What I'm Reading This Week #27
Happy Friday everyone! I hope you've got the day off to enjoy. I would really appreciate the weather dialing it back from Satan's taint to dryish heat please. I'm not even asking for much. Like 83 degrees would make me happy at this point but there's no end in sight to the 90's. The Mr and I have both been plagued with migraines this week. He had a two day event and I had an ocular migraine which is just so crappy to deal with since you can't read or do anything until your vision isn't screwed up. I got to wait on hold for an hour Tuesday with the state tax department so I decided to sand and prime the newel post while listening to hold music designed to make you hang up. To quote Bugs Bunny "he don't know me vewy well, do he?" I got that squared away and later went out between pop up storms to deadhead some zinnias which you may have seen in Wednesday's post. Speaking of Wednesday, it was a busy day in the ga...
or Supreme 90 Day
which is WAY harder than I gave it credit for. I think this will be a good one to keep things interesting!
That sounds really great! I do Curves (blech), but also 2 nights a week I do Curves w/ Zumba instead of the regular circuit and I really like that. I have also been doing 30 day shred as "plan B" for days I can't make it to Curves.
ReplyDeleteMy preference is to go for a long walk, but I generally don't have the time so I need something with a higher time/calories burned ratio. Plus when I walk I tend to skimp (or skip) the strength part and with a circuit workout it's built right in so I can't.
What an excellent idea! I think that may just be the perfect way to keep myself from getting bored.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your journey and your thoughts with the world.
I've been doing circuit training from day one (Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred was my first exercise DVD and I still use it now). While I still love my dvds (JM and Bob Harper) I've started making my own routines, too.
ReplyDeleteI use my stepper as a weight bench and try to alternate upper and lower body. My latest routine is three rounds, where round one and two are different and three is both combined.
I get in chest presses, rows, curls, tricep stuff, walking planks, pushups to weighted t-stands, squats, deadlifts, abs (upper and lower) and usually end it all with some step aerobics.
I used to do Curves and at the time I really liked it. This should be a good program for you. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI like videos. I'm a very creative person generally speaking, but when it comes to exercise, not so much-lol! I do enjoy some good circuits when someone is telling me what to do :).
ReplyDeleteWith a bum knee and a missing little toe, I am not good at floor exercises, yet. I do, however, ROCK in the water. Two weeks now of not missing a week day. I had gotten slack and have not gotten back to the kind of dedication I once had. They teach a 45 minute class that is mostly cardio. We adjunct it with water jogging into the strong jet stream and doing routines the physical therapists there helped me devise for upper, lower, and core, using the paddles, water dumbbells, balance boards, noodles (for lower), leg weights. I guess if circuit training can be done in the pool, that's what we're doing! OYE but my upper tummy muscles are yelling at me. lol It feels SO good to be back on track. I'm nowhere even in the same realm as you and your Mr, but for where I am, I'm doing much, much better with my consistence. Thank God Leah and her hubby moved here. I will roll my lazy hiney over in the morning and go back to sleep instead of getting to that 7:30 a.m. class, but I WON'T let my friend down, so off I go every morning, lest I disappoint her. It's working! lol
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