Sweat Break

So I am sitting here, 30 minutes before I head to the employee workout room, wondering what circuit training I am going to do today.....

I would really love to win Kelly's giveaway this week! It would be perfect for my workout situation!

A new way of walkin..

So... I'm on week seven of not going to the gym in the mornings, and walking the dog 2x a day. I'm maintaing my fitness...but lately I've been allowing myself to get lazy and skip my pre walk workout video. My allergies have really been acting up, and that extra 25 minutes of sleep feel necessary. So...I've been trying the whole run/walk thing five times a week (I've also started keeping track of my daily mileage, between both walks/jogs) and then doing strength training twice a week. Today I was planning on getting up a few minutes earlier to to my Carmen Electra vide0-dont' judge! anyway...I wanted that extra sleep...so I went on a "Toning Walk." With the dog in one hand, and my purple flashlight (it's pitch black at 5:40..gotta be safe, plus this guy is like a foot long and doubles as a nightstick)..I was off.

The flaslight is actually my husbands from college. I love to tease him about the purple color. but I digress. I started out with some fast walking, and then walked on my toes for 20 feet. I then went about 30 feet with one foot on the road, and the other on the curb, then I crossed the street to do the other leg, gotta keep it even! This was followed by (kept walking the whole time):
50 front arm raises on each arm with the flashlight as weight.
30 feet of high knees
90 bicep curls on each arm with the flashlight as weight,
and then speed walk home
I finished at home with a set of tricep dips on our picnic table bench.

It wasn't the same as doing a good heavy weights workout, but it def. added to my walk and got some toning in there. And my biceps are def. feeling it now!

Feel the BURN

So, yesterday I didn't go to the gym, I went for an early morning walk around our new neighborhood. During my walk, I was thinking about what little bit of strength training I wanted to do, I knew that I didn't want to do arms, as I had just done those the day before. I remembered Kelly saying in one of her posts, that all you needed to do to hit every major muscle group in your lower body was to do walking lunges. Brilliant. I wanted to use my handweights, but they haven't been unpacked yet ( I don't think, maybe they have and I just don't know where they are), I remembered a workout from self.com...that used a towel for resistance. Well....I don't know how well holding up a rolled up towel over my head worked, but I'm sure it added some challenge for my core for stabilization or something.

Do you like my picture? I wanted to post about this, and I know that pictures make posts more interesting, but I didn't take a picture of my self working out, I'll leave that to the professionals. So I drew it. Oh man, it makes me smile just looking at it. Mostly cause it's so bad. But that is me, on our patio, with our fence in the background, holding a blue towel over my head, doing walking lunges. Although I just noticed that I put the sun in the wrong place, the sun was behind me, as it was 6:30am, oops. This is why I'm not an artist. Right, putting the sun in the wrong place is clearly the only reason.

But here is my point, it worked. I did three "sets" with one "set" being down the patio and back, and today my thighs and butt are killing me. Ouch! It's a pain I relish though, I like knowing that I worked my muscles.

Happy Friday Everyone!!