Talk about your exercise experience today

[Gemme]

I've been doing pretty good, getting my steps in daily. I still haven't worked very hard to get to the gym but I need to really stop dragging my feet about that. The good news is that with the cooler weather, I'll be more likely to do something outdoors.

Hope everyone is well and chugging along.

[Orema]

Last week I rode the bike for a total of 40 minutes. Not sure how many miles. Still getting used to settings.

:bow:

[Gemme]

I have a peddler that I got because I was having some difficulty with edema. That has since gone away but I'm going to be mindful to use the peddler more as it does burn calories and keep my lower body in motion. Plus it freaks the cats out when I'm using it, so they don't interrupt me until I get off of it.

Also, I lost 2 pounds overnight. Of course, once I eat breakfast it will be replaced but it's just that little surprise of "Oh!" when I hopped on the scale that makes me happy.

[Kelt]

After Labor Day when the beach was full of crazies and I didn’t go, then we had nine days of lousy tides. Finally today had a good tide and a nice sunny day. Went for a great walk and ended up walking down to the off leash dog beach just for the chaos and pandemonium of it all. While I was there a ______- a-doodle seemed to adopt me, I think even his owner thought he was going home with me.

If you ever saw “The Secret Life of Pets“ you can probably envision it. Once in a while I like going down there just to watch all the unbridled joy. :cheesy:

Thread protocol: 3.5 miles.

[Orema]

This week I did the following:

– Rode exercise bike for a total of 2 hours
– Rode a total of 24.8 miles
– Did a total of 280 arm rolls

Challenges:
Having a hard time fasting now that I'm exercising. May need to go off IF for awhile. Am still losing weight so I'm not too concerned.

Having a hard time not hunching my shoulders while riding. I have to keep reminding myself to relax my upper body and keep my shoulders as far away from my ears as possible.

Goals:
My current goal is consistency. Am focusing on riding the bike each day for at least 20 minutes.

[girl_dee]

I recently bought a weight bench and found some weights (hard to find with all the home gyms) and love doing leg curls.. then arm curls

I hate hate hate cardio but i did buy a pair of old school roller skates today!

[Gemme]

This week I did the following:

– Rode exercise bike for a total of 2 hours
– Rode a total of 24.8 miles
– Did a total of 280 arm rolls

Challenges:
Having a hard time fasting now that I'm exercising. May need to go off IF for awhile. Am still losing weight so I'm not too concerned.

Having a hard time not hunching my shoulders while riding. I have to keep reminding myself to relax my upper body and keep my shoulders as far away from my ears as possible.

Goals:
My current goal is consistency. Am focusing on riding the bike each day for at least 20 minutes.

Your appetite is going to increase with the start of a new fitness program but should level back out in a few weeks.

[Kelt]

Great sunset beach walk 3 miles :theisland:

[easygoingfemme]

Orema- that's great! Go you! What IF schedule are you following?

With my daughter having moved out I finally have space in my little house for an actual exercise room! On Sunday, I moved my rowing machine in there along with my bosu and hand weights.

Last winter I bought a smart TV but have never used it. I thought it might be nice to have up there to put on a show while I'm rowing, as opposed to music I usually listen to. That's how my brother used to rack up his rowing hours, he'd spend the winter rowing through shows like Northern Exposure. I'm really not a TV person but I think this could change things up from my regular routine which can get boring in the winter.

Yesterday I rowed 5k while embarking on the new Hulu series, Pen15. It was funny and I had a good workout! I'll do the same in a bit here before I go to work.

[Orema]

Orema- that's great! Go you! What IF schedule are you following?

With my daughter having moved out I finally have space in my little house for an actual exercise room! On Sunday, I moved my rowing machine in there along with my bosu and hand weights.

Last winter I bought a smart TV but have never used it. I thought it might be nice to have up there to put on a show while I'm rowing, as opposed to music I usually listen to. That's how my brother used to rack up his rowing hours, he'd spend the winter rowing through shows like Northern Exposure. I'm really not a TV person but I think this could change things up from my regular routine which can get boring in the winter.

Yesterday I rowed 5k while embarking on the new Hulu series, Pen15. It was funny and I had a good workout! I'll do the same in a bit here before I go to work.

Thanks, easy!

It's a variation on IF. I was only eating food between noon and 5pm, but that's changed since I've started exercising. These days I need solid food around 10am and I still have dinner around 5.

I only lost one pound last week, but my doctor is happy with my progress. He had me track my blood pressure daily over the last week because it was high after my last visit with him and it's lower than it's been in years. I cut down on salt and it's made a big difference.

Thanks again. :bow:

[Orema]

Thanks, easy!

It's a variation on IF. I was only eating food between noon and 5pm, but that's changed since I've started exercising. These days I need solid food around 10am and I still have dinner around 5.

I only lost one pound last week, but my doctor is happy with my progress. He had me track my blood pressure daily over the last week because it was high after my last visit with him and it's lower than it's been in years. I cut down on salt and it's made a big difference.

Thanks again. :bow:

Should have written that I was only eating solid food between noon and 5pm. At other times I'd have decaf with cream, protein drinks, vegetable juices, etc. but nothing solid.

I think things will work out once my body adjusts to this new routine.

Any tips or suggestions are really appreciated!

[Orema]

This week on exercise bike I rode:
– 33.4 miles
– 2.53 hours
– Did 640 arm rolls

Challenges:
Am still adjusting food. Losing weight slower than before, but I also need to drop the cashews :). Am better at relaxing upper torso but still working on it.

Goals:
Ride bike each day for at least 20 minutes. It's good if I increase my milage, distance, and time ... but it's okay if I don't. Right now I'm doing good as long as I get on the bike and ride at any speed. Continue tracking exercise (and weight loss) on spreadsheets.

[Kätzchen]

I have not been exercising much lately due to banging up my left foot, pretty badly. It's all bruised up, like I cracked a bone in my foot, which makes it hard to walk properly.

But I have been walking some.

We have a stretch of nice weather coming up next week, so if my foot is better, I will go for bicycle rides after I get off work.

[Gemme]

This week on exercise bike I rode:
– 33.4 miles
– 2.53 hours
– Did 640 arm rolls

Challenges:
Am still adjusting food. Losing weight slower than before, but I also need to drop the cashews :). Am better at relaxing upper torso but still working on it.

Goals:
Ride bike each day for at least 20 minutes. It's good if I increase my milage, distance, and time ... but it's okay if I don't. Right now I'm doing good as long as I get on the bike and ride at any speed. Continue tracking exercise (and weight loss) on spreadsheets.

I'm reading The Sugar Smart Diet (because I may have some pretty intense emotional connections with sweet and fattening foods) and the author discusses a couple of small studies done where they found that eating either peanuts or peanut butter as part of the breakfast helps control blood sugar and sugar spikes all day long, which in part, helps with weight loss.

How this connects to you? I can't say for sure but maybe changing the time when you tend to eat the cashews could be helpful? Or changing the type of nut you eat might help.

I have not been exercising much lately due to banging up my left foot, pretty badly. It's all bruised up, like I cracked a bone in my foot, which makes it hard to walk properly.

But I have been walking some.

We have a stretch of nice weather coming up next week, so if my foot is better, I will go for bicycle rides after I get off work.

I've dropped a 12x12 box of ceramic tiles on my foot so I feel your pain (literally!). Are you wrapping it? Compression may help with some of the pain.

As for thread compliance, I walked 10,609 steps today.

[Orema]

I'm reading The Sugar Smart Diet (because I may have some pretty intense emotional connections with sweet and fattening foods) and the author discusses a couple of small studies done where they found that eating either peanuts or peanut butter as part of the breakfast helps control blood sugar and sugar spikes all day long, which in part, helps with weight loss.

How this connects to you? I can't say for sure but maybe changing the time when you tend to eat the cashews could be helpful? Or changing the type of nut you eat might help.

Yes, I had started eating the cashews earlier in the day and I switched to cashews when I cut down on salt a couple weeks ago. And, I started eating more nuts than usual after I started exercising. It's getting better and I think it will improve. I just have to stock up on more lower-carb emergency food (lower than cashews).

Sometimes I have a tablespoon or two of peanut butter on its own and that helps.

I'll be out of the cashews by the end of the week (if not sooner :)) and that will help, too.

Thanks, Gemme.

[Kätzchen]

Today, since the horrible monster neighbor is no longer next door, I re-arranged my studio, which took me about 5 hours this morning. I vacuumed, dusted, washed down walls and floor boards, mopped the wood flooring with special cleaning solutions, then dry waxed the wood floor. Cleaned all the area rugs, and cleaned the kitchen and bathroom.

Yes, Gemme, I have a compression bandage on my left foot. Later today, I will do a foot soak and evaluate my left foot. I think it's getting better, but last I looked it was bruised up something bad and still, I feel bones moving when I walk on it? I probably fractured the left tarsal bones, near my pinky toe.

Hopefully, with time, my foot will be better.

Hope everyone is having a lovely Sunday. I am. I plan to rest for a bit, then go shopping for groceries later today.

[Kelt]

Sunshine, Beach, 3 miles. :theisland:

[Kelt]

Sunshine, Beach, 3 miles. :theisland:

Rerun :cheesy:

[Gemme]

I am 142 steps away from my daily goal, which I will make when I take the kids' poo out to the trash. Tomorrow's going to be a killer, though. I'm playing mover and will move some pretty heavy furniture in addition to some manual labor cleaning.

[C0LLETTE]

Seems that it's International Seniors' Day
So I'm going to go out and find someone to have sex with.
You want to do pushups? ok.
I'm going to do it my way.

[Kelt]

Sunshine, Beach, 3 miles. :theisland:

Yesterday was another rerun capped off by staying for a great sunset!

[Orema]

This week:
– Rode 33.8 miles
– For 2.5 hours
– Did 700 arm rolls

Have started riding to music. I ride faster and my heart rate is faster when riding to music. When I don't want a strenuous workout I just watch something (Hey, Horatio!) or listen to a podcast.

A few things have made it easier this time for me to stick to this.

I'm not under the stress I was when working in the office—what a difference that's made (all other stressors combined don't equal that stress).
I don't have to do strenuous workouts—I can just get on the bike and ride at a really slow pace if I want to. The goal is still to just get on the bike and ride (though the more I ride, the faster/stronger my rides become).

I would give up if I was still working at my last job or if I pushed myself too hard.

[Gemme]

Today has been a day off, so my step count is fairly low, which is typical. I'll get in less than 4000 steps today. I did, however, take a walk after dinner. It counts! It will also help my digestion and help my body process the sugars I took in better than if I hadn't walked. They've done studies on it. It can also help with curbing noshing after meals and the urge to eat sweets, which I struggle with often.

I've put a lot more energy into being mindful of what I eat lately and thinking about how what I eat transforms inside my body. It's not exercise, but it's still a way to take care of myself. I've done nothing different other than consciously curbing my sugar intake just a smidge and I've lost 5lbs in the past 30 days. It's a small step, but I'll take it!

[Gemme]

Yesterday was a banger day in terms of steps. I got in 11,831 before it was all said and done. I also woke up 2lbs lighter. I'm sure my burger brunch will do away with that, but it's a good feeling to start the day feeling accomplished in some small way.

[Orema]

:fastcycling:

This week:
– 32 miles
– 2.41 hours
– 730 Arm rolls

Years ago I hurt my shoulder and since then it acts up when I gain weight. The arm rolls help make my shoulders stronger and I can now reach for things above and move about as usual. Will continue doing arm rolls.

It was a good exercise week. Met my goals and am not adding any new goals. Will do that in a week or two, maybe.

[C0LLETTE]

Learning how to do donkey kicks.

'If you're searching for an exercise to target and tighten your rear end, look no further than the donkey kick. ... The donkey kick's scientific name is a quadruped bent-knee hip extension. But it gets its nickname from the literal movement, which looks like the animal's notorious kick.'

There are some excellent YouTube videos available to help you get the hang of it.

Here's one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im5nE3J558k

[Kelt]

Gorgeous day
Good low tide
4 miles
Wandered down to the off leash dog park for some fun chaos
:dog:
I gotta get my own dog one of these days!

[Gemme]

I've gotten in over 8500 steps so far....somewhere between 3 and 4 miles. I'm not done yet but I am getting sleepy. Today was exhausting.

[Gemme]

Yesterday was a big step day for me....over 12,000! My average work day is around 7000-7500 and my average off day at home is usually about 2000-2500 steps. It's not that I'm not doing anything; it's just that I'm usually organizing or sorting stuff and my pedometer doesn't register side to side or rounded movements.

I have the weekend off so I expect my numbers to be low at least one of the days but I have plans for the kitchen so intentional movement will commence.

Previously, I mentioned I was working on my sugar intake. I've always been concerned about it since diabetes runs in my family but not enough to do anything about it, because I'm a self-diagnosed sugar-holic and I wanted sweet stuff so I ate and drank sweet stuff. The sweeter the better. I suppose we all are, at least initially, as mother's milk has sugars in it and that helps to set our palates.

I read a book last month that I've had on my shelf for years. Years! And I never opened it. You can lead a horse to water....right? Anywho, I read this book called The Sugar Smart Diet and it's really changed the way I look at what I put into my body. I read labels more carefully and am starting to turn into that crazy lady in the grocery store that talks to the products. I'm pretty sure I asked a prepared bag of salad if it was kidding me and told another one to take a hike. To be fair, it's not the book since I talk to my car all the time. I keep waiting for that Disney moment when something comes alive and sings a song.

So, I'm starting to avoid added sugars like the plague and really pick and choose what other sugars I put into my body since women should only have about 25 grams or 6 teaspoons of sugar per day. I was very surprised how fast that adds up. I knew sugar was in pasta sauce and salad dressing and bbq sauce and ketchup and many, many other savory flavored foods and condiments but I didn't realize just how much it was.

I'm not doing the diet itself because it requires you cut sugar cold turkey for about a week but I am becoming more vigilant about the sugars I choose to take in and it's paying off. It's been almost 6 weeks and I've dropped 10lbs with no additional effort other than having arguments with myself as to what I want and what I should have to eat, especially at night. That's my weak time.

Next month, I want to add in a couple days at the gym. Nothing crazy; just my old friend the elliptical. I won't have much time since I'll be doing 50+ hour work weeks soon but my gym is 24 hours so with some adjustments to my schedule, I really think I can knock another 10lbs off the scale. That's my plan, anyway.

[Orema]

Yesterday was a big step day for me....over 12,000! My average work day is around 7000-7500 and my average off day at home is usually about 2000-2500 steps. It's not that I'm not doing anything; it's just that I'm usually organizing or sorting stuff and my pedometer doesn't register side to side or rounded movements.

I have the weekend off so I expect my numbers to be low at least one of the days but I have plans for the kitchen so intentional movement will commence.

Previously, I mentioned I was working on my sugar intake. I've always been concerned about it since diabetes runs in my family but not enough to do anything about it, because I'm a self-diagnosed sugar-holic and I wanted sweet stuff so I ate and drank sweet stuff. The sweeter the better. I suppose we all are, at least initially, as mother's milk has sugars in it and that helps to set our palates.

I read a book last month that I've had on my shelf for years. Years! And I never opened it. You can lead a horse to water....right? Anywho, I read this book called The Sugar Smart Diet and it's really changed the way I look at what I put into my body. I read labels more carefully and am starting to turn into that crazy lady in the grocery store that talks to the products. I'm pretty sure I asked a prepared bag of salad if it was kidding me and told another one to take a hike. To be fair, it's not the book since I talk to my car all the time. I keep waiting for that Disney moment when something comes alive and sings a song.

So, I'm starting to avoid added sugars like the plague and really pick and choose what other sugars I put into my body since women should only have about 25 grams or 6 teaspoons of sugar per day. I was very surprised how fast that adds up. I knew sugar was in pasta sauce and salad dressing and bbq sauce and ketchup and many, many other savory flavored foods and condiments but I didn't realize just how much it was.

I'm not doing the diet itself because it requires you cut sugar cold turkey for about a week but I am becoming more vigilant about the sugars I choose to take in and it's paying off. It's been almost 6 weeks and I've dropped 10lbs with no additional effort other than having arguments with myself as to what I want and what I should have to eat, especially at night. That's my weak time.

Next month, I want to add in a couple days at the gym. Nothing crazy; just my old friend the elliptical. I won't have much time since I'll be doing 50+ hour work weeks soon but my gym is 24 hours so with some adjustments to my schedule, I really think I can knock another 10lbs off the scale. That's my plan, anyway.

Congrat's to you on the increased steps, the weight loss, and sugar adjustments! So happy for you! What a difference a small changes can make.

:fastcycling:

This week:
– 31.1 miles
– 2.38 hours
– 655 arm rolls

Have added scenic bike videos found on youtube and amazon. I like turning down the volume on the video and listening to my own play list. This week I visited Brasa Canyon in Italy, Venice Beach in California, NYC, and more.

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Venice Beach ● Santa Monica ● Pacific Palisades
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Cruising NYC
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I like the speedier bike rides more than the crusing ones, but I did have a nice ride cruising through NYC and Maui.

Click here (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=scenic+bike+ride+video) to view more scenic bike ride videos on youtube.

[Gemme]

Thanks, Orema! You are right; small changes can make a big difference.

I love tours like those. My gym has those on the ellipticals and treadmills and I like going through deserts and mountains. There was one that circled the tiny edge of a giant cliff and you could see the goats hanging out there. Not bicycles, of course. Drones. But still very enjoyable.

Tonight, I took a nice walk. The air's crisp and it wasn't long before my fingers and toes got tingly and cold. I like it best like this out of all other times. When I run in this weather, the cold air slides into my lungs and I can feel it coat them and it's a little easier to push myself when that happens. I'm not running now, mind you, but when I did, I liked to do it on days/nights like this.

I got a little over a mile in while walking so I'm somewhere in the 5000 step range right now. Probably won't get much higher since I'll be plopping myself on the floor and reorganizing a bookshelf after watching another TGBBS: Masterclass episode.

Strangely enough, watching this series doesn't trigger any specific sugar cravings for me. I do wish I could taste the food created but I don't really feel anything one way or another about it beyond that, which is good, because it's all sugar and simple carb laden and mama's not havin' any of that.

