Posts by kckatl

691/1250 Still lagging behind. But at least  better than last year.

230/1250

still way behind. but at least I"m trying... (lame, I know)

140/1250

Pathetic beginning to the month. Did only 20-30 mins 5x's last week. Gotta ramp it up.

It took me 5.5 months to lose 24 lbs, but I only started exercising in earnest over the last 5-6 weeks. So, having taken up the Roll Call!! June challenge in another forum, I am going to amp up the incentive by pledging to lose 10lbs by July 4. That's 10lbs in 6 weeks or 1.6lbs per week.

The way I figure it, to reach my 1250 minutes of exercise in the month of June, I need to work out 56 minutes a day/5 days per week. That gives me two days of rest (2 days of workout, 1 day of rest, rinse, repeat).

I also just read that by eating 60% of your calories earlier in the day versus at night/dinner, you lose weight faster... So on the nutrition factor for this goal, I pledge to each breakfast (which I always skip) and to eat no later than 8pm. My normal dinner time is 8:30 or 9pm, so that's not good.

My starting weight is 148. I would LOVE to be 138 by July 4.

Good luck to all!

Cheers-

Kckatl

I'm going for another 1250 this month. Hopefully by getting started on time, I'll be able to rest a day or two each week.

The dancing brought me up to yesterday's quota... alas today is a new day and there's only one more left so I'm in a dead sprint to make it!!

1048/1250

Went back down to the gym... it's not hard to watch the basketball game with the commentary in Spanish. Did another 43 mins... so the full tally for today is:

938/1250

That still leaves me 312 to do over the next 3 days... still over 100 mins a day... nothin' like a little procrastination, huh?

Soooo far behind...

110 mins tonight on the bike. 533 cals burned.

813/1250

good lord -- you and buggy hair. what are you guys... iron men?

Just learned about this forum. Sounds like fun. I've been a slacker this month, but I have accumulated 545 minutes. Only 10 days left, but I think I can still make it to 1250.

So, my official tally is 545/1250.

Guess I need to strap on the trainers and head to the gym.

By the way... I'm going to share exrx.net (crediting you, of course) with the folks gathering on "The Big Fat Fight After 40" group. I know they will all appreciate it as much as I do.

Those of us in that age group right now grew up before going to the gym became the norm. Oh sure, we had Ms. Fonda to get us moving in college, but only the sorority chicks in their electric leotards really participated. The big bubble of acceptance for going to the gym really started with folks 5-10 years younger than us. Now it's really a part of the general lifestyle, which is great!

So... tips like these are VERY HELPFUL to those of us in this age group. Thank you again!

Exactly Tuff_n_Nuff -- thin, sexy, defined body. That's what I'm looking for. I want my dancer body back in which I had nice definition all over without the bulk.

By the way, flogginsully... since I posted, (mea culpa, mea culpa), I have NOT tried your suggestion.  The main reason is that I'm doing research to try to figure out the "correct form" for each of the moves and practicing them with the "pink" dumbells.

I have a free gym facility in my apartment lobby, but we don't have trainers to guide/instruct us. There are some diagrams that show form for some of the circuit resistance weight machines, but nothing for the dumbells.

Does anyone know of a good Internet resource for this? Thanks!

I really am looking for guidance here gals, but like Jillybean said, I can't go from a pawltry 5lb pinker to a 50lb "real" weight.

Is there a progression that anyone can recommend?

Should I use different weights for different arm muscle groups? (Biceps vs. triceps, deltoids, etc.?)

How do you know when you're lifting too much? Where is the fatigue line that you should push thru vs. recognize as a stopping point?

Having been a dancer, I'm no stranger to pain nor to pushing hard and thru the "wall", but my instinct for where that wall is has long since been lost, and I was never raised with weights (gyms as we know them did not exsit in the 1970s.)

Would appreciate some hints here.

Thanks!

What a great discussion! Thanks, everyone! Any more "dumb" questions out there?

Here's another one just to try to keep it going... Can exercise alone reduce that awful, pesky cellulite?

Those "body wrap" companies offer cellulite reduction by wrapping you up tightly like a mummy with some sort of "herbal detox" solution. Then you get on an elliptical machine or some other apparatus to keep your circulation flowing and to "enhance" the detox.

I did this once, and first let me say that I'm still dubious about the ersatz "detox" solution, and I believe they put you on the apparatus more for circulation than anything else. That said, I did see two effects that lasted for a couple of weeks: 1) I did lose inches -- about 1/2 inch everywhere (arms, legs, belly, hips, knees -- everywhere) which is about 1/2 dress size. 2) I did see a reduction in cellulite.

Now, they claim that the results are due to the detox + the compression. So, being dubious about the detox element, I wonder if the compression actually makes a difference, and therefore how can we achieve this result at home?

Again, I did this before a big date, and I did see results that lasted almost two weeks. Of course...then it was Thanksgiving, and I just ate myself silly from that point through the holidays...

Has anyone else tried this--willing to admit it???

Any wisdom out there about compression???

One more question:  How do I check my burn meter and food meter for any day other than today? Yesterday I did a great job with calories and exercise, but I wanted to wake up and find out how my burn rate measured against my caloric intake so I could say "yay for me, look how many calories I burned." Unfortunately, while I can see the number of calories burned for the actual exercise I did, I can't see how many I actually burned as a result of the burn rate+that exercise.

I know, I know, I could take the burn rate I see today and just simply add those calories burned from yesterday, BUT today's burn rate is lower than it was at the same time yesterday... hence my confusion.

Thanks!!