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The 10 minute challenge

2007-09-21T16:41:44-05:00

OK, this challenge will be a perfectionist’s nightmare, but necessary. Carrie and I were talking about how hard it is to start something when you know you can’t finish it. So things are often left to pile up and get overwhelming.

For me, this is housework. I just don’t want to if I can’t finish. But if I just spent 10 minutes a day, I would have a clean house. At least a cleaner house. It’s really amazing how much you can do in 10 minutes.

So, what is your dreaded, or overwhelming task? Post it here, and lets try for 2 weeks to get just 10 minutes a day towards that task. Oh, the hard part? After 10 minutes, you have to stop. Just walk away. Nope, not even a little longer. Set the timer, and when it beeps, you are done. Period.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have 10 minutes of housework to do.

Bree

Cool new push ups challenge

2008-08-18T08:59:48-05:00

Can you do 100 push ups in a row?

Nope, me neither. But I’m getting there. Within two months, that’s my goal.

I found this very cool resource called one hundred push ups that starts you wherever you’re at (even if that’s less than 5 push ups in a row) and takes you through a six-week (maybe slightly more) training program. At the end of it, you should be able to do 100 push ups.

I just started week #2.

Who’s with me on this one?

Cheers,
Julie

World wide half/ 5K

2007-09-13T13:21:11-05:00

On the suggestion of other runners on this site, I started to listen to the Phedippidations podcast by Steve Runner. He started something called the world wide half marathon. It’s a free event, run wherever you want to on a specific weekend. There is also a 5K event, for the same weekend. http://www.worldwidehalf.com/cgi-bin/wwhalf/home

I know better than thinking I could do a half marathon right now, but I could do a 5k, and Tom has been asking me when I was going to sign up for one. My options are limited in my rural setting, but this is perfect! I’ll be running with hundreds of other people from around the world, all of us doing so just to do it. Shawn has joined me, and we have a team: Team MTM.

So, October 13 or 14 (either day is great) please join us for our 5K with others from everywhere. You can do this.

Bree

Running in the heat

2008-07-14T12:36:46-05:00

I’m trying to get my 5K to under 30 minutes...I find running about 3 times a week really works well for me. I don’t have a summer gym (hey...the sidewalk is free) and I have some Ti-Bo videos and an elliptical machine for when in rains. But suddenly I find its getting really hot! I don’t want to take the whole summer off running (my next 5K is in September) ...does anyone have any tricks to stay cool in the summer?

Beat the Heat?

2008-06-18T19:54:52-05:00

Anyone got tips to stay motivated during the summer heat???

Oops …….“did anyone see?” Embarrassing Fitness Moments

2008-06-25T15:09:46-05:00

Embarrassing Fitness Moments-In the gym-

Yes, it really can happen, I fell off the treadmill-

Luckily, I only walk on it so it was not going to fast so I was not hurt, just very embarrassed that it actually happened.

And yes, there were three other people in the cardio room at the time.

Moral -Put the sweatband on before you start or STOP the machine to put it on.

Anyone else want to share?

What does your gym look like?

2008-01-25T06:23:02-05:00

I wanna see how your gym looks like. Here is mine:

Keep posting!

Improving wrist strength

2008-06-16T05:32:58-05:00

Hi everyone,

I’ve been making good progress with my resistance training but have reached a point where my right wrist is holding me back with some exercises. If I am doing pushups or chinups or any other exercise which involves putting strain on the hand, it’s usually my wrist that gives out before any of the muscles I am training.

I first noticed the problem at the beginning of the year. It probably didn’t help that I was visiting my cousins in Ireland who had gotten a Wii for Christmas - it’s a killer on the wrists!

Does anyone have any exercises or tips that will help me to build up wrist-strength?

Much appreciated!
James

Help me plan my gym time/routine!

2008-04-02T11:13:49-05:00

I’m sort of looking for ideas. The gym I’m joining is a local chain with several locations within a short drive of home and work. They offer classes, which I will try out on Wednesdays and Fridays (when I’m not at Jazzercise.)

Here’s what I would like to know.

Do you keep a notebook or log of your gym workouts, machines used, reps of resistance stuff? Do you write out what you will do first, and then tick it off, or do you write down what you did afterwards? Do you use any outside resources (books, web sites) to get ideas of how to organize your routine?

I figure if I’m not going classes, I’d like to do a warmup on a cardio machine, then some resistance work, then some long slow burn activity. I tend to get sloppy on doing resistance work if I don’t have a plan, I just do a random amount of reps before I get fatigued, and I don’t intend to fork out the big bucks for a personal trainer. There are probably excellent books or worksheets, or maybe even a web site, where I could pick from a menu of moves and/or machines.

I figure this is like looking up the restaurant menu before going out to eat, so I can plan my calorie intake instead of going in blind and having the 1200 calorie “lite” Cobb salad or something.

The nice thing about the Jazzercise classes is it’s all prescribed and choreographed to music. You don’t get a break till the song is over, and then, ideally, you ‘keep moving’ in the short interval. I’d eventually like to take my resistance schedule and time it out to songs on the iPod the same way. Does anyone do this?

Input on books, etc., would be appreciated. So many of you seem to know exactly what you want to achieve with your gym time, I’m eager to tap into that.

Has anyone here tried kettle bells?

2007-11-22T21:39:14-05:00

Hi, I was thinking of investing in a kettlebell, is there anyone who uses them and can give me an opinion on them?