Fitness chat and tips #3

[Nettie]

Nettie, I think yoga is a great idea. You should give it a go for a few classes and then make a firm decision either way. I think it will be great to balance out with other exercise. I have heard that old shoes can cause sore knees. I hope yours feels better soon. How are you breaking your carb addiction? If you don't eat carbs what can you eat? I'm at a loss to all these diet things, wouldn't know where to start!

Raise the level of proteins you eat - meat, fish, eggs, yoghurt, cheese, milk, beans (lentils, chickpeas, etc) as well as fruit & veggies. I'm working hard on just limiting my carbs at the moment. When I broke my addiction last time, I restricted myself to 'a' piece of bread a day and pasta or rice only twice a week (it's a staple in this house as DS eats it and not much else) and boosted the proteins. Once you get rid of the hold carbs have (including sugars!), you don't need to eat as much and don't feel that urge to eat when you don't need to.

It's weird to snack on ham or boiled eggs for a while, but it's a nice change too! It's the cutting sugar I have trouble with There's no point cutting it out altogether - you'll just binge - but reducing slowly is the way to go.

I've decided to do the yoga. I'll ring the woman tomorrow and see if she has a place in Wednesday night's class (starting tomorrow - yikes!)... Wish me luck!

Leesa ooohhh - I like it! Goal, hey? I'm a terribly practical person and need to have simply defined goals, so I might do something boring like 'walk to work 3 days each week'. Work is only 5 minutes away, but if I come home for lunch - it ends up being around 25 minutes of walking per day without much effort! AND there are stairs getting into the building at work. Not sure what else I can offer as my knee is really concerning me at the moment and my back has been spasming quite a lot today. Am about to put a heatpack on it to see if it's better tomorrow.

Not sure what you could do as a group goal? Maybe increase exercise routines by 10% (in time and effort)? Then it's across the board and doesn't leave anyone out? Just a suggestion!

[Tan]

Hey ladies

Sooooo I havent been on X-Trainer at all this week, which Im very disappointed about but have just hit another wall!? Needing a good kick up the bum here. I dont want to put weight back on :-(

So for personal goals, I think I will make my goal that I get on X-Trainer every day (weekends included) for 1/2 hour. My biggest hurdle is not doing any active stuff on the weekends and then getting back into it on the MOnday mornings when I have Monday-itis kick in!!

I am still doing all my evening sports/classes though, played netball last night and we won, felt that I contributed a little more than recent weeks so was pretty happy with my performance, and the other gals come up and said good work on a good game so that was nice.

Not sure about team goal - but I will be in it, like i said I need as much motorvation as possible and plus I work better in a team!

[Nettie]

Had my first Yoga class tonight and LOVED it! It was often uncomfortable, but I could just tell that it's what my body has been needing iykwim..

Feel all 'nimble' and sprightly now! If a bit cold! Brrr...

My other goal (and has been for a few weeks - don't know why I didn't think of it yesterday!) is that when Masterchef ends (I'm seriously addicted to watching it every night), I'll use that hour to exercise instead. Now Wednesday nights are covered with Yoga - I'll do some weights, dancing and exercise bike for the other nights. I get Saturday nights off (no Masterchef then! )

[Mother Goose]

Brilliant idea Nettie!!!! And so glad you enjoyed your first yoga class! I think I need a yoga session right now!

Tan, don't forget your body needs time to rest and rejuvinate as well!

AFM, I had gym tonight. I went straight after work. Lucky I got out early because otherwise I'd still be there! But I struggled to go in. Thank goodness for CeCe who talked me into going in on the phone! It was just too busy... but I went in and trained. The treadmills were all taken so I went to the bike first. 10 min then off to treadmill for 20 then xtrainer for 10 then treadmill for 5 then home before I turned into a pumpkin... and I have an early shift tomorrow! It was a struggle. My legs hurt, specifically my hamstrings. Hoping I pull up ok tomorrow.

WINTER! Where are you mate?!

Keep active girls and Mr S!

[Mr Squidipa]

tpu is looking forward to summer ps i am keeping active

[nellnell]

Sorry ive been MIA for a while. I've just been so busy with life, and focusing on achieving my goals.

I ran my 11km race on Sunday and achieved my 2 goals. the first was to run without stopping, the other was to better 75 mins. I ran it in 67.5 mins which I am really happy with.

Wondering where to go from here as I dont want to lose my fitness now that I have it. I need a goal to work towards. I could either increase my distance, or improve on times? I'll thik about it.

Just quickly scanning other posts, you guys are doing a fab job. Keep up the awesome work. The days are getting longer and the weather will gradually get warmer as well. Not that long until spring and working out won't seem so hard!!! yay.

[ladybird11]

Hey ladies and Mr S!!!

How are we all. I must say - I am concerned about Winter. I miss her, where is she at?????????