[Kelt]

Sandy toes :cheesy:

[Orema]

Somebody please call CSI because I killed my workout this morning!

Rode 6.2 miles through the Ohio Valley for 25 minutes at a strenuous pace, not including my slow startup and stop modes.

Kept up with the beat of all music.

Just arrest me now!

:fastcycling:

[homoe]

Somebody please call CSI because I killed my workout this morning!

Rode 6.2 miles through the Ohio Valley for 25 minutes at a strenuous pace, not including my slow startup and stop modes.

Kept up with the beat of all music!

:fastcycling:

Cute Orema, very cute!

....:giggle:.....

[Gemme]

Somebody please call CSI because I killed my workout this morning!

Rode 6.2 miles through the Ohio Valley for 25 minutes at a strenuous pace, not including my slow startup and stop modes.

Kept up with the beat of all music.

Just arrest me now!

:fastcycling:

I actually LOL when I read that line. CSI one liners are rubbing off on you!

Congrats! A good workout can make the worst days seem okay.

Yesterday, I got in almost 8100 steps. I also spent two hours contorted on top of a countertop at work but I'm not sure that counts.

[Gemme]

I got in a smidge over 8000 steps yesterday, which was great as I tend to have lower totals on time off. I also rearranged and sorted part of my storage unit, which worked up a sweat moving boxes and furniture around. I donated and trashed some things too so I feel a little freer as well.

Last night's walk was just before, during and after sunset. About 40 minutes total. The sky whisper sprinkled a little.....when you can feel the tiniest bit of rain but it's not enough to wet your clothes or hair....and I didn't see Simon the skunk so that was a calm and happy walk.

I thought of you, Orema, and did some arm rolls while I walked. Man, they are harder than I remember. I don't think I've actually done them since high school, maybe? Anyway, mad respect for your hundreds of rolls!

[Orema]

I got in a smidge over 8000 steps yesterday, which was great as I tend to have lower totals on time off. I also rearranged and sorted part of my storage unit, which worked up a sweat moving boxes and furniture around. I donated and trashed some things too so I feel a little freer as well.

Last night's walk was just before, during and after sunset. About 40 minutes total. The sky whisper sprinkled a little.....when you can feel the tiniest bit of rain but it's not enough to wet your clothes or hair....and I didn't see Simon the skunk so that was a calm and happy walk.

I thought of you, Orema, and did some arm rolls while I walked. Man, they are harder than I remember. I don't think I've actually done them since high school, maybe? Anyway, mad respect for your hundreds of rolls!

Thanks, Gemme, and good on you with your steps. The walk sounds really nice. That's how it was yesterday morning here. Just the tiniest bit of mist.

Yep, those arm rolls are no joke. I've had to work up to 100 and I'm struggling by the time I'm in the 80s. I do it while riding but think I may start doing them when I'm not riding. I think I'll do a better job if I'm standing still and watching myself as I do them because sometimes I'm all over the place. LOL

Glad you had a good workout. I did, too.

I rode 6.2 miles for 26 minutes among some sunsets and windmills and did 100 arm rolls.

[Gemme]

Almost 9100 steps today. Would have been more but I pulled up the debate, sat down and got sucked in. So much for getting up at 6:30 now.

[Orema]

This week on exercise bike:

– 37.9 miles
– 2.7 hours
– 700 Arm rolls

The exercise bike is correcting my arthritic knees in ways I didn't think possible. When I first started riding, my knees (mostly right knee) would hit the center bar sometimes. I positioned my feet differently and just pushed on, making adjustments with my feet and legs when I could. It doesn't do this anymore. Not only because I'm positioning myself better on the bike, but also because my knee is repositioning itself it a better way. It's noticeable when I walk and stand. And I'm mostly cycling without any tension. I think it's just the repetitive cycling motion that makes the difference.

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

Had a good step day today! 10,837 so far and I still have about an hour before I'll call it for the day. I meant to get to bed sooner but then I took a walk and it was lovely and windy and dark and I just kept walking and that cleared the cobwebs from my head so now I'm as alert a cat with a new toy.

[Kätzchen]

It is very brisk outside, lots of freezing air abounds, so I spent Sunday morning cleaning my car: The windows need to be clean and free from debris, so I can see without weird circular post-cleaning marks are absent from the glass windows. Took me about an hour to do, inside and out. Lots of bending and stretching and getting into areas that are hard positions for me to bear.

I also went for a walk. I only logged about 5K steps on my neighborhood walk, but with cleaning the car windows, cleaning wood floors in my house and vacuuming carpets, I feel like I got a fair amount of exercise in this morning.

There's still the rest of today, but I need to rest and so that is how I will spend my day today (resting up for the work week).

Happy Sunday to all,
~K. :bunchflowers:

[Gemme]

It is very brisk outside, lots of freezing air abounds, so I spent Sunday morning cleaning my car: The windows need to be clean and free from debris, so I can see without weird circular post-cleaning marks are absent from the glass windows. Took me about an hour to do, inside and out. Lots of bending and stretching and getting into areas that are hard positions for me to bear.

I also went for a walk. I only logged about 5K steps on my neighborhood walk, but with cleaning the car windows, cleaning wood floors in my house and vacuuming carpets, I feel like I got a fair amount of exercise in this morning.

There's still the rest of today, but I need to rest and so that is how I will spend my day today (resting up for the work week).

Happy Sunday to all,
~K. :bunchflowers:

If you use newspaper and either Windex or vinegar, you won't have lint or streaks when cleaning your windshield. Also, if you wipe your blades with alcohol, it cleans the muck off of them so they don't streak the outside.

As for myself, my walk was about a mile and a half today and my step total thus far is just under 6500. It started to rain otherwise I'd have walked longer. Also, an orange tabby was waiting at my doorstep but ran away when I walked up. Hope he finds his way home.

[Kätzchen]

If you use newspaper and either Windex or vinegar, you won't have lint or streaks when cleaning your windshield. Also, if you wipe your blades with alcohol, it cleans the muck off of them so they don't streak the outside.

As for myself, my walk was about a mile and a half today and my step total thus far is just under 6500. It started to rain otherwise I'd have walked longer. Also, an orange tabby was waiting at my doorstep but ran away when I walked up. Hope he finds his way home.

I tried your tip for cleaning windshield wiper blades and it worked like a charm. Thanks Gemme!

I pulled a muscle in my thigh, right thigh, right above my knee but on the inside. I don't know how I did it, but I got out my stretch exercise papers from PT days, a couple years ago, and I hope that muscle recovers soon. It's still a tender area on my leg.

I have yet to get my bicycle tire fixed, but that is because the bicycle shop I go to is still not open to the public. As long as they can somehow be open by spring of next year, I will make sure to get my bicycle tire fixed.

Last weekend I found a great place to go for short walks and because I am taking a few days off before this weekend, I plan to go scout out a few more walking paths. It's down at the coast, so I can hardly wait to go explore. :)

--K.

[Gemme]

I tried your tip for cleaning windshield wiper blades and it worked like a charm. Thanks Gemme!

I pulled a muscle in my thigh, right thigh, right above my knee but on the inside. I don't know how I did it, but I got out my stretch exercise papers from PT days, a couple years ago, and I hope that muscle recovers soon. It's still a tender area on my leg.

I have yet to get my bicycle tire fixed, but that is because the bicycle shop I go to is still not open to the public. As long as they can somehow be open by spring of next year, I will make sure to get my bicycle tire fixed.

Last weekend I found a great place to go for short walks and because I am taking a few days off before this weekend, I plan to go scout out a few more walking paths. It's down at the coast, so I can hardly wait to go explore. :)

--K.

Glad my tip worked! Sorry to hear about your pulled muscle. I knew I was getting old when I reached my arm back and pulled a muscle. I wasn't lifting anything or in an odd position; just reaching back onto the sofa and BAM. Eating more bananas has helped. Muscles love potassium!

Tonight, I walked outside and in a store and at work so my total is somewhere above 8200 now. I'm winding down so I may only get another 200 in before bed.

[Kelt]

Finally got out for a beach walk this afternoon, 11,000 steps, sunny with a light breeze it was great!

I haven’t been out there in a week due to my landscaping nearing completion and at the stage where I sort of had to direct traffic and do that more of this, less of that, a bit to the right… It’s finally all coming together though.

Tides are sketchy this time of year and of course the days are ending earlier but I still hope to get back into my own routines soon.

[Orema]

This week on exercise bike:

– 31.8 miles
– 2.43 hours
– 760 Arm rolls

Even though my miles and time numbers aren't higher, it was a good week ... but not so good today. Just had lots of unexpected interruptions. Met my time and distance goals for today, but it wasn't as good as most days. That's cool—I'm gonna have days like this.

I expolored some food and exercise apps thinking they may help me (thanks, Gemme!), but I prefer using spreadsheets. I found some exercise and weight spreadsheet templates on the internet and in some programs I own. Had to pay 5 bucks for one template but it was worth it because the layout is exactly what works for me.

The only way I can do this, enjoy it, and keep doing it is to log my progress. So glad there are tools out there to help with that.

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[Gemme]

You do you, girl!

Yesterday was tough to get steps in. It snowed all blessed day and my boots were too big so when I started my evening walk, it was distracting and didn't feel right on my feet. I still went a mile and my final step count was 6723. Very good for a day off, most of which was spent in the apartment looking out my window.

Today was a busy work day but I wasn't alone so the work was divided. If I was by myself, I would bet good money that I'd be around 12-13,000 steps. As it is, I'm at 7146 now and will take a walk before bed. I might go a mile. I'm not sure. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if I didn't.

I feel really good about where I am now. Since the beginning of September, I've lost about 15lbs from dropping my sugar intake and trying to maintain at least 5000 steps a day. I'm going to add in a bit more official exercise in November. I don't see the drop physically but a couple of my pants are looser so that's good. Now that it's winter, I gotta make room for my fleece-lined leggings!

[easygoingfemme]

Yesterday's exercise was mostly around pulling up the garden, getting all of the plants hauled to compost, turning the soil and then raking leaves. I don't know steps or calories but I got a lot done and it was a full body workout for at least 4 hours.

[Gemme]

Yesterday wound up being a stellar day for steps after all! I finally came in at 13,831. So far today, I'm at 6927. Not sure if I'll walk tonight but if not, I'm good since I'll likely come in around 7500 then.

[Gemme]

Yesterday wound up being a stellar day for steps after all! I finally came in at 13,831. So far today, I'm at 6927. Not sure if I'll walk tonight but if not, I'm good since I'll likely come in around 7500 then.

Well, the wind and rain calmed down and I did wind up going for a walk last night. Last tally was 11,085 steps. Not too shabby. Woke up a pound less too. Looks like Christmas is coming early for me!

[Orema]

Well, the wind and rain calmed down and I did wind up going for a walk last night. Last tally was 11,085 steps. Not too shabby. Woke up a pound less too. Looks like Christmas is coming early for me!

Yay for you! Not shabby at all :) I love unexpected gifts.

I rode 5.4 miles in 23 minutes in Dubai. Did 110 arm rolls.

[Gemme]

I took an early walk because I want to get to the polls first thing tomorrow. I'm at 9277 now and will probably get between 9500-9750 steps by night's end.

[Gemme]

Today was a big day for steps. I got up early, had a good breakfast, voted, loaded the car with donations for Savers, ran a bunch of errands, had a big late lunch, took a short walk, did some chores at home, socialized with my employee, had dinner, looked at the polls, took a long walk, did some more household chores, checked the polls again, took a short walk and now I am sitting here, staring at my screen in a state of high anxiety. Elections are bad for my blood pressure, y'all.

Total steps for November 3rd, 2020 = 21,753.

[Orema]

Today was a big day for steps. I got up early, had a good breakfast, voted, loaded the car with donations for Savers, ran a bunch of errands, had a big late lunch, took a short walk, did some chores at home, socialized with my employee, had dinner, looked at the polls, took a long walk, did some more household chores, checked the polls again, took a short walk and now I am sitting here, staring at my screen in a state of high anxiety. Elections are bad for my blood pressure, y'all.

Total steps for November 3rd, 2020 = 21,753.

It will be over soon—not soon enough, but with all things being relative, it will be over soon.

You were a sole-steppin’ sister yesterday. Way to go! Bet that helped your blood pressure. Congrat’s on a good exercise day.

Right now I’m only exercising my tongue by loudly cursing the talking heads I’m listening to on CNN and MSNBC radio broadcast.

[Gemme]

It will be over soon—not soon enough, but with all things being relative, it will be over soon.

You were a sole-steppin’ sister yesterday. Way to go! Bet that helped your blood pressure. Congrat’s on a good exercise day.

Right now I’m only exercising my tongue by loudly cursing the talking heads I’m listening to on CNN and MSNBC radio broadcast.

I've got my fingers and just about everything else crossed too.

I was! Actually, my walk didn't help with my blood pressure as it was a thinking walk, where I go over stuff and worry and whatnot. But steps are steps and they all count.

Currently, I'm at a nearly standstill tally of 500 steps so far today. Going to bed late didn't help. I'll soon be elbows deep in my craft room, moving furniture and bits and pieces here and there so I'll get intentional movement in if not actual steps. I need to get the layout 100% set before I can bring more of my stuff back into the room (it's currently in storage).

[Orema]

This week on exercise bike:

– 34.1 miles
– 2.6 hours
– 660 Arm rolls

:fastcycling:

Was an okay week for exercising. Had a few slow days and I didn't ace the arm rolls since I developed sore shoulder. But that's still good. My goal is to get on the bike for 20 minutes and ride, even if it's just at 5-7 mph, and anything else is icing on the cake.

[Gemme]

My walk tonight will likely be a casual stroll as my stress level has dropped 60%. Blue has always been a good color for me.

So far today, it's been errands and housework so I'm only at 6615 steps now. Last night was 11,601 steps.

[Kätzchen]

I'm just getting started with my day and wanted to check in.

I've got some torn muscle tissue around my knee and a jacked up muscle the back side of my right leg. I hope to see a specialist soon, but I keep my exercise limited to walking and body stretches.

Yesterday I only got up to about 3K steps.

Today I might get up to about 6K-7K steps because I have laundry to do and other household chores, and also go grocery shopping for the week.

At a recent visit with my primary care physician, I learned that I have been yo-yoing, weight wise. Some weight gain, but I hope to shed some weight by spring. Hopefully.

My a1c is staying inside the best range possible, so there's that.

I also got several booster shots and the flu shot while at my clinic, too. My arm is finally not sore anymore, thankfully.

[Gemme]

Hope you can get your knee and leg looked at soon, Katz!

Last night, I wound up taking a longer walk than I expected. I started my walk at 5620 steps and ended in the 13,500 range! That's just a hair under 3 miles for my nightly stroll and a hair under 5 miles for the day. My final count for the day was at 13,803 steps.

So far today has been very low key. I haven't been up long and have only taken care of my immediate needs and the needs of my fur babies so I'm around 250 steps so far.

I do a daily weigh in to track my weight weekly and to see the fluctuations that naturally occur in between. I like to know how what I put into my body affects it the next day/s. I had a spike a few days ago that I can attribute to eating too close to bed time and then not getting a solid 8 hours of sleep.

Since then, I've been on a slow and steady trajectory downward, which I love. This morning's calculation puts me at a solid 18lb deficit from when I started watching my sugar intake and started being more consistent with my output in energy (aka walked more).

I'd like to get back into the gym to propel my results even faster but I have to admit I'm a bit leery. My gym is small and I'm not sure how they've got things set up. I guess I'll have to bite the bullet and just go and check it out. There's no point paying for something and not using it. Also, there's a curfew in effect for the next two weeks due to recent upticks in COVID positive testing so no one is supposed to be out and about between 10pm-5am and that's when I am most likely to go. I'll figure it out.

[Orema]

Had a good ride this morning but am still playing catch up with my arm rolls.

Sprained my right shoulder a few days ago and I had to start from 20. I'm at 50 now. Have been able to add a few each day.

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[Gemme]

Oh no! One of those arm rolls got out of control, didn't it? I can see how that might happen.

:thinking:

Take care of yourself!

For myself, I have to say that I've been doing pretty well. Yesterday's figure came in at 10,231 and I'm very happy with that. That was a full day at work and one mile around the neighborhood in the rain last night, which I rather enjoyed.

It was only slightly drizzling when I went out so I took a jacket that's not rainproof but is woven enough that I would be dry as long as there wasn't a downpour. Cue harder rain about 1000 steps into my mile so I found a nice, long building that sheltered me from the brunt of the rain and wind and I walked back and forth along the length of it for the remainder of my mile. There were bollards at each end of the building so I made it a game and had to touch the bollard at each end before I could turn around.

I didn't get soaked at all even though the rain did pick up a substantial amount from when I started, so that was good. I am fully enjoying my quiet walks at night. I don't know how long I'm going to be able to keep enjoying them with winter coming but I'll do them as long as I can because I feel that it's more than just getting steps in now. It's a way to decompress, to work through personal and professional issues without someone looking at me funny for talking to myself and I can actually feel my body working to process dinner or whatever I ate beforehand. I can literally feel my stomach get more loose and not as full from start to finish. It's really kind of cool, imo.

Today's count will be far less, even if I take a nice long walk tonight since I'm off and not really planning on leaving home until my walk later. I got up late and am only doing two meals today so maybe that will help even things out a bit.

[Kelt]

This last week I have been out on the beach four times. Having great weather and surprisingly few people out. The landscape out there changes around every few days due to the very high tides and this next week will feature several days of King tides.

Tomorrow my county goes back into more serious shut downs for the virus, at least this time I don’t believe any beach or trail closures will be coming. The powers that be seem to have figured out that outdoor exposure to sunshine and exercise is good for people. (Was that ever actually a question?)

With things going so badly in so much of the rest of the country and winter closing in, I count my blessings every time I get out. :theisland:

Gemme, I know exactly what you mean about walking and thinking. I have always thought of my walks as equal parts mental and physical health. There have been numerous studies that have concluded that repetitive physical motion that does not require too much concentration is very helpful for problem-solving and learning, I wholeheartedly agree. I’m glad you are finding this is the case for you too!

[Gemme]

Very much so, Kelt! And even though I don't think I actually get to the point of having endorphins released, I always feel better afterwards. Must be that fresh air that people talk about.

