Lets Post our Daily Exercise

Hello Ladies,

Hope you are all doing well. I haven't been here in awhile, but keeping up with exercise. I've worked up  to running (still very slowly) 1.5 mile every other day, still walking the dogs daily and working out on the weight machines three times a week. Hoping not to lose too much ground this next week while on a trip to visit both daughters and their families.

Welcome, welcome, welcome Red great to see you over here, I'm with Ruth I exercise cause I love to eat, and i love to eat from the four food groups - cakes, cookies, ice cream, and chocolate  And we don't care what you do, we will be your cheerleaders.  Hey Kim great to see you back, Hi Annie we miss you. Nihahi that massage sounds wonderful. Odie where is your 5k? Pat, I made the icon myself, I was at the start page and I held my finger on the iPad and think I double tapped and it made an icon or maybe I just held and it happened.

Did my Sh'bam class this morning and I have to say doing Bootcamp on both Saturday and Sunday has left me with very sore glutes, there was a lot of lunges and I sure feel it today

Welcome RedReading!  Hope all goes well Mary and Inspired, not much can stop you.

Freestyle step last night and with son off school I was able to get to the 6:45am vinyasa flow yoga class. I'd never been at the gym at that early hour and omg, it was busy and filled with early birds and type a's working it before getting out to rule the world! I'll work more on my obsession and go back for the 9:45 body balance class. Fifteen year old angst still asleep and most likely will not be up til noon. Downward facing dog here I come.

OK Cheryl, that sounds complicated, but I will give it a shot tonight.  Just make an icon for the BCO forum on my Ipad.  Sure, I can do that

Got my walk in at lunch yesterday, but that's about it.  Dinner with an old friend last night who is going through some tough times.  This morning my back is killing me, not sure why.  Will try to walk at lunch if it stops raining. I have my gym bag in the car, we will see if this back thing works itself out during the day.

Core and Pilates.

*edited to add that I saw a ROBIN!!!

Welcome RedReading.  I started with just 5 minutes on the EFX!

Reporting in:  4 mile hike - 60 minutes - 88 degrees (ugh!) and then 15 minutes at gym for 2 more miles.

"It's also important to remember that, in this connection of the positive value of physical activity, just 5 or more weekly hours of vigorous recreational activity as compared to no recreational activity results in ~40% risk reduction (as shown by the French research team of Bertrand Tehard and colleagues), and the greatest risk reduction ~ 50% - occurs in women who perform the equivalent of walking 3 to 5 hours per week at an average pace (with little evidence of a correlation between any increased benefit from greater energy expenditure above this level, as shown by the findings of Michelle Holmes at Brigham and Women�s Hospital and her colleagues).garding Exercise and Risk Reduction -

What we now know therefore based on the cumulative evidence is that high-PE (physical exercise), defined as greater than or equal to 5 weekly hours of vigorous PE (>= 5 wk hrs) reduces risk of breast cancer by approximately 40%, and that in addition women with hormone-responsive breast cancer who engaged in 9 or more MET-hours/ week of activity sustain an even higher 50% risk reduction of breast cancer death, compared with women who engage in less than 9 MET-hours/week. Here the concept of a MET (metabolic equivalent task) hour is understood by the fact that walking one hour at 3 miles/hr expends 3 MET-hrs. And one can obtain an even higher 60% reduction in the risk of death from breast cancer by engaging in 24 or more MET-hours/week, which would be equivalent to walking at least 8 hours per week (about 1 and one-quarter hours, or 75 minutes daily) of walking at 3 miles per hour. If high-PE were further coupled with both caloric restriction, adherence to Modified Cretan-Mediterranean (MCM) Diet of high-fiber/lignan, low saturated fat, low-glycemic consumption + high fruit and vegetable intake, and vigorous resistance training, especially if sufficient to establish and maintain consistent normal weight control and significant reduction of abdominal sarcopenic obesity (aka, "chemobelly"), then the combination lifestyle-nutritional regimen of Caloric Restriction + MCM Diet adherence + Resistance Training + high-PE (high MET hours aerobic physical exercise) should significantly heighten these gains further. And note that the two potential mechanisms by which physical activity could affect breast cancer survival are not only the estrogen pathway but also the insulin pathway."

"Practical Principles of Some Lifestyle-oriented Breast Cancer Risk Reductions" - Article posted at No Surrender Breast Cancer Foundation

I have been busy running a lot of errands the last two weeks.  I can't really remember when I last reported in.  Last week I started off with a bang but when my yoga class got cancelled, I  sort of let the rest of the week die on the vine.  Trying to do better this week so Saturday I had an hour of yoga and 35 minutes walking.  Sunday I did more shopping.  Yesterday I did my stair rounds at work.  Today I did a 25 minute walk outside in the 59 degree weather!  Saw crocuses in several neighbors yaards, and more importantly, an utter lack of snow!

I'd also like to report I finally got my taxes done and submitted!  So now that I have found the dress and shoes I needed and done my taxes, hopefully I'll have more time for exercise. 

Welcome, Red.  My progress seemed so slow at first but its getting easier.  You can do this. 

Inspired oh my that was a tumble.  Glad to see you are back in the swing of it now. 

Went for a walk after dinner and jogged a small portion of it (very small portion).  Most of it was on a local bike/hike trail so not sure of exact distance but it was around 4000 steps according to fitbit and took around 40-45 minutes.  I hit my 10,000 step goal for the fourth day in a row since getting fitbit operational.  10,000 is hard to hit on workdays unless I do a decent walk in the evening (or get back to working out in the morning).  Plantar fasciitis is still there but not nearly as acute since I've been doing the stretching therapy.  Will keep doing the calf stretches and ibuprofen regimen.  I also plan on buying a new pair of shoes soon. Love my Brooks Adrenaline!

Hi, got in about 2.25 miles walking today.  Tired from a long day, work, MO 6-mo. followup, walk, choir practice.

Night sculpted sisters.

7 km walk/run today. Had to do it in intervals, because it was soooooo windy!!!!!! 

Thanks for posting the articles on the benefits of exercise...Interesting reading!

May I join your thread? I just finished rads today. I've gained 24 pounds since being diagnosed, and don't even know where to start. Walking from my bed to the recliner has been the extent of my exercise the past month.

Good to meet you SDB....We are all at different levels ...... and are here to encourage and support each other..no contests here, we're all just doing our best and we all have "those days". Most of us can relate to the bed to recliner walk stage.....hang in there..things DO get better.

SDB love both the Sugar Shack and Wahoos, Sugar Shack is always packed but well worth the wait.

Welcome, slowdeepbreaths, SO glad that you are here!!! Do something 'exercisy' every day on purpose (even if it is to park future from the store when you are shopping), work yourself into it, report in here (we want to pump you up ), and you will be surprised how good you will start to feel.....physically AND mentally.

The Walking Wednesday Women are taking it outside, so I have to dig out my under armour, gloves and a hat!