sweats of the week
Remember when I used to do weekly rundowns of my workouts? And then they fizzled out because my motivation fizzled out too and my workouts were so sporadic that they certainly didn’t warrant a weekly digest? Well no more! We’re back, baby!
Thanks to my new training schedule for the Avon Breast Cancer Walk, I rocked my workouts this week. Yippee!
This week’s fitness notes:
- I once saw on something somewhere (reliable source, right?) that we don’t need much more cardio than a brisk 30 minute walk on most days. Sure, longer and more intensity is great, but that 30 minute walk baseline is enough to keep you healthy. It’s something I’ve been thinking about all week. I love walking, but I’ve always felt like it wasn’t enough. I had to do something more intense, more hardcore, more exhausting to really be a healthy person. Maybe I’ve been misguided this whole time and I can blissfully walk my way to a healthy life. I really need to do more research about walking for health.
- I LOVE my home gym. Love, love, love! In the past few months, we’ve added a treadmill, kettlebells and a bench and now I can pretty much do everything I want in there. Plus, I can plug my iPad into the treadmill. And between the Hulu Plus and Netflix Apps, my training walks are speeding by. I barely even notice the miles go by when I’m mesmerized by the drama of Seaside Heights.
- Remember when I could do a two minute plank? Well that’s not the case anymore. I could barely hold one for 45 seconds this week. It’s crazy how fast you lose strength. I now have a calendar on the wall in the gym to track my progress—I want to get up to three minutes!
- 1 week of my Avon Walk training down. 17 to go.
- 368 total fitness minutes.
This week’s workouts:
1/31/12
- Brisk 3 mile walk (treadmill)
- Kettlebells
2/2/12
- Moderate 3 mile walk (outside, it was beautiful!)
- Strength training (body weight, free weights, kettlebells)
2/3/12
- 30 minutes elliptical
2/4/12
- Moderate 4 mile walk (treadmill)
2/5/12
- Moderate 3 mile walk (treadmill)
What was your best workout of the week?
I liked the combo of walking outside on campus on a stupendously beautiful day and then coming home and kicking my muscles’ ass.
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I’m Cassie. I’m a Midwestern girl trying to live a healthy life without being too crazy about it. I’m a lover of fresh veggies, bright colors, craft beer, hiking, funky eyeglasses, and really, really dark chocolate.
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I do a lot of walking when the weather is nice. Since we don’t have a car I have to walk a lot. In the summer, Ty, Ozzy, and I will walk on this trail by our house that’s about 2 miles to the dog park. There’s also a nice little playground about 1 mile in. And the trail is right along this little creek with lots of trees, and it’s just lovely. I love it. We also walk much farther to the library and to the splash park. I don’t walk nearly as much in the winter, though, and I really need to get back to walking! especially since this winter has been so mild.
Awesome! I love walking but my shins hate it. Haven’t been able to find a way to get my shins to stop screaming at me from walking ugh!
I’ve newly got into Zumba and loooove it! I suck at it as my coordination is awful haha but the hour flies by!!
I used to have the WORST shin pain until I got professionally fitted for shoes. Within a week of wearing my new shoes, all the pain was gone. Now I just buy the same brand/style of shoes whenever mine wear out.
Cassie…looks like you are doing great in your workouts. I usually feel accomplished if I can fit in lifting weights ONE time at the gym
So in my mind, you are a superstar re: working out! Really love the gorgeous picture. One of my goals is to set up a home gym as well…especially since the gym membership is up soon and it’s an expense I’d like to cut out…not to mention…who wouldn’t prefer to stumble into their own gym rather than drive to one when there is cold and snow!
The home gym thing is amazing! And really, you don’t even need that much to be able to do everything at home. It’s amazing the kind of stuff you can do with just your body weight.
Wohoo, sounds like a great workout week! Your home gym sound great. I recently moved, and my new place has a dedicated workout area, and I love it! I don’t have much equipment (an aerobic step, a few handweights), but I still love being able to to do exercise DVDs.