Accountablility thread exercise

 Hey all,

Elina said yesterday to post daily regardless of whether or not exercise occurred.  I cannot seem to locate the post, so in my earnestness to listen to the succussful vets I am posting.  

Did the elipiical today for 20 minutes.  This was a big deal as last time I tried this I ended up messing with the hernia repair pretty good.  Wanted to do a little longer, but started to have a bit of pain just below the rib cage so decided to stop just in case it was something not so good.  I pray that I can do the eliptical, as again tonight I was too late from the classroom to get to the mall before it closed.  Hope everybody had a good day.

I'm glad you posted, Happy Teacher-- I wanted to post but didn't want to step on toes! I missed the first week or so of the accountability post so I think I missed the one where Elina encouraged others to post in her absence.

Saturday I did a great 3 mile walk with my friend along some awesome trails... then Sunday I took a 45 minute walk with my fiance, dropped him off at home to watch football and went to the gym for 45 minutes (30 minutes of eliptical machine followed by 15 minutes of arm strength training).

Yesterday (Monday) I went to the gym for an hour-- it was the fullest I'd ever seen it! Must be January combined with a day off for most from work... I did 30 minutes on the eliptical waiting for a treadmill, then did 30 minutes of interval run/walking at 2% incline doing 5.0/3.0mph intervals.

Yesterday afternoon I drove to Long Island to visit a friend and I stayed over... going home some time this afternoon but not sure if I'll make it to the gym. I asked my friend if she wanted to ride her bike alongside me in the neighborhood while I jogged and she said no... I'll see today and offer again if she wants to take a walk or something, but I have a feeling the answer will be no again. Harumph.

So we will just have to see!

Thank you for posting this!  I was away from my computer for a few days and couldn't post.  I did not do any regular exercise for  the past two days, but I walked for hours during my "mini vacation".  I did not keep track of it, but I was very active.  I will work out today and post that. 

I really appreciate you taking the time to post this as this is "our" thread, it should not just belong to me.  Please feel free to start one at any time.  I will gladly join in.  Back to regularly scheduled  life today.

 Thanks for your post Elina,

I wasn't entirely sure how it worked, and as mentioned by another poster didn't want to step on toes.  But then I thought that hey, this is Elina- one of the most supportive posters on the site!  She would want me to post and at least then I can figure out what I am confused about, loll!

Just did 50 easy going minutes on the eliptical.   Probably shoulda skipped the last 10 as I can feel teh hernia talking to me now, but hopefully it is mild and will resolve by tomorrow.  I am so happy to be back on the eliptical- and so bummed that in less then two weeks I am having surgery on the leg and will not be able to use it AGAIN for several weeks!  sigh.  Oh well, one day hopefully before summer all of the sutures will be gone and I will be unrestricted from activity!