Last night was a nice walk despite it being a wee bit chilly. It was in the 30s. There was not one soul on my walking path so it was very peaceful and pleasant. Just me and the sounds of nature at night.

My step count for yesterday was 11,113. I knew the 11111 was coming up and thought it'd be fun if I stopped at that but I have short legs and they take more steps than the average bear so it was close but no cigar for me.

[Orema]

This week on exercise bike:

– 30.5 miles
– 2.38 hours
– 480 Arm rolls

Was an okay week for exercising. Met my minimum goal of riding daily for 20 minutes at any speed. I may up this goal to 25 minutes a day after I move. Maybe.

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

I haven't been out for my walk yet but I've been up and at 'em all day, running errands and walking around stores. My steps aren't crazy high as I also did a lot of standing in line but I'm at a fairly respectable 7800ish now.

I think maybe I'll just do a mile tonight as it's another chilly night and I'm not feeling 100% right now. We'll see. I always let my body dictate the walk. I start out with a goal and when I meet that goal, my body tells me what to do next, be it hunker down and walk another mile or two or to head inside where it's toasty warm.

[Orema]

Had a good workout this morning—the best I've had in days.

Rode the bike for 20 mins and 4.5 miles.

Took 4 tylenols this morning because I wanted a good workout and I woke up just bit stiff.

Did 100 arm rolls and could have done 110 but didn't want to push it since the tylenol was dulling some stiffness/pain.

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[Gemme]

I wound up clocking in at 12,707 steps last night. Tonight, my walk was cut short by my procrastination and the weather. I knew rain was coming but got lazy with dinner and watching ANTM and only had half an hour to walk before the rain hit. I walked a little more until the rain became too heavy so my total thus far for tonight is 10,972 steps. I'm happy to say that I've officially discarded 20lbs of weight since I began this journey. It's taken about 10 weeks to get here.

[Gemme]

Today was exciting, exercisers! Yesterday, I was texted by one of the managers of one of my old gyms. She offered me a free 10 day trial so I said yes. Today was the first time I've been in a gym this year. Crazy, huh?

I had a good workout too. Nothing too wild. 15 minutes on the elliptical. 15 minutes on the treadmill. About half an hour working the rebounder and doing some core work.

I saw a guy in a blue minivan having a conniption fit when I drove into the gym's parking lot. A full on, cussing and fuming, fit. He even spit on his own windshield. He was also still there when I came out, an hour and a half later. I gave him a wide berth.

I also had a bunch of short walks as I ran my errands and did some shopping. My step count is just under 13,000 right now. I'll probably get a bit more but only have 10m minutes until the end of the day so I probably won't hit that mark but I'm happy with where I am. It's been a good day!

[Orema]

This week on exercise bike:

– 30.5 miles
– 2.45 hours
– 720 Arm rolls

Was a good week for exercising. Shoulder is better and am doing more arm rolls. Still have a small ache in the shoulder but it's improving.

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

Yesterday's step count was 11,833 and tonight I'm at 13,437 right now with less than half an hour to go before midnight so it's likely that that is what it'll be.

Walk started off in an interesting way tonight. The second I stepped outside, the smell of skunk hit me full force. Either the coyotes got Simon and he put up a helluva fight or there was a 'skunk off'. It took a while for it to dissipate and it covered 2-3 acres. Bleh.

[easygoingfemme]

I'm taking a hike shortly with my daughter. It is cold and snowing a little and windy. But it is time to lay our dog to rest and put his ashes into his favorite waterfall. It's about a 3 mile round trip hike so I'll pack a flashlight in case we lose daylight. Bittersweet. He just loved hiking and swimming there so it feels like the place he should be. He will have a place on the riverbank at my home too.

[Gemme]

Yesterday's count was 15,579 steps and I'm at 11,922 so far today. I'll crack 12,000 before bed. Other than that, there's not much on the exercise front. I have through Sunday to go to a gym and then the state is shutting the gyms (and bars, etc) down for a "pause" with the hopes of curtailing another massive spike in COVID cases. As long as I can walk in my neighborhood, I'm good either way.

[Gemme]

I wound up snagging 12020 steps by the end of the day yesterday and am at 14,256 now. I might hit 14,500 before bed. Maybe.

I am really loving my walks. It was 30 degrees when I went out tonight and all was quiet except for the swish swish of the jacket hood on my head. Just two light jackets tonight but the gloves were on. It won't be long before the hat will come on too. Then the heavier jacket and the boots.

I'm simultaneously looking forward to and dreading it but for now, I'm having a good time and the bennies aren't bad either. I'm at a point in my current weight loss journey that I thought I wouldn't reach until the new year and all that walking has burned a ton of calories today in addition to the calories I burn just for existing.

[Gemme]

Wound up with 11,775 steps last night. I could have walked longer but I wanted to get up early this morning and go to the gym, which I did.

I'm at 8701 steps already today and it's not even 10am! I spent 35 minutes on the elliptical and then a few minutes on the rebounder, which I love, and a few more on some core work and just the tiniest smidge more on legs. Then, when I got home, it was only sprinkling the ittiest bittiest bit so I walked for about a mile and then came in to feed the babies and get breakfast going.

I spoke to one of the trainers at the gym yesterday, confirming the changes they made for COVID, so I was confident coming in but the second I pulled up, what do I see through the window? A kid speed walking on the treadmill without a mask. Ugh! When I went in, I griped at him and said, "You know, we're supposed to wear masks." and he was nice about it and thanked me and then put it on. As time ticked away, his mask slid further and further down until it only covered his lips but I wasn't going to be a big ole nag and I wasn't facing him so I let it go.

Another gentleman joined me on the ellipticals, appropriately apart, and was fine. We said good morning to one another and were quite cordial during my time on the machine but as I was leaving the gym a while later, I looked over and his mask was around his chin. He wasn't there when I chastised the kid earlier but as soon as he saw me look over, he pulled his mask up. I must have had my RBF on this morning.

Sh*t like this is why we have to close our gyms for a couple weeks to keep people from spreading COVID. Also, the guy on the weights was not wiping it down after he moved from each station. I didn't bother with any of them because of that and wound up going into the studio to putter around.

Despite all of that, I feel really good about my workout today! I got a ton done already and it's early in the day. I still have to shower, do chores and cook so there's lots to get done. I better get back to it!

Happy Turkey/Tofurkey Day!

[GeorgiaMa'am]

I haven't posted much lately because I've not been doing much due to not feeling too well, but I have felt better the past few days. Yesterday I made it up and down the stairs twice without feeling dizzy or like I was going to pass out and without having to sit on a middle step to catch my breath! The top step was a doozy though. I just keep doing my PT exercises. The PT company is supposed to hook me up next week, and I hope I can get the same therapist I had before. He's a great guy.

[Gemme]

Good for you, Georgia! I'm not sure I'd be up and at 'em so quickly after surgery. One day at a time and one step at a time.

Today, I get in to the gym before anyone else and it's amazing. I love having the place to myself and watching the sunrise but then a couple comes in when I was almost done and the wife has a disposable mask around her chin. Right from the gate! Rude.

So, I finished at the elliptical and went back to where they have the rebounder (I love that thing!) and she was nearby so I said something. I wasn't too bitchy or hateful; just reminded her we're supposed to wear the mask the whole time we're inside the building. She didn't acknowledge me at all but did slide the mask up.

Of course, two minutes later, she pulled it down again. I got frustrated and finished what I was doing and remarked to her that maybe she would take it seriously if someone she loved died and left. I also called the gym and left a message for the staff that if it's possible to lodge a formal complaint against someone I didn't know, I wanted to do it. They have cameras and I know when they came in so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out who they are. The disregard for other people is so frustrating and disheartening.

My stats for today are: 358 calories burned (give or take) and 2.93 miles traveled for 45 minutes with an average pace of 15.21. I was at the 5000+ mark for steps when I got home but was so riled up by gym lady that I opted to walk some more so I'm resting comfortably at 8673 steps so far today, with the bulk of the day to go still. It's going to be a very nice number by day's end, which is good because I was a loaf yesterday and only got 5219 steps in the whole day. My step goals are at least 10,000 for the whole day, which is usually manageable except when I faceplant myself into Netflix and don't come up for air except for meals, which I may or may not have done yesterday.

:blink:

[Orema]

GM, for me there's almost nothing worse than feeling dizzy. Its a problem I had since I was a child till I started taking blood pressure medicine. I hope you're not going too fast, too, but I'm happy for your progress.

Good on you, Gemme, for reporting the violator. Hopefully she'll get the message if enough people remind her of the consequences ... and congrats on the steps, especially those taken in frustration.

This was an okay week for cycling. Most days were nice and easy with a couple strenuous days in between. A good week is when I have more strenuous days than easy-peasy days. At least that's my standard this week.

This week on exercise bike:

– 31.4 miles
– 2.4 hours
– 710 Arm rolls

Still have a small pain in the shoulder but it's improving slowly. Hoping I feel no pain in the shoulder by the end of the year. We'll see.

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

So, this afternoon, the owner of the gym called me and we chatted for a while. I like her and we have a lot in common so it was a pleasant talk. She's going to call the woman, who is the GF of the man she came in with, but said that she's been warned before.

Apparently, some of the other franchises aren't requiring masks, which is breaking a state mandate, and the users are getting away with murder. Maybe literally.

Our official "pause" begins in a few minutes and carries through 2 full weeks in an effort to curb testing spikes after Thanksgiving and to reduce the likelihood of another shut down.

Given that it's going to be two weeks until I can get into the gym again (unless I pay a month's fee for one 30 minute training session, which is allowed as long as it's one on one and the gym is cleaned before and after each person...and mama ain't gonna do that), I opted to have a second workout tonight. I went around 9pm and did the same amount of time as I did this morning on the elliptical. No rebounder this time. I was alone for the first half of the workout but then a few people came in so I just left after it was done.

A long time ago, I read that exercisers perform better in the evenings than in the mornings. I've never liked working out at night and kind of poo poo'ed that study but sure enough....my two workouts today prove it to be right.

Tonight's workout: 384 calories burned, 3.13 miles, 45 minutes and an average pace of 14.22. All of this even with a less satisfying and enjoyable music experience. They must change the style of music according to when it is during the day because this morning was hyped up club and dance music and this evening was Top 40 kind of stuff that I wasn't jamming to at all.

Weird.

Anyway, it could be that I had more sustenance in me at day's end. In the morning, I just had a banana with a schmear of reduced fat peanut butter. I'm going to go with that theory for now.

All in all, my pedometer says I went 23,531 steps today minus my shower time, when I don't wear the pedometer, and any side or backward movements, which are not logged. According to the pedometer, I have gone 7.42 miles today and have burned approximately 1494.1 calories in addition to those that are automatically burned for just existing. I'm happy with this. I think this is my largest number of steps to date. The follow up was election night. I think I got 22,000 and change. I'll have to double check to see but I'm not walking in the next 5 minutes so my figure for today stands.

[Orema]

This week on exercise bike:

– 35.2 miles
– 2.51 hours
– 510 Arm rolls

Shoulder is acting up again. I think it's inflamed from the gluten and sugar I ate on Thankgiving. That's alright. I'll get those numbers up when the shoulder is better.

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[Gemme]

I've been doing well lately. I'm officially down 27lbs. I thoroughly enjoy my evening walks and went out tonight, even with the wind and snow storm. It was starting to peter out anyway.

[Orema]

I've been doing well lately. I'm officially down 27lbs. I thoroughly enjoy my evening walks and went out tonight, even with the wind and snow storm. It was starting to peter out anyway.

Wow. Congrat’s, Gemme. You have been doing well! And I can feel the cold just reading your post. Brrrrrrrr.

At some point, please let me know if you’re substituting sugar or just decreasing it. If you’re substituting, would love to know what you’re using. I’m using a granulated and powered Monk Fruit blend that I like.

[Kelt]

I've been doing well lately. I'm officially down 27lbs. I thoroughly enjoy my evening walks and went out tonight, even with the wind and snow storm. It was starting to peter out anyway.

Congratulations!!

:cheer::thumbsup::cheer:

[Gemme]

Wow. Congrat’s, Gemme. You have been doing well! And I can feel the cold just reading your post. Brrrrrrrr.

At some point, please let me know if you’re substituting sugar or just decreasing it. If you’re substituting, would love to know what you’re using. I’m using a granulated and powered Monk Fruit blend that I like.

I'm just decreasing what I used to ingest but to be honest, I ate WAAAAAAY too much sugar. Women should have 25 grams or 6 teaspoons of sugar per day, total. Even now, with me paring down what I eat that is sweet, I'm over that figure but I've decreased my total sugar consumption by more than 2/3rds if that gives you any idea of how much crap I was eating daily.

Before, I "had" to have something sweet....dessert....every night and I did. Root beer barrels, ice cream, gummy bears.....you name it. And my portions were out of control....huge. Not everyone knows that sugar increases the appetite so the more you eat of it, the more you want. This is especially true for HFCS. That stuff is addictive and it's in everything just about.

Now, I still have dessert but instead of crap, I opt for naturally sweet things. Halos, honey crisp apples, prunes, tomatoes, blueberries and so on. The less of the sweet stuff I ate, the more sweet the natural stuff tastes as my taste buds adapt. I don't add sugar to anything so the sugar I eat is already in the food or drink.

You asked for cliff notes and I gave you an essay but I hope that helps!

I just came in from my walk tonight and I feel great. It's 30 degrees outside but feels like 22 with the wind chill. I prefer to go out with my face uncovered and by the time I come in, my cheeks are stinging but not in a bad way. I like the feeling and also the feeling of slight pins and needles in my cheeks as my skin warms up when I get back inside. I do not like the feeling when my thighs start to sting though as the cold penetrates my jeans. Stinging thighs mean it's time to come in, whether I am ready to or not. I still got a good walk in; about 2 miles.

Yesterday's "bomb" snowstorm was kind of crazy. First, it rained ALL day long....some places got 4 inches! Then it transitioned over to snow, which mixed with the rain to make frigid slush and not the kind that's fun to eat. Then the rain came back and then some snow by itself and then rain again and then it stopped. So, I got a bit of a workout last night at the end of work as I had to shovel the sidewalks and clear a path so people could get onto the property without slipping or falling. I wound up getting in 9970 steps yesterday. I would have walked around the living room or something to get to an even 10,000 but I got caught up in a trash TV show on Netflix and lost track of time before my pedometer clicked over at midnight.

Today was bananas at work. It was only a half day but I got in 10,000 steps in less than 5 hours. I did a lot of cleaning so I was up and down the step ladder and then I had to go salt and shovel the ice on about 20% of a 2 acre property leftover from yesterday's storm. We only got up to the mid-30s but it was sunny so the the snow on the roofs melted and the downspouts were shooting water out all day and making a mess. Tomorrow's going to be worse because the water on the ground that's spread out will freeze and it's all black ice. Luckily, most of my customers either wait for it to warm up during the day or are comfortable and knowledgeable on icy pathways but not all. All it takes is one lawsuit.

So far tonight I'm at 17,004 steps but I still have an hour or two before bed so I'll get more in before it's all said and done.

[Orema]

I'm just decreasing what I used to ingest but to be honest, I ate WAAAAAAY too much sugar. Women should have 25 grams or 6 teaspoons of sugar per day, total. Even now, with me paring down what I eat that is sweet, I'm over that figure but I've decreased my total sugar consumption by more than 2/3rds if that gives you any idea of how much crap I was eating daily.

Before, I "had" to have something sweet....dessert....every night and I did. Root beer barrels, ice cream, gummy bears.....you name it. And my portions were out of control....huge. Not everyone knows that sugar increases the appetite so the more you eat of it, the more you want. This is especially true for HFCS. That stuff is addictive and it's in everything just about.

Now, I still have dessert but instead of crap, I opt for naturally sweet things. Halos, honey crisp apples, prunes, tomatoes, blueberries and so on. The less of the sweet stuff I ate, the more sweet the natural stuff tastes as my taste buds adapt. I don't add sugar to anything so the sugar I eat is already in the food or drink.

You asked for cliff notes and I gave you an essay but I hope that helps!

I just came in from my walk tonight and I feel great. It's 30 degrees outside but feels like 22 with the wind chill. I prefer to go out with my face uncovered and by the time I come in, my cheeks are stinging but not in a bad way. I like the feeling and also the feeling of slight pins and needles in my cheeks as my skin warms up when I get back inside. I do not like the feeling when my thighs start to sting though as the cold penetrates my jeans. Stinging thighs mean it's time to come in, whether I am ready to or not. I still got a good walk in; about 2 miles.

Yesterday's "bomb" snowstorm was kind of crazy. First, it rained ALL day long....some places got 4 inches! Then it transitioned over to snow, which mixed with the rain to make frigid slush and not the kind that's fun to eat. Then the rain came back and then some snow by itself and then rain again and then it stopped. So, I got a bit of a workout last night at the end of work as I had to shovel the sidewalks and clear a path so people could get onto the property without slipping or falling. I wound up getting in 9970 steps yesterday. I would have walked around the living room or something to get to an even 10,000 but I got caught up in a trash TV show on Netflix and lost track of time before my pedometer clicked over at midnight.

Today was bananas at work. It was only a half day but I got in 10,000 steps in less than 5 hours. I did a lot of cleaning so I was up and down the step ladder and then I had to go salt and shovel the ice on about 20% of a 2 acre property leftover from yesterday's storm. We only got up to the mid-30s but it was sunny so the the snow on the roofs melted and the downspouts were shooting water out all day and making a mess. Tomorrow's going to be worse because the water on the ground that's spread out will freeze and it's all black ice. Luckily, most of my customers either wait for it to warm up during the day or are comfortable and knowledgeable on icy pathways but not all. All it takes is one lawsuit.

So far tonight I'm at 17,004 steps but I still have an hour or two before bed so I'll get more in before it's all said and done.

I understand. I used to eat a lot of sugar, too. Congrat’s on breaking free, Gemme. I need some sweets in my diet, too, and the low-carb foods I bake help me stay on track. I’ve also found good substitutes for sugar and gluten.

And g’on girl with those steps! 17K is outstanding! And your “essay” posts are informative and fun to read.

I’ll ride the exercise bike later this morning but will not do any arm rolls. I need to be kind to my shoulder for awhile.

