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work out the workout
I think I'm going to quit my gym. I like that it's called "It's All About Me Fitness" and that it offers classes like Flex and Flexibility and Booty Luv, but still I never go. This summer/fall I've been good at long podcast-fueled walks and Barre3 classes. Will I be able to keep that up in winter? Am I making a mistake? I'm old and need exercise.
What's your workout?
What's your workout?
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I have learned some things that help:
- identifying what time of day feels most natural for you to work out (for me, right before dinner! Who would've thought such a thing?!)
- identifying a routine that makes you feel good--what do you actually like to do? I think just going to a bunch of different classes and never settling into one doesn't work for me; I like to learn and see improvement and so consistently going to the same yoga class or whatever is helpful; doing the same weight routine is helpful
- making it a part of your day you look forward to. For me, it's the thing I do when I'm finally done with my work for the day, and so it's this nice transitional time where I try to slow down my mind, focus on my body, breathe, chill, listen to a podcast, and anticipate my nice evening I'm about to have. I look forward to that, when I'm actually in a good zone of doing it regularly.
I did get confident enough in yoga to where I can actually have a decent practice on my own, at home, but motivation is hard
Are there youtube exercise workouts you could find and have fun doing at home during the winter? Old school Fonda is pretty tight (I can remember my mother and her friend Roxie doing the Fonda workouts and saying "Jane you BITCH" to the TV). In high school I was VERY into the Cindy Crawford videos and of course abs of steel. It would be fun to return to those old videos, I think.
Is there a different gym that would be more fun? That has a eucalyptus sauna or something? My enjoyment of the gym is very sauna-focused
I ain't getting any slimmer but neither am I getting fatter so I guess I'll just keep doing this?
Could use some strength training probably to make my muscles huger like Mike's.
Spitzer has been threatening to come one of these days.
If you ever wanted to try it out...
I still need to get yoga back in this picture. I'll probably eventually go to yoga at my gym and just never go in the locker room ever.
easily overlooked
if you just did 50 pushups a day you'd be set
adam's always raggin' on me to get some decent earphones and i never do it
if it did I would be the most ripped hardass on this terrestrial plane
what about sitting in a terrible plastic chair for hours, is that core strength?
it was a real illustration of why capitalism doesn't work
http://www.colonialmedical.com/flat-d-flatulence-deoderizer-P-1004.html&ref=shopping.google.com
STEAM ROOM FOREVER, SAUNA NEVER
The steam is too thick and too hot, it burns my eyes and makes me feel like I'm suffocating.
The YMCA got remodeled last year so their stuff is FANCY! I love the video game exercise bike.
It's perfect for keeping me from turning into a fossil during this busy time in my life.
The 7 minute workout was too good to be true in my experience. I never got enough "buzz" to feel better or to motivate myself to always do it.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/for-a-7-minute-workout-download-our-new-app/?_r=0
*When you enter the army you are under a different set up laws, called the UCMJ, which seems like it shouldn't be legal, right?
@MirandaJuly do you go to West Coast Fitness on Alberta?
(i'm sick right now, but getting better)
DANCE AEROBICS.
AND ONE! AND TWO! AND REACH!
This has always been my jam; I love this shit. If they had step aerobics I'd do that too.
anybody go to funny classes?
For the last couple of months I've been going to Barre3 and I LOVE LOVE it! Full body workout (with a delightful emphasis on "seat work") in a positive environment with fun music. I've been going three-ish times a week and I'm feeling so strong and healthy. Also my seat looks amazing.
even easy aerobics I think is pretty bad for my fucked up hips (I'm still bone-sore from this class 2 days ago that was seriously so easy) but I think I want to do it periodically anyway. I gotta live my life, and my orthopedist told me the same thing. "Live your life, and you'll get a hip replacement when you can no longer put on your shoes." VERY FUN
My Y doesn't have Zumba but they have this funny GROUP CORE class where lie down and hold a big barbell weight and do stuff with it while Rihanna blasts. I straight-up won't do even one sit-up unless someone makes me so that seems good
SEAT WORK
It looks fun.
I can't believe I spent my entire high school life having 2 hours of track/cross-country practice every single day after class! I feel like we got worked like mules in high school, right? Was this all of your experience too? Epic sports commitments? Or was it a boarding school thing? We regularly ran 3-6 miles and once a semester we had to run 11, it was called the Dead Dog Run because one time there was a dead dog on it and this passed into myth. To this day when I go to an exercise class I feel a ghost of that satisfaction, of a coach yelling at me. Doing wind sprints until you barf. That being just a normal part of life?? Now I go six weeks without breaking a sweat, except at night during my peri-menopausal hot flashes, amirite
In Soviet Russia....WIND sprints YOU!
On the topic of swimming, I love swimming for exercise and I wish a gym near me had a pool.