Spring Body TuneUp Time-Review of Week 3
May 9th, 2008 | by Jeniffer |- Spring Body TuneUp Time!
- Spring Body TuneUp Time-Week 1
- Spring Body Tuneup time-Week 2
- Spring Body TuneUp Time-Review of Week 3
- Spring Body TuneUp Time-Review of Week 4
photo credit: Joe Shlabotnik
This will mark the end of my third week on this Spring Body Tuneup!
One more week, and I’ll be moving on to other things, but I’ll still continue working on improving my physical fitness level. I have a method in mind, and of course I’m sharing it with you.
Exciting Idea For The Forum!
After this TuneUp, I’ll be using my forum, reporting in there on how much, what type of exercise, calories if I feel it’s necessary to report on that, etc.
It is a well-known fact that if we are looking for change in any aspect of our lives, keeping ourselves accountable for what we promise we are going to do is an enormous help.
Therefore, my readers will become my partners for accountability!
And I can do the same for you.
Anyone else who would like to join me there is welcome to do so, in fact, that is what I am hoping will happen. Maybe we can get a bunch of folks who are looking to improve their fitness level reporting on their goals, progress, setbacks, etc. We could be accountable to each other.
By moving this into the forum, I can allow others to share their own weight loss/fitness quest journey.
Even if no one adds anything in there other than myself (I hope they will, however), I will continue reporting during the thirty days following the completion of this Spring Body TuneUp.
Now, on with the review…
This week’s review is shorter than that of other weeks.
I’ve had some setbacks, plus I have been incredibly busy with life and the website, and the kids, and the property up north, and…well, I’m sure you get the idea.
Next week, I’ll provide a better review, but for this week, this is going to be it!
So, here goes…
First off, most of my averages are worked out from Monday on, as one of my kids was ill from Thursday afternoon of last week, through Sunday. My kids take presidence, of course, and because I was home, the only workout I did was my resistance training during those days.
This also affected the number of steps I recorded. During the weekend, I averaged just around 2000 steps per day, which is way down from the almost 10000 steps I did the rest of the weekdays. All in all, my average step count including those sick days was just 6441. However, not including those days, just Monday through Thursday, was 9820 steps per day.
My resistance workout was very much as it was last week, except that I doubled the number of reps I was doing, added a plank which I hold for sixty seconds, and changed my crunches by placing my feet on a bed, so that they are above me, and doing the crunches from that position.
I did the resistance work on Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
Remember, I am neither an exercise professional, nor a nutritionist. Check with your doctor before trying any regime of physical fitness or changes to your diet.
As well, I did not get my bike or my son’s bike trailer out. It’s been a cold and damp week all around, so we bundled up in the mornings and walked after dropping my daughter off at school.
Most mornings now I do between 45 minutes and one hour of fast walking.
I did my cardio training Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, again, just in the form of brisk walking.
During the days when I was home because of my daughter’s illness, I paid absolutely no attention to my diet, although I tend to choose fairly healthy food anyway. Usually just too much of it!
Because of all of these factors, I did not actually lose any weight this week. But I didn’t gain any, either, so (dare I say it?) all is not lost!
Most Enjoyable Time Spent With My Family was definitely when my daughter began to get some of her color back, a bit of her energy, and the day she actually smiled again! You don’t know how much you miss those simple things, until they are taken away.
My most enjoyable Time Spent Alone was when I actually sat down and planned out a great deal of the posts for this site for the next eight weeks. I have never had such a plan before, and I’m trying it to see how I like it. So far, I love it! It’s so good to know what you have coming up, when, and of course to have the flexibility in life to be able to change it as circumstances dictate.
My Biggest Goal Achieved This Week was getting my first guest post ready for another site (it will be out Monday on Never The Same River Twice, which, incidentally, is one of the sites which will be featured here, guest posting May 14 in my “The Achievers” series).
Another huge goal was gathering up the posts and sorting and organizing them for the series, plus pencilling in all the names of the writers contributing.
Big Goal Set For Next Week: By Monday, I want to have The Achievers completely set and ready to go, all the posts waiting for publication, all the writers informed of their scheduled post dates, all the photos picked out for the series.
It promises to be great!
A Final Note About the Forum:
If anyone would like to jump in on the forum before me, please feel free to start things up!
Hopefully, I’ll see you there.
That’s it, until next week’s update.
On a similar path of self/life improvement? Have tips or techniques you’d like others to know about? Why not share? Comments are always most welcome!
