Exercise Lite - Weekend 3

Day 11 - was sick

Day 12 - not the usual routine since the niece came over. we played nerf in the street. :)

Day 13 - still, no.

Saturday - yeah, I'm not counting weekends. Hmm. errands included laundry, grocery, washed the cars -- I wanted to play with water. yeah.

Sunday - uh no. lazy day.

But, in fairness, this weekend has not been a diet fail.

I lost about 2mm around the tummy. But that could just be bloat. uhuh.

I can do this!!!

I wanted to

fall in love, so I did.

Exercise Lite - Day 10

A.M. -- fail...hmm, maybe I should remove this?

P.M.

35 jumping jacks
40 crunches
plank pose - 1 minute yey!
10 minutes on the elliptical
plank pose - another 1 minute yey!

Haay! I'm always trying to negotiate my workout! But, I'm still happy that I am, at least, managing to do some of it!

Btw, HunterXHunter started on Animax today. It's a different anime from the one previously aired some years ago. So, yeah, that's going to eat into my blogging time. (Take note: blogging not workout time. Hahaha!)

Exercise Lite - Day 9

Yesterday was a complete diet fail. I think I ate half a gallon of ice cream. 2 slices of cake. Lechon. Pancit and lumpia. Rellenong bangus and green mango salad. And that was just for lunch.

Anyway, this morning I didn't do any of my scheduled routines because I woke up late. To make up for it, my P.M. routine was:

crunches -- 2 sets of 20. Yey!

35 jumping jacks
10 minutes on the elliptical -- with 1 minute at full tilt and 5 minutes on moderate...less time for cooldown but it was okay.
Plank pose -- full one minute! Yey again!

So, I'd already completed 2 weeks (ok, so it's not 14 days but since I appear to be averaging 4 days a week, it'll do for now) and I measured around my tummy again. No improvement yet (like, I should expect anything after the diet failure of the past two weekends).

3 inches to go!

Water photos

Taken randomly on various ferry rides from Circular Quay.


I don't know what this outcropping is.

Water level indicator?

Yachts.

With fluffy clouds

To show water level? Mini-lighthouse?

I want one too.

Exercise Lite - Weekend 2

So I skipped (skipped, not missed) yesterday's workout. I was feeling lazy and sick.

Today I got a full-blown runny nose with face-contorting sneezes. :) So I didn't do any planned workout today, either.

But I think all the cleaning I did counts. We're having guests over tomorrow for my mom's extended birthday celebration. And some of the guests have been out of the country for a long time and will probably want a tour of the house. Hence, the cleaning and rearranging. Geez.

Plus, it's so hot today!!!

Exercise Lite - Day 8

A.M.

20 crunches
Plank pose - 40 seconds only

P.M.

35 jumping jacks
Plank pose - 30 seconds... must've been tired

1 hour on pedals - while watching the first half of American Idol

I was feeling a bit inspired so I did another 20 crunches. :)

Relax, dude!

I'm not going to go all "The Rules" on you.

There's a distinction

My brother was watching one of those sniper features on History channel, and I liked this statement (or something to this effect):

"Training doesn't ensure that nothing will go wrong. Something will go wrong. Training helps you react faster and better."

Exercise Lite - Day 7

A.M.

20 crunches
40-second plank pose (ugh) -- this is harder than I thought

P.M.

35 jumping jacks
10-minutes on elliptical -- still 1 minute all out, but I've extended the moderate pace to 4 minutes and lessened the cool-down portion to 2 minutes
40-second plank pose -- yep, still harder than I thought

So, I had my resting metabolic rate (RMR) computed (just google it, there are available RMR calculators on the net, and it's free!). It's only about 1,166 which translates to a daily calorie requirement of about 1,600-1,700. Nyarks!

I'm probably averaging 2,000-2,500. But I can lessen that if I stop eating my Mom's baking experiments. If I diet, I'd have to really think about what I'm cutting back on.

Because ice cream is essential to my sanity.:)

Exercise Lite - Day 6

A.M.

20 crunches
ok I forgot about the plank pose

P.M.

35 jumping  jacks
10 minutes on the elliptical -- I still get tired out alright
Plank pose - 40 seconds. Yey!

Clean Slate

So, I'm reading through The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs. I'm loving it. I can relate to some and though some passages are completely unfamiliar to me, I like how the author has presented it. I still have about 20% to go, but I want to start to apply this one.

 1 Corinthians 13:4–8a  (New International Version)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

So yeah, to my dear friends, let's start with a clean slate...well, except for those rants and drama already here. I will delete my ignore list. :))

E, does this run counter to our "stop being a doormat!" campaign?