[Orema]

11 Minutes of Exercise a Day May Help Counter the Effects of Sitting

The sweet spot for physical activity and longevity seemed to arrive at about 35 minutes a day of brisk walking or other moderate activities.

By Gretchen Reynolds
Dec. 2, 2020

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Walking for at least 11 minutes a day could lessen the undesirable health consequences of sitting for hours and hours, according to a helpful new study of the ways in which both inactivity and exercise influence how long we live. The study, which relied on objective data from tens of thousands of people about how they spent their days, found that those who were the most sedentary faced a high risk of dying young, but if people got up and moved, they slashed that threat substantially, even if they did not move much.

For most of us, sitting for prolonged periods of time is common, especially now, as we face the dual challenges of Covid-related restrictions and the shortening, chilly days of winter. Recent surveys of people’s behavior since the start of the pandemic indicate that a majority of us are exercising less and sitting more than we were a year ago.

Not surprisingly, there could be long-term health consequences from this physical quietude. Multiple past epidemiological studies show links between sitting and mortality. In general, in these studies, couchbound people are far more likely to die prematurely than active people are.

But how active an active person should be if he or she hopes to mitigate the downsides of sitting has remained unclear. If you sit for eight hours at work, for instance, then stroll for half an hour in the evening — meaning you comply with the standard exercise recommendation of about 30 minutes of exercise most days — is that enough movement to undo most of the health risks of too much sitting?

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Some past research had suggested the answer is no. A 2016 study involving more than a million people found, instead, that men and women needed to exercise moderately for about 60 to 75 minutes a day in order to diminish the undesirable effects of sitting.

That study, though, like most similar, earlier research, asked people to remember how much they had moved or sat, which can be problematic. We tend to be unreliable narrators of our lives, overestimating physical activity and underestimating how much we sit. But if large numbers of people misremember this way, the paradoxical result is that exercise looks less potent than it is, since the studies’ “active” people appear to have needed plenty of exercise to gain health benefits, when the objective amount of exercise they actually completed was less, and this smaller amount produced the gains.

So, for the new study, which was published last week in a special issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine devoted to the World Health Organization’s updated physical activity guidelines and related research, many of the authors of the 2016 review decided to, in effect, repeat that earlier research and analysis, but, this time, use data from people who had worn activity monitors to objectively track how much they moved and sat.

The scientists wound up gathering results from nine recent studies in which almost 50,000 men and women wore accelerometers. These studies’ volunteers were middle-aged or older and lived in Europe or the United States. Combining and collating the nine studies’ data, the scientists found that most of the volunteers sat a lot, averaging close to 10 hours a day, and many barely moved, exercising moderately, usually by walking, for as little as two or three minutes a day.

The researchers then checked death registries for about a decade after people had joined their respective studies and started comparing lifestyles and life spans. Dividing people into thirds, based on how much they moved and sat, the researchers found, to no one’s surprise, that being extremely sedentary was hazardous, with people in the top third for sitting and bottom third for activity having about 260 percent more likelihood of premature death than the men and women who moved the most and sat the least. (The researchers controlled for smoking, body mass and other factors that might have influenced the results.)

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Other combinations of time spent sitting and moving were less alarming, though, and even heartening. People in the middle third for activity, who exercised moderately for about 11 minutes a day, were significantly less likely to have died prematurely than people who moved less, even if all of them belonged to the group that also sat the most.

Crunching the numbers further, the researchers concluded that the sweet spot for physical activity and longevity seemed to arrive at about 35 minutes a day of brisk walking or other moderate activities, an amount that led to the greatest statistical improvement in life span, no matter how many hours someone sat.

Of course, this study was observational and does not prove that exercise caused people to live longer, only that physical activity, sitting and mortality were linked.

But the results strongly suggest that if we sit all day, as so many of us do, we should aim, too, to get up and move, says Ulf Ekelund, a professor of epidemiology and physical activity at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, Norway, who led the new study. “Brisk walking is excellent moderate exercise,” he says, and, in half-hour stints — or even less — might help to lengthen our lives.

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To be thread compliant: I will ride 5 miles on exercise bike later this morning.

[Kelt]

I'm glad they redid the study with better data. Subjective memory is usually wrong. We can look forward to more and better studies with so many wearing tracking devices. I have noticed that my watch, which I wear whether or not I'm paying attention to it, shows my step counts down a lot since last year with the shut downs. I will be glad when life can get back to semi-normal.

[Orema]

This week on exercise bike:

– 35 miles
– 2.63 hours
– 20 Arm rolls

Shoulder is better and will start slowly adding on arm rolls.

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[GeorgiaMa'am]

In addition to PT, I have made it up and down the stairs 3 x a day for the past two days!

[Gemme]

There's no stopping you now, Georgia!

I've been doing pretty good myself. Last night's count came to 13,330 steps. Tonight, I'm only at 7543 so far. It rained nearly all day so I had substantially less opportunity to get out and about during the day. I'll go for a walk tonight but won't hit such a high mark two nights in a row.

[Orema]

Had a good workout this morning. Stayed with the beat of all music.

I like doing a little upper body workout but have shut down the arm rolls. Need to let my shoulder fully heal. Maybe it will be good by the end of the year. It's feeling better than it has in weeks, I know I could easily do 60 or more arm rolls, but I'm not going to rush it. No arm rolls till the beginning of the year, if then.

In the meantime, I bought a resistance band with handles (and a door thingy) and it's working well. Have found some videos like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5zLkDD8scM) at youtube and am just focusing on biceps and triceps. Nothing that affects the shoulder.

Today I rode:

– 5 miles
– 21 minutes
– 40 curls (20 each arm)

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[easygoingfemme]

Shoveling and shoveling and shoveling oh and some more shoveling.

[Gemme]

I think easy and I are on the same workout program right now. I shoveled 'til the cows came home and the front porchlight came on. 16,050 steps for the day. Boy, are my dogs barking.

[easygoingfemme]

I think easy and I are on the same workout program right now. I shoveled 'til the cows came home and the front porchlight came on. 16,050 steps for the day. Boy, are my dogs barking.

Seriously. And the upper body from using a snow rake to clear the roof. Jeeze louise. I feel like I should have woken up ripped but I just feel sore and old. :seeingstars:

[Gemme]

Seriously. And the upper body from using a snow rake to clear the roof. Jeeze louise. I feel like I should have woken up ripped but I just feel sore and old. :seeingstars:

No rake for me but I did have to take a shovel to a couple of metal awnings to drag the stuff down. It's weird; as I'm doing it, my back hurts but later on, it's all about the shoulders.

Today was a bigger movement day than yesterday, believe it or not. 17,572 steps so far with more than an hour to go before my reset.

[Orema]

This week I rode:

– 35.8 miles
– 2.75 hours
– 200 curls

Had a good exercise this morning. Did a cardio workout on the bike. That's the hardest for me but the one I enjoy the most.


For the cardio workout my speed is between 14 and 16 mph with no tension.
For the muscle building workout my speed is between 10 and 13 mph with tension at 2 or 3 (4 if I'm feeling game).
For the "just get your behind on the bike" workout my speed is between 5 and 9 mph with no tension and with the Price is Right on the screen.


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[Gemme]

I was busy the whole time I was at work but the numbers don't show it since I did a lot of scraping and mopping and my pedometer doesn't record backwards steps. It's only showing a little over 6000 steps now.

[Cin]

I was busy the whole time I was at work but the numbers don't show it since I did a lot of scraping and mopping and my pedometer doesn't record backwards steps. It's only showing a little over 6000 steps now.

Speaking of pedometers and yours specifically, it's the best pedometer ever. I bought it back when you talked about it on this thread. I love it. I have loved it since I first started using it. It doesn't have fancy bells and whistles but it is affordable and the most accurate I've ever owned. Thanks for the tip.

If anyone is looking for an easy to use, accurate pedometer that you can wear or carry on your person easily or put it around your neck for easy access this one can't be beat. Gemme spoke about it on pg 238 of this exercise thread post#4756. It would make a nice stocking stuffer.

I love it. Thanks Gemme.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Speaking of pedometers and yours specifically, it's the best pedometer ever. I bought it back when you talked about it on this thread. I love it. I have loved it since I first started using it. It doesn't have fancy bells and whistles but it is affordable and the most accurate I've ever owned. Thanks for the tip.

If anyone is looking for an easy to use, accurate pedometer that you can wear or carry on your person easily or put it around your neck for easy access this one can't be beat. Gemme spoke about it on pg 238 of this exercise thread post#4756. It would make a nice stocking stuffer.

I love it. Thanks Gemme.

I bought the 3DTrisport pedometer on Gemme's recommendation too. It is a really good one! It's much more accurate than my Fitbit was (due to the fact that I use a rollator).

Thank you, Gemme!

[Gemme]

Speaking of pedometers and yours specifically, it's the best pedometer ever. I bought it back when you talked about it on this thread. I love it. I have loved it since I first started using it. It doesn't have fancy bells and whistles but it is affordable and the most accurate I've ever owned. Thanks for the tip.

If anyone is looking for an easy to use, accurate pedometer that you can wear or carry on your person easily or put it around your neck for easy access this one can't be beat. Gemme spoke about it on pg 238 of this exercise thread post#4756. It would make a nice stocking stuffer.

I love it. Thanks Gemme.

I bought the 3DTrisport pedometer on Gemme's recommendation too. It is a really good one! It's much more accurate than my Fitbit was (due to the fact that I use a rollator).

Thank you, Gemme!

You are both very welcome. Thanks for the shout outs! I know tech is great and all but I get grimy and can't always carry my cell with me when I'm working but this sucker is small enough that I can slip it in a pocket or attach it to my shirt or pants and I'm good to go. Like you both said, it seems to be very accurate in terms of counts.

Currently, I'm about 15,200 steps into my day and about to rollover into a new one. My snow boots that I've been wearing the past few days aren't the best fit (too big) and my feet slide around even with super thick wool socks. Tonight, one of my ankles was rubbed raw and I now have a friction burn on it. No bueno. Looks like I'm back to sneaks tomorrow! That is bad for traction and good for fit. My tootsies will feel muuuch better and I'll be able to get more steps in. I'll just really need to watch the black ice.

I will say that I hit a patch of it as I was walking the night following the storm and I wobbled but I caught myself. I had a customer watching and he applauded. For my next trick...

[Orema]

This week I rode:

– 35.5 miles
– 2.63 hours
– 22 minutes of curls

Am using 5 lb hand weights along with the resistance band for the curls. I'm all over the place when curling with the hand weights (posture isn't good, elbows aren't at sides, etc. LOL), but it will improve with more practice.

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[Gemme]

Good day today! I walked lots during the work day and then another 6000+ steps tonight on my walk. Currently, I'm at 16,025 steps for the day. That gives me, according to my pedometer, approximately 1000 more calories burned than I would have without all that walking, which is good because that's probably what I ate in chips tonight.

:blink:

[Gemme]

Yesterday was 11,944 steps. If I had realized how close to 12,000 I was before midnight, I would have walked around the living room a couple of times.

I'm at 10,527 now and I know I need to go out and at least do a quick once around but I don't feel like it. I've been a wee bit short on sleep a few nights lately and I think it's catching up with me. Or it could be the 55-60 hour work weeks but I'm not complaining about that. That is going to help me pay off a good sized bill and finish paying off my car repairs from earlier in the month. Nope, no complaints here. :blink:

You know, I think it's one of my customers. She's an emotional vampire and I always feel drained after a major connection with her. Well, any connection more than her running in to use the bathroom is draining. Today, I spent about an hour with her. Yes, that must be it. It's been a long time since I spent that much time with her.

So, physical health. Check!
Psychological and emotional health. Eh.

[Orema]

Last week I rode:

– 35.2 miles
– 2.65 hours
– 52 minutes curls
– 60 arm rolls

Had an okay workout this morning. Still experimenting with the curls. Incorporated the arm rolls and the shoulder is better.

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[Gemme]

16,033 steps so far today and since I'm settled in my chair and there's less than half an hour until midnight, I'll wager that that is going to be my final tally for the day. It's just a wee bit over 5 miles and helped me burn an additional 1000 plus calories.

[Orema]

Had a decent cardio workout this morning on exercise bike.

– Rode 5 miles in 21m 15s
– 4m of curls with hand weights
– 100 arm rolls

I have osteoarthritis in my shoulder and it flared up last fall. I thought the pain was from an old injury but it's osteoarthritis. It's better now but I need to go easy. Think I'll cut back on the arm rolls. I'll play it by ear.

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[Gemme]

No extra walking today but I'm still at 10,739 steps, which is not too shabby.

[Orema]

Had an okay cardio/muscle workout while watching Dr. Oz on Pluto TV. Didn't do the cardio workout as much as I wanted, but that's okay.

– Rode 5 miles in 24m 46s
– 4m of curls with hand weights
– 100 arm rolls
– 5 crunches

This morning I used the video below as a guide on crunches.

GWIEON0VSaY

But getting on and off the floor is murder on my delicate knees. So I'm going try doing crunches in bed. I found the video below and am going to give this a try soon.

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[Gemme]

14,260 steps right now. I got home and ate very late and I inevitably ate too much so now I feel blah. Not my best moment but still good steps for the day.

[Orema]

Had a nice cardio workout while listening to Motown and watching m'boy Horatio.

– Rode 5 miles in 21m 46s
– 4m of curls with hand weights
– 4m of curls with resistance band
– 100 arm rolls
– 2 crunches, if that.

Again I was all over the place with the crunches. On the bed is easier than the floor, but I think I'm gonna forget about the crunches for now. I'm doing well with the bike riding, curls, and arm rolls. Maybe I'll pick up the crunches again after I move. We'll see.

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[Gemme]

So far, I'm a little over 13,000 steps today but I'll tinker around the apartment and I do want to get out for a short walk. It's cold but dry so it's nice walking weather as long as I can keep my hands warm.

[Orema]

Had another good cardio workout this morning while listing to Biggie and watching a film on James Baldwin for free at TubiTv.com.

– Rode 5 miles in 21m 05s
– 4m of curls with hand weights
– 4m of curls with resistance band
– 100 arm rolls
– 5 crunches on the bed

Yesterday on my way out, I met a trainer who lives across the way and she showed me some leg lifts that I can do in bed that will strengthen my lower abdomen. (I had surgery ages ago and it left my lower abdomen on the weak side.) She also gave me some puzzle pads to make it easier for me to get on and off the floor. Anyway I'll do these for now in bed and will try the floor another time.

JB2oyawG9KI

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[Gemme]

I had a good walk last night. Tonight too but my updated stats for last night are: 17,507 steps, 5.52 miles and 1111.2 additional calories burned.

Tonight was BEEEE-utiful! The sky is jet black, crisp and clear and the stars are all out and shining like diamonds in the sky. Maybe it was a night like this that provided the inspiration for RiRi's song.

I had a super busy but limited movement day at work. Basically, I was trapped in the office and at my desk for nearly the whole day so my steps are less than I wanted but still pretty decent because of my walk tonight. So far, I'm at 11,285 steps, 3.55 miles and 716.3 additional calories burned.

[Gemme]

Last night's final tally was 1,415 steps. I'm at 12,183 so far and am about to go do a quick walk before setting down and getting ready for bed.

[homoe]

Had another good cardio workout this morning while listing to Biggie and watching a film on James Baldwin for free at TubiTv.com.

– Rode 5 miles in 21m 05s
– 4m of curls with hand weights
– 4m of curls with resistance band
– 100 arm rolls
– 5 crunches on the bed

Yesterday on my way out, I met a trainer who lives across the way and she showed me some leg lifts that I can do in bed that will strengthen my lower abdomen. (I had surgery ages ago and it left my lower abdomen on the weak side.) She also gave me some puzzle pads to make it easier for me to get on and off the floor. Anyway I'll do these for now in bed and will try the floor another time.

JB2oyawG9KI

:fastcycling:

This does indeed sound like an excellent workout!

Now just think if you do re-locate to a region with a high volume of snow fall, how easily you'll be able to incorporate hoisting shovel after shovel into your workout schedule...

[Orema]

This does indeed sound like an excellent workout!

Now just think if you do re-locate to a region with a high volume of snow fall, how easily you'll be able to incorporate hoisting shovel after shovel into your workout schedule...

I don't think so, homoe! but this does remind me that I need to contact Gemme for more information on portable or compact snow blowers.

Had a good cardio workout this morning. Maintained speed at 16.5 for awhile.

– Rode 5 miles in 20m 57s
– 4m of curls with hand weights
– 50 arm rolls

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[Gemme]

I'm here for ya, Orema!

Today's count so far is 12,548 at nearly 4 miles walked and almost 800 extra calories burned. Last night hit 15,427 steps.

[Orema]

I'm here for ya, Orema!

Today's count so far is 12,548 at nearly 4 miles walked and almost 800 extra calories burned. Last night hit 15,427 steps.

Congrat's on those big numbers, sole-steppin' sista! And thank you, I'll reach out soon.

Had a good cardio workout this morning. Didn't take any tylenol.

– Rode 5 miles in 21m 20s
– 2m of curls with hand weights
– 30 arm rolls
– 5 bed crunches

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[Gemme]

Last night wound up being 12,703 steps. Tonight, I'm a smidge higher at 13,000 steps, a little over 4 miles and 824.2 extra calories burned. Not a bad day at all.

[Gemme]

It's going to be a slow step day for me tomorrow. Torrential rain for at least half the day so I won't be outside much. Given that, I decided to get as much as in a humanly possible today and I'm at 20,137 steps now, 6.35 miles walked and 1278.2 extra calories burned.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

I'm really getting up and down the stairs now! I still have to do it one step at a time - put both feet on one step, then consecutively move both feet down (or up) to the next step. But I don't have to stop and rest, I'm not breathing hard when I get to the top of the stairs, and I have haven't gotten dizzy in a couple of weeks.

[Orema]

I'm really getting up and down the stairs now! I still have to do it one step at a time - put both feet on one step, then consecutively move both feet down (or up) to the next step. But I don't have to stop and rest, I'm not breathing hard when I get to the top of the stairs, and I have haven't gotten dizzy in a couple of weeks.