Nellnell - awesome work on the race and achieving your goals - I think its a massive feat to run without stopping!! So I take my hat off to ya :-)
MG - Can't wait to hear about your weekend hun!! Spill. P.S - still waiting to have a debate over anything with D on FB lol!!!
MrS - how do you keep active these days?
Nettie - so now there is no more Masterchef, then I guess you'll be exercising on the evenings eh? I'm glad you enjoyed yoga. P.S - I love that word 'sprightly' :-)

AFM - you may have read the pregnancy annoucement, still off to to a BT done to triple check (no idea on dates) but I think I have found out my new August goal - just to keep exercising, every second night. I plan to continue doing my Body Attack and Body Pump class on Wed nights and Sat mornings, and on 2 other evenings I'll do something at home. I am determined to keep active, especially so I don't become a beached whale - I need to stay active for the two babies (well toddlers now) I already have. *what have I got myself into lol*

Mwah to all - keep moving :-)

[rhyb]

So I went to gym today. Felt sooo good. I did 40mins on the bikes and 20 mins on the treadmill. Did a little bit of abs work but have decided I want to see what I can and can't do being pregnant. Gonna try and keep going through my pregnancy to keep a sensible weight

[nellnell]

OMG girls. How do you do it? To tell the truth I'm really jealous!!! Leesa and rhyb - congrats on the pregnancies. I suppose my OMG is that I have an 07 and 09 baby, and barely cope some days, and you guys are well...........wow, especially rhyb who has 4 under 2 and going for another. Congrats, and wow for being able to cope, and exercise and jump on to post (which I rarely do as I can't find the time). Maybe I need to start organising myself a little more.

Sorry about the non exercise post - keep up the great work everyone!!!

[Mother Goose]

OMG! I totally missed your announcement Leesa! CONGRATULATIONS! I am so excited for you!

AND DOUBLE OMG! Rhy! CONGRATULATIONS!

There must seriously be something in the water!!!!!


Leesa, my weekend was awesome - thanks for asking! We hiked Mt Oberon at Wilson's Prom. It's 3.6 Km one way and marked as moderate to hard. Can I just say, it makes the stepped look **** easy! It was such a steep and constant incline! It was awesome though. Sadly we didn't make it to the top (probably about 600m short) because someone (maybe me) developed really bad blisters about 1Km in but didn't say anything. Not that it would have mattered because I didn't have any blister packs and bandaids don't help. So I pushed. But then I fessed up and the girls pointed out I had to get back down again... so we had to turn back which was sad. Luckily I had my sneakers in my car and when I got back I changed shoes. BLISS! I was able to walk on level area but no inclines. So we walked onto squeaky beach which was gorgeous! Then we went to Foster.

Yesterday we went to Innverloch and saw Eagles Nest which is awesome!!! We had a great weekend - a little drinking but not too much. Loads of walking but not as much as we wanted. I can't wait to go back again!

No gym today because I can hardly walk with shoes on with my blisters and I have damaged my calf as well (can anyone say accident prone?) but I do have PT tomorrow... time for me to really lose this weight so I can jump on the baby wagon!

[~me~]

MG: It really is a beautiful part of Victoria down there. I grew up in Mirboo North, spent alot of time going to where you have been. Foster is beautiful. My Mum still lives in Mirboo North.

Congtratulations to all the ladies who are UTD!! Must really be something in the internet line here in BB..careful everyone, it may get you

Winter, Winter, come out, come out from wherever you are. It's been a while, hope everything is ok.

I hope everyone is staying active and keeping fit and healthy

Well...I am over my lurgy enough to go to Pump this morning. Still have a the coughers hanging around, can work with that. Have to get there 20mins before start to get a spot! Very busy, will be back again next week.
Will not be making Combat on Wednesday as have plans. I decided to give Attack a miss on Sunday just gone as well as I really want to make sure I am well enough.
So this Sunday Attack, Monday Pump then back to Combat on Wednesday.

Have a great week everyone.

[Nettie]

I want to see what I can and can't do being pregnant...

OMG! I missed this announcement! Wow, you must be seriously insane! But congrats!

Yes Leesa, we went for a huge walk tonight (more than an hour) but did have pizza for tea (Liam's new word for today - pee-zaah) It would have been my Mum's 57th birthday today, so I couldn't just stay home and eat something mundane - it's tradition to go 'out' to tea...

I'm still really excited about yoga and am doing it on Thursday this week as I have something on Wednesday night (which will mean I have to do my exercise in the morning that day! )

[Laranna]

Congrats leesa and rhyb awesome news!!

nellnell, well done on the run and achieving your goals! I am a long, long way off running 11km's but I love hearing other people's achievements. It inspires me

MG, have you recovered from your weekend yet? Blisters gone? How's your hips going?

Heather, are you feeling better? I've had some kind of chest/throat lurgy the last few days. Just got hte cough now hanging around. It's awful.

AFM, went to pilates tonight. Thankfully the instructor showed up this time. Although I was a bit disappointed by her instructing style. She is a new instructor (for me, I haven't been to pilates since before DD was born) and she just seem so uninterested and bored. She hardly demonstrated any movements. She didn't ask the new people in the class (ie, me) about any injuries, previous pilates experience etc, etc. And the whole session just seemed like an hour long stretching exercise. That in itself is not a bad thing as I needed a good stretch but I was pumped for pilates damn it!! LOL. Seriously, the first ten minutes were spent lying on the floor breathing. Then we did about 50 crunches, 50 oblique crunches, 50 pushups, a couple of hip stretches and that's it. Hopefully, next week is more full on. Maybe she was having a bad day today. Who knows, will give it a few weeks and if it's still the same I'll look at swapping classes. But as someone who has not done a floor class in over 8 months, I was not challenged at all tonight. I found it very easy.

