January Exercise Challenge!

[tinkerbye]

30 minutes of cardio to finish off the month. 1265/1500

 

[Chicago262]

An hour WERQ class followed by an hour Turbo Kick class brings me to:

2790/2000 That's the best month I've had since I started my weight loss quest back in June!

Figment-thanks for hosting!! How'd PT end up going tonight? I hope they challenged you!

 

[Figment1990]

Have you talked to your therapist why you are not progressing to harder exercises? Maybe they don't know how strong you have become and have you on a standard schedule for your injury.

Thanks robin, I should have explained myself clearer but they called me back for my session so I didn't finish my post. This is my first session in more than a year. Since my last time thru formal therapy I was extremely weak and injured, it was a lot of leg lifts etc. So my post was a hopeful wish that I wouldn't be doing just leg lifts, etc.

Lo and behold, yes, I did the stupid leg lifts. I know I need to do them but I still don't think they will help enough. The good thing about this session tho is that I think I have a really good therapist. She and I communicated very clearly with each other and she completely understands exactly what my challenge is and where I'm aiming to get to. She's very quickly was able to find that final weak point where i experience pain and is working to eliminate it. Another plus, she's a runner, so she gets the need to run, (and is letting me keep running) and she explained some other things to me in ways that seemed to make sense.

I guess it's a learning experience for us all to be patient with our bodies and with trainers and to keep looking and trying until you find something that works.

I realized that I'm definitely stronger than I was when I was injured before, but I really am not as strong as I thought. I think i seriously have overestimated myself in the whole "i did a half marathon" excitement. But on the plus side, she got me back onto a bike, so I'm excited to add some spinning to my cross training. I've missed it.

Despite the marathon length of my session, I'm gonna count it as 45 min tonight since I was on the bike for a while, then did exercises for a while before all the other therapy stuff. 925/800

 

[Figment1990]

Oh- and I meant to add that I will be updating the first post tomorrow with everyone's final reporting for January. I'm planning to do it later in the day, just in case people have minutes to post from tonight.

Thanks everyone for letting me hostess! I really had fun!

 

[indygirl99]

Finished out the month with a 60 min run/walk. Good finish for the month considering I ran the Tinker Bell half this month. Plan to keep up the momentum next month as I am running again in April.

1825/1200

 

[debbieandroo]

I hear ya- I stay off the ice as much as possible. Injury risk is too high for me! I'd count those WDW minutes. Maybe "discount" them by a factor of like .5 or something. I mean geez, I walk miles and miles when I'm there and it definitely counts as improving fitness. I could tell the difference it made in my runs when I went to DL last year in the midst of training.

45 min run tonight. Yippee! 525/800

Hey, thanks!

I can't believe it....even without the considerable WDW minutes, I made it to 1900/2000 this month. I can easily add 100+ minutes of walking in WDW, especially trying to keep up with my friends' small and active children.

So....2000+/2000 for me - woo hoo!!!!

Next month, I'll be walking the PHM. I've been working on this for a year and can't believe it's almost here.

Congratulations, everyone!

 

[MRS AR]

60 min elliptical

1360/1600.
Didn't quite make my goal I'll try again next month

Thanks Fig for hosting

 

[unbrelievable]

Barely made it, but I did. Finished out tonight with 511/500 for the month.

 

[robinb]

I did go to the YMCA tonight while my DD swam ...

30 min zumba
58 min walking on treadmill (I watched Glee on the treadmill and kept on going to see the end)

robinb 863/750

 

[Desiree]

My total for January was 1205/1500

 

[njcarita]

290/600 oh well there is always next month

 

[donac]

I finished at 340 for the month.

 

[Figment1990]

Okay! First post is updated.... But to save you all the trouble - here it is, as of 3:45 on Feb 1. Fantastic Job Everyone! See you all on the February thread!

4chickadees 0/900 --- 0%
5 at disney 0/800 --- 0%
amready2go 435/1000 --- 44%
BernardandMissBianca 374/500 --- 75%
ColoradoLime 138/600 --- 23%
Debbie19 920/1000 --- 92%
Desiree 1205/1500 --- 80%
Disney52303 1245/2013 --- 62%
DisneyBelle99 750/999 --- 75%
disney-inspired 460/480 --- 96%
Disneyluvr81 0/2013 --- 0%
donac 340/500 --- 68%
fitgirl36 466/600 --- 78%
goldcupmom 220/2013 --- 11%
gudwrench 630/1200 --- 53%
hops&dreams 84/840 --- 10%
jayna22 0/1000 --- 0%
JessB320 240/1200 --- 20%
JVL1018 330/750 --- 44%
keenercam 1180/1300 --- 91%
leeandstacismom 70/800 --- 9%
Melissahac99 135/600 --- 23%
momofdjc 450/600 --- 75%
MRS AR 1390/1600 --- 87%
mrsdrake625 865/1275 --- 68%
NatalieCA 1330/2013 --- 66%
njcarita 290/600 --- 48%
PlutoBaby 1251/1300 --- 96%
princessbride6205 945/1200 --- 79%
Quicklabs 540/600 --- 90%
sPaRkLeSpAz 435/1500 --- 29%
StitchisOurHero 20/600 --- 3%
The Mystery Machine 10/150 --- 7%
TiffanyD 910/1000 --- 91%
tiki23 1120/1500 --- 75%
tinkerbye 1265/1500 --- 84%
waynesherrie 40/750 --- 5%


CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Butterfly123 1020/1000 --- 102%
Chicago262 2790/2013 --- 139%
CruiseBoundnKY 2413/2013 --- 120%
debbieandroo 2000/2000 --- 100%
disneymom2one 3247/3000 --- 108%
figment1990 925/800 --- 116%
glss1/2fll 2044/1700 --- 120%
Greenfield1984 1265/800 --- 158%
indygirl99 1825/1200 --- 152%
JimB. 2060/2000 --- 103%
KateB 1075/1000 --- 108%
lisash0711 1005/1000 --- 101%
pix13dust 1365/1100 --- 124%
robinb 863/750 --- 115%
Rose&Mike 1676/1400 --- 120%
seattlebusymom 815/800 --- 102%
unbrelievable 511/500 --- 102%

 

[robinb]

Thank you so much for hosting the thread!!!

 

[Disney52303]

Thank you for hosting this. I hit 61% (boo). Ended up with a stomach bug on 1/26 that wiped me out for the month. On to February!

 

[KateB]

Thank you so much for this thread it kept me working out! I have to admit that I can get unmotivated but this thread made me accountable. THANKS!!!

 

[tiki23]

Thanks for hosting!

I ended up getting in another 90 minutes but still fell short for January, darn it. On to February!