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Challenge = Change
Posted by buffmother in Fitness, Goal Setting (POA) on April 20th, 2010
5 main ways to change for more challenging workouts:
#1-Intensity
How hard are you pushing? Do you push yourself to the MAX
each workout? Do you only ever “go through the motions”—social exerciser?
Do you vary your intensity to get different results? Do you like to
take your time? Do you like to “get it done”?
#2-Frequency
How often do you work out? How often do you lift each body
part? How often do you do intervals? How often do you do other fitness
activities?
#3-Duration
How long do you workout at a time? How long are your lifting sessions?
How long are your intervals? How much other time do you devote
to fitness activities?
#4-Mode
What type of activities do you do? Do you cross train? Are you training
for a certain sport? What lifts do you do for each body part?
#5-Rest intervals
How many “rest” days do you take? How much time between
each lifting set/exercise do you do? How much time between hard intervals
do you “rest”? How much time do you “rest” each day? Do you purposely
take time to “de-stress”?
40 days to Fit~ Day 29…Wild thoughts!
Posted by buffmother in Family, Goal Setting (POA), hormonal timing, kids, rally room on August 17th, 2009
I’ve been dealing with some wild thoughts the past 2 days…what if I was pregnant? My DH got “fixed” about 5 years ago and I’ve had consitent 27-28 day long cycles for the past couple of years,but today is day 30! I welcome the longer cycle, and back before kids I had a LONG cycle 36 days sometimes…so~ it is not completely weird for my body. Having a longer cycle is much more possible than me being pregnant… BUT STILL~!! Wild thoughts will always arise when hormonal cycles run a bit long and possible pregnancy is involved! I think almost every woman knows that WILD feeling! LOL!!
Other than that~ I had a great long weekend the kids had Friday off of school….Travis took Gunner out to the woods and Gunner got to shoot an armadillo~ AND I took the girls to the mall and out for pizza and then we watched movies. Saturday Gunner when to his best friend’s house and Travis, I and the girls played tennis! It was fun and the first time Travis has played in about 15 years! He was just rusty enough to keep it fun for me, lol!
Then yesterday we just “hung out”…I did some housework and got in a leg workout at the gym.
It was GOOD~ now I’ve been making a really good “to do” list and getting things DONE!!
My POA for workouts: is to do “something” everyday this week….I just need to fit in what I can. This week I am not planning the “days” out…I am just setting GOALS- The goal is to get in at least the following- 2 runs outside; 2 other interval sessions; 2 Leg workouts; 2 upper body workouts~ and ABS daily! So 2-2-2-2 
Be sure to set your goals!!
AND settle for nothing short of accomplishing them!!! YOU CAN DO IT!
Your friend,
Michelle
40 days to FIT!! Day 9 & 10~ a fourth of the way there!!
Posted by buffmother in Legs, kids, mental on July 29th, 2009
Back in the day…when I was in sports the way I got through nasty training sessions like “otters” in basketball, “hills” in cross country, “laps” in soccer or “400′s” in track was to break my training sessions into fractions. If we had 10 hills to run after 2 done…I’d think in my mind~ “wow, we are already 1/5th done.” It was a good way for me to get through it with a positive outlook~ SOOOO… on our “40 days to Fit” Challenge I am taking the same approach. I am already a fourth of the way done with the 40 days!!! AND I DO think I am at least a FOURTH better than I was when I started 10 days ago!!!
FYI~ if you haven’t joined the challenge yet you still can…and PLEASE invite your friends, relatives and others to join us! “40 days to FIT” join the challenge!!!
Today is my Day 10…and let’s just say Day 9 didn’t go as planned for my workouts, I didn’t do one! …but that’s OKAY!! I had a great day and refused to let missing my workout spoil all the fun we had as a family. With this being the last week of summer vacation I knew I’d be busier than usual. We went to see G-Force in 3-D yesterday afternoon~ neat to see a 3D movie…but I didn’t think G-Force was very good, which doesn’t matter much because the kids liked it! then we went out to eat~! IT was GOOD!
I resolved last night that I’d get to the gym first thing today to do my leg workout and I did it!! It was a good one~
Warm up- 15 mins r-bike
Knee Extensions
Squats (up to 115#x10 for 2 sets!!)
Bulgarians
Lunges-one set w/ 45#Bar
Seated Calf
Leg Press
Walking lunges- one set only- my knee was hurting
Leg curls
A BUNCH of ABS
Now we are getting ready to go bowling for our “fun” today~ I hope to at least break 100
Enjoy your day!!!
-Michelle
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