Fitness chat and tips #2

[danniellabella]

Hey Danni - have you got an mp3 player? You can download the mp3 C25K program onto it and give it a crack .
Its bizarre to listen too, they guy speaking tells you when to run and when to walk with music in the background, but hey - it'll help you get to 5k's....
(I'm fairly sure I remember you posting a thread about the c25k program?)

Yeah I've got the C25K and have tried it. I didn't find it helped me to actually jog properly. But thanks for reminding me about my MP3 player...I need to charge it before I go to the gym. (it charges by USB on the computer... a little annoying that I can only charge it that way).

Oh, I've got this other thing called a tabata clock which is good for short burst exercises (like jogging on the spot, skipping, plank, mountain climbers etc). It's just a thing that counts down "three, two, one" and then a bell goes off and that's when you start your exercise. The default timer will stop after 20 seconds with a big buzzzzz and then you get a 10 second break before starting again. If anyone wants the website pm me.

[Winter]

I'm interested in this tabata clock. Sounds like a good way to do interval training by yourself without a trainer. We had Circuit on Friday with a stand-in PT and he said that interval training is the best way to loose weight as it keeps your body working for an hour or so after you finish. Can the ladies in the know about this stuff stop in and fill me in a bit more on the whys and hows? THANKS!

[Mother Goose]

Danni - how did you go jogging today? That clock sounds good too! Can you please PM me the link?

Winter - how are you going?!

Leesa - Hon, I just share my experience as we all do! You have the wonderful experience of being a PT and instructor - you give us all a different POV to our own. None of us has a better light to shine than another - but combined together, our light provides us all with a magnificent bright path which we can chose to follow. and if just one person can learn from my mistakes or experience (get treatment early, follow "the rules"... if only I hadn't run when I wasn't meant too!!!!!) then BRILLIANT! If not, that's fine too - afterall, it is my journey to take. The more support we offer and accept, the more interesting, fun, and easier our own journey's become And how IS your injury? Did you have any treatment on it today?

CQ - how was your last lesson for the new course?! Are you excited?!

Net - how are you travelling hon?

Berny? How is your back today?!

Heather - how are you doing hon?

Leck? Got the Wii going again yet?

AFM - not much happening here. My *plan* is for a rest night tonight because just walking at work I noticed that my left hip is lagging. So I figure rest before PT tomorrow will do it good. But, let's be honest, as tired as I am, my addiction to my treadmill almost always wins out!!!! It is such a big part of my routine now that I find I don't sleep so well if I miss out... How pathetic am I?! I'm looking forward to my session tomorrow... and then I have physio a few hours after PT which will be good. The pilates we do should help my current discomfort

[leckert]

hoping to get to the wii tonight - have new tv but not set up yet- can't go to my pilates class as I haven't been paid for the last 2 weeks (got my contract a day or two late to make it fit with the pay cycle so now no $ to spend for a fortnight), but need to go visit a teacher friend who just had her baby girl sun morning tonight too, around trying to get a couple more expresses in today too too much to do, so little time

[danniellabella]

I have a confession...I was too hungry at my normal gym time and and it was blooming 37 degrees. So I looked at my gym bag, smiled and then went and got a foot long subway with lots of cheese...sooooo bad! Tomorrow is pump, will make an effort to get there. Wednesday is boxing and Thursday I'll either do step or some cardio myself and then Friday pump again.

I find the women's heath magazine website quite handy. I usually go to the Australian one but also find the American one good too. I also got some useful things from Michelle Bridges website, like a table that shows how many calories are burnt per hour of various exercises.

The Tabata thing is at the w's dot beach-fitness dot com/tabata. You have to sign up to do it from what I can gather.

[Mother Goose]

Thanks for the website hints Danni!!!! I am going to go check those out later!!! I always struggle to get going when it's hot too... I feel so sick! Look forward to hearing how your session tomorrow goes!

Leckert - that sucks about pay cycles Hope you manage to get on the Wii in the meantime! Have you got the pilates "game" for it? ooooo enjoy visiting the new bubba!

Well girls, I just did a mediocre session on the t'mill. 30 min. 2.99Km. Too much energy afterwards but too scared to go faster due to hip. It felt slightly more "controlled" tonight as opposed to yesterday. I've been stretching like mad as well to help with the discomfort. Not sure how it is working yet! I just downloaded 2 new songs for my playlist which I am looking forward to utilising tomorrow! I'm loving my current playlist! REALLY looking forward to boxing tomorrow though - I a wee annoyed at a couple of ppl who seem a bit two faced, and frustrated about work today... so it will be good to take it out in boxing!!!