Good on you, GeorgiaMa'am. That sounds like good progress to me. Hope it gets easier. :thumbsup:

Had a good workout this morning and this week was a really good week because I did a full cardio workout each day. Here are my numbers for the week:

– Rode 35.1 miles in 2.5 hrs
– 34m of curls with hand weights
– 460 arm rolls
– 23 crunches on the bed

Would like to do a cardio workout each day till I move. We'll see.

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[Gemme]

Way to go, Georgia!

Yesterday, I wound up with 20,251 since it was close to bedtime when I posted last. As it turns out, I found a ton of stuff to do today inside as well as going shopping after work so I am at 18,747 steps right now. That's 5.91 miles and it gives me an extra 1189.9 calories burned. Yippee.

[Gemme]

Hellooooo, exercisers!

Last night's tally was 19,183 steps. I wound up going to Wally World and that helped rack them up.

Tonight, it's a smaller figure. I did housework this morning but it's only a half day at work on Sundays so I'm sitting at 9468 steps right now. I'm taking a short walk tonight so it'll probably only get to 11,000 steps. The trade off is that I'll get more sleep and that is a good thing.

[Gemme]

Last night's tally was 11,793 steps. Tonight, I'm at 10,878 so far, which is just under 3 and a half miles of walking and gives me an extra 690 calories to play with. I still have a walk to do as well.

[Orema]

Had a good cardio workout this morning and a pretty good week. Most days were cardio workouts except for inauguration day when I spoke to a buddy while mindlessly riding and watching the ceremonies.

Numbers for this week are:

– Rode 35.2 miles in 2.23 hrs
– 34m of curls with hand weights
– 370 arm rolls
– 0 crunches on the bed

I cut out the crunches last week but may add them. I was thinking the crunches were making me even hungrier than I already am, but that was just wishful thinking. I haven't gained, but haven't loss. I can work with that.

Hope y'all have some good exercise days.

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[homoe]

Had a good cardio workout this morning and a pretty good week. Most days were cardio workouts except for inauguration day when I spoke to a buddy while mindlessly riding and watching the ceremonies.

Numbers for this week are:

– Rode 35.2 miles in 2.23 hrs
– 34m of curls with hand weights
– 370 arm rolls
– 0 crunches on the bed

I cut out the crunches last week but may add them. I was thinking the crunches were making me even hungrier than I already am, but that was just wishful thinking. I haven't gained, but haven't loss. I can work with that.

Hope y'all have some good exercise days.

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Shoveling snow strengthens your shoulders, arms, back, core and legs. Plus, the experts at Harvard Medical School said it burns between 180 and 266 calories per half hour.

Now considering those brutal storms Michigan gets, you could end up being a shadow of your former self say in a day or two!

[Orema]

Shoveling snow strengthens your shoulders, arms, back, core and legs. Plus, the experts at Harvard Medical School said it burns between 180 and 266 calories per half hour.

Now considering those brutal storms Michigan gets, you could end up being a shadow of your former self say in a day or two!

The only thing I have to clear is my deck. They shovel the snow in the driveway, I think.

:praying:

[Gemme]

Well, I get to shovel Wednesday morning. There's a slow moving storm moving through Tuesday night and through noon-ish on Wednesday. It won't have a lot of inches but they will be wet, squishy inches and that'll be murder on the ole back.

I do get to try to my new baby snow blower though. Got it just after the last storm, thanks to slow December deliveries. Either way, I'll be burning some calories for sure!

Good news on the weight loss front; I am just a teeny tiny hair under 40lbs lost! A couple more days and I should have it officially.

*happy dance*

[Orema]

Well, I get to shovel Wednesday morning. There's a slow moving storm moving through Tuesday night and through noon-ish on Wednesday. It won't have a lot of inches but they will be wet, squishy inches and that'll be murder on the ole back.

I do get to try to my new baby snow blower though. Got it just after the last storm, thanks to slow December deliveries. Either way, I'll be burning some calories for sure!

Good news on the weight loss front; I am just a teeny tiny hair under 40lbs lost! A couple more days and I should have it officially.

*happy dance*

Way to go, Gemme! Happy, happy! I'm a bit stuck in my weight loss but I'm doing good as long as I continue to exercise, don't gain any weight, and don't kill anyone. So far, so good.

But, burning calories? I thought you just held the thing and the snow blower did all the work. Hmmm.

Had a good cardio workout this morning on the bike with curls and arm rolls and am feeling good.

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[homoe]

The only thing I have to clear is my deck. They shovel the snow in the driveway, I think.

:praying:

You crack me up woman! Yes in a perfect world one would be home safe and sound when a storm strikes BUT as we know this is not a perfect world...:giggle:

Now granted I haven't lived in Michigan since 1976 but as I recall some of the worst storms were never even forecasted, they just arrived unannounced especially those surrounding the great lake regions....:cold:

[homoe]

Way to go, Gemme! Happy, happy! I'm a bit stuck in my weight loss but I'm doing good as long as I continue to exercise, don't gain any weight, and don't kill anyone. So far, so good.

But, burning calories? I thought you just held the thing and the snow blower did all the work. Hmmm.

Had a good cardio workout this morning on the bike with curls and arm rolls and am feeling good.

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https://nation.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2013/05/01-ap819839829746_2.jpg?w=661

It takes a bit of elbow grease when it comes to jostling a snow blower!

[Gemme]

Way to go, Gemme! Happy, happy! I'm a bit stuck in my weight loss but I'm doing good as long as I continue to exercise, don't gain any weight, and don't kill anyone. So far, so good.

But, burning calories? I thought you just held the thing and the snow blower did all the work. Hmmm.

Had a good cardio workout this morning on the bike with curls and arm rolls and am feeling good.

:fastcycling:

The calorie burn came from the hours of shoveling by hand that I did this morning. Enough so that my shoulders and arms have been crying since lunch time and my bracing hand has a friction abrasion on my palm. My fault for not wearing gloves but it was 30 degrees and I was hot. Every shovel full weighed an average of 5 lbs I'd say, plus lifting and chucking each shovel full of snow several hundred times each hour. Eventually, I was so tired, I was just pushing a path of snow and slush but after a few feet, that would get heavy too, so I had to brace the handle against my belly and drive it forward. That was another hundred times or so. Full body workout!

Don't worry; you'll get to do it too in Michigan. Maybe not for hours but shoveling heavy, wet snow is one helluva workout.

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It takes a bit of elbow grease when it comes to jostling a snow blower!

That's normally true. Sadly, I got a wee baby one that's really only good for light, fluffy snow on the sidewalks. I've been begging my boss for a snow blower for years now and now that my store has more freedom ordering things online, I opted to get something versus the nothing I had. He never would have approved for the one I wanted, which would have blasted through the whole property like nobody's business and was the size of a Pinto.

Instead, I got this (https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Joe-iON18SB-Cordless-Brushless/dp/B00E3OXF6A). It came in a kit and I put it together! It's cute and pretty worthless on days like today. I spent more time cleaning the slush from the chute than I did running the thing.

[Orema]

[SIZ E="3"]The calorie burn came from the hours of shoveling by hand that I did this morning. Enough so that my shoulders and arms have been crying since lunch time and my bracing hand has a friction abrasion on my palm. My fault for not wearing gloves but it was 30 degrees and I was hot. Every shovel full weighed an average of 5 lbs I'd say, plus lifting and chucking each shovel full of snow several hundred times each hour. Eventually, I was so tired, I was just pushing a path of snow and slush but after a few feet, that would get heavy too, so I had to brace the handle against my belly and drive it forward. That was another hundred times or so. Full body workout!

Don't worry; you'll get to do it too in Michigan. Maybe not for hours but shoveling heavy, wet snow is one helluva workout.[/SIZE]



That's normally true. Sadly, I got a wee baby one that's really only good for light, fluffy snow on the sidewalks. I've been begging my boss for a snow blower for years now and now that my store has more freedom ordering things online, I opted to get something versus the nothing I had. He never would have approved for the one I wanted, which would have blasted through the whole property like nobody's business and was the size of a Pinto.

Instead, I got this (https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Joe-iON18SB-Cordless-Brushless/dp/B00E3OXF6A). It came in a kit and I put it together! It's cute and pretty worthless on days like today. I spent more time cleaning the slush from the chute than I did running the thing.

You certainly put in your exercise for the day. And thanks for showing me the snowblower you got. I'll get something similar after I get more info from you. Will do that once I move. And, if all else fails, I'll go to plan B: flip it and move elsewhere.

Had a nice workout this morning. Mixed cardio with muscle workout. Woke up with a minor headache and didn't want to do a full cardio workout.

– rode 5.2 miles for 24m 39s
– 100 arm rolls
– 4m curls with hand weights

Happy exercising.

:fastcycling:

[easygoingfemme]

I have started a walking group for the women who live in the building that I manage. They have been so cooped up between isolating and winter I wanted something to get them moving. We have a huge open gym on the third floor of the building so we could get a crew and spread out, masks on, and work out. We had a blast today. I set up a bit of an obstacle course with step aerobics steps for those who wanted a challenge and had a flat open walking track for those who just are walkers. Then I put on a Motown playlist to walk to. There were a couple women with walkers just slowly making their way around and than others who were choreographing dance moves and whooping it up. It was a blast. Everyone got a good workout. This is going to be a daily event at work now and it was really uplifting for everyone. Self included.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

I have started a walking group for the women who live in the building that I manage. They have been so cooped up between isolating and winter I wanted something to get them moving. We have a huge open gym on the third floor of the building so we could get a crew and spread out, masks on, and work out. We had a blast today. I set up a bit of an obstacle course with step aerobics steps for those who wanted a challenge and had a flat open walking track for those who just are walkers. Then I put on a Motown playlist to walk to. There were a couple women with walkers just slowly making their way around and than others who were choreographing dance moves and whooping it up. It was a blast. Everyone got a good workout. This is going to be a daily event at work now and it was really uplifting for everyone. Self included.

What a great idea! And who doesn't love Motown?

* * *

It's supposed to be sunny and beautiful here tomorrow - high of 54*F - so I'm going to get out with my rollator and walk up and down the driveway. I'm so tired of being in the house - it has been rainy and cold lately.

[Gemme]

We're going to be -10 degrees tomorrow, with wind chill, so my outside activities will be limited. -6 degrees the following night as well. Temps in the single digits all weekend long so I did as much walking outside as I could today. My back made it a little harder than normal. My arms and shoulders are fine now but it all moved down into my mid-back area so that's tender and has been all day.

10,250 steps so far. 3.23 miles walked. 650.8 extra calories burned. If I walked it all at once, it would take me 80 minutes to do it.

[Orema]

Had a good workout this morning and this week.

– Rode 35.4 miles for 2h 14m
– 28m of curls with hand weights
– 550 arm rolls

Looks like I'll only lose 2 lbs this month, 3 if I'm lucky. Still, slow progress is better than no progress.

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

Weather's a funny thing. It was 12 degrees when I walked my property at work this morning but I felt warm. Plenty of sunshine will do that. Cue to a few hours later, it's 23 degrees but less sun and more wind and it felt like 0 out there. Crazy how that works.

Anywho, I'm at 12,597 steps so far today. 3.97 miles, 799.4 extra calories and 89 minutes straight walking. Good times.

[Orema]

Had an okay workout this morning, an easy ride, nothing strenuous. This week's numbers are:

– Rode 35.5 miles for 3 hours
– 16m of curls with hand weights
– 300 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

[Kätzchen]

I finally got my front tire on the bicycle fixed and had fancy lights added to the spokes of both tires (so people will see me bicycling late in the evening hours).

Today is the first day I have rode my bicycle in quite awhile, but I biked my 13 mile route, with lots of hills, and it took me awhile to do it (2 hours or so). But I feel great after a lovely afternoon spent bicycling in the sunshine.

The past few weeks I have not worn my Fitbit smart watch, so I am going to start wearing it each time I go for a long bike ride and also wear it to work, so I can see if I am still matching my step count during work days.

Hope all of you are safe and well,
~K. :bunchflowers:

[Gemme]

I've been doing well with my steps. Still haven't made it back into the gym. Still leery. I think I'm going to go in double masked and that will help me feel more comfortable with going back.

Yesterday's steps: 17,150. 5.41 miles. 1089.0 extra calories burned. 139 minutes straight of walking.

[nycfem]

I haven't exercised for about six months. It got chilly and there was the pandemic and being overwhelmed with work.

I finally went out and exercised today! I brought my weights to the Dinosaur Playground at Riverside Park and set up shop there. I did 45 minutes of ground exercises (e.g. sit-ups and lying-down stretches) and weight lifting. I needed to take more recovery breaths between sets, but it felt good. The moment I felt myself laying on the astroturf feeling the sun on my face and my body stretched out - it was divine.

During that time of my exercise, a toddler kept walking up to me. You know how it is when a baby gets obsessed with you and it's awkward and unstoppable. That's what it was like. The mother kept saying its name which I couldn't really hear but it sounded like, "Paxton! Paxton!" Paxton kept smiling and run-wobbling towards me. I did an occasional eye contact and smile the way one does to indicate not being a bitch but also not wanting to have a play date. The mom was sitting on a bench texting and occasionally had to grab Paxton when they got to close to me. I felt proud for being more entertaining than I imagined.

I don't know why in the world I didn't exercise on the playground before. It makes so much sense. Duh.

Then I walked 10K steps. I'm on my spring break this week and April is about to start so I thought this would be a great time to finally get back to exercising.

I hope I can sustain it. I'm fully vaccinated but still wary of the gym. Since I like to work out hard in the gym it just sounds miserable wearing a mask and not wearing a mask, well, that's not ideal either. I really miss the gym but am glad it's getting warmer out.

I've missed you all. I feel like during the pandemic I've kind of gone into a state of being a catatonic worker. Always so much to do and sleep so off.

Here's to the spring, exercisers! We got this!

[nycfem]

Another great day exercising. I did 10K steps in the Park and 30 min of weights and ground exercises on the playground. The playground is working out so well.

I had one of the usual annoying middle-aged, fat girl moments where I was deep into my yoga-type stretching (on the astro turf) and so I'm doing deep breathing with my eyes closed in my perfect headspace and then I hear,

"Are you okay?"

"Are you okay?"

"Are you okay?"

The anticipated response is, "Help, I'm middle aged and fat and I can't get up!" Then the person could say, "Don't worry! I'll call 911! Don't move."

Instead I said, "Yes," in a neutral tone, as in "Yes, I'm okay." And she nodded, a youngish white woman. Her duty was done. In these instances, I really just want to get back to my workout which I time.

I'm wearing a sweat suit, and I have two dumbbells next to me. Maybe she didn't see them. Or they didn't count. It reminds me of being younger and getting asked all the time if I'm pregnant.

The other thing is I'm not on the ground for a long time. I do a routine where I'm jumping up and down a lot, so you have to catch me in a 30 second timeframe to worry about me on the astroturf.

I liked it better yesterday when the baby kept approaching me and needing to be reeled back in by the mom.

It's supposed to rain for the next two days, so I'm happy I got in these two days.

I spoke with someone on the phone today who told me it's better to do 10 minutes of exercise here and there. Does anyone know how many times I've heard this? My heart and soul have always liked a long intense workout. I'm not against throwing in the ten minute thing... but I'm just saying I have this told to me too often.

Last night I could not fall asleep even after getting tons of exercise early in the day, not having exercised at all in six months! I had to take a sleeping pill! So today I tried taking my medication at noon to see if that has any effect.

The sun felt so good today. I have a spot on the playground / astroturf away from the equipment obviously- that gets perfect sun, and I can look up at the trees swaying in the breeze. The trees are so tall- I feel like I'm amidst California Redwoods! They amaze me. I never think of trees as that tall, especially in New York City. But there they are, quietly being that tall.

Thanks for listening, and hope to hear of others ventures in exercise (and maybe some complaining to boot!).

[Kätzchen]

You've been missed greatly, nycfem, and your post made me smile because since I've have met you and know your voice, I could hear you in your own voice.

I don't know if I have any complaints to share about, exercise wise, but I can share than although I am 5 years post- work related accident, I am having what I think is deterioration of my right hip joint and a blown knee cap which never got the attention of my worker's comp physician. It's not worth complaining about, but I am worried that I will need to see an orthopedic doctor, which will lead to me needing to get a hip replacement and possibly a knee replacement too. Not afraid to do it, but afraid that I won't have the right kind of health insurance to cover the majority of the cost. I'm sure it will be more than I can afford. It's worrisome.

I am doing better at enduring bicycle rides. I can't cycle the way I did before when I rode 11 miles, in one hour, to get to work. But one of the interesting things about trying to bicycle to work now is that there are hardly any bicycle lanes for bicyclists, going into town from where I live now. LOL. Or not. If I could bicycle like I used to over 5 years ago, it would be no big deal, but I'm not the same as I was back then. I guess that might be a complaint, right?


Thanks for sharing tonight, nycfem. :tea:

[nycfem]

3 days in a row over my spring break of meeting my exercise goals. Today was another 10K steps in the park and a half hour of weight lifting & groud exercises on the playground.

Tomorrow I really need to take an unwanted break because I have so much catching up on paper work to do! Soooo sucks!

I want to just frolic in the forest! People manage to get their work done and not work over spring break but not me! I have a ton of shit to get done!

On a positive note, no one bothered me on the playground today. It was drizzling which helped. It was off-putting to families, that it seemed about to start to rain. But to me, it was just nice that it wasn't pouring :|

[FireSignFemme]

I went walking at a leisurely for about a mile and a half today.

[Orema]

Y’all inspired me to get on the bike this morning. Thank you!

I rode 4.0 miles in 20 mins

It was easier than I thought it would be. I watched one of my riding videos of the old neighborhood and had a nice ride.

One of my “assumed constraints” is to think I need to have a cardio workout each time I ride. I have to keep telling myself that I don’t need a good cardio workout every day. What I need most is to keep exercising my knees and everything else is icing on the cake for now.

I’ll add arm rolls and crunches soon enough.

:fastcycling:

[Orema]

Had a nice and easy ride this morning while watching the local news.

This week I slowly got back into the saddle by

– riding 27 miles for 1h 23m
– doing 360 arm rolls

And I managed to gain a couple pounds but it's been a weird week. It will all work out soon.

:fastcycling:

[Orema]

Had an okay ride this morning. Am in the process of changing my exercise playlist so the ride wasn't as smooth as usual.

