1/18/2015
Today is Sunday, normally it would be a day off from exercise. I am supposed to spend Monday with my sister and I don’t think I will get a workout in so I figure I would exercise today and make tomorrow my day off.
Fit bit stats for the past week:
Day/Date
|
# of steps
|
Sunday, 1.11.2015
|
5,704
|
Monday, 1.12.2015
|
11,503
|
Tuesday, 1.13.2015
|
10,123
|
Wednesday, 1.14.2015
|
18,768
|
Thursday, 1.15.2015
|
20,090
|
Friday, 1.16.2015
|
12,805
|
Saturday, 1.17.2015
|
25,247
|
Total = 104,240
A little side note about the Fit bit: my goal is set at 10,000 steps per day. Apparently this is the ideal # of steps to maintain health. I figure if I aim for 10,000 steps on my day off and 15,000 steps the other 6 days a week I will be in good shape - literally. I have started thinking about the hotter weather that begin arriving sometime in March. It makes me nervous to even think about because I know I can maintain my gym time I am afraid my running/walking on the Trails will cease to happen because sometime in June or July it gets too damn hot to be exerting yourself outside.I don’t know what I will do for those couple of crazy hot months (June-September) but I will have to come up with something. I wish there was an indoor running/walking space. It doesn’t have to be fancy, just somewhat air conditioned so I could continue on this path I find myself on. Hmm, there’s an insane business idea. Anybody want to invest?
It is 9:00 in the morning on Sunday and I am just sitting down to breakfast. I have already run/walked the Trails. Today I think I ran a little slower BUT after reading an article last night in my Weight Watchers magazine about running I thought I would give their tips a try. They said to slow your pace down a bit a practice diaphragm or belly breathing instead of chest breathing. I really focused on my breathing and it seemed to make a difference. Of course I was still winded but it wasn’t fierce breaths being ripped from my chest. I ran much further than I have in the past so all in all I consider this morning a win!
It is now 12:20 pm, I attended Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga today, it was tough! I also learned that there is a good reason that yoga pants were invented. Doing yoga in soccer shorts is about one of the worst ideas I have ever had. In my defense, I only have one pair of yoga pants and I already wore them earlier in the week (to a yoga class - thank you very much). So, soccer shorts creep up to places they should not be at very inconvenient times. I guess I’m going to Target! The yoga instructor knows me from my Yin yoga classes and she said I did well and to definitely keep coming. I think that is a fabulous idea even though yoga frustrates me beyond belief. I am just bad at it, my flexibility is non-existent. I guess the best plan is to keep going and improve. The gym has a Yoga-Pilates Fusion class on Tuesday, maybe I will give it a try.
I was able to get to Target. I was a little surprised at how expensive yoga pants are. I picked up some Champion brand pants that I know fit. Unfortunately they also cost $35.00 per pair. As I walked through Target I saw yoga pants made by Massimo for $14.00 per pair, guess who has new Massimo yoga pants?
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