I'm going on a road trip for the day today. Before I left, I was sure to get my intervals in - it only took 12 minutes - what the heck! I can't tell you how good it feels. It feels great to have my blood pumping and feeling refreshed from the movement. But it feels even better to know that I am back on track and finished with the schlump period. You can do it too!
You know what's really amazing and demonstrates what I've been thinking the past months of not regularly doing my exercises? The same weight with or without exercise produces a different body. You can see it with my examples.
I feel so much stronger with a spark that I just don't have if I'm not living a healthy lifestyle, and the Fit Yummy Mummy Challenge gets me on track.
It seems that there is something to be said about a group effort. Accountability, community and best of all, results!
I decided to brainstorm and IMPLEMENT some fitness challenge success tips right off the starting line, while I'm gearing up to participate in the second Fit Yummy Mummy Transformation Challenge.
This time around I know straight off what I need to concentrate on to take it up a notch and deflect some of the things [...]
I am so excited to let you know that we are on again!
Holly has reopened the Fit Yummy Mummy Transformation Challenge and I couldn't be happier!
Since the last challenge ended, I've been doing well, but not as well as I was and I still have a few lbs to lose and a few muscles to [...]
This has been an interesting week. I'm getting back on track in redoubling my efforts, as I had fallen into a comfortable state which in one way is a great thing and what we are aiming for - creating new, healthy habits that don't take much effort to implement, because they have become second nature.
Over the next few weeks, I will spotlight some of the main aspects of being successful at creating a healthy lifestyle and habits that will support you in weight loss and good health for the long haul.
This week our podcast is about setting yourself up for weight loss success through being clear about the reasons why you are doing it, strengthening your commitment to yourself, examining your priorities and the importance of a support system.
This gives a few advantages. First being that you work up and can tweak the exercises either through intensity or repetition to your own fitness level as you start out. And basically the same advantages apply as you advance - the exercises grow increasingly more challenging, and as you progress, you can add weight to get increase benefit and avoid plateaus.
The past few years, I was viewing getting older as anything but golden. And then the obvious became - obvious! I wasn't feeling and looking frumpy because I had magically hit "that age" - it was because I wasn't doing what I needed to do to be healthy. That applies at any age.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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