This week I:

– rode 29.5 miles for 1h 4m
– did 160 arm rolls

This week's numbers are low compared to my numbers last year, but that's cool because every week doesn't have to have high numbers. I'm good as long as I have some numbers.

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

I'm still getting in tons of steps most days. Not yesterday, though. It snowed like the dickens out there so I stayed inside most of the day.

I'm in the middle of another plateau currently. I've ordered some home exercise equipment that I can use when I don't go to the gym, which is pretty much all the time now. I check the window when I pass by and it's far too crowded for my taste. Maybe soon.

Currently, I'm at 12,970 steps, 4.09 miles, 823.5 calories burned and 98 minutes of straight walking time.

[randrum]

I have been really bad about working out the last week or so because I've been so stressed at work. Today I made a priority to at least spend 20 minutes on my rowing machine.

I feel so much better. Just another reminder, that despite the stress, I need to take time to care for myself.

[Orema]

Had an okay ride this morning and a couple okay rides this week. I have some sore muscles from moving furniture and boxes and haven't been keen on riding.

This week I:

– rode 9.1 miles for 44m
– did 100 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

I've been doing well with my steps daily and I'm now teetering on the edge of 50lbs lost since September so that's made me a happy girl for sure.

[Orema]

I've been doing well with my steps daily and I'm now teetering on the edge of 50lbs lost since September so that's made me a happy girl for sure.

Way to go, Gemme, that's not an easy feat! Proud of you, happy for you, and inspired by you.

:cheer:

[Orema]

Had an okay ride this morning and some okay rides this week.

This week I:

– rode 15.2 miles for 73m
– did 50 arm rolls

I gained a few pounds and can feel it in my ride. That's okay. I'll get back on track soon.

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

Way to go, Gemme, that's not an easy feat! Proud of you, happy for you, and inspired by you.

:cheer:

Thanks! The 50 lb mark is being a little shy right now but I expect to greet it warmly soon.

Had an okay ride this morning and some okay rides this week.

This week I:

– rode 15.2 miles for 73m
– did 50 arm rolls

I gained a few pounds and can feel it in my ride. That's okay. I'll get back on track soon.

:fastcycling:

The most important thing is that you are still working it. I have a 5lb range that I slide up and down regularly so don't let a couple of sneaky pounds sway you. You got this!

I still haven't replaced the battery on my pedometer. The compartment requires a teeeeeeeny tiny Phillips head to open it up to get to the button lithium battery. If one came with the pedometer, I don't recall. It's been a year and a half on one battery so I don't think that's bad at all.

I'm still walking about the same amount daily; I just can't verify that for sure or gauge the distance and calorie usage.

[Orema]

Had an okay ride this morning to my slow music play list.

This week's numbers are:

– rode 20.9 miles for 1h 12m
– did 180 arm rolls

Hoping everyone has a good exercise week.

:fastcycling:

[Orema]

Had a good ride this morning to my medium-speed music play list. My high was 15.9 MPH.

Am still not enjoying riding as much as last year, but I think it'll be better after I settle in.

This week's numbers are:

– rode 25.2 miles for 1.9 hrs
– did 310 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

I finally got back into the gym and people are still idiots.

:blink:

Yesterday, I just did an easy breezy elliptical workout. 157 calories burned, 1.39 miles, 17:56 pace, 25 minutes.

Today, I pulled up some courses to watch and accidentally clocked my time for an hour so I decided what the Hell and let it ride. 431 calories burned, 3.97 miles, 16:20 pace, 65 minutes.

As if that wasn't enough, I went back to the incline bench and worked my abs for about 10 minutes. They are TIGHT right now, which means I'm in for a world of hurt when I wake up tomorrow.

My goal is to go tomorrow night too and get into a weekend warrior kind of thing. We'll see how it goes.

[easygoingfemme]

Had an okay ride this morning. Am in the process of changing my exercise playlist so the ride wasn't as smooth as usual.

This week I:

– rode 29.5 miles for 1h 4m
– did 160 arm rolls

This week's numbers are low compared to my numbers last year, but that's cool because every week doesn't have to have high numbers. I'm good as long as I have some numbers.

:fastcycling:

29.5 miles in an hour? Damn!


Yesterday I rode my bike 15 miles. Headed out shortly and shooting for 20.

[Orema]

29.5 miles in an hour? Damn!


Yesterday I rode my bike 15 miles. Headed out shortly and shooting for 20.

That was a miscalculation. Should have been appx 2hr for 30 miles. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Gemme]

The 16th wound up not being too bad for the abs but the 17th through the 19th? Oh, lawdy that hurt. I couldn't even stand up fully at one point. I murdered my upper abs just below my breast bone. Last night, it started to feel better and I have more flexibility in my movements so I'm good now. Next time, I'll focus more on my lower abs.

I still walk a ton at work and do a lot of short bursts at home, putzing around and tidying up, and I'm holding my weight. I've been plateaued for about 6 weeks now so I need to kick things up, which is why I went back to the gym. I can do Friday and Saturday nights there and know that it will be nearly empty (hence me having chosen those times) and maybe a couple other days a week too, but for shorter stints as there will be more people there and so many people don't mask up, which is ignorant.

Gyms are one of the top 5 places that exposure is the highest. People are sweating, breathing hard and huffing and puffing and getting their bodily fluids on the machines and equipment and not everyone wipes things down properly. I saw one guy literally casually brush the screen of a treadmill but not the buttons or the hand holds or side frames or anything else.

I also need to do something completely different so I got an at home kit with cables and whatnot. I'll let you all know how it goes.

[Happyfemme]

I was roller skating at the roller rink twice a week. It is great cardio and great for legs. I can't wait to get back to roller skating. The rink is open on a limited basis so the hours are not the usual just yet.

[Orema]

Had a good ride this morning while listening to a short story. This week I rode while listening to audio books at a slower speed for longer rides. Didn't do any cardio rides, but that's okay for now. Am slowly losing weight again, thank goodness.

This weeks numbers are:

– rode 31.1 miles for 2h 11m hrs
– no arm rolls, crunches, etc. will get to that later

:fastcycling:

[Orema]

Had a nice ride this morning while listening to a Walter Mosley audio book from hoopladigital.com. This weeks numbers are:

– rode 25 miles for 2h 23m

:fastcycling:

[homoe]

Had a nice ride this morning while listening to a Walter Mosley audio book from hoopladigital.com. This weeks numbers are:

– rode 25 miles for 2h 23m

:fastcycling:

If that were actual moving mobile time, 2 1/2 hours, you'd of been just about at the Mackinac Bridge...:fastcycling: but it's a double edge sword, if so it's mighty hard to resist temptation of stopping for a slab of that delicious famous fudge!

[Orema]

Had a good ride this morning and some good rides this week. Am listening to music again as I ride and have stepped up my game a bit though you can't tell in the numbers, but I can tell from my heart rate.

Here are my numbers for the week:

– Rode 21 miles for 1hr 43 minutes
– Did 60 arm rolls

Hoping everyone got in a few steps, pedals, booty-shakes or whatever y'all doing this week.

:fastcycling:

[Orema]

Had a very good ride this morning. Did a level 2 cardio workout. Current goal is to get to my level 1. Hopefully I'll do that this week.

Last week's numbers are:

– Rode 25 miles for 1hr 53 minutes
– Did 210 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

Way to go, Orema! I need desperately to get back into the gym. I started back but got stalled and now it's harder than ever to find the time but I need to just do the damn thing. I'm happy you've settled in nicely and are still plugging along.

Someone needs to keep this thread alive and until I get my stuff together again, it clearly ain't me. :|

[Kätzchen]

I had a super busy day at work. Then i had a pharmacy run to make after work. Walking, lots of it today. My legs and feet are on fire and they are throbbing. I have a knee and hip appt soon (end of this month).

I logged 23k steps today. Lol, my fitbit blew up twice. :balloon:

[Gemme]

That is a lot of steps, Katz! Good for you.

I've completely dropped the ball on getting my pedometer up and running again. I have it. I have the new battery. I just haven't put them together. I'm holding my own, though, at my 50lb loss. I'm still getting lots of steps in at work and just need to get the motivation to drag myself to the gym so that I can push through. Once I'm there, I'm good. It's just that initial OOOMPH that I need to work on more.

I'd like to drop another 20lbs and tone everything up. There's too much jiggle in my wiggle!

[Orema]

Way to go, Gemme. You're an inspiration!

Had a good ride this morning. Have changed my playlists and I like the new lists. I have Lil' Kim (The Queen Bee) on all my playlists because she makes me smile and I like smiling while I'm riding.

Didn't ride last week as much as I had goaled, but that just gives me something to strive for next week.

Last week's numbers are:

– Rode 21.6 miles for 90 minutes
– Did 170 arm rolls

Happy exercising, y'all.

:fastcycling:

[Orema]

Rode 5 miles today in 23 minutes while I watched Julia make some scrumptious looking omelets.

[Gemme]

I walked hundreds of miles....or at least that is what my feet are telling me. I've had a massive project at work that kept me on the move all day yesterday and today and I got extra steps in shopping for a flashlight tonight. Of all the days my Maglite could have failed, it's before a tropical storm that's guaranteed to knock a lot of people's power out. Looks like I'll be getting lots of arm stretches in tomorrow lighting candles.

[Orema]

Had a nice ride this morning while listening to a 1619 Project podcast. Here are my numbers for last 7 days:

– Rode 30 miles for 2hr 7m
– 250 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

[Jomore]

Tried to get out for a nice long walk, but took my lightweight rain jacket *just in case*
It was a beautiful sunny day as I headed out the door. 15 minutes later a chilly breeze sprang up, so I put the Jacket on, 5 minutes later out came the sun. I started to get overheated, the sun was really hot on my head and my back. Trickles of sweat down my face and down my back. I walked on . Splotch! Rain on my head 💧 💧 💧 splat splat, raindrops! 🌧 Jacket on - headed for home

[Orema]

Had an okay ride this morning while listening to another 1619 Project podcast episode. Here are my numbers for last 7 days:

– Rode 25 miles for 2hrs
– 220 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

[Greco]

10, 000 steps, I am grateful.

Greco

[Orema]

Had another nice ride this morning while listening to another 1619 Project podcast. Here are my numbers for last 7 days:

– Rode 30 miles for 2hr 19m
– 210 arm rolls

[Orema]

Didn’t ride my bike today but exercised by rearranging the garage, bedroom, and dining area. Had some movers come over and move the heavy furniture and boxes, and I moved the small things. Had been at it since 6am. Worked up a nice sweat moving around.

My activity watch was recharging and I forgot to put it on, but I put in a lot of steps. Lots.

[Gemme]

I was off today so my steps are naturally going to be less but I also did some rearranging and sorting and going through things and trying some new clothes on to make sure they are good to go. I took out a bag of recycling and the trash and did household chores too.

For my actual 'exercise', I turned on the music and danced around like no one was watching (except for the cats, which is kind of creepy).

[Orema]

Had a nice ride this morning while watching the sun rise and listening to another interview with Nikole Hannah-Jones. It's been a couple weeks since I've listened to music while riding. Will change that soon, maybe.

This week's I:

– rode 20 miles in 105 minutes
– did 140 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

I got my pedometer put back together. That damn screw is soo freakin' tiny, I had to enlist a friend with smaller fingers than me to help!

Last night, I got in 15,017 steps. 5.68 miles. 721.9 calories burned. 118 minutes.

So far, I'm at 12,183 steps. We'll see how many I wind up with since I'm hitting up a couple of stores after dinner.

[Greco]

Continue with 10,000 steps.
slowly but surely I'll run again, but for now the walking I am most grateful for.

Adrian

[Gemme]

Continue with 10,000 steps.
slowly but surely I'll run again, but for now the walking I am most grateful for.

Adrian

I missed something. You stopped running? :sock: <--because most runners wear socks and there is NO runner smiley (to my surprise)

Well, I am sure you will get back into tip top shape. If you're at 10,000 steps a day, you are definitely on your way!


For myself, my numbers gain from the shopping wasn't as much as I anticipated. Turns out, I spent nearly all my time in the book store within a 20 foot radius (in the magazines and periodicals), I arrived late at another store and only had 20 minutes to peruse and purchase before they closed and I knew where everything was at Walmart so there was no random excursions or detours. Still, I feel it wasn't too shabby overall.

Daily count for 9/18: 15,430 steps total, 5.84 miles walked, 742.1 calories burned (give or take) and 119 minutes of my day were devoted to this movement.

Not that the scale is the end-all in the scheme of things but I'm happy to report that, although I was creeping back up the past 4 days, I have settled back down to a number that says, "Hey, you're doing something right. Keep it up!" I feel good about that. And the 8 hours of sleep I got. Definitely feeling good about that, since it's more the exception than the rule nowadays.

[Greco]

Life is unpredictable is all...yes Gemme I'll run again...not a quitter, not by a long shot.

I remember when I went through basic training there was a certain 7 ft wall we had to conquer. Well, I'm using the same effort and determination to return to running which I love.

And today the beauty of this sky, and Mother Nature is free for everyone and I'm enjoying it at a slower pace, the pace of life. For those of you who asked, I am ok and grateful for this life. Thanking you for asking.

When I complained about not having any shoes, this saying goes, I remembered the folks without feet. I am grateful.

Greco

[Orema]

Had a good ride this morning and some nice rides this week. Have been watching videos or listening to podcasts while riding. I don't ride as fast with podcasts and videos as I do with music, but I enjoy riding more when I'm concentrating on something other than music. But riding to music give me a good cardio workout. I'll try to squeeze in some music rides next week, maybe.

This week:

– rode 20 miles in 2hr 20min
– did 230 arm rolls

See ya next time.

:fastcycling:

[Orema]

Had another good ride this morning while listening to Nikole Hannah-Jones make a case for reparations to Black folk mixed with a bit of Lil Kim. Added more music to my rides this week and watched a couple bike-riding videos.

This week I:

– rode 25 miles in little less than 2hrs
– did 310 arm rolls

Doing my best to get a bit of exercise in during this pandemic.

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

I'm still logging my steps per day as well as the miles they translate into, the calorie burn from them and the number of minutes it took to execute them during each day.

My total count from this past 7 days is 107,292 steps. That's inaccurate as I forgot to transfer my pedometer from my work pants to my house clothes one day so it's actually over 110,000.

[Orema]

Rode 5 miles for 24 mins this morning while listening to a David Axelrod podcast with Nikole Hannah-Jones. It's cloudy and foggy so I didn't get to see the sun rise. Maybe tomorrow.

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

I got lots of walking in yesterday at an arts and crafts festival. I went with a friend and we both had a great time. Yesterday, I logged in at 15,510 steps but went to bed early. I was tired!

So, from the 4th to yesterday, I logged 101,500 steps. That's just under 40 miles or an average of a little over 5.5 miles per day.

[Orema]

Rode 5 miles for 23 mins this morning while listening to a low-level cardio playlist. Keeping up with the beats to the music was easier than I thought it would be after riding mostly to podcasts without music for awhile. I did 70 arm rolls, too. It was a good ride.

:fastcycling:

[Stronghealer]

Months into this pandemic, I treated myself to a Peloton. Its been helpful.
Anyone else a Peloton fan?

[Greco]

Moved to a hot AND humid place. Interesting. Carrying more H2O period.
12,000 steps walking steady, slow like making love to my new Self...good.

Greco

[Gemme]

Self love is a beautiful thing. Good for you, Greco!

I'm still doing well with walking. I think I'll up the game on Sunday and get back into the gym. I've been gaining and losing the same 5 pounds for 7 months now. I'm sick of it so I need to kick it up a gear to shake my body up a bit.

[Orema]

Had an okay ride this morning while listening to Scott Simon and watching a bike riding video of Clear Canyon Road in California. Didn't exercise as much as I wanted to last week but that's okay. Will do better this week.

– rode 20 miles in 100 minutes
– did 120 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

Holy crap! I did it, y'all! I finally got back into the gym and it wasn't a complete sh*t show!

I started with my old and trusted friend, the elliptical. I did 35 minutes including the cool down. 235 calories burned (so they say but we all know that figure isn't correct), 2.38 miles (of which I am confident) and a 14:43 pace. I started the first half at level 1 and then split the remaining time between levels 2 and 3.

I initially started on a moderate burn program that required my heart rate to be monitored but it couldn't register it regularly enough so it switched me to a manual program a few minutes in. I also created enough energy to power a light bulb for 2 whole minutes. lol

From there, I moved onto the low row aka the seated row.

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So, I did not follow that form exactly and did more of an extended row but I think I might try the one handed row next time. You learn something new every day!

I did 4 sets of 15 at 25lbs for the row.

Then, I walked around until I found the water rower. I love this thing! It's very Zen for me. I find the sound of the water swishing around soothing and when I get into a steady rhythm, almost meditative. The one thing I don't like is that it doesn't give me enough time to log my stats before clearing the screen. I'm going to have to remember to take a picture of it with my phone next time.

Anyway, I did 10 minutes on it. I'm not entirely sure what all of this means....not the terms, but what my numbers mean for my performance...but I had a stroke rate of 21, the distance was 1680 meters and the intensity was 3.15. Again, I don't know exactly what this means for me specifically so I'll have to look into that but I used a full range of motion and engaged my abs the whole time so I suspect that my tummy will be slightly tender tomorrow, which is a good thing.

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I had to stop at that point. I was getting shaky. I only intended to be at the gym for about half and hour so all I ate pre-workout was a small banana and about 1/3 of a tsp of reduced fat peanut butter with a glass of water and I used all of that fuel up. I wound up being there about an hour.

It's a very good start back!

[Orema]

Holy crap! I did it, y'all! I finally got back into the gym and it wasn't a complete sh*t show!

I started with my old and trusted friend, the elliptical. I did 35 minutes including the cool down. 235 calories burned (so they say but we all know that figure isn't correct), 2.38 miles (of which I am confident) and a 14:43 pace. I started the first half at level 1 and then split the remaining time between levels 2 and 3.

I initially started on a moderate burn program that required my heart rate to be monitored but it couldn't register it regularly enough so it switched me to a manual program a few minutes in. I also created enough energy to power a light bulb for 2 whole minutes. lol

From there, I moved onto the low row aka the seated row.

