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Walking Away a Winner

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:32:06 GMT

None of us are that sick, so we all went for a 2+ mile walk today. :) Now my legs are telling me all about it...

Please forgive me for complaining...

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:51:54 GMT

First the good news... hubby, all the kids, and I took a 1 mile walk yesterday. That was fun.

Bad news... all the kids and I are sick. Sore throats, snot.... basically colds. Nothing serious, so it could be so much worse! But since I just spent most of the last month sick, I was hoping for a bit of a break. Sigh.

We'll get back to walking when we all feel like it. Or when *I* feel like it.

Oh, and no, I didn't do the weight work. But I've been carrying Timothy around... does that count?

I walked!

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:04:02 GMT

We really don't have good places to walk around here. We live on a 55mph road... all country roads with no shoulders.... you get the idea. But if we go our from our house and head to the right, there is a short path that leads to a short road... that leads to the road that goes past the cemetery. It's a slow road with horses and chickens along the sides, and people slow down to go around pedestrians. If we go the end of the road and turn around to home, that's a 2 mile round trip. :)

Monday, we made it to the cemetery and back, so about 1.25 miles. Tuesday we did the whole 2 miles. Today, my legs are sore, so I know we did something. I'm hoping to walk again tomorrow.

The first day I held Levi's hand while he walked. For being 2 1/2 yrs, he did pretty well, especially since he decided his Pooh bear had to go with us. He slowed down on the return trip, but did all of his own walking. Tuesday, I put him in the jogging stroller. Both days I had Timothy in the Ergo, but I'm thinking I'll put both of them in the stroller to start, and take the Ergo along in case I need it.

Maybe today I'll do some upper body weights. Maybe.

Yikes, has it been that long???

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:45:59 GMT

It's been too long.

I did part of the floorwork from The Firm Hare workout yesterday. Then I did Your Personal Best, an old workout by Elle MacPherson and Karen Voight. Don't laugh... it's a good workout! They do it all outside and the scenery is gorgeous.... and I'm not talking about Elle. ;)

I ordered new workouts today! The Firm Fitprime and Kickbutt (their term, NOT mine) DVD sets today. The reviews are great, and I watched the clips.... they look like excellent workouts. I love variety. I'm hoping something new will inspire me.

I also need to go through what I have and find a few tapes to try to sell on Ebay.

Something to report!!

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:08:19 GMT

Yesterday, I did a 5-min. segment from The Firm More 5-Day Abs and also managed some dips in the kitchen while waiting for the microwave. ;)

Today, I did about 2/3 of The Firm Maximum Body Shaping. That's one of my favorite weight training videos. I was interrupted a bunch of times. Such is the life of a mother! LOL

I printed out a planning form designed for homeschooling. It is 5 columns wide and 8 columns long. I'm going to look through my videos and write out 8 weeks worth of exercise days, 5 days per week.

Not much today

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:36:41 GMT

I've been sore from lifting weights, so I didn't do any exercise for a couple of days. I did do my own made up weights workout today, along with a segment from More 5-Day Abs from the Firm.

Timothy!

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:54:07 GMT

Here's my boy! I might be figuring out this photo thing.

Weights today

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:46:55 GMT

I did The Firm Volume 4, from their classic series. Wow... I bought that when I was in college! It's a great aerobic weight training workout. You get it all in 45 min.... hard to beat that! It's one of my favorites.

Rosanne, to answer your question, yes, I have a step! It's a long one used by lots of fitness centers. It looks like this:

http://www.sportsunlimitedinc.com/step1.html

Before you pass out from the price I bought it used.

I'm not sure if you would like Christi Taylor's workouts. I seem to remember you saying you don't like complicated choreography, which is why you like the walking workouts so much. That's great, but Christi T's stuff is pretty dancy. I love complicated steps and used to do drill team in high school... I just love that kind of thing. But if you don't like to have to think about where to step next, you won't like her workouts.

You can go here: http://www.collagevideo.com/ to view excerpts of lots of exercise videos, including Christi's. :)

Will someone please teach me how to post pictures!!!!! LOL

Tuesday

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:50:55 GMT

I did most of the first half of Christi Taylor's Totally Cool Step. It was fun! She's my favorite instructor and has great music on most of her tapes/DVDs. I'm prone to overdoing it when I do her tapes as I'm restarting exercising... she's so fun, I just don't want to stop! LOL I remember when I was able to do the whole workout. I look forward to getting there again. :)

Monday

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:07:49 GMT

I did the first 20 min. or so of Fitness Formula.... warm-up and about 1/2 of the step segment. I would have kept going, but Timothy woke up hungry. :)