[2CheekyMonkeys]

whoops, i forgot to subscribe too! sounds like you are all going well. Step for me in the morning. last week DD2 was great at the creche, fingers crossed for tomorrow!

[Winter]

Hahaha Danni! Classic!
MG - hope the tready session makes you sweat - you know you want to!
Leesa - how are you feeling hun? Are you starting to come good?
CQueen - Have you now been unleashed on an unsuspecting public?
Nettie - How are those weights going?
Leckert - hope you get your wii soon and you can start dodging the insults I used my sisters and it told me I was a couch potato and obese! Ha!
Berny - Are you a latin dance star today?
Heather - I don't have a chance of looking scrawny! I am one of those body types that is short & stocky & I tend to muscle up too.
Nelle - thanks for new thread, feel free to join in!

AFM - I did Ladies Circuit again today. I am in love with these circuits. Today was warm up on tread mill, then stretches, then running laps around the weight machines, then lunge walks around, then squat walks around, then interval training on the steppers with the levels increasing each time - 30 secs flat out, 15 second recovery - then interval training on the bikes - then into the aerobics room for boxing, burpies, sit-ups, push-ups, star jumps, & plank manoeuvres. I could have done more!

Then at the witching hour, I took my monster, I mean DD, for a 40 min walk up & down the hills out the back. Works out to be about 2.5kms. I did some of my own interval training by putting some flat out runs in there as well ( on the flat ground tho, I'm not insane!). I must have looked silly with a wildly rocking pram in front of me, but DD loved it!

[C~Q]

Hi guys, I didn't even know this thread was here!

I'm about to g0 to bed so no personals sorry

Finished Pump training yesterday and passed yay!!! I team taught my first Pump class today and loved it, it was so much fun!

Then I taught Combat tonight and now I am knackered! Just ate a huge bowl of lasagne but I think i've earned it

Seeing as Lees is popping out for a while I guess it's on me to hold the fort on any technical questions but fire away - i'm up for it!

Well done everyone and go hard tomorrow!!!

[Nettie]

Sorry - in a bit of a rush tonight, but wanted to let you all know that I went for a walk this morning and had my salad for lunch. So I'm kinda on track today!

Tomorrow's out the window though - got to head into work early (hence the rush) so no walk for me.

Hope it's going well for everyone else and I'll try to catch up better tomorrow!

Winter - the weights are idle tonight

[danniellabella]

Just back from pump and then had a healthy salad for lunch...though I'm still a bit hungry so might get a salad wrap from subway soon.

I struggled with pump today, not sure why. My body didn't feel as supple as it normally does. Hopefully after today and then after tomorrow's punch pad class my body will be more supple and ready for Friday's pump class.

[2CheekyMonkeys]

i felt the same in step today daniellebella.. wonder why that is? good on ya for ya salad. i did one too, though had a few of DD1s cheerios too.. naughty

[Mother Goose]

Danni - well done on your healthy lunch! And good on your for going to your class today! How is the wrist holding up?

Hollo good on you for your class too!!!!! I think sometimes our bodies are less responsive if we decline to give them enough recovery time. And sometimes we just have an off day - nothing wrong with that!

Nettie - well done on your walk and salad!!!! How has today been for you?

Leck - any chance of Wii tonight? It's hard to juggle family, heat, and exercise isn't it?

CQ - well done on finishing your course and doing your first class! How exciting! How are you travelling otherwise?

Winter - how are you feeling today after your day yesterday????!!!! VERY impressive!!!!