A77hAjcpN1s

So, I did not follow that form exactly and did more of an extended row but I think I might try the one handed row next time. You learn something new every day!

I did 4 sets of 15 at 25lbs for the row.

Then, I walked around until I found the water rower. I love this thing! It's very Zen for me. I find the sound of the water swishing around soothing and when I get into a steady rhythm, almost meditative. The one thing I don't like is that it doesn't give me enough time to log my stats before clearing the screen. I'm going to have to remember to take a picture of it with my phone next time.

Anyway, I did 10 minutes on it. I'm not entirely sure what all of this means....not the terms, but what my numbers mean for my performance...but I had a stroke rate of 21, the distance was 1680 meters and the intensity was 3.15. Again, I don't know exactly what this means for me specifically so I'll have to look into that but I used a full range of motion and engaged my abs the whole time so I suspect that my tummy will be slightly tender tomorrow, which is a good thing.

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I had to stop at that point. I was getting shaky. I only intended to be at the gym for about half and hour so all I ate pre-workout was a small banana and about 1/3 of a tsp of reduced fat peanut butter with a glass of water and I used all of that fuel up. I wound up being there about an hour.

It's a very good start back!



That's great news! So glad you had a good start. You inspire me to kick my exercise up a notch!

I had a nice ride today. 5 miles in 24 minutes.

:fastcycling:

[Orema]

This article isn't meant to discourage anyone from reaching 10K or more steps a day, but to encourage those of us who are unable to step 10K in a day.
______________________

Do We Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day for Our Health?
The advice that we take 10,000 steps a day is more a marketing accident than based on science. Taking far fewer may have notable benefits.

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The good news is that upping our current step counts by even a few thousand additional strides most days could be a reasonable, sufficient — and achievable — goal. Credit: TraceyAPhotos/iStock

By Gretchen Reynolds
Published July 6, 2021, Updated Sept. 15, 2021

Fitness tracking devices often recommend we take 10,000 steps a day. But the goal of taking 10,000 steps, which many of us believe is rooted in science, in fact rests on coincidence and sticky history rather than research.

According to Dr. I-Min Lee, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an expert on step counts and health, the 10,000-steps target became popular in Japan in the 1960s. A clock maker, hoping to capitalize on interest in fitness after the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, mass-produced a pedometer with a name that, when written in Japanese characters, resembled a walking man. It also translated as “10,000-steps meter,” creating a walking aim that, through the decades, somehow became embedded in our global consciousness — and fitness trackers.

But today’s best science suggests we do not need to take 10,000 steps a day, which is about five miles, for the sake of our health or longevity.

A 2019 study by Dr. Lee and her colleagues (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31141585/) found that women in their 70s who managed as few as 4,400 steps a day reduced their risk of premature death by about 40 percent, compared to women completing 2,700 or fewer steps a day. The risks for early death continued to drop among the women walking more than 5,000 steps a day, but benefits plateaued at about 7,500 daily steps. In other words, older women who completed fewer than half of the mythic 10,000 daily steps tended to live substantially longer than those who covered even less ground.

Another, more expansive study last year of almost 5,000 middle-aged men and women (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2763292) of various ethnicities likewise found that 10,000 steps a day are not a requirement for longevity. In that study, people who walked for about 8,000 steps a day were half as likely to die prematurely from heart disease or any other cause as those who accumulated 4,000 steps a day. The statistical benefits of additional steps were slight, meaning it did not hurt people to amass more daily steps, up to and beyond the 10,000-steps mark. But the extra steps did not provide much additional protection against dying young, either.

Realistically, few of us reach that 10,000-step goal, anyway. According to recent estimates (https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2010&issue=10000&article=00004&type=Fulltext), most adults in America, Canada and other Western nations average fewer than 5,000 steps a day (https://europepmc.org/article/med/16177618).

And if we do reach the 10,000-step target, our feat tends to be ephemeral. A famous study in Ghent, Belgium (https://academic.oup.com/her/article/26/2/372/585298), provided local citizens in 2005 with pedometers and encouraged them to walk for at least 10,000 steps a day for a year. Of the 660 men and women who completed the study, about 8 percent reached the 10,000 step daily goal by the end. But in a follow-up study four years later, almost no one was still striding that much. Most had slipped back to their baseline, taking about the same number of steps now as at the study’s start.

The good news is that upping our current step counts by even a few thousand additional strides most days could be a reasonable, sufficient — and achievable — goal, Dr. Lee said. The formal physical activity guidelines issued by the United States and other governments use time, not steps, as a recommendation, and suggest we exercise for at least 150 minutes a week, or a half-hour most days, in addition to any moving around we do as part of our normal, daily lives. Translated into step counts, Dr. Lee said, that total would work out to a little more than 16,000 steps a week of exercise for most people, or about 2,000 to 3,000 steps most days. (Two thousand steps equal approximately a mile.) If, like many people, we currently take about 5,000 steps a day during the course of everyday activities like shopping and housework, adding the extra 2,000 to 3,000 steps would take us to a total of between 7,000 and 8,000 steps most days, which, Dr. Lee said, seems to be the step-count sweet spot.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/06/well/move/10000-steps-health.html

[Gemme]

That's great news! So glad you had a good start. You inspire me to kick my exercise up a notch!

I had a nice ride today. 5 miles in 24 minutes.

:fastcycling:

You go, girl!

I've gone to the gym the past two nights as well. I did just the elliptical on Monday night and tonight I added the water rower in again for a quick 5 minutes at a good enough clip to get me winded and get warm (but not sweaty).

I've held steady on the scale the past couple of nights after a pound and a half drop so I'm headed in the right direction in terms of numbers. Dinner was a little heavy tonight so we'll see how it goes tomorrow morning.

[FireSignFemme]

I've been getting a lot more walking, moving, up on my feet in but nothing much else so tonight I decided to try some sit ups. I completed two, using very poor form and only with great effort. But every journey of a thousand miles begins with blah, blah, blah...

[Gemme]

I'm 4 days in now.

My gym has 3 standard ellipticals. I've been trying each one and have learned that the one on the far left is the easiest and gives the most unreliable caloric count. The middle one is the second best and the one on the far right is the one that seems to be the most accurate for the caloric count.

Today, I was on Righty and watched a hiking course through Arizona and New Zealand. Super cool. I also opted to start my intensity at level 8 versus level 4, like I usually do. I definitely felt it more in my hammies and quads than usual. It was good, though.

Elliptical: 45 minutes, 330 calories and 2.67 miles total. What I don't get is that I know I worked harder than previously on the other two ellipticals and I only powered that damn light bulb for one freakin' minute!

Clearly, the other two are more lenient with the energy monitoring too.

:eyebrow:

[Orema]

Had a good ride this morning while watching Tiffany Cross. Last week's numbers were:

– rode 25 miles for a total of 1hr 38 min
– did 220 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

Good afternoon, exercisers!

This has been quite the week for me. I pledged to go to the gym every single day and I did that. My start date was 10/24 and I've been every day all the way through today.

My last post was on 10/27 so I'll catch up from that point on.

10/28
Elliptical-461 calories burned, 3.77 miles, 60:01 minutes, 15:56 average pace. I worked at level 8 and powered that imaginary light bulb for 2 minutes!

10/29
Elliptical-148 calories burned, 1.378 miles, 18:00 minutes, 13:06 average pace. Level 8 and I got 2 minutes powering that light bulb....same as the previous day when I was on the machine for an hour! I think it's related more to intensity than time because I knew today was going to be short so I kicked it into high gear and really worked that machine, and myself, hard.

10/30
Elliptical-536 calories burned, 3.74 miles, 65:00 minutes, 17:23 average pace. My heart rate showed up on this one and said it was 137. I worked at level 14 and I powered that damn light bulb for 18 minutes. Hell, yeah! It BETTER recognize my effort!!!

10/31
Elliptical-248 calories burned, 2.00 miles, 35:00 minutes, 17:28 average pace. I worked at level 8 and only got one minute of power for that light bulb but I knew today wouldn't be too stressful since yesterday was killer, I'm not at 100% and I was going to do other stuff today as well.

I also did minutes of ab work, 5 minutes on the rebounder and only 3 minutes on the water rower. I wanted to do more but it apparently needs to be lubricated because it was squeaking/screeching as I slid back and forth and that ruined the experience for me. I had a stroke rate of 24 and went 551 meters.

I'm going to do the same thing this week and see if the usage patterns hold true or if one night was a one off. This will determine what nights I go going forward because I do NOT like a lot of people there. I'm always the only person with a mask and I do get it. My state has a very high vaccination rate but I've seen what can happen if someone does get COVID...the residual issues...plus I work with an 81 year old man with health issues. I don't want to get sick for myself and I don't want to bring anything to him.

There are two machines that I simply cannot wear a mask on and that is the treadmill and the water rower. They require too much of an oxygen draw for me and I feel like I'm suffocating, which in addition to just plain not being fun is a trigger for me so nope...not doing that.

[Orema]

Good on you, Gemme! Glad you had a good week.

I had a nice ride this morning while listening to a podcast and watching the sun trying to burst through the clouds. Last weeks numbers are:

– Rode 30 miles for 2hr 27m
– 210 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

I was going to go straight through to this Sunday as well but opted not to go to the gym last night. Fridays are very difficult for me to get there, get my errands done, get home and eat and go to bed at a decent hour because work starts earlier on Saturdays.

November 1: 231 cal, 1.88 mi, 35:01 min, 18:35 avg pace, level 8, 1 minute
November 2: 201 cal, 1.65 mi, 30:00 min, 18:12 avg pace, level 8, 1 minute
November 3: 260 cal, 2.16 mi, 35:01 min, 16:13 avg pace, level 8, 1 minute
November 4: 254 cal, 2.06 mi, 35:00 min, 16:58 avg pace, level 8, 1 minute
November 5: squats, walking
November 6: 380 cal, 2.70 mi, 45:01 min, 16:39 avg pace, level 12, 13 minutes!!!

[Gemme]

Good morning, exercisers!

I hope everyone took advantage of the extra hour of sleep. I know that I did. I got a full night's sleep, woke up just before the alarm and was well rested when I rolled out of my warm and cozy bed.

I took care of the kitties and then I took care of myself.

November 7: 533 calories, 3.71 miles, 65:00 minutes, 17:31 average pace, level 12, 12 minutes of power generated for those fictional light bulbs.

It's definitely the intensity that drives that light bulb figure up. I was on the elliptical longer today but as you can in the difference between yesterday and today's average paces, I pushed a wee bit harder yesterday and that made the difference.

It was definitely a good workout and I even got a few minutes on the rebounder afterwards. I used a light ball...6lbs...and started with a count of 3 and then took a step back and completed a count of 4, another step back and did a count of 5...you see where this going...until I got to a count of 9. Any farther back and I risked losing control of the ball and it hitting someone on the floor so I just moved back in and then out again, adjusting my count each time. The rebounder is good for the triceps and somewhere along the line mine got all jiggly so they need all the help they can get.

Happy Daylight Savings Time and a very happy Sunday to you all!

[Orema]

Had a nice ride this morning while watching John Oliver. This week I:

– rode 30 miles in 2hrs
– 350 arm rolls

Am scheduled for knee surgery in mid Jan and want to ride bike as much as possible till then and lose a few more pounds.

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

Well, my little experiment is over. I've decided that Fridays are a no go, no matter what, as Saturday is an early work day for me. Saturdays, Sundays and Tuesdays are definite go days and Monday, Wednesday and Thursdays will depend on how I feel. This week, however, does not reflect that schedule as I've been battling migraines off and on all week.

I've opted to continue to go at night, except Sundays since I'm off that day. Going at night gives me a bit of a caloric burn when I am my most sedentary so that will work out beautifully.

This week's stats:

November 8: 269 calories, 1.96 miles, 35:00 minutes, 17:48 average pace, level 12, 2 minutes of generated power

November 11: 278 calories, 2.03 miles, 35:00 minutes, 17:11 average pace, level 12, 6 minutes of generated power

November 14: 510 calories, 3.74 miles, 65:00 minutes, 17:22 average pace, level 12, 5 minutes of generated power

Today's workout was on Cennie. The other two were on Righty. It definitely makes a difference.

[Orema]

Had a half-hearted ride this morning. My energy is low from a restless sleep. It really was a lazy ride. Had much better rides last week:

– Rode 30 miles in 2hr 1minute
– Did 390 arm rolls

Hoping everyone is doing well.

:fastcycling:

[CherylNYC]

I went to a rock climbing/bouldering gym with some friends today. This is my second time, and I'm not doing badly at all. My friends go every Sunday, and often several other times a week. It was super fun!

I have to add, one of my group is about 50, so I have almost 10 years on her. Other than that, I appeared to be older than every single other person who was climbing by AT LEAST two decades. It's so weird to be the oldest person.

[Gemme]

November 15: 496 calories, 3.57 miles, 65:00 minutes, 18:12 average pace, level 12 and 4 minutes of power generated.

November 18: 455 calories, 3.67 miles, 65:00 minutes, 17:43 average pace, level 12 and 3 minutes of power generated.

November 20: 603 calories, 4.21 miles, 65:00 minutes, 15:25 average pace, level 12 plus some bumps and 50 minutes of power generated.

November 21: 534 calories, 3.80 miles, 65:00 minutes, 17:05 average pace, level 12 and 8 minutes of power generated.

I've missed a couple of planned workout days but did a full hour for all of those that I made so it all comes out in the wash, I suppose. As you can see, I KICKED ASS on the 20th!!! That is not a typo. I did, indeed, generate nearly an hour of power for that damn light bulb. I was sweatin' something fierce too. That was a really good workout day. The others are good too but that one really worked me hard so I'm happy about that.

I'm hoping to get in something tonight and the following two days as well. I don't think I'll do an hour tonight but I should for Turkey Day and Black Friday. The one place I won't expect to see people is at the gym then.

[Orema]

Had a good ride this morning while watching the snow come down. It was an okay week for riding ... could have done better. There's always next time.

– rode 20 miles in 1hr 15m
– did 240 arm rolls

Will start doing knee exercises next week.

:fastcycling:

[FireSignFemme]

None. It's the holidays. LOL, don't any of you ever rest?

[Gemme]

None. It's the holidays. LOL, don't any of you ever rest?

Yep. Any day that I feel physically drained or run down or that something is not quite right, I don't go...even if it's a planned day. Gotta listen to your body. I was planning on going Friday but I didn't get my car out of the shop until late and by then, I was feeling like I was dragging so I opted to eat a light dinner and go to bed a bit earlier then get back to work on Saturday, which I did.

November 24: 410 calories, 2.94 miles, 45:00 minutes, 15:18 average pace, level 12 and 27 minutes of power generated for that fictional light bulb. It also showed me an average heart rate of 170. I wouldn't put much stock in that, though, since all of the ellipticals blink in and out on the heart rate monitoring, but this was a very good workout for me.

November 25: 487 calories, 3.43 miles, 60:01 minutes, 17:28 average pace, level 12 and 9 minutes of power generated for the light bulb. Happy Turkey Day! Whenever I cut the machine off before the full and hour has passed, I'm usually good about getting it exact but I was a wee bit slow this time.

November 28: 505 calories, 3.48 miles, 65:00 minutes, 18:41 average pace, level 12 and 5 minutes of power generated for the light bulb. I didn't push myself today as I was still a bit eh from yesterday but I did do the full hour plus cool down.

I found out my bestie here and I are the exact same weight today but when we stand next to one another, I look 30-40lbs heavier than her, easily. Just goes to show that the scale is fine for an estimate but it's the ratio of fat to muscle that really makes the difference.

[Kätzchen]

None. It's the holidays. LOL, don't any of you ever rest?

Shhoooot, I just worked a ten day stretch. Getting lots of floor action (walking, dancing, strolling) at work. My right hip and knee dont like me right now, but I keep going. I am averaging about 13 to 14 thousand steps a day at work. I get home from work and shoes come off and legs get elevated. :jester:

No time to be going to a gym because I feel like work is just like going to a gym. *lol*

Hope you all had a great holiday.
Stay safe, ok?

Cheers,
--K. :hk28:

[Gemme]

I'm with you, Katz. No gym for me today. My pedometer is sitting at 15,740 steps right now. I'll get plenty more before bed because I turn the music on and boogie before I go to sleep. Plus, I'm a wee bit under the weather so I need to keep an eye on that so it doesn't turn into something unfortunate.

[Orema]

Had a good ride this morning and this week while listening to Nikole Hannah-Jones.

– Rode 35 miles in 2hrs 10m
– 550 arm rolls

I kicked it up a notch this week in speed and arm rolls. I'll see if I can keep up the momentum.

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

I haven't worked out since the 28th due to a sinus infection but I feel okay tonight so if I still feel good tomorrow, I'll hit the gym in the morning.

[Kätzchen]

Today I logged 15,556 steps and earned an Urban Boot Badge by fitbit. My goal is to inch up to 20k+ steps a day and continue this amount of steps daily. I burned more than 4k calories, but I have only consumed maybe 1800 calories. My fitbit noted that I stayed in the 'burn zone' for 8 hrs, nearly all day at work.

I am losing weight by increasing my steps and keeping my portions of food to a brisk minimum.

The only drawback is that I still have hip and knee injury fallout, and oh, I upped my intake of magnesium to help aid in reducing the unforgiving charley-horse cramps I endure some nights.

I am getting better at increasing my step count, which I think is helping me a lot.

Keep moving. That is my motto, lately. :blueheels:

[Orema]

Had another good ride this morning while watching a biking video in the Italian Alps and listening to Robin Diangelo. This week I

– Rode 30 miles in 2hrs 24m
– 360 arm rolls

This week wasn't as good as last week but it beats nothin'.

:fastcycling:

[Orema]

Didn't have a good ride this morning. It was a struggle just getting through 5 miles. Most rides this week weren't easy. Oh well, there's always next week. This week I;

– rode 30 miles in 1hr. 47 mins
– did 450 arm rolls

I did a few crunches but nothing I noted.

:fastcycling:

[Orema]

Had a good ride this morning while listening to a Cicely Tyson memoir. This was an okay week for riding.

Am having longer rides with added tension to try and build muscles around knees, but I might be pushing it with the tension. Will reduce the tension next week and focus on spinning.

