My wonderful friend Chasity has graciously set up this linky carnival bloggy thingy called Weightloss Wednesday and I have jumped in with both feet. I guess the water got a little cold last week and I climbed back out and did nothing, but I jumped back in. No seriously I have this thing with my tailbone, and riding my bike for 3 days in a row, hurt my bottom and it traveled to my tailbone. When that thing acts up I cannot walk or stand or even sit for days, so I just stopped and took it easy, I think I may have done yoga once, can't remember, I have slept since then.
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I don't have a scale, and after visiting my husbands jobsite where they had a medical scale, I won't be getting one anytime soon. Those things are not made to fly across the room. 3 years ago I was 180, lost down to 130 and have gone back up to 165. That is about 15 pounds heavier than I thought I was, no wonder I could not breath in my stretch pants.....
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What I will be doing here is posting my activity, you can also go to www.fitnessmagazine.com and find their progress thingy and enter all your activities and see how many calories you have burned. I usually don't reccomend these things, but since you can enter things like mopping, vaccuuming, cooking, and such, it is cool and may motivate you to mop just so you can enter it. That is sad, but hey what ever motivates you, and if that motivates you, I am the same way too!!!
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Okay so Monday through today.....
Monday Feb. 2-25 min bike ride-9 miles.
Tuesday Feb 3-Yoga 30 min
Wednesday Feb 4-I triedsomething new that I got in an email from Angela at http://www.homeschoolfitnesscoach.com/blog/. I can see why she says only do this 2 times a week, I only rode 4 miles, but man it felt like 20. Then I followed up with 20 minutes of gentle stretching yoga. Ready for a snack and then start dinner. I am not telling you what I am making because it is not on anyone's healthy eating list, but I will have lots of veggies with it.
The key to body transformation is intensity. You've got to create a metabolic disturbance!! Get to the gym with a specific goal and get to it.
Work at a capacity that leaves you talking in broken sentences. High intensity intervals are awesome for fat loss, but you can only perform these twice a week.
Here is an example of a high intensity cardio session. It can be performed on a treadmill, recumbent bike or if you simply have no choice, an ellyptical trainer:
3-5 minute warm-up
30 seconds hard intensity interval(go all out - bring it on!)
60-90 seconds recovery interval
{repeat interval pattern for 5 rounds)
Finish with a 3-5 minute cool down
Walk past the ladies chatting on the treadmills and go home. Your done!
Now I want to stress that these intervals should only be done up to twice a week because it is very taxing on your body. On the days you do not do intervals you should be strength training and including some low intensity cardio sessions.
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Okay that's it for today's WWW, I will keep a running tab of what I do between Thur. and next Wed. and post it then. Good luck and God bless!
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Valerie
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Feb. 4, 2009 - Untitled Comment
You are doing amazing! I am learning the scale is not my friend...its when my clothes fit correctly or are too big that I get excited! Can't wait to see how you did this week. Keep up the good ( hard) work.