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Claude – good aerobic week

Claude — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:20:35 +0000

I am so grateful to the people at the hospital who are so helpful and keep me motivated! I get access to their knowledge and machines. I have fallen in love with their elliptic bike and am trying to sell my reclining bike, which I now find too lazy for me
It’s been another rainy week, the worst day definitely being Sunday with strong gales and lots of rain.

Sunday noon, rain, rain, go away!

Week from February 22 to February 28th

Monday: 15mn stretching, one-hour Feldenkrais class, 29mn inzone, 8,131 steps, including LS 2-mile

Tuesday: one-hour stretching class, 5,350 steps, 10mn arms reinforcement

Wednesday: 5mn stretching, 10mn arms reinforcement, 32mn aerobic LS 3-miles, 6,000steps

Thursday: 5mn stretching, 15mn arms reinforcement, 15,750 steps, 45mn inzone walking including elliptic bike (was at hospital)

Friday: one-hour stretching class, 10,000 steps, 3miles LS, 28mn inzone,

Saturday: 10mn stretching, 3-mile LS, 30mn inzone aerobic walking, 13,665 steps

Sunday: ElderExercise Anniversary, 10mn stretching, 3-mile LS, 45mn inzone aerobic walking, including outside walking, 14,552 steps

Filed under: Aerobic pace walking, Biking indoors, Brisk walking, Pedometer, Stretching, Walking

Claude – Two difficult weeks

Claude — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:30:56 +0000

Between the weather, reading an enthralling book and feeling sick, I’ve had two difficult weeks. But hopefully, things are getting better.
Here’s the week from August 22, 2009 to August 28, 2009
Saturday: 11,167 steps
Sunday, spent napping in front of the TV
Monday: 9,500 steps, one-hour Feldenkrais class
Tuesday: napping and reading
Wednesday: 11,000 steps
Thursday: 11,250 steps
Friday: 10mn stretching exercise, 25mn indoors biking at aerobic pace

Week from August 29 to September 4, 2009
Saturday: napping and reading
Sunday: 9,872 steps
Monday: 10 mn stretching exercise, 9,245 steps 10mn+ 30mn aerobic walk. Felt sick in the evening.
Tuesday: Napping and reading
Wednesday: 6,000 steps, went to see physician
Thursday: Napping and reading
Friday: 1-hour stretching class, 5,000 steps

I’m hoping to try and be more regular in my efforts and posting at the weekend instead of procrastinating…

Posted in Aerobic pace walking, Biking indoors, Feldenkrais class, Pedometer, Stretching, Walking

Claude – Back from… not Wales

Claude — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:46:16 +0000

Can you believe it? We were headed to Wales but realised on the way there that we were interested in too many things on the way. So we changed our plans and were happy to visit parts of Hampshire, Wiltshire and Cornwalls.
Travelling in a car doesn’t make for a lot of exercise, but we did our best and I will try to resume a healthier routine as soon as today is over (today being Sunday)
One good news is, in spite of cooked English breakfasts every morning, including all sorts of fat and sweet goodies, and enjoying every minute of it, I lost almost three pounds… Must be a side-effect of not sitting hours on end at that trial as a juror.

Week from July 25 to July 31

With my friend Annik at Stonehenge

Saturday: 14,150 steps
Sunday: Indoors biking 20mn with heart rate monitor, 6,975 steps
Monday: 2×20mn brisk walking with heart rate monitor, 9,000 steps
Tuesday: 10mn + 20 mn brisk walking. 7,600 steps.
Wednesday: spent driving to Cherbourg, then on the ferry, and then driving to our B&B so 3,000 steps
Thursday: 9,040 steps between Longleat Safari Park and Stonehenge
Friday: 8,570 steps mostly in Exeter.

