Wednesday, December 28, 2011

11/6 through 12/28!

12/28 Wednesday - Elliptical machine for 15 minutes warm up, 30 minutes at 8, 15 minutes of cool down, exercising every day until new year's should help make up for a slow month...
Total  150  Sedentary Nature 14    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/27 Tuesday - Elliptical machine for 15 minutes warm up 30 minutes at 10, 15 minutes cool down... exercising every day until new year's should help make up for a slow month...
Total  149  Sedentary Nature 14    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/26 Monday - Elliptical machine for 15 minutes warm up 30 minutes at 10, 15 minutes cool down... exercising every day until new year's should help make up for a slow month...
Total  148  Sedentary Nature 14    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/25 Sunday - Elliptical machine for 15 minutes warm up 30 minutes at 8, 15 minutes cool down... exercising every day until new year's should help make up for a slow month...
Total  147  Sedentary Nature 14    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/24 Saturday - Elliptical machine for 15 minutes warm up 30 minutes at 8, 15 minutes cool down ... exercising every day until new year's should help make up for a slow month...
Total  146  Sedentary Nature 14    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/23 Friday Elliptical machine for 15 minutes warm up 30 minutes at 8, 15 minutes cool down... exercising every day until new year's should help make up for a slow month...
Total  145  Sedentary Nature 14    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/18 this was a boo-hoo-ey day... I went to the SFSPCA and walked a couple of miles fast...
Total  144  Sedentary Nature 14    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/17  - I think I might have jogged 2 miles this day... not sure though

12/16 Friday
The goal was to jog 30 minutes, regardless of pace... I jogged 34 minutes...and covered 3.25 miles!  Go me!  Lots of stretching, hot shower...and then icing?  And hopefully I'll do 2 miles tomorrow and 3 miles Sunday... the old long-term goal was exercising consistently for a year (accomplished October 15, 2011)...I'm not sure what my new goal is... 5 miles at once? doing some kind of fun race?  hmmmm
Total  143  Sedentary Nature 12    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/11 Sunday - Jogged 3 miles, I was jogging for 30 minutes straight!!! Yay!  stretched, hot showered, and iced my shins...
Total  142  Sedentary Nature 12    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/4 - Sunday - my legs hurt and i was completely exhausted... and so I did yoga instead for about a half an hour... not sure if it was exercise, but I hot tubbed before and iced my legs afterward in the hopes of decreasing pain before the coming week!
Total  141  Sedentary Nature 12    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/3 - Saturday - woke up before a crazy busy day and got out and exercised! 2 miles in 22-23 minutes!  Go team!
Total  141  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/2 - Friday - Jogged 2.23 miles with less than 10 minute miles!  Go me!
Total  140  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/27 - Sunday - Jogged 2 miles and walked home with groceries...and walked to movie and back...
Total  139  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/26 - Saturday - Jogged 2.5 miles, and walked half mile warm up and cool down...core muscles very sore from yoga...ooowww....
Total  138  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/25 - Friday 1 hour of yoga, followed by traveling 2.7 miles home... 1.65 miles jogging...
Total  137  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/20 - Sunday - walked .42 miles, jogged 2.15 miles in 24 minutes...picked up stuff from the grocery store (multiple poundage) and walked all of that stuff home.  2 birds, one stone!
Total  136  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/19 - Saturday - walked 1.2 miles...jogged 2.1 miles back from animal shelter in 24 minutes
Total  135  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/18 - Friday - Jogged 2.2 miles in 24 minutes
Total  134  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/12 Jogged 2 miles with a hill involved while visiting DC!
Total  133  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Celebrated my one year of continuing fitness on Oct 15!

11/6 Jogged 2 miles a little faster than usual... 21 minutes instead of 24... that's good!  felt lots better in my breathing....no pain in my lungs!
Total  132  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/5 Jogged 1.2 miles home from volunteering at animal shelter... felt better...
Total  131  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/4 Jogged 2 miles; I have started pre-treating for asthma ahead of my runs with increasing success...
Total  130  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

I don't know what happened here... i probably exercised a bit, but stopped a bit too.

10/14/11 Friday Jogged 2.2 miles to earn my Indian Food.  Jogged from Coolidge Corner to Packard's Corner and back.  Overcame terrible weather and got soaked to the bone, waded through street's disgustingly deep with gross water.  It was awful.  But I did it.  Go me.
Total  129  Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

10/7-10/9 Workouts lost due to illness... sad.
Total  128  Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

10/2 Sunday - Jogged from School Street to Packard's Corner and back to Coolidge Corner = 2.6 miles!  Score!
Total  128  Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

10/1 Saturday - Went to the gym at 9:30 AM despite being a little hungover... exercised on the elliptical for an hour... at 1 for 15 mins, at 8 for 30 mins, at 1 for 20 mins.  Feeling good about that... go Laura!
Total  127  Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/28 Wednesday - Jogged 2 miles before work!
Total  126  Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/25 Sunday - there was no brunch... but i jogged 2 miles to verndale st!
Total  125  Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/24 Saturday - Walked 3.25 miles.  Have a busy day today, feel the need to rest for a bit.  Need to run tomorrow morning.
Total  124  Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/23 Friday - So exhausted...slept from 2 pm to 7:00 PM.  Whoops.
Total  123 Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/21 Wednesday - Jogged 2 miles before work!
Total  123 Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/18 Sunday - Jogged 1.5 miles to brunch, and then walked 1.6 miles back.  Feeling back on track, but worried about keeping up my self-care... planning to exercise wednesday morning, thursday morning, friday & saturday, sunday... but 2 of those need to be at the gym so I don't get injured again!
Total  122 Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/17 Saturday - This is more like it... jogged 1.8 miles today, again forgetting that i need to go to the street before verndale... whatever that is...good job, and i stretched well after since my hips were angry yesterday.
Total  121 Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/15 - Thursday - Got up early, jogged from walgreens to verndale and back...2.12 miles in 25 minutes (5.17 mph) sad to weigh myself and realize I'm 8 lbs up from when I started work 6 weeks ago... boo...work is stressful, eh?  Oh well, getting back on track, go me!
Total  120 Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

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