BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!

Subject: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 05:55 AM

Here's the Previous One which sufficed for the summer. As always post your goals, hopes, etc. and how you are meeting them.

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: LilyFestre
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 07:35 AM

My goals for September:

1. Mindfulness
2. Move more now that it's cooled down...more walks, get the bike out.
3. Get myself to the Core yoga class and give it all I've got.
4. Get to the pool with my friend at least once a week.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 09:19 AM

My goals are the same as the previous months...to get fit, keep up with my exercises, drop another dress size!

Today I went for a 3 mile walk pushing the buggy with Harry on the buggy board, mine you some of the walking was at Harry pace as he did very well and walked a good distance.

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: LilyFestre
Date: 01 Sep 09 - 10:59 PM

Core Yoga....sweat city....yeah baby...BRING IT!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 11:43 AM

qi gong - 30 minutes

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: LilyFestre
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 12:30 PM

Oops...that Core Yoga was 75 minutes....with intermittent mini savasanas that were absolute HEAVEN. Ahhhh sweet relief!!!! :)

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 12:48 PM

Baseline:

Subject: RE: BS: Accountability All Summer Long 2009!
From: WYSIWYG - PM
Date: 31 Aug 09 - 12:20 PM

Aquatics are back into a measuring-mode for the season, and last night I found that I'd cracked the 160 BPM barrier (150's just a week ago) into the 170-190 BPM, intervals zone. The Fall and Winter will include, as well, our home weight room, with Hardi as mentor. I'll be posting starting weights, reps, and sets as soon as he can start me off with a baseline assessment.

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Ydy: 3 hours pool: mixed jog ranges 120-170, mixed ai chi, lots of hot tub deep stretches

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: MAG
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 01:28 PM

Haven't been to the Y; too much chaos in my life.

I did yhe workplace "biggest losers" contest and had $100 to blow.

I have spent the cash but have the $100.

My goal is to figure out how I can move without getting another job in my field.

I'm in the information gathering stage.

MAG

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: LilyFestre
Date: 02 Sep 09 - 08:17 PM

Yoga: 75 minutes

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 04:58 PM

qi gong - 30 minutes

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: LilyFestre
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 06:44 PM

Yoga: 75 Minutes

Note to anyone who does yoga: Sun salutations in underwire SUCK. LOL. I had an appointment today so I took my yoga clothes along....forgot one crucial element though...........UGH.

Michelle who likely will never make that mistake again!!!! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 08:24 PM

Ydy, two hours aquatics incl 1 hour with resistance gloves, poolrunning 140-170BPM and Power AI Chi in gloves, cool.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: LilyFestre
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 10:08 PM

Yesterday: Running numerous errands and an early evening spent picking beans, tomatoes, cherry tomatoes & grape tomatoes in the garden under a full moon. It was lovely even though my thighs were screaming for all the squatting, standing & more squatting.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Sep 09 - 10:20 PM

45 minutes walking

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 10:58 AM

Ydy, laundry marathon interspersed with kitchen marathon and MIL-coming marathon. Only 1 hour of chair time during all that, and NOT SORE afterwards either.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: LilyFestre
Date: 06 Sep 09 - 12:47 PM

Kayaking...lots of kayaking later today...the skies are bright blue, the temperature is perfect with a nice breeze...I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!! HOORAY for early fall days!!!!!!!!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 04:17 AM

Saturday was lots of walking. Yesterday I did a 4 mile walk and an hours yoga. Tonight I'll be going for a run.

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 10:09 AM

Ydy "active rest" workout-- the workout that wouldda killed me daid 3 weeks ago, which is easy and boring now. To find off a cold.

Hour and a half aquatics (with gloves for 30 minutes), BPMs as above. Time for a new speed range.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 10:53 AM

Managed to get in a body combat class tonight so I'll be doing that for an hour followed by a 2 mile jog home

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 03:35 PM

This month I'm trying to concentrate on getting enough sleep and walking to and from the station... and actually doing more than 3 consecutive days at work!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 11:15 PM

Man, I hear ya, LtS! Be nice to yourself for as much as you are able.

I managed 15 minutes of qi gong at an altitude of 9,980 feet above sea level. I had oxygen on and I was huffing until I actually started to do the movements. It was pretty neat to feel everything calm down, the breath flow, and the pulse oximeter was reading in the 90s which is GOOD! We were at a transmitter site which Rog had to go take care of ...an emergency trip. I am glad I was enough better that I could go with him.

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: LilyFestre
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 09:37 PM

75 minutes of Core yoga tonight.

Up boat.

Side up boat.

Belly up boat.

Other side up boat.

There's more but heavy on the up boats tonight. I'm good at them...except that initial up boat....ARG.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 10:42 PM

qi gong - 30 minutes, usual altitude:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 09 Sep 09 - 03:28 AM

Yesterday was a 2 mile walk an hours step aerobics and a 2 mile jog home. I'm a bit achey this morning but I think that's more to do with the new body combat class on Monday with the aerobics yesterday.

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Sep 09 - 11:30 PM

The sleep thing isn't working and I only lost a half pound this week, but after 2 weeks of eating doughnuts, cream teas and chocolate, drinking beer and gin, I'm happy it's still a loss!

Does mean a total of a stone and a half since this time last year though...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 10 Sep 09 - 03:20 AM

a stone and a half is a good amount of weight to lose in a year Liz. Well done you!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 01:04 PM

I am wondering if this wouldn't work better if we combine this with the decluttering thread? There seem to be most of the same group, plus losing weight is decluttering, right?:-> And, I find myself posting the same stuff to each as the decluttering involves activity which counts with weight watchers.

