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Has anyone started the #1 Challenge for the week? Nah nah nah nah nah. I did. Stepped 12229 steps yesterday. Did 20 minutes Cardio and walk/jog 49 minutes. Are you up for the challenge. jdesco311. Anybody else? Hellooooooo!!!! Iamkfaz, jbliesmer, BonnieBee.quit.2.8.15,@Nancy95, Strudel, @Thomas
Yesterday was 
Finished it in 7 minutes and 32 seconds.
Went for 2 15 minute walks during my breaks.
Only had 10,625 steps for the day.
AWESOME
Hey, Jackie, I did a load of laundry and watched "Say Yes To The Dress" yesterday. Guess that doesn't count as exercise, does it? . LOL!
xxxooo, Sky
Put on your EX t shirt and EXercise. I just finished mowing the lawn, push.... in my EX T shirt. Kept me cool, absorbed the sweat!!!!!.
No can do, Jackie. I have a nail appointment and then out to lunch with my Beloved. But I'll keep your idea in mind!
I took my ten-year-old twins to basketball camp yesterday and today. And they go to different camps (boys and girls). So that counts for 4, right?
Eric
Huh?
Sorry Jackie.
You see, between my normal daily "stuff", I've found all these new friends and spend all my spare time trying to stay in touch with them via EX.
xxx
Get moving.
Just returned from a 3 mile walk - did 4 on Saturday and an hour in the pool yesterday! Thanks Jackie!
Great you desire a another gold star.
Okay i get it. No one wants to be an SSS sexy senior sitizen like me. I WAS an FFFFF until i turned sixty yrs old.
Tomorrow I get to throw away my cane. Tomorrow I will begin. At least I can do upper body.
I have been waiting. Whoo Hoo. ... 1 more day. Yay
Hi All, I haven't been able to start yet. I have been sick
Keep up the great work, I will be there with you once I'm feeling better.
Went to aqua therapy today and worked out in the pool at the assisted living place where my insurance is covering me for aqua therapy. I am not sure how well this is going to work for me...the pool is very heavily chlorinated and inside and warm and I used my rescue inhaler before starting and had to use it again TWICE after the work out. It is very slow and tedious compared to what I am used to doing on my own but perhaps this is a BETTER WORKOUT. I am not sure yet. There is heavy emphasis on stretching and moving arms and legs in particular order...it's a bit intimidating for me. I am used to working out, just not with someone right there at my side saying...no, no, no...I want you to do it THIS way. I will be going twice a week. Next session is Thursday, hope to use my friend's pool tomorrow to kind of practice what I was shown today.
I am definitely MOVING!
Keep it up.
Wow you have already met the #2 challenge good job. Keep on moving.....old lady.
After seeing pictures from my vacation last week, I definitely need to get serious about working out. Yesterday and today I did a 1 mile walk w Leslie Sansone, Walk away the Pounds...Lol... I laugh because I call it my old lady workout... No offense to my older buddies. Lol
Girl you better stop talking about your old lady buddies. lol. Missfit 757 2017 June 3. kristen_9.7.15
I only walked 3.3 miles today. Not to bad for a young lady. Yes I call myself a young lady. Mind over matter. lol.
I love it! I only hope I can be as active as you! Looking good Miss Jackie!
Honestly sometimes it can ce rough. Being safe is important. One wrong twist. When uou are young can be serious pain and tme to heal. But i am pumped. Lets get moving!!!!!
kristen-9.7.15 There are some of us who identify ourselves as old ladies...i.e. "The Old Lady Caravan"...there is absolutely nothing wrong with starting slowly and then moving up. You are starting, that's what matters! No offense taken by this old lady.
XO,
Ellen
Getting ready to do my old lady workout! Teehee
I have been here all for challange, I strength train mon and Thers. Then Teusday andThursday I do strenth straing an woring . I water aerobics tues thurs. as well walk lazy river for an hour.
Tuesday: I took 2 15 minute walks on my breaks at work.
I ran 3.02 miles (my first mile was 9:50- fast for me).
Then I went fishing. Because - balance.
Total steps was 14044
I went to my friend's pool today and I worked out for an hour...I did not sleep well last night, my aquatic therapy left me in agony, my sciatica was terrible and one elbow would not let up. Getting in the pool today and working out, doing some familiar things and some of what I was shown yesterday really seemed to help. I am tired but lack of sleep would certainly contribute to that. I have aqua therapy tomorrow and then I have no idea about Friday. I do not have a pool to go to on the weekend but I am working Saturday so I will get my time in there. I just might make Sunday a day of rest. I will have to make something special for Father's Day but I do not have to kill myself. At one point in my life, I used to work out twice a day. I wanted results and I wanted them FAST.
