Consistency

OK, I'm being regular, I am exercising everyday that I have planned. I may not do the whole scheduled workout, but I do enough to work each muscle group, at least once. When I eclipse my cardio, I make sure to have broken a sweat and I do at least 30 minutes. My diet still needs work, but I am rarely overeating, I am more erring on the side of under eating.Still I have high hopes. Regina 4-30-08

exercised

yes, I exercised. In fact I exercised even though I needed to be out of the house an hour earlier than usual. I even moved the weight up to 50 pounds. It's still easy for most of the exercises so I'll move it up again on Wednesday. I'm thinking to start using more for my legs than my arms despite the fact that the shoulder exercise is hard at any weight. I had a moment a couple of hours after exercising when I felt taller :-) okay that may sound crazy but it happened!! I think I stretched my muscles and it caused me to walk taller - it's like I was doing that exercise where you act as if there's a string attached to your head and you're being pulled upward. Haven't you done that exercise before?

Going,Going,bump....

I have a new exercise plan that is quite ambitious for the relatively lazy me. What drove me to such lofty plans was a lack of progress. I exercised often, not very regularly, but very often, still no major change in the body parts I really want to improve. My new plan, which ,consists of Mon, Wed., and Fri. Total Body Weightlifting, 2 exercises per muscle group, 10-12 reps, 3-4 sets. Cardio Tue., Thur and Sat., minimum 45 min. I'm going, getting it done, but the bump is any distraction. Anything can keep me from my workout. Today it was just too cold in my house to put on my exercise clothes, furthermore my home gym is also cold. I can easily fix the problems, but why. OK, it is the eleventh hour and I finally figured out Why. Why, because last week I actually lost some pounds, exercising today keeps my week on track, exercise relieves the stress my daughter causes, this may be the program that changes my body and missing one will slow down the progress.

BowFlex day 3

Went to 40 pounds and that seems like plenty especially for my shoulders. I never realized that they were weak.

I'd been super tired since Monday or maybe it was last Friday. Anyway, I went to a meeting last night at Heine Brothers and picked up an expensive bag of "Najla's Gone Nuts" they energized me. That was good. When I got up this morning I stayed up. Yesterday, I just kept getting back in bed so I got very little done on a day I had high productivity hopes for.

Anyway, the workout was uneventful. I need to take music down there because I'm already getting bored. I still think I'm not doing some of the exercises right. I can feel my muscles though so that's fun - it's like they're alive.

Trying to write more and get back into the studio. Both things make me want to talk less and see people less so that's a challenge.

I'm writing at MultiPurpose-Woman and on Thursdays as part of the Thursday 13 meme.

As far as getting back to work as an artist - I renewed Gwendolyn Kelly dot com - in anticipation of having work-in-process to show AND I brought some MDO blocks from the Art-o-mat people for use in a divination piece I have all planned.

BowFlex day 2 exercise

Since last time I did a brief walk. I haven't done that in months. I also signed up to get a "metabolic fingerprint of my resting metabolic rate".

AND I'm blogging and YES, I did exercise day two as planned. Well, not totally as planned. What I wrote I'd do is every scheduled day add 10 additional pounds of resistance until 12 reps of the exercises were too much yet 8 was doable. I added 20 instead because I only started out with 10 so I could focus on how to do the exercises. Of course the 10 was like lifting nothing and I felt that 20 would be the same. On Friday, I'll increase to 40 or 50.

Anyway, I following the Bowflex Power Pro Better Body Workout per the glossy poster that came with the machine. My friend Was meticulous about keeping everything, even the recall info and the fix-it stuff sent by bowflex.

The workout exercises are:

1. bench press (chest)
   
2. triceps press (triceps)
   
3. resisted ab crunch (abs)
   
4. seated row (back)
   
5. low back row (lower back)
   
6. lat pulldown (back)
   
7. biceps curl (biceps)
   
8. lateral raise (shoulders)
   
9. leg press (thighs)
   
10. calve raise (calves)
    
11. seated hamstring curl (gluteal & hamstrings)
    

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started exercising

Amazingly, I have started to exercise. A friend gave me her bowflex about 3 weeks ago. It's been set up and I've been looking at the manual and making plans and thinking about it and planning my approach, etc. etc. Today I went to the workout room (sounds way better than basement). I took it easy as planned. Main purpose was to just go and DO ANYTHING. Actually, the official plan was to do 12 reps of the 12 exercises listed on the quick-start poster using the least amount of resistance possible. Mission accomplished.

Plan for day 2 was to add 5 pounds of resistance (if I was successful doing 12 reps of all the exercises - which I was) each workout until I found the appropriate amount. Seems silly to wait until Wednesday yet I should because the bowflex workout plan said to wait a day between. I have a lot to figure out about the exercises anyway. The poster leaves a bit to be desired in the way of instructions so I need to look most of the exercises up in the book to figure out how to do them correctly.

Need to start a new weight, fat %, muscle % tracker sheet also. Don't think I can post it here but will do it at Multipurposewoman and link. Later for that, I need to shower, find clothes, eat, change the sheets, and do something else in 40 minutes. That's not going to work.