Anyway, have slowed down with the jogging/walking as I've been unwell with a chesty cough/cold the last few days. Hope it clears up soon as I'm keen to get into it.

Have been thinking about my goals and I would like to walk 10,000 steps per day and be able to run (jog) for 5 minutes non stop.

[Mother Goose]

I'm sorry your class was so disappointing Eluned and hope the next is better! I like your goals, and know you will reach them!

Heather, how is your week going?

Nettie, how is yoga?

AFM, I did PT yesterday. It was a shambles. I was limping from the start and couldn't hide it. We had an easy session with the aim of lots of moves that would generate a stretch but I either didn't get a stretch or it would just be a bad pain. It was so disheartening. But D was supportive especially when I was almost crying from the pain.

Today I've been limping heaps and am so over comments and questions. Hoping it settles soon as the blisters are ok so now I just need to sort the muscles out. But I am annoyed because I'm too sore to go to the gym today. And I feel like I really need to go to the gym

[Winter]

Hi Girls, I'mmmmm baaaaaack! Just been on holidays with the family & away from the computer.

Congratulations Leesa!! Sooooo excited for you! That's awesome news! Congrats Rhyb, that's brilliant! Can you both send some pregnancy vibes this way? We're not having much luck ATM.

DD whinging, better go, bbl

[~me~]

Welcome back Winter..we missed you!!

Eluned: That is disappointing about your pilates class. Is it gym ran or Physio Ran? I used to go to a Physio ran pilates and there were only ever 6 or 7 people allowed in the class so she could attend to everyone and adjust there movement as necessary during the session. Perhaps that may be worth looking into, and you could also get the classes back possibly through your PHI as it is run by a Physio.

Thanks MG and Eluned..I am feeling better. Still have this cough, it's not too bad, just an annoying tickle.

Nettie: Yoga is addictive..glad you are enjoying it.

Leesa and rhyb: Congratulations to you both, I am thinking someone is sending very strong pregnancy vibes through BB..there is an amazing amount of Birth Announcements at the moment!

I did Pump on Monday and they actually ran out of poles for the weights!! I was lucky and got there early. It really is a packed class. I am back to Combat tomorrow. I didn't go to Attack on Sunday as I was taking DS1 to see Mary Poppins and it would have been too much of a rush..hopefully will be all good this weekend.

Have a great week everyone

[Laranna]

Welcome back Winter! I hope you had a great holiday. Are you all ready for the City to Surf next weekend?

MG, how's your hip going? Have you made it back into the gym again? I hope you are feeling well

Heather, the pilates is at a dedicated pilates studio. They do have physio based but I just do the regular floor mat classes. They also do the reformers and other traditional pilates equipment. We have a maximum of 10 in the mat classes and max of 4 in the studio.

Tonight was better than last week. The instructor was more cheerful (must have been having a bad day last week!) but she was still very monotonous in her instructing. I miss my old instructor! Had a very nice workout tonight so I'm happy. Giving it a few more weeks before I think about swapping classes or looking for a class closer to home (this one is 20 min drive away).

I finally found my pedometer this morning and did 13612 steps today Going on a big walk with the kids in the pram helped so I think I will try and get out every day now that the weather is becoming good.

Hope everyone is well!

[ladybird11]

WINTER - I've missed you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome back chic :-) Sending baby dust your way hun!

Eluned - what? The instructor for pilates just didn't rock up? So unprofessional, grrrr! I wonder how long she has been instructing for? Sounds like she has the words re-recorded in her head, she needs to spice things up to keep ppl wanting to come back. Thats the best part about being an instructor - ppl generally never know what'll spill out my mouth next lol! Although that can be good and bad hehehe!

Heather - sounds like you are going brilliantly, I love reading about how many classes you've done (and maybe I'm biased, but you chose awesome classes too hun)!

MG - hugs hun - I'm glad D is being really supportive. Whats the thing about the 'questions and comments'? What are ppl saying? Who is saying it? You are such an inspiration to me, continuing on in the face of injury to exercise - if only half the overweight population had your attitude sista it'd serve them well :-)

Nettie - isn't Wednesday night (tonight) Yoga for you hun? Howz it going?

AFM - Lets see, last Wed I instructed Attack, Friday I did RPM, Saturday I instructed Body Pump, Sunday I did RPM and last night I did RPM. I'm trying to get out of the weightloss mode of thought and seeing that I've upped my exercise and not seeing any results on the scale (well a 'maintain' is better than a gain given the amount of DH's Grandma's home baked cookies I got into yesterday lol). So the damage could have been far worse. All up - I'm happy with this weeks efforts at increasing exercise. Yay me :-)