Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Whoops, forgot to update...recommitting to the cause!

9/13 - Tuesday -
Got up early, jogged from the walgreens to thorndike and back...apparently it was only 1.8 miles, but whatever...battle won.
Total  119Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 14     Injury 5

9/4 - Sunday - walked 3 miles
Total 118  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 14     Injury 5

9/3- Saturday - ran 2.5 miles
Total 117  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 14     Injury 5

8/26 - Friday - 15 minute warm up walking at 4.0 mph, 30 minutes at 5.0 mph, 15 minutes at 4.0 mph.  My heart rate was good for a solid 30 minutes.  I walked and definitely cooled down well, but I didn't really stretch.  I haven't been eating consistently enough, so I felt really weird later.
Total 116  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 14     Injury 5

8/21 - 48 minutes on the elliptical... 30 minutes in a heart rate program to keep me at 75% of my max heart rate?  That does make you work hard, doesn't it!?  18 minutes just warming up and cooling down... Really getting sporadic here... it is tough to work and exercise... I'm going to have start exercising after work... which is going to stink...but probably be worth the sexiness/healthiness...
Total 115  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 14     Injury 5

8/12 - over an hour of ellipticalling, 30 minutes of fat-burn, and over 30 minutes of Target heart rate program...which somehow got me on 10 difficulty. That got pretty challenging, and my heart rate was definitely up there... Despite my lack of exercising the past couple of weeks, my weight hasn't gone up at all.  Phew!
Total 114  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

8/6 - jogging, unknown speed or distance... up in Maine
Total 113  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/31 - jogging, unknown speed or distance... up in Maine
Total 112  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/30 - jogging, unknown speed or distance... up in Maine
Total 111  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/26 Tuesday - 15 minutes ellipticalling at 1, 10 minutes at 6, 10 minutes at 7, 10 minutes at 6, 15 minutes at 1, stretching
Total 110  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/25 Monday - 2.5 miles of jogging for roughly 30 minutes.  And I finished it with a little walking and stretching... I am really impressed that I jogged 2.5 miles in 70 degree weather at 5.0 mph.  I couldn't have done that last October! Good for me! Yay!
Total 109  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/23 Saturday - 12.5 minutes at 1, 35 minutes at 6 or 7, 12.5 minutes at 1... felt good, did some stretching... went to a red sox game and sweated for 3 hours doing nothing. Next workouts: M, T, W, R - 2 higher intensity, and two lower.
Total 108  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/20 Wednesday - 15 minutes at 1, 30 at 6 and 7, 15 minutes at 1.  Felt really good.  Also did crunches & stretches.
Total 107  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/19 Tuesday - 5 minutes at 1, 30 at 6, 5 minutes at 1.  Okay, so... that is only 1 time this week, so I am planning to exercise W, F, & Sunday.  4 times in the week! That is the goal. (update... didn't happen, but I did 3 times!)
Total 106  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/18 Monday - I think I didn't exercise this day.  I know it was just yesterday...but all these days are blurring together...

7/17 Sunday - I did exercise this day... 15 minutes elliptical at 1, 30 at 6, 15 minutes at 1... but that was 4 times in the week.  So that is great!
Total 105  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/16 Saturday -I built part of a dresser this day... so...no exercise.

7/15 - Friday - Um, I don't think I exercised this day...

7/14 Thursday 15 minutes of elliptical at 1, 30 minutes at 6, 15 minutes at 1
Total 104  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/12 Tuesday 15 minutes of elliptical at 1, 30 minutes at 6, 15 minutes at 1
Total 103  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/11 Monday 15 minutes of elliptical at 1, 30 minutes at 7, 15 minutes at 1
Total 102  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/8 Friday 2.6 miles of walking around town, 2.5 minutes warming up on the elliptical at 8 incline to work the booty and back of the legs, then 25 minutes at 10 resistance, then 2.5 minutes cooing down... and very quick walk home for a shower in this crazy heat... I was really struggling to keep going on this workout...
Total 101  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/7 Thursday 10 minutes walking, 24 minutes jogging at 5.0 mph, 11 minutes walking... good for me!
Total 100  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/5 Tuesday 15 minutes at 1, 30 at 10, 15 minutes at 1, go me!
Total 99   Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

Monday, July 4, 2011

98 workouts down... 2 to go!

7/4 15 minutes at 1, 30 minutes at 10, 15 minutes at 1 go me!
Total 98   Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/3 15 minutes at 1, 30 minutes at 10, 15 minutes at 1 go me!
Total 97  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/2 Saturday 15 minutes at 1, 30 minutes at 8, 15 minutes at 1
Total 96   Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/1 Friday Resting...knee feels not so great...took my test and passed it!
Total 95   Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/30 Thursday - 15 minutes at 1, 30 minutes at 10, 15 minutes at 1 go me!
Total 95  Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/29 Wednesday - 15 minutes at 1, 30 at 9, 18 at 1...tired...
Total 94   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

New june workouts!

