- Start
- Food Tracker
- Community
-
Learn
-
What's New
- Nutrition
- Nutrition Options:
- Nutrition Basics
- Smart Snacking
- Power Foods
- Healthy Cooking
- Dining Out Guide
- Fitness
- Fitness Options:
- Exercise Basics
- Workout Ideas
- Motivation to Move
- Cardio
- Strength & Toning
- Motivation
- Motivation Options:
- Get Back on Track
- Staying Motivated
- Goal Setting
- Inspiring Stories
- Health & Wellness
- Weight Loss
- Stuff We Love
- Healthy Family
- Pregnancy & Postpartum
- Instant Inspiration
- Food Database
- Lifestyle Centers
- Lifestyle Center Options:
- Beauty & Style
- Brides To-Be
- Family Wellness
- Gardening
- Healthy Home
- Pet Health
- Senior Health
- More
- The SparkPeople Blog
-
What's New
- Challenges
-
Videos
-
Stream hundreds of free workout videos and track them in one click. Get fit at home, at work or wherever you are!
Today's Featured Video:
Coach Nicole's Favorites: Lunges with Ball
Visit SparkPeople.TV
-
-
Recipes
-
Access hundreds of thousands of recipes that are healthy and easy to make. Get full nutrition info for every recipe and track with one click!
Today's Featured Recipe:
Sweet & Tart Rhubarb Muffins
Visit SparkRecipes.com
-
- Team Forum
- TEAM: HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
- FORUM: Fitness, Nutrition & Challenges
- TOPIC:
April 30 Days of Challenges: Day #3
- Back to Team Main Page ›
| Author: | Sorting Last Post on Top ↓ Message: |
|
|
Sorry about being late posting this. Last Wednesday I:
Did 30 minutes of Walk Aerobics with intervals Walked around the park for 30 minutes Did 25 minutes of weight training The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.--Socrates
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ *~*~*~*~*~*~ The only person you need to be better than is the person you were yesterday.
|
BEULAH45
Posts: 7874/7/13 9:24 P |
I logged 20 minutes of fitness today. WooHoo!!!
|
|
|
40 minutes Tai Chi. Starting back into it. Have been off it almost a year. Love the way it relaxes. Restarted because of HBP.
|
|
|
I got a 30 minute walk outside today then I did 35 minutes of step aerobics. I feel good tonight.
You can throw in the towel or use it to wipe the sweat off your face. YOUR Choice!!!!*************************** Stephanie in Nova Scotia Atlantic Daylight Savings Time
|
|
|
46 minute walk with walking buddy
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." -Socrates
|
|
|
I walk my pugs at least 60 minutes a day. That way I enjoy the fresh (still freezing) air and the nature in my neighbourhood
 Mundemums
Vallensbæk Strand, Denmark
|
|
Walked for a total of 80 minutes today.
|
CAROL_31649731
Posts: 7,1224/4/13 4:55 P |
|
|
Report for 4/3 I did 60 minutes of exercise. walked laps at Walmart. Got in 9 laps before shopping.
Susan
"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach." - Tom Robbins "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton "Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ..." 2 Corinthians 2:14
|
|
|
This is one challenge I want to do. I like being active but sometimes I get lazy.
So far this month I have missed one day of being active and I don't want to have another day when I am not physically active for at least 15 minutes. Yesterday I did the WII fit program (step aerobics) for 30 minutes and yoga for 30 minutes. Monday I played darts for 60 minutes. . Today I did one strength training video with Coach Nicole and I will be doing 2 more as soon as I'm finished posting. The first strength training video was for abs/core muscles. I will do one for upper body and then one for lower body. Each video is 10 minutes or less. They are free here on SP and I really like them. You can throw in the towel or use it to wipe the sweat off your face. YOUR Choice!!!!*************************** Stephanie in Nova Scotia Atlantic Daylight Savings Time
|
|
|
SDANLSON
Posts: 8624/3/13 10:10 P |
Daily animal care and other chores generally ties up at least 4 or 5 hours a day and covers at least 1.5 - 2 miles.
|
SANDYBREIT
Posts: 1,2534/3/13 9:38 P |
Wow, you all are doing a wonderful job! I don't think I'm going to throw in any more fitness "challenges," you make me feel quite inadequate (maybe this is why I'm not making the progress I'd like to) !