Experimenting with barbed wire at sunset

Week from August 1 to August 7
Saturday: 11,000 steps around Tintagel and Boscastle and its museum of Witchcraft (quite fascinating)
Sunday: 11,000 steps in the Lost Gardens of Heligan and Polperro
Monday: 9,000 steps around Lyme Regis (that’s where The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles takes place), a name that makes me dream
Tuesday: 9,000 steps around Winchester and its beautiful cathedral. We never climbed any of the cathedral towers as the weather was either misty or rainy when we were there.
Wednesday: 10,185 steps in Salisbury and Old Sarum
Thursday: 6,850 steps around Chichester and just a bit around Porstsmouth dockyard in the rain
Friday: 4,600 steps around Romsey, and then back to Portsmouth, the ferry and Caen where we had booked a hotel.

Posted in Biking indoors, Brisk walking, Pedometer, Walking Tagged: Cornwalls, trip to England, Wiltshire

Claude – very good week!

Claude — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:42:24 +0000

Saturday Oct 25: 7,800 steps (3,652 aerobic steps)
Sunday Oct 26: 12,500 steps, one-hour brisk walking, I don’t think that had ever happened to me! Quite proud of myself!
Monday, Oct. 27:10,200 steps, (5,600 aerobic steps)
Tuesday, Oct. 28: one-hour Feldenkrais session, 13,400 steps, 25mn brisk walking

on that day I had a doctor’s appointment.
With the cholesterol and HBP doctor. He measured me and said my waist was 1.5cm smaller, and that I had lost 1.5kg since July 15! (that’s almost three pounds) I was delighted.
And mind you, I got out of there with the following prescription: eat 30g almonds and 2 specific-brand yoghurts a day, in order to lower a bit more my bad cholesterol and increase a bit more the good one…
I LOVE almonds! Only, I tend to feel totally stuffed with that many a day!

Wed. October 29, 45mn brisk walking, 10mn yoga on the wii
Thu. Oct. 30, 5,000 steps, 45mn indoors biking, one-hour Feldenkrais session
Fri. Oct. 31, one-hour stretching session, 9,800 steps

I hadn’t had a week like this in a long time.
Belated happy halloween and am very hopeful for US elections…

Posted in Biking indoors, Feldenkrais class, Pedometer, Stretching, Walking Tagged: good week, weight loss

Claude – a rather good week

Claude — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:28:00 +0000

As promised, posting on Saturday.
Sunday Oct. 5 looked grim and gloomy, a real autumn day with dead leaves flying around, wind and rain. I managed walking to the market 5,100 steps, 35mn aerobics on the Wii, 25mn indoors biking. Quite pleased to go back to indoors biking. The Wii and the bike are good on days when not much else is possible.
Monday Oct. 6 10mn stretching, 5mn abs, 1000 metres swimming, 3598 steps. Pleased with myself for keeping up with the swimming. I find it more tiring than anything else I do though.
Tuesday Oct. 7 one-hour Feldenkrais session, 8,351steps (3,695 aerobic steps)
Wed. Oct. 8 13,000 steps, 30mn + 10mn brisk walking
Thu. Oct. 9 I met a fellow photographer and we went to Père Lachaise Cemetery only walked 8,000 steps, and did 5mn abs in the morning. I wonder if the pedometer didn’t stop counting the steps at one point, although my beloved Omron has never done this before, because my feet and legs felt like I had walked much more. But then, walking and taking photos is a bit like being in a museum.

My pedometer on the left. Monceau’s counts miles

Finally yesterday, Friday, Oct. 10, another excellent day with wonderful weather. I had my Friday one-hour stretching session, walked 13,500 steps, and proudly managed 45mn brisk walking.
I am patting myself on the shoulder.

Posted in Biking indoors, Brisk walking, general, Pedometer, Stretching, Swimming, Walking Tagged: Pedometer, progress

Ron – Cross training

Ron — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:07:28 +0000

Hi Everyone!

I’ve been spending the week doing 30 minutes on the treadmill and 30 minutes on the indoor bike. Treadmill is about a 5% incline at 3.6 mph, and I do the bike in something near the biggest gear. One day the start with the bike, the next with the treadmill.

Seems to be working well. Reduces the sameness that sets in during those hour workouts. And the combination makes sure all the leg muscles get some work.