Well girls, I'm a bit of a mess today. I had a bad pain night last night which left me aggitated this morning. Not a good start to the day . PT this morning. Well, I guess I'm glad I went but it was not good. Don't get me wrong, I boxed well and worked up a major sweat (still not as good as at home); increased all my weights; got through with minimal pain. BUT, I'm so so sick of the LOOKS and COMMENTS from staff and other patrons. I'm pretty sure everyone thinks there is something going on with D and I because they always LOOK at us with "that" kind of look. And today, as I was walking into the gym after dropping DD in the creche, D was talking to another trainer about an upcoming date he has. And S (other trainer) said "With her?" nodding at me to which D replied negatively. I'm not phased by D's response (although a little hurtful because I'd consider myself a decent catch! ) but moreso the fact that these people think we'd get together! COME ON PEOPLE! We' train twice a week and have done for almost a year... which is WHY we have such a good rapport together... and because we've had to work through some pretty major issues so we could train together. I don't like being in the gym to start with (self conscious and have been harassed in gyms in the past by guys so really don't feel comfortable in them), so after the comment this morning, I was the most anxious I've been for awhile. I was twirling a hair tie in my hands so hard I'd thought it would snap. I wanted to RUN out of the gym and hide in the toilets and CRY.
As I did my 10 min warm up on the t'mill, D read my food/exercise diary and then proceeded to make me feel pretty bad about my food. I KNOW it was bad and I can do better... but it is much better than when we started training and I am an emotional eater going through an emotional time right now... I know I need to stop making excuses for myself but I also need to get on top of my eating. Anyway, after the treadmill we boxed. As we were kitting up, S made a comment to me about hitting D during boxing. Really, is that a necessary comment? Especially since for the better half of the year I have held back in boxing for fear of hitting him? So, I put my earphones in (discovered I do better in boxing if I have my music) and off we went. D said something to me and I looked at him blankly (I can lip read). He thought I couldn't understand him but I don't him I was just ignoring him and to give me a combo . Off we went, I could see he was pretty lax with his stance which annoyed me. He was counting on me not hitting hard today (last few sessions I've hit pretty hard). Well, I hit HARD ladies! So hard, his face changed quickly and he had to take a few steps back and brace himself! That'll teach him! I hit hard the WHOLE time. It felt GOOD. It hurt my back and left leg but I wouldn't quit. I imagined you girls all standing there cheering me on. And I imagined Leesa (I miss her!) standing there telling me to work through the pain, to suck it up, to not give in to my injury. So I kept going and going and going. D got worried and tried to tell me to stop but I wouldn't listen hehe. We compromised. He said 2 more rounds, I said 10, he said 5

Then it was the weights. I increased in all bar 1 lot of weights. He tried to get me to smile but he didn't understand. I told him to just train me and leave out the chat please. I just wanted out. I told him I didn't want to be there today - I couldn't do it. He didn't understand. It wasn't that I PHYSICALLY couldn't do it, but emotionally and mentally today. I've not got another session until next Tuesday and I'm not sure how I feel about it. On one hand, the break from the gym will be good (I still train at home) but on the other hand, breaking my routine could be bad for the cause.

I had physio this afternoon and she confirmed a lot of my issues are stemming from my hip flexor being far too tight. But not in the groin area which is where it usually tightens. It is higher up - almost in my abdomen area. So she did some traction and manipulation and gave me a knew stretch to do which HURT like hell in our session... which means it was GOOD!

Several hours after PT I'm still not really wanting to go back any time soon and still feel pretty upset about it. I still feel like crying. And I feel like chucking in the towel with D. Maybe I need someone older and wiser - not a young 22 year old with little life experience?

Anyway, I'm sorry for the epic post and the poor me funk of an attitude girls.

MWAH

[shellbell3]

Hi all, coming to chat in here.
Ive been trying to improve my diet/ exercise, started bout 3 weeks ago.
So far been doing my wii fit and trying to go walking in the evenings when girls are in bed (usually 45mins)
Diet wise trying to eat better which I find very hard, alot less bad snacks and stopped my after dinner snacks.

I just feel bit lost in whole area so hope to pick up tips thru here!
I need to cut down on my bread/ carbs group, eat so much of these cause I just feel nothing else fills me up properly.
Not sure too what sort of exercise I should be doing, I want to tone up all those problem flabby areas. My wii fit does work me up a sweat but heard somewhere recently that they aren't actually that great. Anyone else heard this?

Anyway hopefully from all the chat in here I will get lots bits and pieces from you all!

[Nettie]

Welcome ShellBell!

Last night I did my weights and tonight have done some sit-ups (so far). Been good-ish with my food too and when I weighed myself this morning (don't do it all the time), I've lost ONE KILO.

Doesn't sound like much - but it went the right way..down!

I'm going to be investigating classes locally too... so watch this space!

[2CheekyMonkeys]

its my birthday blow out this weekend! already binged on choccies, the drinks are tonight! hehe

[Nettie]

Hollo - hope you had a great weekend and are ready to burn it all off!

I've actually been doing some sit-ups and weights! I danced arond the loungeroom today with DS (to Winter Olympic opening ceremony that I had taped!) which got the blood pumping too!

Starting to learn to have my water and stop eating when I'm full... all good signs!

The ONE kilo really made me change gears!

Not sure if it's a sign or not, but when I went shopping today, I got a flyer stuck under my wiper for the local ladies gym. They were pushing Les Mills (or whatever it's called)! I'm gonna ring them and see if I can get shown their gym and what they have to offer...