We'll leave this one for the rest of the month, but please do post what you think of that and I'll post the same note on the deluttering thread, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Sep 09 - 03:40 PM

Hi. Gonna give this a try because I have been suffering from Rheumatoid Arthritis and put on about 40 pounds since Andie.
Also last Autumn/winter i had a 3 month long flu/cold/flu/chest infection which have left me weakened heart and lung wise.

I get out of breath from brushing my hair, for pity's sake.

So I resolve to get up and take a quick stroll from one end of the Essex Record Office (it is a long building) to the other using only stairs at least twice a day not counting when i arrive in the morning or when I leave.

When the weather is fine, I resolve to go outdoors and walk along river into town centre during half hour lunch instead of working or googling.

I resolve to put reminders to do these things in my outlook diary tomorrow morning.

I resolve to send the reminder from my home email to my work email right now.

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Sep 09 - 03:43 PM

Email sent and trace put on this thread

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Sep 09 - 04:39 PM

Welcome to the thread, VTam.

I posted this in the other thread, but it really belongs in here as I think we'll keep them separate as we've been doing unless anyone else wants to comment?


I have realised, finally, that I DO have the time and HAVE to make the time to really get active. I have graduated from doing a qi gong for seniors, modified to do from sitting in a chair, to qi gong for beginners which is the same routine standing, to yesterday, getting back to my qi gong flow DVD which I had been unable to do for about 6-7 years. As I have devoted at least 45 minutes, first thing each morning, to exercise/meditation I find my body craving it by the next morning AND my day following with much more energy.(Of course, it helps to be over the pneumonia and all of the effects from it and medicine bs! Five months lost!) This is a HUGE thing for me, mentally, as for over ten years I had been in the mental AND physical state of "can't do that..not enough energy/oxygen/etc." They don't deal with the mental/emotional changes which can occur with heart surgery and it has been a struggle to not only realise that I DO have the energy and wherewithal, but also to convince my family, esp. my Rog, of this, too.


One thing I've found helpful is to have easy-to-do and not-so-easy-to-do goals. I get less frustrated which keeps me going instead of giving up because it's too hard.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Sep 09 - 01:14 PM

Thanks Kat

I did not have time to do walk around building today as I was up and down the stairs, end to end of the building 8 times, chasing files for Archive Service Manager and the auditor.

Add 2 more trips for collecting then delivering post (covering for colleague who is on leave).

Can't believe how bad my knees and feet hurt. My feet are so swollen. Don't understand. I thought the extra movement would reduce edema.

I am shattered.

Tomorrow going to add the breathing exercises I found to help my lungs.

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Sep 09 - 03:42 PM

Maybe starting out with a bit less? If I try too much, at first, then it usually causes more pain/damage then any benefits. (In the past year I've had a lot of problem with foot pain.)

Also, maybe the oedema is from a medicine? We tried everything the past few months to dump some oedema leftover from pneumonia and various treatments...just this past week, we tracked it to a muscle relaxant which I have stopped and the swelling and pain is almost gone.

Good luck,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 17 Sep 09 - 04:08 PM

only med I am on is thyroxine, quite a low dose.

I didn't have any choice about my level of activity today. Had to find the files requested, pronto. they are downstairs. It would have been easier if he had asked for all at same time, but the requests came one after another.

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Sep 09 - 09:48 PM

Ouch! (((((HUGS)))) I hope tomorrow is better for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 03:32 PM

I had to get a taxi home at 1pm. Back went out this morning, I think from over compensating for hurt feet and knees.

Sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: maeve
Date: 18 Sep 09 - 05:54 PM

Be gentle with yourself, VTam.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 12:03 AM

Yes, what maeve said.

I only did 15 minutes of qi gong this morning, then went shopping, so I got a little bit of walking in. Not enough, but at least some. I missed a doctor's appt. for treatment as she and her family were out sick. The doc herself called me at 730a to save me a trip! (She knew they wouldn't be open to call me until 8a and that I would be on the road by then.)

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 03:58 AM

that's one cool doc.

feeling much better today back wise. will take ti easy though.

funny thing about my knees though. i walk with my toes turned out now. the left more than the right. just in the last couple of days, because it is less uncomfortable.

Roll on 1st December. I have some things to ask the rheumatologist.

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 19 Sep 09 - 11:21 AM

Woot! Knees feet and hips still hurt some, but the back thing is gone. Toes facing forward again too so knees are better.

Got some exercise today doing chores. see the other accountability thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 21 Sep 09 - 02:55 PM

I got loads of activity today and I don't hurt! yippee!

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: maeve
Date: 21 Sep 09 - 03:09 PM

Wonderful, VTam! What a lovely feeling.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: maeve
Date: 23 Sep 09 - 09:36 AM

Weighed myself. Thirty pounds lighter since late spring. We'll see if I can keep it up over the fall and winter.

m

Subject: RE: BS: Activity Accountability - It's Sept. 09!
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Sep 09 - 07:21 PM

Congrats, maeve! Sorry I missed this earlier. Ya know, maybe you are so into the rhythms of Nature, that it's okay if you add a little in the winter when all things of good sense hunker down and doze a lot.:-) That's my theory, at least, feel free to use it.:-)

I have lost about 3 more pounds over the past three weeks and for the first time in years have managed a full one hour of qi gong, all of it on my feet, no chair! I can't wait to tell my doc when I see her this week for a treatment. I also can't wait to see what her daughters thought of the cardboard dulcimer kit I gave her for them to put together. She's got one who is already writing her own songs and loves music.