 I walked for 25 minutes on my treadmill today.  Sandy
Michigan Upper Peninsula Eastern time zone BLC Time to Bloom - Pink Flamingos
|
|
|
I did 25 minutes elliptical, 10 of which was interval training,
and 10 minute weight workout for upper body strength Cheryl from pennsylvania
|
|
Played outside with my daughter for 30 minutes until it got too cold - hope this counts
 One day at a time!!
|
|
|
FATTYBJ - don't get down on yourself, give yourself a pat on the back - you got off your duff and exercised!
 I walked 11/2 miles (30 min.) and rode the stationary bike 21 min. Life begins outside your comfort zone
|
SWIMCOACH10
Posts: 2464/3/13 7:38 P |
Okay, FattyBJ, I want you to change your username to something more positive. Looking at that name will only get you down.
Secondly, you have not disappointed any of us. Doing ANYTHING is great, and feel good that you didn't sit on the couch and eat all day! Working on the balance ball is really, really good for you (core). And third, don't compare yourself. Even though I am 62 and 30 pounds overweight, if I do not do some form of strenuous exercise 6 days a week, I don't feel right. That isn't true for everyone, or necessarily even good for everyone! Becky
|
|
|
OK I did some balance ball videos boot camp # 2 7 min
boot camp # 3 8 min boot camp # 4 10 min. Just cant get on the treadmill Sorry people, but I am disappointing myself more than you. With Christ I can do anything!
|
|
|
  UR  I'm not losing weight...I'm getting rid of it! I have not intention of finding it again!
|
|
|
You all make me feel guilty, I just don't have any ambition, but now I feel like I have to do something. Will get back to you!!!!
With Christ I can do anything!
|
|
|
Was on vacation, but walked 50min. days 1,2, and 3  Sandy
New York Eastern Stander Time Invincible Indigo Team
|
RISAMEANSLAUGH
Posts: 1,2704/3/13 5:23 P |
Stationary bike warm up (10 min), walk (15 min), "body work" (exercises: work with the exercise ball + pushups, wall pushups, jillian michaels exercises -- partial) (10 min), my version of "spinning" aka interval training on stationary bike (30 min).
I already put this on my tracker: 65 min total
|
|
SWIMCOACH10
Posts: 246 4/3/13 4:46 P |
I went to my fitness class for an hour. We did 3 sets of tabatas, several interval sets, squats, lunges, biceps, triceps, core, etc. Killer class, but it felt great!
|
|
|
|
|
just finished a walk in the neighborhood......3350 steps.......22 minutes
|
|
|
Walked around the block at work - 16 minutes - during my lunch break!
Will do resistance training at home, after work. Edited by: DGRIFFITH51 at: 4/3/2013 (16:17) I'm not losing weight...I'm getting rid of it! I have not intention of finding it again!
|
|
|
so far today I have
1. 60 minutes on recumbent bike sets reps weight 2. Abdominal isolator 5 15 40 lbs 3 Abductor 5 15 40 lbs 4. Adductor 2 15 30 lbs 5. Leg Slide Seated 5 20 60 lbs 6. Seated Leg Curl 2 15 50 lbs 7. Seated Leg Curl 2 15 40 lbs 8 Leg Extention 1 10 40 lbs 9. Leg Extention 1 10 30 lbs 10. Vertical Chess Press 2 15 20 lbs time steps 11. Stair Stepper 10 118
|
SUSAN2068
Posts: 304/3/13 2:43 P |
Fitness class day so I spent an hour at the gym doing tricep, back and chest exercises as well as core work.
|
|
|
CHICKEE7
Posts: 1,2344/3/13 2:32 P |
I walked for 10 minutes and exercised the legs for 5.
