called it slip-er-cise. I ended up with my 5.5 miles for the day. Reward: hot tub in the snow tonight.
Wow, Plantmom I can’t imagine what a change this weather is for you there! Seems like you are embracing it!
For some reason I wasn’t as thrilled with the Packers win! Cold again today, with winds predicted to pick up this afternoon. Today is a rest day but the pups don’t know that, so we had a brisk morning walk.
@Pizzagirl, how are the feeling after your exercise marathon yesterday? D loves Corepower.
Interesting article in NYTimes - personalized diets. Would love to know what our resident scientists think of this study.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/11/a-personalized-diet-better-suited-to-you/
Plantmom- I bet you will love getting back to Florida! Way to get it done.
3.2 miles this morning. Cold but not nearly as cold as yesterday- and no wind. I like the fresh air and really miss that if I choose to stay inside.
Oops, sorry about that football game Sabaray! 
Woke up to 3 more inches of snow - on top of our ice. Unless we have a quick warm up, I’ll be inside bound for awhile… 
“how are the feeling after your exercise marathon yesterday? D loves Corepower.”
Feeling fine … keep in mind that while I was burning calories, it was in the context of a lot of stretch and strength with cardio interspersed. It’s so freakin’ cold here, though, yoga is appealing just because the room is hot!
I have to say - being new to the world of “out during the day” - it kind of amazes me that there are people out and about during the day popping into yoga, etc.! Don’t these people have jobs??
Sabaray, interesting article. I am not a nutrition scientist, but I have stayed enough at Holiday Inns (aka taken mol bio and Biochem classes and worked in biotech) to be somewhat qualified to offer my 2 cents. The general idea makes sense: our metabolisms are somewhat unique. I would not yet be in a hurry to run and get nutrition advice from any of the companies that promise to analyze your DNA and make recommendations based on that. First of all, there is no FDA oversight, and that creates perfect breeding ground for quackery. The grain will be sorted from the chaff in due time; meanwhile, there is a lot of chaff to wade through. Second, genes are just like lines of code; however, whether the code gets executed or not, depends on many external factors. Microbiome or your unique gut bacterial composition is definitely a factor, but gut flora can change based on what we eat, our age, health, etc. So even if you get that bacteria analyzed, it might be a snapshot it time, not a dynamic picture. Third, as the article says, the field is still new and is evolving. Even the researchers quoted in the article would not make nutritional recommendations for themselves. That tells you something.
PG: It’s really amazing the number of people who have shift work, work part time, etc. I’ve had jobs where I worked from 4 pm to midnight, worked weekends so got midweek days off, etc. I loved my evening shift – I could enjoy being outside in daylight hours, going shopping at empty stores, making midday appointments with doctors and beauty salons, etc. The main thing I missed was watching TV at night.
And now I’m retired so I can do whatever I want whenever! So this morning I did weights and ran 5 miles at the health club, and now I’m off to go grocery shopping.
Worked out with my trainer. I moved up to 70 pounds on the bench press.
After working with the trainer I did 30 minutes on the threadmill and then 45 minutes on the Cybex arc. Got caught up watching one of those HGTV shows and I wanted to see which house the buyer chose, so I was on the machine 15 minutes longer than I intended.
That is the one of the only things I mind about not being retired- the ability to do my training sometime during the day that isn’t before or after work (occasional lunchtime run).
Attended a new class at our work fitness center and was a bad class-goer… 8-|
So they have started this crappy class schedule that only offers one class at around noon and one class in the evening starting at 6 or 6:30. One class per week of most of the offered genres. I find this to suck with my schedule. (what?! they aren’t tailoring things for ME?!)
Well, I’m not interested in gentle flow yoga which is the only class offered twice a week at noon. That was yesterday. I hear the class was VERY gentle flow. I may try it sometime but if I only have an hour of exercise time to give, I don’t know that that is how I want to spend it.
Today they were offering a “new” class - CIZE. I looked it up. Basically you learn dance moves a la Shawn T. (you know Shawn T. , right? Hip Hop Abs guy??) I decided to try it…not a good fit for me. I got super bored with doing the same dance routine over and over and over again - just to different music! I found myself literally tuning out. She took a break and did about 10 minutes of ab work - which I stayed for - and then (bad abasket!) I left the class and headed for the treadmill. I just could not suck it up for the rest of the time! Again, if I have only an hour I want to feel like I did something!!!
I know for me, cardio work is my favorite. I checked my HR during CIZE and I was right around 100 - not very beneficial. At least I got the ab work, and a couple miles on the treadmill. A day in the books!
I had to look Mr. Hip Hop Abs up - I admit I’d never heard of him! That wouldn’t appeal to me either. Our gym does quite a few of the Les Mills canned workouts - I’ve tried the CxWorx class but I get bored doing the same thing over over (the class only changes every three months). One of the drawbacks of a gym that tries to be everything to everyone. If I go to a class at the Pilates studio, there are quite a few of the same basic exercises, but so many variations and modifications are possible I don’t ever feel like I’m doing the same thing week after week.
abasket- I feel for you. I’m sorry the classes aren’t better for you now. That schedule sounds awful!
So I was at the very end of my bike ride today, approaching my parking lot, when I came up behind what appeared to be a two married couple, and extra lady, and a dog, all walking abreast (really only two fit into the lane). I called out “On your left” and at that moment, the dog turned and jumped left, right in front of me. I slammed on my brakes, much harder than I should have, but it was pure instinct. I flew over my bike and landed hard on the concrete. I can’t believe nothing was broken. I landed on my palms, but cut my shin and my other thigh hurts but seems okay. My shoulders and neck are already sore. I’ve got various other scrapes and bruises.
Two elderly ladies stopped and checked on me, but the couples didn’t even so much as break stride.
I think I’m going to be very sore tomorrow, but I’m lucky it wasn’t worse.