I bought a scale and a hula hoop yeaterday. You know, I actually gained 5 pounds...and I'm happy about it! I expected to weigh more because I've been lifting and pushing for muscle tone and I can see that I've gained muscle.
Today, I did 21 minutes on my elliptical with the 15 minute walk before and only 12 minutes of walking after. I still did more milage in the final 12 minutes than I normally would in 15. They say, "Work smarter; not longer," but I'm really not working that long. I'm working for a short time and slowly smartening my workout. I need to buy a body fat pincher thingie. I also need new shoes and to completely forget about getting my roots touched up. My mother wore goodwill clothes her whole life and Balloon shoes until 1990 something. My God, I am turning into my mother. I should be so lucky
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I should probably stop wearing my pedometer while I'm on my treadmill because its kind of like cheating. One day this pedometer says I've walked 4,000 steps and the next it says over 8,000. I may let my son use it to track his steps for a while. He would probably like to track his steps. I'm also going to ask him to join me by using the treadmill while I'm on the elliptical with free range of the radio as an incentive. Idk if that'll work, but it might. He desperately needs the exercise, especially in the summer.
Night time update:
I'm paying for that extra 5 minutes on the elliptical today right now. I have a bit of an ache in my upper back thigh right now. I had a hairline fracture in my right hip as a child from a car accident and sometimes that hip hurts a little from the weather. That's what this feels like right underneath my right butt cheek and of course stepping slightly off keel makes my hip pinch. It feels like a nerve is agitated from all the exercising or maybe I cracked some bursa without knowing it...Who am I kidding? It's most likely from a lack of shock absorption because my shoes are so stinking old that I've used liquid nail on certain parts to hold them together. I really am my mother's daughter. Hmm, buy new shoes or put $60 towards daddy's birthday gift...no shoes for me just yet. I can wait. It's summer time, so I'm mostly in flip flops anyway. I went to the store to look for shoes a few weeks ago, but its so hard to find a size 5 without cartoons on them. Shoe shopping is a chore, a burden, and an expense that must wait. At least I'm not bare footed.
The ache is not in every step, just when I put my foot down the wrong way. If its still hurting tomorrow, I won't do the elliptical until tomorrow evening. I doubt that it will still hurt, but yours truly has been known to run on a sprain and get adrenaline from bending a broken bone, so I'm definitely going to try to play it extra safe. The last thing I need is to end up needing another X-ray for an athletic injury. I learned my lesson in December! I'm definitely going to have to do more stretching before I push myself on that elliptical again.
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