Today was a running day.
Did 6.2 miles in 50 minutes.
Again, uneventful… which is odd for me! I’m like a magnet for funny, weird, nobody’s-gonna-believe-this-when-I-tell-them type stuff when I’m out for a run!
Then again, there WAS that groundhog that I totally freaked out today! Poor thing might have gone into cardiac arrest when I surprised him!!
Sure, movement and exercise are important to help us maintain (or achieve) our ideal body weight and composition. They are also key components for cardiovascular health, respiratory health, digestive health… even mental and emotional health.
But did you realize that movement and exercise are an essential ingredients for successful pain management (meaning, ‘getting rid of pain’, [...]
Today was a resistance/strength training day.
Actually, it was more like a “turbo training” day! I discovered that the clock I had been referring to while working this morning was about 20 minutes slow… rather than skip my work out due to time constraints, I just changed it up and made it a quick one.
Some exercise [...]
Today was a running day (bike still isn’t fixed).
I did a nice, easy run - 3.3 miles.
No major news to share… not enough mud to squish around in, no animal or reptile encounters, no sandwiches falling out of trees, no drunk men trying to ride a bicycle while drinking their beer… pretty uneventful, as far [...]
Whew! Back on track today… didn’t feel “old as dirt”!
Today was full body resistance/strength training day (and also “obstacle course” day, as I needed to avoid being run over by or running into my daughter who was simultaneously doing gymnastics in the same room!).
Again, only one set of everything… no “repeat sequence”.
90 seconds wall squat
90 [...]
Remember back when you were a kid, and you thought that the people who were the age you are NOW were as old as dirt?
As an adult, I’ve always thought that’s so funny… odd. I’ve never (ok, rarely) felt my “age”! I stopped counting years ago. The math just doesn’t add up in my head!
Then [...]
Yesterday was a day “off” from formal exercise. Instead, we enjoyed several hours out in the lake with our visiting family and the kids… swimming, running, playing catch and making vitamin D!
It was a day full of movement, just none of it “formal”!
Today, I went out for a 5 mile run. It was mostly a [...]
Today, I went out for a run bright and early… FINALLY, beat the heat!
It was gorgeous! I went as soon as it was light enough for drivers to see me… caught a spectacular sunrise, deer playing, birds waking up… SO nice.
I did 4.5 miles, then had to head back so that hubby could get to [...]
Sometimes, the plan just doesn’t unfold as originally intended and you just have to get creative!
Today was going to be my running day… a longer run. BUT, I got caught up with some other things that took over the top priority spot on my to-do list this morning, and by the time I could have [...]
Yesterday’s work out was a high-intensity, short duration session. The kind that burns the most fat! (Raises your Resting Metabolic Rate for longer periods of time after your work out than traditional low-to-moderate intensity, steady state cardio.)
I did a series of wind sprints - 16 to be exact. Each sprint was probably in the neighborhood [...]
Yesterday’s work out was a really cool one!
I was still SO sore from my work out two days earlier, so I knew that I didn’t want to repeat any of those same moves just yet!
I didn’t use a single weight. I only did one “rep” and one “set” of each exercise (well, almost). The entire [...]
Saturday was a BIG resistance training day - big work out. I’m not sure where that ‘wild hair’ came from, but I pushed it pretty darn hard!
150 lunges with a twist - onto BOSU ball, holding medicine ball
30 squat jumps with medicine ball
12 slow motion pull-ups
25 push-ups - feet up on exercise ball
25 deep squats [...]
Thursday was a running day. I went out for a fairly uneventful 5 mile, steady state run. Not too fast, not too slow! Juuuuust right! Felt really good!
Yesterday was an “off” day, which means I just did the usual daily stretching, postural and proprioceptive exercises for about 10-15 minutes in the morning.
Today will be a [...]
Today’s “Just One Thing” simple recommendation is to perform the “right” kind of movements on a daily basis to fire up proprioception.
Proprioception is like neurological super food for your brain! In fact, your brain essentially runs on proprioception (mechanoreception) - learning, memory, emotion, attention, physiological function, you name it! Without proprioceptive input, we approach a [...]
It was another full body strength training/resistance training day. I’m having fun really mixing things up lately with these work outs. No really… I mean it! It’s fun!
I decided to do another “one set only” of each exercise, and to keep the work out extremely short and intense. I set the timer again for 15 [...]
Does anyone recall why I originally began posting my workouts for all to read?
It was mainly to diffuse the most common objections I hear… “I don’t have time to exercise”, “I don’t know what to do or where to begin”, “I can’t join a gym right now or buy a lot of equipment”, and “I [...]
(I think I’m going to move these exercise posts over here from Facebook)
Yesterday I went about my resistance training with a different approach. I set my timer ahead of time for 15 minutes and decided to see how much of an effective, full body work out I could fit in in that time frame.
I loved [...]
This past weekend we attended a seminar. We flew out extremely early on Friday morning and arrived just in time to sit in a conference room for the next 8 hours… then a for a few more hours as the meeting moved to a private residence.
Friday was a brutal day for my body and brain! [...]
A couple days ago I tried a different kind of work out… one that focused primarily on holding the pose of the particular move for 90 seconds, or as long as I could. It was just a quick little work out, but let me tell you, two days later, I can STILL feel it in [...]
just a reminder…
I’m still logging my daily exercise routines over on Facebook with the intent of helping you with ideas, or motivation, or understanding how to do a higher intensity full body work out (what current science supports as the most effective type of work out for fat burning, building lean muscle, weight loss, etc.), [...]
