The Rock-Your-Body Fitness Thread
We talk about health and exercise in a lot of different threads. It's time for a one-stop shop.
As you all have read ad nauseam, I have a super slow metabolism so I'm always looking for ways to increase my fitness.
I'm going to join a gym next Wednesday (most likely). Is it true that I should leave a day between working muscle groups? I'll likely only be at the gym on Wednesdays and Thursdays, so I'm not sure what the best excercises are if I'm only going to be working that area once. Like, Wednesday for legs or front and Thursdays for arms or back. Something like that? I'll have about an hour between work and when yoga starts and the gym will be relatively empty, so I'll have plenty of time and access to equipment.
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I recently read that dehydration leads to a drop on body temperature and a drop in temp triggers a body to store fat. Of all the dagnabbit, underhanded, flea-analogue bitten things! My normal temp is in the 97.1 - 97.3 F (36.2 - 36.3 C) range.
Your post, theo, reminded me about fitocracy. I just logged my walks for the past three days and am toward the end of level 2. I want to hike tomorrow to get to level 3. Do we get virtual prizes?
Shell - Your book may be a bit like The Book of Muscle. I got a weight bench for it, but I really need to get myself in gear and go through the exercises. Plus, "hi". I've missed you. I'm impressed you're "exclusively running." Are you on better terms with it now?
I procrastinated in doing my hours for PE, so for the past 2 1/2 weeks i have been putting 2 hours 5 days a week at the gym. I can honestly say that my knee is feeling better for it, I haven't had to take much medicine for it. I think i am really going to start putting my elliptical and treadmill to use now. and our puppy is almost big enough to start taking walks, there will be movement in my future, oh yes, there will.
I do a minimum of an hour of exercise every day, per doctor's orders as part of my post-gastric-bypass regiment. I try to get cardio everyday and then add in yoga and weightlifting (weights at least 3 times a week).
Today was a weights/aerobic day... I did the new release of BodyPump at my gym for an hour. It's low weight lifting til muscle failure and works the full body (it totals about 800 reps per class, spread throughout different muscle focuses) and is made to also get your heart rate up and count towards aerobic exercise, too. It was HARD today with the new release, definitely more challenging during squats, that's for sure... I was all wobbly afterwards for a minute lol.
But it was a great morning workout. I do Pump 3 times a week, then do heavy weights with my husband a couple times on days I don't do Pump. I'm focusing on a more Basic Training style of workout rather than the work-someday-and-not-others method usually urged by trainers. BT was amazing for my body, so I'm going back to that style of exercising.
I totally dropped the ball on my workout in April when I ended up with my daughter's homeless friend on my couch. My house is so tiny and he's constantly there and in the way. Two more weeks and I'll be able to start over again with the TurboFire.
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