More Links.
Ten Ways to Create a Personal Fitness Plan:
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/10-ways-to-create-a-personal-fitness-plan-518029/;_ylt=AsiSil60lDTynoC2bpMusVpqbqU5
I really enjoyed this article. It gives useful tips and I find it to be motivating. Hope it does the same for others!
6 Ways Exercise Can Cure Depression:
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/6-ways-exercise-can-cure-depression-516744/;_ylt=AguoJNPFU5TbMUR9NrkIHcZqbqU5
This article hits a soft spot in everyone's heart, I think. Everyone has a down point. I mean seriously, if you are not feeling down or even depressed in this current economy when all is not looking good, you are on some fantasmic happy pills! This article explains why and how exercise works with our bodies.
5 Tips To Make the School Year a Success:
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/life/5-tips-to-make-the-school-year-a-success-515151/
Great tips that actually apply to all people! The five tips can be stretched and used in everyday life. I like this because it is great advice for all ages. Maybe even teach this to our little students.
Read away and be inspired, motivated, and excited!
~*MaSy*~
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday Workout
Okay I know this post is slightly delayed, but here it is nonetheless.
Monday Monday...
Part of my dedication and motivation comes from driving my sister to school on Monday mornings. So I got enough sleep Sunday night after a late night at work. Woke up at 930 to take the sister to school at 10. Then, since the gym is across the street, headed to the gym for the workout.
How did I do? Well I tried to go gradually because I wasn't sure how I was feeling that day.
I decreased my elliptical time so that I would have the energy to do weights. (Yes I know I am supposed to do weights first, then cardio so that I have the energy... but the elliptical was open!). Set the timer to 15 minutes (ends up being 20 because of the "cooldown" which I just keep pumping through), threw my notes on the machine, and hooked up the music. I just went for it.
I find the first 5-10 minutes of the cardio workout to be the hardest. Not sure why. When I hit the 15 minutes I am good and can go on for days... seriously.
After that I did some quick leg stretches to loosen the elliptical muscles and hit the hip abductor machine. I did that for one song. Then I hit the hip adductor machine for another song. Workkked it.
Off to the Workout Circuit. I focused more on the arms here: triceps, biceps, deltoids, forearms, ... youuu know. Hit the quad machine as well.
Off to the dance stretching. I did some intensive dance stretches (most focus is on legs and core). Did the splits and really felt good.
Yet today I could not feel my thighs. Between the hips and the stretches I possibly maybe definitely over stretched my upper inner thighs. And boy does it hurt. Hence my difficulty walking.
Unfortunately I was not able to make it to the gym today. My thighs are limiting my ability to move at the moment. No worries, I have been doing wall push ups to work my arms.
One thing I am thankful amidst all this working out and soreness: my jacuzzi. OH jacuzzi I love you so! :]
I felt good being in the gym. While trying to not over do it, I managed to over do it. In my mind, I am still the fit girl I was a couple years ago with very low body fat percentage. Now, with multiple pounds, I have the cardio but necessarily the flexibility to hold my leg up next to my head or sit in splits for 5 minutes plus.
Moral of this: keep going to the gym, go softer on myself.
It felt good studying on the machines. It felt good pushing it. It helped decrease some of the stress and tension I have accumulating in my body from life.
Here is to another week. May I decrease this soreness and get back in that sweatlodge. :]
~*MaSy*~
Monday Monday...
Part of my dedication and motivation comes from driving my sister to school on Monday mornings. So I got enough sleep Sunday night after a late night at work. Woke up at 930 to take the sister to school at 10. Then, since the gym is across the street, headed to the gym for the workout.
How did I do? Well I tried to go gradually because I wasn't sure how I was feeling that day.
I decreased my elliptical time so that I would have the energy to do weights. (Yes I know I am supposed to do weights first, then cardio so that I have the energy... but the elliptical was open!). Set the timer to 15 minutes (ends up being 20 because of the "cooldown" which I just keep pumping through), threw my notes on the machine, and hooked up the music. I just went for it.
I find the first 5-10 minutes of the cardio workout to be the hardest. Not sure why. When I hit the 15 minutes I am good and can go on for days... seriously.
After that I did some quick leg stretches to loosen the elliptical muscles and hit the hip abductor machine. I did that for one song. Then I hit the hip adductor machine for another song. Workkked it.
Off to the Workout Circuit. I focused more on the arms here: triceps, biceps, deltoids, forearms, ... youuu know. Hit the quad machine as well.
Off to the dance stretching. I did some intensive dance stretches (most focus is on legs and core). Did the splits and really felt good.
Yet today I could not feel my thighs. Between the hips and the stretches I possibly maybe definitely over stretched my upper inner thighs. And boy does it hurt. Hence my difficulty walking.
Unfortunately I was not able to make it to the gym today. My thighs are limiting my ability to move at the moment. No worries, I have been doing wall push ups to work my arms.
One thing I am thankful amidst all this working out and soreness: my jacuzzi. OH jacuzzi I love you so! :]
I felt good being in the gym. While trying to not over do it, I managed to over do it. In my mind, I am still the fit girl I was a couple years ago with very low body fat percentage. Now, with multiple pounds, I have the cardio but necessarily the flexibility to hold my leg up next to my head or sit in splits for 5 minutes plus.
Moral of this: keep going to the gym, go softer on myself.
It felt good studying on the machines. It felt good pushing it. It helped decrease some of the stress and tension I have accumulating in my body from life.
Here is to another week. May I decrease this soreness and get back in that sweatlodge. :]
~*MaSy*~
Mais Oui...
Maybe the French have an idea...
Not going to lie... I do some of these already. And it does make me feel more motivated. :]
http://shine.yahoo.com/event/autumninnewjeans/4-ways-french-women-stay-thin-without-the-gym-515174/
Not going to lie... I do some of these already. And it does make me feel more motivated. :]
http://shine.yahoo.com/event/autumninnewjeans/4-ways-french-women-stay-thin-without-the-gym-515174/
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