Motivation Monday: Last Week’s Exercise Round-Up

Hey there my fitness friends!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and are rested enough for this Monday!

I had a very good week and feel ready for the new one.

Today’s post is one of the “Motivation Monday” series with my previous week’s exercise recap. I hope it helps you motivate yourself to get out there and exercise!

Monday evening was my usual spin class with Melissa. It was a very good ride, even though for some reason I wasn’t feeling so well that evening. I still got my usual 12 ml out of it! Yey!

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Tuesday – went swimming with my hubby. With all the rain we have been getting, the water temperature was surprisingly pleasant.

Wednesday – did an hour of yoga with Jim – was awesome as always!

Thursday – I had a weight lifting session scheduled with Jim. Oh my god, was that a good workout! The day after even turning the steering wheel of my car was a challenge, and it hurt to put my shoulder on my knee in lunge pose! I apparently used muscles I hadn’t been using for a long-long time (never?). My favorite part of this workout were the straight back dead lifts – oh dear, that made my hamstrings feel soooo good. Not so much the day after, though 🙂

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The number of cal. fat I burnt in this workout as opposed to a spin class was just a revelation to me!

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I don’t know about you, guys, but I am motivated!

Friday – yoga with Jim. My poor sore arms and legs started feeling a little better after this one!

Saturday: my usual Saturday double happened alright this weekend. First – sweaty 13 miles with Tara:

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Followed by Yoga with Jim:

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Yoga was “sweaty”…Just because I was stupid enough to leave my towel at home and so I couldn’t take a shower between the classes! I thought for a second that I could rent a towel at the Y, but then thought of where it might had been before and changed my mind 🙂

Sunday: easy and relaxed yoga class with Susan.

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On Saturday, my husband went to Cole’s Bicycles and got my new SPD compatible bike peddles that we had ordered a week before.

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Which means what?…Which means I can now ride outside in my cycling shoes my hubby got me for my birthday! Which was exactly what we did on Sunday evening after dinner – went for a bike ride. The weather was just perfect for it – cool, not windy, sunny and beautiful!

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The shoes worked out just great with the new peddles! I love the feeling of being “clipped in”.

As you see, friends, I had a pretty full week here!

Date Activity Type Duration Cal.
8/19/2013 Spin, Melissa Exercise 60 minutes 562
8/18/2013 Bicycling Exercise 40 minutes 358
8/18/2013 Yoga With Susan Exercise 71 minutes 243
8/17/2013 Yoga With Jim Exercise 60 minutes 212
8/17/2013 Spin, Tara Exercise 65 minutes 643
8/16/2013 Yoga Exercise 60 minutes 117
8/15/2013 Weight Lifting Exercise 35 minutes 224
8/13/2013 Swimming Exercise 20 minutes 239
8/12/2013 Spin, Melissa Exercise 50 minutes 468

Motivated yet? I know I am after looking at this:

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The picture on the left was taken on July 23, 2012. The one on the right – this summer.

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Have a wonderful Monday, my friends, and stay fit!

Comments

  1. So happy I connected with you through Brooke and the Back to Basics challenge!

    Wanted to ask you your opinion on your Polar heart rate monitor? I’ve been trying to decide what one I want to get for so long and this one was in the running!

    • Hi Shannon!
      Thanks for following and welcome! I am loving this challenge so far – I got connected with so many wonderful ladies through it!
      I have Polar FT40 and I love it! It is very easy to set up and use, it is just the perfect size, the chest band is comfortable to wear and fits really well so I don’t even notice it.
      The watch itself is very accurate and gives you a lot of info about your workout.
      Let me know if you want me to take a pic of every screen with workout details, I’d be happy to do it for you so you can see what the watch can do for you.

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