Best good wishes from sunny Kansas,

Ron

Claude – June 23rd to June 29th

Claude — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:01:59 +0000

June 23rd: 12,000 steps, 30mn fast biking
June 24th: 30 mn fast biking, 1 hour Feldenkrais session, walking so little that there’s no point mentioning it
June 25th: One hour stretching exercise, 17,000 steps. A great day with a blogging friend visiting Paris. And a great walk as well!

On our 17,000 step walk, across the Seine from Notre-Dame de Paris

June 26th: one-hour Feldenkrais session, 15,000 steps, another good walking day.
June 27th: hardly any walking at all, went searching for a bathing suit. I’ve decided to go to the swimming pool when in Normandy. Let’s see if I stick to that. I’ve had a haircut and bought a bathing suit, so I should have no excuse not to go swimming.
45mn aerobics on the Wii and 30 mn balance exercise.
June 28th: 13,000 steps and a lot of eating. The next week will be mostly walking as I am going to be visiting cemeteries with my friends Leo and Elly from Norwich, on a photo safari.

Claude – June 16th to June 23rd

Claude — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:32:09 +0000

Not much fast walking or fast biking this week. But lots of playing with my new toy.
I started this week differently, as I don’t want to replace fast walking or biking with Wii Fit aerobics, but add to my programme.
June 16, pedometer said 9,000 steps and I had a one-hour Feldenkrais session.
June 17th, pedometer: 11,000 steps, 35 mn aerobics on the Wii Fit
June 18th, pedometer: 14,000 steps, 31 mn aerobics on Wii Fit
June 19: pedometer said 8,000 steps, 35mn Wii Fit
June 20: Pedometer: only 5,000 steps, 35 mn aerobic son the Wii Fit,
June 21: only 5,000 steps but 32mn fast biking, and 35mn aerobics on the Wii Fit
June 22: 8,000 steps, 35mn aerobics on Wii Fit.

Lia- Luebeck a Walker’s Paradise

lilalia — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:01:56 +0000

It is wonderful that all of us on this site is living and exercising in different corners of the world. I just came back from a walk along the Luebeck Trave canal. This is a canal that surrounds the island of Luebeck. At eleven o’clock on a sunny Sunday, the walkways are populated with walkers, runners, parents and grandparents pushing children carriages, dog owners and their dogs, and people sitting in waterfront cafés enjoying a leisurely brunch.

I was struck this morning at how many old people there were walking, running, bicycling along the canal. There were even two four-seater skulls (wo)manned by women well into their 60s and 70s. Talk about Grey Panthers!

I wanted to share with you some of the beauty of my walk.

Claude – June 9 to June 15

Claude — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:30:44 +0000

Monday, 9, my pedometer only recorded 5,000 steps, basically due to the Wii console on which I got thoroughly frustrated. I spent over 40 minutes experimenting and getting pretty tired! I also had a one-hour Feldenkrais session, which did me a world of good.

Tuesday 10, pedometer said 14,000 steps, had a one-hour Feldenkrais session, and got some rest from the Wii
Wednesday, 11, I had a one-hour stretching session, and played tennis for 46 mn! Slowly progressing.
Thursday 12, pedometer recorded 8,000 steps, while I did 33mn fast walking, and divided 41 mn between tennis and bowling.
Friday, I only walked 5,000 steps and divided 1h20 between bowling, tennis and golf. I don’t think I’ll go for golf, as it’s really not strenuous exercise at all (or maybe I’m not doing it properly.)
Saturday, the pedometer recorded 10,000 steps, and I did 30mn fast walking
Sunday, I stayed at home and did 30mn fast biking and divided 1 hour 30 between bowling and tennis. I am getting pretty good at bowling and am slowly improving at tennis. I have discovered that I could do some training instead of playing games, which I invariably lose although I am now returning shots instead of missing them all the time.
I’ll have to ask my doctor, if I can consider that the the Wii can replace walking when it rains cats and dogs or when I don’t feel like walking, which happens.