What's Your Workout Today VSGers? - Wednesday!

I didn't post yesterday because I didn't know I was going to do this but I mowed the front and back lawn at home. Woo**** was a nice work out. I told my brother that I will do it from now on. Took me 35 minutes. We have a hill on the side of the house thats hard to get up and around but I worked my arms damn good. I didn't get lazy with it and went over all of the spots that had to be mowed- my brother used to skip some spots to avoid doing it all and using more energy. I was proud.

Today I might get back out in the yard and weed wack our hill that used to be ivy but now its ALL weeds. If I weed wack and pick up all of the weeds and toss them in the back yard over the fence, thats a good work out AND the lawn will look better. I will even start to pull some of the weeds out from in the ground.

Does yard work like that count as a work out? I sure sweat my ass off and can get pretty heavy breathing. Constant moving.

Any thing that causes you to move qualifies in my book. The idea is to get everyone off the couch, away from the fridge and burning calories that are not in their regular daily activity.

So YES!

Here is my challenge for you today. When you are weed whacking today as you are standing there do it in a half squat. Basically position your feet a little wider than shoulder width apart, in a duck footed configuration and squat down so that your but is just a few inches higher than your knees and then weed whack. Try to get through the whole hill in that position.

You might have trouble sitting down to pee tomorrow...but it will be GREAT  :-)

Anne

Kept my commitment yesterday by going to the gym at lunch and doing cardio.  It was a nice break from work and I came back refreshed.  Had the WLS Group Support meeting last night which got me all fired up to pound out these last 4 lbs!  Tonight I have the diet education class.  Soooooooo........

I will go to the gym at lunch and do cardio!

Love It!

If you want to change up your cardio routine and get a bigger calorie burn out of a shorter time try this:

After a 5 minute warm up at your regular pace, do a 20-30 second push. Basically go as fast as you can for 20 to 30 seconds and then stop even if you can keep going. The idea here is to go from your workout heart rate to a spike in your heart rate. Then return to your normal pace for 2 minutes, then do another push. Do this throughout your cardio time. You can shave some time off too if you normally do a 30 minute cardio, switch to a 20.

So if you are a walker on a treadmill, instead of increasing your pace, increase your incline (your base incline should be 2-4, if you are using 0 the belt is just moving your feet for you) When you push set your incline to 6-10.

If you are a jogger, then increase your pace to as much as you can handle 20 seconds goes way faster than you think.

If you use an eliptical go all out and move your feet as fast as you can.

You can thank me later!

Kickboxing Day!!! It was almost all arms today. 

I work out at Farrells, if you want to see what the program is like you can check it out here:  http://www.extremebodyshaping.com/

Mostly in the midwest, but super intense and fun

Anne

Looks pretty cool. Next time I am up that way I will see if I can pop in for a class.

Got in a 45 min swim at 6am and will do another 45 min after work.  Love being in the water!!!