Susanne
GMT +1
|
1WORKINGGIRL
Posts: 5664/3/13 2:08 P |
Cold outside AGAIN so I did Leslie Sansone 4 Fast Miles DVD.
45 minutes cardio. Edited by: 1WORKINGGIRL at: 4/3/2013 (14:09) “To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to create oneself endlessly.” - Henri Bergson
|
SUSANELAINE1956
Posts: 25,2354/3/13 2:03 P  |
|
|
|
I did 10 minutes on the elliptical, and 25 minutes on weight machines (arm extension, abdominal, arm curl, hip abduction)
|
|
|
12 min seated cardio tape
30 mins of walking I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!! whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life!!!
LEADER-PARTNERSHIP ACCOUNTABILITY TO THE FINISH LINE. CO-LEADER SHINING FOR JESUS CO-LEADER GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS C0-LEADER GODS AMAZING GRACE CO-LEADER CHRISTIANS WITH 100 POUNDS TO LOSE CO-LEADER GOD WORKS AMOUNG US
|
|
I worked out on the Stairmaster before work this morning for 20 mins
|
|
|
20 minutes of brisk walking
|
COUZCAT
Posts: 4,3624/3/13 11:58 A |
|
|
They planted some shrubs down by the creek that were over grown with a canary grass weed. I will head down and rake some of the canary grass mat off of the shrubs. I plan to work at least 35 minutes on this project so will check back and put it on my tracker this afternoon.
 Lovin the skin you're in.
|
100LBLIGHTER
Posts: 7,8084/3/13 11:14 A |
Today I will vacuum my house. .I hope that counts. I will let you know later how long it takes.
Effort is the seed from which success blooms.- Beth (PETUNIABETH)
You may forget with whom you've laughed, but you will never forget with whom you've wept. A gentle answer quiets anger, but a harsh one stirs it up. Proverbs 15:1 "When life looks like it's falling apart, it may just be falling in place facebook.com/grace.wolfe3
|
|
Ok, I did 9 minutes. That was a lot for the first time. I like Nicole's armchair exercises. Tomorrow I will try for 12 mins.
|
JWILLIS40
Posts: 6844/3/13 10:29 A |
Hmm. My walk to work is usually 10 minutes so I will see what I can come up with otherwise that doesn't aggrivate my asthma. I know I will walk home unless it is storming.
Ask, and it shall be given to you;
Seek, and you shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you: Matthew 7:7 Now the Beroeans were more noble minded than those in Thessalonica, for they recieved the word with the greatest eagerness of mind, carefully examining the Scriptures daily as to whether these things were so. Act 17:11
|
|
i started to do an exercise video routine this morning, got 10 minutes in and got a a pain in my hip. when I get to work ( I work at the Y) will try and do 10 or 15 minutes on the treadmill.
|
|
SANDYBREIT
Posts: 1,253 4/3/13 9:54 A |
Do at least 15 minutes of physical activity -- post what you did and for how long, as well as entering your activity in your fitness tracker.
Keep up the good work, everyone!! Sandy
Michigan Upper Peninsula Eastern time zone BLC Time to Bloom - Pink Flamingos
|
Page: 1 of (1)
Report Innappropriate Post
Other HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE Fitness, Nutrition & Challenges Posts
| Topics: | Last Post: |
| Winter Wanderings 2017 | 4/6/2017 12:05:30 PM |
| Water, how much did you drink yesterday? | 4/20/2018 7:40:57 AM |
| Workout Music | 4/25/2018 9:32:59 AM |
| Share a Fitness Emoticon | 4/8/2018 2:40:06 AM |
| Name a Song you Exercise too? | 2/25/2018 12:48:03 PM |
Thread URL: https://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/team_messageboard_thread.asp?board=25457x1444x52809850
Review our Community Guidelines