Anyone want to shape up in 2018? A continuing journey.......

My workout last night felt good. I wasn't breathing heavy and kept up ok. Once I do a bunch of legs I am wobbly and slow it's like my muscles lock up and I'm in slow motion. Although I felt great and felt I was crusin I didn't sweat much.

I'm still down three lbs. The scale has not moved not even an ounce.

I can't stop thinking about encorporating weight lifting but just can't fit it in the schedule.

Cheer has started for the oldest. School starts for 2 of the 3 in a couple weeks and dance has started for one daughter and a short session of a few weeks of gymnastics will start for 2 of the 3 HA!

Anyways maybe I can find some at home similar somethings I can do.

markymark550 said:

FoxyRedLa said:

My workout last night felt good. I wasn't breathing heavy and kept up ok. Once I do a bunch of legs I am wobbly and slow it's like my muscles lock up and I'm in slow motion. Although I felt great and felt I was crusin I didn't sweat much.

I'm still down three lbs. The scale has not moved not even an ounce.

I can't stop thinking about encorporating weight lifting but just can't fit it in the schedule.

Cheer has started for the oldest. School starts for 2 of the 3 in a couple weeks and dance has started for one daughter and a short session of a few weeks of gymnastics will start for 2 of the 3 HA!

Anyways maybe I can find some at home similar somethings I can do.

Do you work out at home or belong to a gym? If you can only find time at home, I would suggest going to a sporting goods store and buy 2 of the plate loaded dumbbells. They shouldn't be too expensive and you can train every muscle group with them. One is about 10 lbs with no plates and would probably be a good starting point to assess what you can do. As you advance, you can buy plates as you need them. I have some at home and it's nice for when I can't make it to the gym.

Hi! I currently workout at home and have only been at it for 7 weeks. On my 2nd week of actually trying to be better with food. Appears I'm only doing enough to maintain. I have a resistance band and two 3lb weights ha! Thank you I will look into those weights! I'm currently also doing the T25 series.

I am getting better. Slowly. Worked on my V hold tonight. Looked more like a reverse crunch

I found a gal I like that lifts and am next going to incorporate her curcuits in too. She might be my weekend workouts when I have more time to figure out how to do some of her stuff without the gyms machines.

Thanks guys! Had chicken tossed in fajita seasoning and roasted veggies and couldn't pass up a boiled potato with a dollop of sour cream! Drank my water too.

Nite!

FoxyRedLa said:

curmudgeoness said:

If you can give some idea of your budget and how much space you have, we probably can help you get stuff you can use at home (that you would actually use).

Also, especially as a woman, there are a lot of body-weight exercises you can do to build strength and muscle, e.g., squats, lunges, push-ups, one-leg calf raises.

I don't have a budget at the moment. I have enough to pay the bills and one activity for each kid to keep them busy. I could make it happen but my progress is just minute HA right now not certain how much I want to invest. I am working with what I got. Might have to lift some jugs

I do many body-weight exercises now. That's all T25 is, mostly. There's plenty I can do I think with my 3lb weights and resistance band. But I will seek you guys out when the time comes!

T25 is a lot of lunges, squats, planks, push ups, crunches in a lot of differ positions hah, jumping jacks, blah blah blah many more.

I have some recipies I wanna try this weekend. And I might even meal prep my lunches at least. Getting the kids nite on a roll and almost time to work out. 

See ya!

Oh I do have an eliptical - again kids are an issue. They 2 little ones just can't be left alone and the hubs runs the oldest around and has other priorities. I can't even get 25 minutes for T25 uninterrupted. But hopefully that will change over even the next year. 

I found that there is no competition for my attention between 4 and 6am.  
Sleep is the only thing anyone wants to do then, so I use that as workout time.

Hey guys! Thanks for listening to me ramble and complain! My little kids are close to sleeping through the nite. I still get multiple interruptions. I am aware i could wake up early before the kids but I'd then risk waking them and then they'd be in my way during and even while trying to get ready for work. Again personal preference of I need some peace and quiet.

Im not certain I'd my kids are high maintenance but they are together all the time and are highly competitive and just crawl all over me. When I get home either myself or hubs will play with them outside while the other cooks. Then the hubs will run the oldest to practice or game come back and eat. Then we play more then bed time then mom's workout time. But again I can only get a few minutes of uninterrupted time which for my current set up is not ok it's fast paced for 25 minutes. I need time to focus. If I yell at them or swat their but they just scream and fake cry relentlessly. Which ok say I  a softy but they're my kids and I don't choose to make them feel like I'm not paying attention to them or they aren't important. If the schedule allows my oldest entertains so I can knock out my workout.

We are a full schedule of 5 busy bodies. And yes thank you I am learning to accept it takes time and work. There are no quick fixes. I just get discouraged when others get such great results. But I'm learning to accept me and what I'm capable at this time.

Gonna keep plugging along. Thanks again guys! And I do know it'll get better once the kids are in school. My 3 year old starts 4 1/2 days in a few weeks and her dance class so maybe that will wear down the animal. My youngest is the easy one and even easier when the animal is down for the count

I guess my trainer was in a deadlift state of mind yesterday: deadlifts, one-leg Romanian deadlifts, sumo deadlifts, three sets of each (plus squats, lunges, calves, etc.). Today's run was more of a slog.

I find that I am once again in that weird state of mind where my brain tries to tell me that I haven't exercised yet today, even though I just finished a nine-mile run. I don't know what's going on with that. I've reached a point with exercise where I am doing so much that I have to struggle to fit in adequate rest and food and do anything else each day. It's all a bit strange.

FoxyRedLa said:

I'm doing at home work outs with 3lb dumbbells. I'm doing a muscle group with cardio 4 days and leg day alone once a week.

I'd just like to say I have to help lower myself to the toilet seat after leg day and if I'm being honest I am almost just flopping down and will need to replace my toilet.

That is all.

I fell down after leg day last week.
I had skipped it for almost a month, doing stairmill cardio instead in prep for hiking.
I have to squat and kneel down frequently for work.
30 minutes in the car had me all stiffed up and I went to kneel on one knee first thing and I went down hard in front of a yoga pants hottie lol
Crashed onto my knee and keeled over on my hip.

^^^^^^ Yep.
I've lost about ten pounds over the past two years -- and nearly two dress sizes, because I have gained muscle and lost fat.

Here's my back, LOL. My trainer got a little snap-happy the other day. I wish the pic was smaller. Yikes!



While I am pretty psyched about how my back looks, I was at the gym today, looking at my thighs and thinking they looked fat. Then another woman told my trainer she wished she had leg definition like mine. That was nice.  It only took running 18,000 miles to get to this point.