February 2012
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Dear Self, Feeling "nommish" is not a thing. You...
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Trying to clear out some of my bookmarked stuff, so I did:
Exhale: Core Fusion Pilates Plus (I meant this to be my warm-up, but then, woah, abs… I was going to do the 3-in-1 Total Body Fitness, but the sound was wrong.)
Fitness Bender Lady Lump Workout (What a name… I can’t balance for shit on the Twisting Warriors, though I got better. Split squats are hard (I think those are...
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Copycatted Tatyana this time, but tried to mix it up a bit (unsuccessfully):
POP Plyo: Cray Cray Workout (it is damn near impossible to get up from a one-legged burpee… maybe because I’m barefoot?)
POP Kicks: Total Body Cardio Kickboxing Workout (never tried kickboxing before… maybe I should try a bit more to help with my coordination? This wasn’t bad!)
Hang Tight with...
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How Fast Do You Get Out of Shape?
One study observed that conditioned athletes who had been training regularly for at least a year and then suddenly stopped lost half of the aerobic conditioning after 3 months.
In contrast, research shows that beginner exercisers who have worked out for about 2 months experience a complete loss of all aerobic conditioning after 2 months of not working out.
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Couple of minor milestones with today’s workout. I did the Fitness Bender Hot Definition Workout that I mentioned yesterday, which I did as intermediate instead of beginner (whoo, am I actually starting to progress past “beginner?”) and I actually did the burpees, which I don’t think I have done in forever. And by “forever” I mean like years. Before I start my...
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Finished the BodyRock “Booty Lift Workout” aka “Burn Fat And Tighten Your Butt” (second link has routine and reps, first has video). I kept fucking up turning on my timer (again, should get a GymBoss) so I’m rounding to 23 minutes altogether including the wall sits.
Breakdown:
Circuit 1 (30 reps)[approx - 12 minutes?]: a) 2 walking lunges I like walking lunges!...
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Life as Liia: Running. →
lifeasliia:
Once upon a time running wasn’t competitive and that’s why I liked it. I liked that I didn’t ever worry about going fast or keeping up with people or anything. I just ran because I wanted to, as far as I could, and the distances got longer and longer as I trained more. It was always very personal for me. Long runs by myself, runs with my friends, exercise, when I was doing it...
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Let’s see. I feel like I have a lot to say and I’m sure I’m going to forget something but oh well.
Just stole Joan’s workout (muahaha). I am tired.
POP Pilates: Long Lean Legs Workout Hard! Especially the Prisoner moves and the chair at the end. POP Pilates: Butt Blaster For some reason, this didn’t seem that tough to me. I liked all the bridgework though. Lots of pelvic thrusts (for...
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Semi-taking the day off. Continued with the push up alarm (even threw in a set of dive bombers - augh!) and bathroom squats.
Mostly did one-legged squats or split squats (on the toilet seat this time instead of the tub), but also a set of lunges and I think one set regular (but deep) squats. Also did the MWOD and walked 3 1/3 miles to/from the grocery.
Anyway, got a bottle of wine to...
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The scale came. Weigh in: 132lbs.
Could be worse.
It does make me wonder - have I lost 8lbs since Christmas or was my parents’ scale stupid? Either way, going to keep on keeping on…
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Bah. I’m spinning.
I want to get a hold of all of these ideas and stop building castles in the sky, but I am having a hell of a time outlining everything. I feel like if I really make plans for all the stuff I’m thinking of, my life would be ridiculously regimented and I’m not sure if that’s healthy for me, regardless of my intentions.
So I am stuck, yet again, in...
I set an alarm to pop up on my computer hourly and...
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I have been… what I want to term lazy, but I feel like that’s too passive. I’m looking for something along the lines of self-destructive. Defiant. Something like that. I could have worked out - I had time, I had energy, but for whatever reason, I felt like saying fuck you (to myself??) and planting my ass on the couch.
We walked around 8 miles on Saturday doing errands....
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Fitness Myths
Some of my thoughts/edits on the fitness myths from here and here.
MYTH: Cardio is the best way to burn fat.
High-intensity exercise such as interval training burns more fat calories on an absolute basis than lower intensity activities, making it better for fat loss. It also increases EPOC (Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption) the amount of calories you burn after you work out. — which...
campvsano asked: Do you know what happened to Zuzana? Why did she left BodyRock? I've been trying to find the reason but I haven't been able too. Thanks you!
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Sweatay.
Did the ZWOD #1 Part 1 from 1-20-12 (wow, catchy title there, Z). Time was an even 24 minutes with lots of catch my breath breaks and “Do I really want do do all 3 circuits” slowdown thoughts.
I managed/decided to film myself this time to check my form. My dive bombers (at least in the beginning) were not as bad as I felt like they were (albeit not as sexy as...