– Rode 23 miles in 2hrs
– 300 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

My knees are so much better than they were 2 years ago and mostly because of the exercise bike.

[Kenna]

Yesterday... My sister, her 79 yr old dad and I took a 2 mile round trip hike up the mountain behind her property to an old abandoned campground. The air was warm enough I didn't need a coat, but I sure needed my walking stick. I got tickled at my step dad who hikes like a young mountain goat and left us behind a few times.

Today's exercise has been walking to the kitchen 2 times for my coffee.

[Orema]

Had a good ride this morning while still listening to Cicely Tyson and some really good rides this week. Last week's numbers are.

– Rode 28.2 miles in 1hr 51m
– 210 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

[Orema]

Had a nice ride this morning while watching Tiffany Cross and some good rides last week. Last week's numbers are.

– Rode 44.7 miles in 3.5 hrs
– 370 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

[Orema]

Had a great workout this morning. Was able to complete 100 arm rolls in one sitting and it's been six months since I've been able to do this. Had a pretty good workout week, too:

– rode 37.5 miles in 2hrs 31mins
– completed 390 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

[easygoingfemme]

5 k rowing. Planning for 7 tomorrow. I wish it was warm enough to go hike. I'm planning a 7-9 day jaunt on the Appalachian Trail in May and need to bank my training hikes with added pack weight- but not this week. Nope.

[Orema]

Had an okay workout this morning while listening to an audio book and watching the snow come down. Had some okay rides this week, too:

– rode 36.9 miles in 3hrs 1mins
– completed 300 arm rolls

:fastcycling:

[Gemme]

So, I apparently haven't logged any of my workouts since December 5th. A whole year ago!

12/5
Elliptical I was on spontaneously rebooted around the 45 minute mark and I lost my data. It was a good sesh up until that point, though. No more Righty for me!

12/7
Elliptical: 303 cal, 2.15 mi, 35:01 min, 16:15 avg pace, level 12, 18 minutes of lightbulb juice

12/11
Elliptical: 441 cal, 3.63 mi, 65 min, 17:53 avg pace, level 8, 2 minutes of juice

12/12
Elliptical: 316 cal, 2.31 mi, 35 min, 15:09 avg pace, level 12, 25 minutes of powering that darn lightbulb

12/13
Elliptical: 105 cal, .84 mi, 15:00 min, 17:57 avg pace, level 8 and no juice at all. 10 minutes of ab work and stretching

12/16
Elliptical: 274 cal, 2.03 mi, 30:01 min, 14:47 avg pace, level 12 and 22 min powering that light bulb

12/17
Elliptical: 240 cal, 2.02 mi, 30:01 min, 14:53 avg pace, level 8 and 1 minute of lightbulb juice plus 5 minutes of powering the light bulb

12/18
Elliptical: 508 cal, 3.57mi, 65 min, 18:10 avg pace, level 12, 5 minutes of power for that poor little light bulb. 5 min abs and 1 min wall sit.

12/19
Elliptical: 528 cal, 3.67 mi, 65 min, 17:43 avg pace, level 12 and 10 min with that light bulb

12/20
Elliptical: 253 cal, 1.80 mi, 30 min, 16:37 avg pace, level 12 and 10 minutes with the light bulb.

12/21
Elliptical: 560 cal, 3.81 mi, 65 min, 17:03 avg pace, level 12 and 23 minutes powering the light bulb

12/22
Elliptical: 159 cal, 1.08 mi, 20:01 min, 18:36 avg pace, level 12, 1 min powering the light bulb. Fitness eval. 20 min of squats, ab work and leg weight machines.

12/23
Elliptical: 483 cal, 3:43 mi, 65 min, 18:50 avg pace, level 12 and 3 minutes of that darn light bulb.

12/24
Elliptical: 127 cal, .94 mi, 15:01 min, 18:55 avg pace, level 12, 4 minutes of powering a light bulb. 30 minutes light ab work and weight training for arms

12/25
Elliptical: 488 cal, 3.53 mi, 65 min, 18:23 avg pace, level 12, 3 minutes of light bulb power

12/26
Elliptical: 314 cal, 2.14 mi, 35 min, 16:22 avg pace, level 12, 19 minutes of light bulb power, 10-15 minutes of ab work

12/27
Elliptical: 265 cal, 1.89 mi, 35:01 min, level 12, 18:29 avg pace, 1 minute of light bulb power

12/29
Elliptical: 91 cal, .64 mi, 10:01 min, 15:46 avg pace, level 12, 6 minutes of light bulb power. Evolt testing and evaluation. Second workout: 275 cal, 2.28 mi, 35:01 min, 15:19 avg pace, level 8, 1 minute of light bulb power

12/30
Elliptical: 331 cal, 2.52 mi, 35:01 min, 13:54 avg pace, level 12, 34 minutes of powering that light bulb

1/13
Elliptical: 66 cal, .47 mi, 9:15 min, 19:52 avg pace. Training session: glutes, core, balance.

1/19
Elliptical: 460 cal, 3.69 mi, 65 min, 17:36 avg pace, level 8, 2 minutes of powering the light bulb

Workouts have been sporadic since the beginning of the year, when I contracted COVID. I don't go to the gym when I don't feel well (and when I'm isolating).

[Orema]

Had a really good ride while listening to the audiobook Kindred. Had some good rides this week, too.

– Rode 44.5 miles in 3hr 31min
– Did 440 arm rolls

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[Gemme]

1/24
Elliptical: 264 cal, 1.93 mi, 35 min, 18:05 avg pace, level 12, one lousy minute of power for the bulb...pssshaw

1/27
Elliptical: 146 cal, .99 mi. 18 min, 18:09 avg pace, level 12, 3 minutes of power followed by a back to back training session and stretching

1/28
Elliptical: 390 cal, 2.90 mi, 45:01 min, 15:32 avg pace so you know I was booking it, level 12, 21 minutes of power....booyah!

Today, I've danced around the house to music and shoveled a crap ton of snow. Welcome to my blizzard. Some of the drifts are nearly 6 feet tall!

[Orema]

Had another good ride while listening to music. Had some good rides this week, too.

– Rode 40 miles in 2.85 hrs
– Did 450 arm rolls

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[Orema]

Had an okay ride while watching the snow come down and listening to podcasts. Just couldn't get into the ride the way I wanted. Last week's numbers were:

– Rode 38.7 miles in 3.15 hrs
– Did 350 arm rolls

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[Orema]

Had a really good ride this morning—rode 7 miles in 30 minutes—and a lot better than any rides I had this week. Yesterday's ride was so bad I gave up after 2 miles. Just wasn't into it. Last weeks numbers are:

– Rode 34 miles for 2hrs 6min
– Did 260 arm rolls

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[Orema]

Had another good ride this morning—rode 7 miles in 30 minutes—and again it was a better than some rides I had this week. I wrongly took some medicine back-to-back and at the wrong time of day and it threw me off for couple days.

– Rode 35.3 miles for 2.78 hrs
– Did 340 arm rolls

It helps a lot for me to have visual and audio enhancements while riding my bike. Otherwise, I don't think I'd be able to exercise.

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[Gemme]

Had another good ride this morning—rode 7 miles in 30 minutes—and again it was a better than some rides I had this week. I wrongly took some medicine back-to-back and at the wrong time of day and it threw me off for couple days.

– Rode 35.3 miles for 2.78 hrs
– Did 340 arm rolls

It helps a lot for me to have visual and audio enhancements while riding my bike. Otherwise, I don't think I'd be able to exercise.

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Oh, boy. Feel better soon!

Studies have been done that prove music helps you to extend your workout not only in time but in intensity and general effort as well. Rock on!

I've been very naughty in that I have not gone to the gym much recently. I'm still in the general ballpark for my "normal" weight fluctuations, though I am resting at the top of the range. I feel the difference plus I've been drinking more of my calories lately. Bolthouse Farms makes fruit juices with no added sugar and they are so freaking delicious, I can't stand it. Green Goodness is my favorite.

Anyway, here it is:

1/29
Crap ton of shoveling as it was the 4th largest blizzard on record for RI

1/30
1.5 hours of shoveling

2/2
Elliptical: 500 cal, 3.55 mi, 65:00 min, 18:18 avg pace, level 12, 5 minutes of lightbulb energy

2/3
Elliptical: 46 cal, .34 mi, 5:01 min, 14:49 avg pace, level 12, 3 minutes of lightbulb energy created
30 min training session (head to toe)
Elliptical: 224 cal, 1.59 mi, 30:01 min, 18:52 avg pace, level 12, 1 minute of lightbulb energy

2/9
Elliptical: 466 cal, 3.42 mi, 65:00 min, 19:00 avg pace, level 12, 2 minutes of lightbulb energy

2/10
Elliptical: 88 cal, .59 mi, 10:00 min, 15:52 avg pace, level 12, 4 minutes of lightbulb energy
30 min training session (core and balance)
Elliptical: 284 cal, 2.02 mi, 35:01 min, 17:20 avg pace, level 12, 5 minutes of lightbulb energy

2/24
Elliptical: 435 cal, 3.03 mi, 55:00 min, 18:09 avg pace, level 12, 9 minutes of lightbulb energy

2/26
Assault bike: 32 cal, 2.13 mi, 9:00 min
Elliptical: 214 cal, 1.47 mi, 25:00 min,17:01 avg pace, level 12, 9 minutes of lightbulb energy created

3/3
Elliptical: 139 cal, 1.02 mi, 20:01 min, 19:42 avg pace, level 12, 0 minutes of lightbulb energy created
30 min training session (balance, legs, arms, core)
Elliptical: 69 cal,.53 mi, 10:01 min, 18:51 avg pace, level 12, 0 minutes of lightbulb energy

3/10
Elliptical: 84 cal, .57 mi, 10:01 min, 17:25 avg pace, level 12, 1 minute of lightbulb energy
60 min training session (oh, it hurt, it hurt soooo bad!)
Elliptical: 280 cal, 2.01 mi, 35:10 min, 17:30 avg pace, level 12, 4 minutes of lightbulb energy created

[Orema]

Thanks, Gemme, and good for staying within your range. I've been in the range for a year now. Haven't lost any but haven't gained. There is that.

Had had some really good workouts this week.

– Rode 49.1 miles for 3hrs 16min
– Did 560 arm rolls

I gave up wine for lent and it's paying off.

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[Orema]

Didn't do well today nor this week. I was on the bike for 5 minutes today and just gave up. Started the week off well, but by Wednesday I had the start of a cold and it's been down hill since then. Here are this week's numbers:

– Rode 21.2 miles in 2.26 hours
– Completed 350 arm rolls

Will get it together once I'm rid of this cold.

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[Orema]

Had a nice ride this morning while watching the snow come down and listening to a jazz playlist. Also had a walking tour of Greece on the monitor but didn’t pay much attention to that. Am feeling better but not up to speed yet. I’ll do better next week. Maybe.

– Rode 37.1 miles in 3.13 hours
– 330 arm rolls

Hoping folks get some steps in, rides on, or a dance or two going.

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[Orema]

Had an easy-peasy ride this morning while listening to an audio book and looking out the window at a cloudy sky.

Had some nice but slower rides last week.

– Rode 42 miles for 3hr 13min
– Completed 520 arm rolls

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[Orema]

Had a good cardio ride this morning. Rode 7 miles in 31.5 minutes while listening to music and watching a riding bike tour online. Last weeks numbers were:

– Rode 41.7 miles in 2hrs 52mins
– 500 arm rolls

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[Orema]

Had a good ride this morning while watching a bike tour through Switzerland on the internets and listening to a music playlist. Clocked in 6.4 miles in 30 minutes. That's pretty good. Could do better, but could do worse. Last weeks numbers were low:

– Rode 32.2 miles in 2.73 hours
– Completed 390 arm rolls

Earlier this week I decided to increase the circle in my arm rolls and ended up pulling my back out of whack from overdoing it! It was a struggle, but I thought I was doing okay. I didn't feel the pain till the next day. Thank goodness it only lasted for a couple days and I'm better now. Have gone back to doing smaller circles. :) Will slowly increase the circle size over the next couple weeks. Maybe.

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[Orema]

Had another good ride this morning while listening to some Motown tunes. Had a hard time finding my groove, but it all came together once I turned off the news and plugged into a playlist. Rode 6.5 miles in 31 minutes. Last weeks numbers were:

– Rode 34.1 miles in 2 hrs 33 mins
– Completed 180 arm rolls

I have increased the circle size in my arm rolls but am not able to accomplish more than 50 rolls in one sitting. Big difference from doing the smaller arm rolls. LOL.

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[Orema]

Had an okay ride this morning. Rode 6.4 miles in 30 minutes but it was a struggle. Last week I ate a lot of food that wasn't good for my arthritis, but it was good and comforting food that served a purpose.

Last week's numbers are:

– Rode 38.5 miles in 3hrs 4mins
– Completed 200 arm rolls

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[FireSignFemme]

Rode 38.5 miles in right around 3 hours? That's fantastic! I don't think I could crawl 3 miles even if given all day.

It's sobering realizing just how quickly it is before that old saying move it or lose it starts to ring true. Today I did 4 half sit ups, 10 half push ups, then spent a couple hours on my feet moving heavy boxes full of canned goods around.

[Gemme]

It's been a while since I reported in so here goes:

3/17
lateral X machine: 39 cal, .43 mi, 7 min
30 minutes of personal training (leg & ab day)
elliptical: 113 cal, .82 mi, 15:01 min

3/22
elliptical: 122 cal, .79 mi, 15:03 min
30 minutes of personal training (upper body & ab day)
elliptical: 233 cal, 1.70 mi, 30:01 min

3/23
elliptical: 473 cal, 3.42 mi, 65:00 min

3/24
elliptical: 230 cal, 1.74 mi, 35:03 min

3/31
elliptical: 45 cal, .33 mi, 5:02 min
30 minutes of personal training (full body)
elliptical: 68 cal, .49 mi, 10:00 min

4/5
elliptical: 42 cal, .30 mi, 5:02 min
30 minutes of personal training (lower body)
elliptical: 506 cal, 3.54 mi, 65:00 min

4/13
elliptical: 364 cal, 2.51 mi, 45:01 min

4/19
lateral X machine: 68 cal, 1.02 mi, 15:45 min
30 minutes of personal training (full body)
elliptical: 105 cal, .78 mi, 15:05 min

4/21
elliptical: 87 cal, .58 mi, 10:01 min
30 minutes of personal training (shoulders & legs)
elliptical: 75 cal, .55 mi, 10:05 min

4/28
elliptical: 114 cal, .76 mi, 14:01 min
30 minutes of personal training (full body)
elliptical: 458 cal, 3.31 mi, 65:00 min

5/1
elliptical: 478 cal, 3.42 mi, 65:00 min

5/3
elliptical: 114 cal, .82 mi, 15:01 min
30 minutes of personal training (legs & chin ups)
elliptical: 188 cal, 1.48 mi, 30:00 min

5/17
elliptical: 138 cal, 1.00 mi, 20:00 min
30 minutes of personal training (full body)
elliptical: 86 cal, .59 mi, 10:59 min

It's sporadic as I'm doing more manual labor at work and am just plumb tired when I get home. I do hope to pick it up some more, though.

[Orema]

Had a really good ride this morning. Rode 7 miles in 30mins 28 seconds while watching bike riders cruise through Spain. Closed my ride with Floetic by Floetry and it was just perfect.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s716EpraBB4

Numbers for the last 7 days including today are:

– Rode 23.1 miles in 1hrs 50mins

Had some morning appts and didn't exercise as much as planned but there's always next week.

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[Gemme]

5/23
elliptical: 289 cal, 2.09 mi, 35:00 min, 16:45 pace, lvl 12, burned 10 minutes of lightbulb time with my efforts

5/24
elliptical: 114 cal, .78 mi, 15:00 min, 19:10 pace, lvl 12, burned 1 minute of lightbulb time
30 minutes of personal training focusing on shoulders and squats
elliptical: 109 cal, .80 mi, 15:01 min, 18:44 pace, lvl 12, 0 minutes of lightbulb time since I was using it as a cool down and chilling

5/28
elliptical: 518 cal, 3.80 mi, 65:00 min, 17:06 pace, lvl 12, burned 11 minutes of lightbulb time

5/29
elliptical: 254 cal, 1.84 mi, 30:00 min, 16:15 pace, lvl 12, burned 9 minutes of lightbulb time
30 minutes of weight circuit on my own
elliptical: 126 cal, .89 mi, 15:00 min, 16:50 pace, lvl 12, burned 2 lightbulb minutes

5/30
elliptical: 563 cal, 3.89 mi, 65:00 min, 16:43 pace, lvl 12, burned 30 minutes of lightbulb time so you know I was booking it
water rower: 230.6 meters, 15:00 min, 3.2 stroke rate, 2.6 intensity

The water rower's figures disappear as soon as you stop rowing so they may be off since they are from memory and not my notations.

6/1
elliptical: 600 cal, 4.45 mi, 65:00 min, 14:34 pace, lvl 12, burned 49 minutes of lightbulb time!!!

I'm super, super proud of this workout! I set a goal and completed it. I know the calorie counts are not accurate but I still use them as a measuring tool of where I am and how well I'm doing. I wondered, if I went all out for the full hour plus cooldown, if I could make 600 calories and I did. By the skin of my teeth but it still counts and I worked hard for it. I post my pace so you can see the obvious difference between this one and all of my previous ones plus the environmental tally for powering a lightbulb is the highest I've ever gotten it. All that and at the highest resistance level possible on the elliptical the whole time. Like I said, I'm super proud of this one.

6/2
elliptical: 121 cal, .82 mi, 14:59 min, 18:13 pace, lvl 12, 1 minute of lightbulb time
30 minutes of personal training focusing on upper body and core
elliptical: 244 cal, 1.73 mi, 30:01 min, 17:17 pace, lvl 12, burned 6 lightbulb minutes

I should have gone last night too but I was feeling lazy. I'm struggling with motivation, honestly. Same thing today.

[Orema]

Had a great ride this morning. Clocked in 7.4 miles in 30m 20s. Watched a Garmin biking ride video showing bikers going through the Italian Alps. Stunningly beautiful while listening to the Ohio Players and Shari Addison.

Completed 40 large-circle arm rolls without any problems or pain.

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