Next week, I have two aqua therapy appointments and a doctor's appointment that pretty much takes the whole day. I will go by the weather to figure out if I can get to the pool outside. I absolutely noticed some issues with my breathing last night and again this morning...better now. I do not handle being in a warm, heavily chlorinated pool in an enclosed area...very well. I could TASTE the chlorine.
I have to plan for what to do when the weather is not going to allow me to work out in an outdoor pool.
Burn Body Fat 1 Mile | Leslie Sansone's Walk at Home - YouTube
Who wants to join me in the old lady workout. Haha
Well I went on the upper porch where all our workout equipment is. Layers of pollen everywhere. The back of our house faces a 30 acre field. Stood and did 10 bicep curls, and a couple of triceps. Too hard to do in a standing position first day off the cane and still in the boot. Decided, the heck with it and started cleaning, wiping off the free weighs, the workout bench, vacuuming EVERYTHING. Got that half of the porch clean enough to at least sit on the bench and do the weights properly. Tomorrow I will begin again. At least I actually went out there and did some reps. And it felt GOOD to do so! (Though the vacuum weighed more than the weights. Gotta start back slow.... no dummy here.)
I would say you got quite a workout Giulia just cleaning that counts you were moving !
Sorry Jackie I still have not started my walking routine but I have been working in the yard planting ,composting ,digging etc for hours !
That's moving
Well Giulia at least you are moving. Yay for being off cane. You are so right about starting slow. Well today I truthfully did not do any workouts or get up and move it. Felt out of sorts with my breathing. The heat and pollen is getting the best of me today. Well @kristen-9.7.15 I may have to join you on those old lady workouts when its too hot to walk. lol
You know, if we're truly motivated and serious about this challenge, we do what we can. BonnieBee was planting, composting, digging - I used to do that ALL DAY LONG. Cutting down trees, cutting up trees, hauling huge chunks up ditches, chopping through clay hard soil... you do that for four hours in 90 degree heat - there's nothing left of you to do a regimented "exercise routine." That IS exercise. Rototilling a garden by hand IS exercise. Hauling bales of hale IS exercise. So I figure as long as we're expending energy and burning calories - we're heading in the right direction. And again I say - we do what we can. The point is to DO something. Not sit like a blob. Sharon, if your breathing is out of sorts and you're affected by pollen this day - then there's tomorrow. The point is, if we take on this challenge that Jackie has presented, then we do what we can when we can. And that means, once again, self-discipline. Just like when we quit. And we all know that although self-discipline is hard, it sure does make us feel pretty darn good about ourselves! And that's a dopamine high that cigarettes never gave us!
I'm joining! I haven't been keeping count but I've Did at least 15mins on my treadmill a day along with some "glute lifting" exercises my poor buns and hips are screaming! My goal isn't to burn calories it's to gain and tone. I got a calorie packed shake mix that give me a big boost in my calorie intake a long with food.
JACKIE1-25-15 I'm a bit confused as to what blog page we're all supposed to be on. This one or jdesco's, or "A New day keep it moving..." Might not be a bad idea to perhaps have simply ONE place where we call can comment daily? Or weekly?
I mentioned that "I would love for this group to continue and not fall by wayside so if anyone has any idea how to make this more user friendly or any other ideas please offer your suggestions. Mark your input is welcome. Thanks. I think it is important to continue to improve our lives along with being smokefree." Mark responded but no one else did. I haven't quite figured it all out. Did not know that I was in charge. jdesco311 , haven't seen in a while I have just been trying to keep it going because I love the idea. I may have to go back and change titles to discussion board. Right now I am on R & R
JACKIE1-25-15 wrote:
I mentioned that "I would love for this group to continue and not fall by wayside so if anyone has any idea how to make this more user friendly or any other ideas please offer your suggestions. Mark your input is welcome. Thanks. I think it is important to continue to improve our lives along with being smokefree." Mark responded but no one else did. I haven't quite figured it all out. Did not know that I was in charge. jdesco311 , haven't seen in a while I have just been trying to keep it going because I love the idea. I may have to go back and change titles to discussion board. Right now I am on R & R
Yes Discussions are better for these types of endeavors. Blogs are more for telling a story or sharing an opinion.
Mark
EX Community Manager
Can I write a draft in discussions?
I'm very limited on time today so I did part of Richard Simmons, Sweating to the Oldies 2. I did the weights and abs. About 15 minutes. Off to the dentist then work from home. See ya!
Is that like old lady buddy EXercises. Hmmm? Wow weights and abs. I haven't done much today. I will met my moving challenge before the day is over. Keep smiling.
Haha @kristen-9.7.15 I grew up with Richard Simmons too. Loved his workouts. He actually came to Indy and I got to workout with him in person lol. Will have to do one of his workouts lol
I worked out in a pool yesterday for 45 minutes, alternating between "running" and doing leg lifts and using water weights. I would probably have gone a little longer except that my friend showed up and wanted to talk so I got out and sat with her for a while before I went home.