6/28 Tuesday- 15 minutes at 1, 30 at 10, 10 at 1...felt good...weight going up, boo... Home food tasting too good!
Total 93   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/27 Monday - 15 minutes at 1, 30 at 8, 15 at 1...felt good...
Total 92   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/26 Sunday - 17 minutes at 1, 30 at 9, 13 at 1...did not feel super good...pretty tired.
Total 91   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/24 Friday - Elliptical 17 minutes at 1, 30 minutes at 9, 2 minutes at 1... body very tired, need to eat/drink pre-exercise...
Total 90   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/23 Thursday - Elliptical 15 minutes at 1, 30 minutes at 9, 15 minutes at 1
Total 89   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/21 Tuesday -  Elliptical 15 minutes at 1, 30 minutes at 9, 15 minutes at 1... and hiked from 10:15 until 11:15 PM
Total 88   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

New June exercises!

6/20 Monday - 16 minutes at 1, and 30 at 10, and 14 at 1
Total 86   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/19 Sunday - 46 minutes at 8, and 14 at 5...lowest weight in a loong time!
Total 85   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/17 Friday - The days are blurring together here... when did I exercise, what did I do?  I'm not sure.  But today I definitely did 15 minutes at 1, 30 at 9, and 15 minutes at 1 again...
Total 84   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/16 Thursday - Not sure how long I exercised, but I think it was an hour.  I know I was cranky because I hadn't eaten and I got annoyed at my sister in the morning...and her day at work did not go so well.  Not sure these were related, but magical thinking says...obviously yes.  The exercise was between 30 minutes and 1 hour.
Total 83   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

Thursday, June 16, 2011

New workouts! I've lost 1 inch on each of my measurements since February!

6/15 Wednesday - Elliptical for 30 minutes at 10, then 5 minutes at 1
Total 82   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/14 Tuesday- Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 8, then 15 minutes at 1 for 550 calories.
Total 81   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/13 Monday-Elliptical for 35 minutes at 1.  Burned 260 calories.  Have been feeling a little pressure in my joints...part of me is concerned about repetitive motion problems, and another part of me thinks I should suck it up...maybe I should start throwing in jogging, but if I did it from my house, it would involve incline...so I might have to drive somewhere to run...or I could just walk from my house... hmmmm...
Total 80   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/12 Sunday-Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 8, then 15 minutes at 1 for 550 calories.
Total 79   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/11 Saturday-I'm not sure I exercised this day.
Total 78   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/10 Friday-Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 10, then 15 minutes at 1 for 600 calories burned.
Total 78   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/9 Thursday- Elliptical for 17 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 9, then 15 minutes at 1 for 600 calories burned.
Total 77   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/8 Wednesday - Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 9, then 15 minutes at 1 for 550 calories burned - I was running before I ate or drank to artificially decrease weight, which I probably shouldn't keep doing because it makes it hard to keep my energy up for exercising.
Total 76   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

Monday, June 6, 2011

Lots of new workouts! Down to 172.6 lbs!

6/6 Monday - Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 9, then 15 minutes at 1 for 575 calories burned
Total 75   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/5 Sunday - Walked to the bus stop, cleaning up trash, then got onto the elliptical for 35 minutes at 9 to burn 350 calories.  I'm enjoying being back on track exercise-wise.  I think if I was on vacation all the time, it is possible I could exercise a lot more.  Alas.
Total 74   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/4 Saturday - Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 9, then 18 minutes at 5/1...for 600 reported burned calories.
Total 73   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/3 Friday - Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 8, then 10 minutes at 1 for 500 calories burned.
Total 72   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/2 Thursday - Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 8, then 15 minutes at 1...and a few extra minutes until I hit 600 reported burned calories.  First day home, planning to exercise a lot more now.

Total 71   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

Kept moving... moved on saturday...very hot.  Could not exercise.

5/24 Tuesday - moving lots of stuff... involved lots of stairs and lifting and soreness...counting as exercise.
Total 70   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

5/20 Friday - 5 miles walked with Mully, rough day, too tired to run.
Total 69   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

5/16 Monday - Jogged from appt. in Coolidge Corner... thought I had traveled 2 miles, but I guess I only went 1.82 miles... an hour earlier I started to jog and traveled over .25 miles... so I figure together I got to 2 miles... (I'm getting less strict about this, but my goal is to be just getting active and more fit and able to just go jogging without planning too much, so... this is a good start!) and I probably walked .5 mile too...
Total 68   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

5/14 Saturday - Okay, I did not run today, but I walked over 30 minutes in the morning... and then I walked a fair amount during an apartment crawl...
Total 67   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

Friday, May 13, 2011

new posts... I had a lapse in keeping track & exercising!

5/13 Friday - Went on a long walk/run today... note to self.  Wear sunscreen, even after 2:30 pm... got a touch of color, but not too bad, phew!  traveled 5.11 miles! Legit jogged 2 miles, though there was some extra jogging, quick walking, sprinting, resting, water grabbing...felt good, lungs really feel like the weakness, still fighting off this cough that seems related to allergies, but it is difficult to make it die when i keep coughing! grrr...  but it was a beautiful day, and Mully was such a good boy to run with!

Total 66   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

5/11 Wednesday - I have no explanation for this lapse in journaling.  I think I ran a mile somewhere in there, but clearly, I didn't record it.  So, today I was on the elliptical machine for 50 minutes, with 30 minutes at 8 difficulty.  I traveled 4 miles, and burned 500 calories according to the machine.  Yay.  I am at my lowest weight since 2010, so I must be eating better.  Hoping to keep that up and keep up the exercising.
Total 65   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5