Topic: Let's Post our Daily Exercise

May 30, 2012 11:55 AM joyh1109 wrote:

hbcheryl   How exciting for your goddaughter - Vienna and Prague are wonderful!  And we are having some fabulous spring weather now.    

NatsFan   Boo on the fatigue - ugh, no fun.   I bet you bounce back quickly!

Heard the Voices loud and clear - just got back from the run that I committed to, feels great to be sweaty and energized.    I'm liking the Week 1 C25K routine - wondering how Week 2 will go?   Off to shower and get ready for company in a couple of hours.    

May 30, 2012 05:57 PM fmakj wrote:

5 km walk this morning and just finished trimming the yard with the lawn mower for 30 minutes. 

Pat01 - We have an above ground pool, so I usually run for a bit (I use my water hand weights at the same time), then on to jumping jacks, leg kicks, arm work with the weights and a kickboard.  Then I use the side of the pool for front and back leg kicks and also stomach/leg lifts and intersperse it all by running so I keep my heart rate up.  Then I do some straight swimming (laps) forward and backward and finish off again with running.  Absolutely love this as it really doesn't seem like excercising cause I really love being in the water!

Hope everyone is well. Glad to see Cheryl & Mary back, but where's Patoo??

May 30, 2012 06:06 PM Belinda977 wrote:

80 minutes of walking -- 13 days post lumpectomy.  I can't wait until I can run again!

May 30, 2012 08:48 PM NWArtLady wrote:

Nordic dog walking! Going slow and shorter distances with my sick Beagle, but at least we're out in it.

May 30, 2012 09:44 PM Wonderland wrote:

Ruth and badger: send your coolness here, please. Hot and humid today.

I didn't get to walk/run tonight. My SIL is in the hospital in a nearby town and we went to visit here. She was diagnosed with melanoma last summer - it was in her thumb nail! It's a long story so I won't go into all of it. The doctors were sure it was a super infection. Melanoma was never suspected. She had her thumb removed plus node disection. One node was positive. PET showed no progression.

All was well until January when she started coughing up blood. By the time she had another PET, there were 8 tumors of melanoma on her lungs. #$&@% She has had 2 of her 4 treatments of a new chemo that was approved last summer for melanoma. She's in the hospital because her Sodium level bottomed out. She's getting another scan tonight. 

F%$&*@ cancer.  

May 30, 2012 10:22 PM ruthbru wrote:

Sending a hug your way, Wonderland.

May 31, 2012 06:20 AM badger wrote:

((Wonderland)) so sorry to hear that.  effing cancer. 

Sending warm hugs instead of the cold rain we have today.

May 31, 2012 07:58 AM ronqt1 wrote:

Sending out good thoughts to Wonderland and SIL.

Went to Zumba last night - 1 hour, came home and a friend was walking around complex which is a large oval (1/2 mile one loop). She invited me to walk/talk with her, she was speed walking, so I did not want to slow her down so I jogged some and walked some.

May 31, 2012 08:52 AM pat01 wrote:

Sending good thoughts your way wonderland.

So I get home from work yesterday to find a letter from my BS, and she has taken a position in California.  I am so bummed, now I need to look for someone new.  She was fantastic, both as a person and a surgeon.  Just when you think you have a great team lined up...  oh well, I'm glad she was here last year at this time for me, I was diagnosed June 1.

2 mile walk at lunch yesterday, and upper body video and 100 situps at home last night.  Classical stretch this morning.  Have a great day everyone.

May 31, 2012 10:58 AM mumito wrote:

May 31, 2012 06:55 PM orangemat wrote:

Yesterday was running, PT and yoga. Today was a cross training day (i.e. no running), so it was yoga and biking. And now my left arm and shoulder, as well as my left hip, are all out of whack. Can you tell why I only want to run??

May 31, 2012 09:42 PM misswim wrote:

Did a dvd called Burn Intervals from the "Chalean Extreme" program. Alternating high intesity cardio bursts with longer, light weight high reps interspersed.

My girlfriend came over last night and we did an older Baron Baptiste dvd. It was fun to do yoga at home with a friend!

Ronna- do you know if there is a Zumba website where I might find classes in my area? You are the Zumba queen on this board, so thought I might ask :)

Jun 1, 2012 07:09 AM Heidihill wrote:

I was ready to give myself a break halfway but somehow I was still OK and made it through Week 7, Day 1 in one go.

Misswim, that CHalean Extreme looks very interesting!

Jun 1, 2012 03:38 PM Adey wrote:

I decided to get outside and try the running thing.  I am on C25K week 4.  I walked to the mile marker........ then ran (jogged) to the next one!  That's right a whole mile.  (yay)

I was a little bit worried cuz my shins were PO'd for walking downtown in Chuck Taylor's Wednesday.

Jun 2, 2012 04:26 AM Jennt28 wrote:

Hi everyone!

I was here a few months ago but have been missing. Have just last week finished up 3 x FEC and then 11 weeks of Taxol/Herceptin.

Before I started I was power walking 3-4 kms each day but the chemo really knocked me about and despite my best efforts I was unable to do much more than the occassional pathetic walk around the block from home. I have also been trying to do some punching and karate kicks around the house to at least do something.

I've had pneumonitis for the past 3-4 weeks and today was the first time I was able to get out even for the little walk around the block with the dog. I was SO pathetic. My legs have lost all their strength and my fitness level seems to be "0"!

I am determined to get back to the level that I was at 5 months ago, so will be trying to get out there again tomorrow even though it's supposed to rain all day (it's winter here in Australia...).

Jenn