Lets Post our Daily Exercise

Heard the Voices and got out last night to walk 30 mins.  Wonderland, you've reminded me to visit the little park on the outskirts of town.  There's a paved trail that goes along a field and into the woods. It's a pretty place to walk, peaceful, great place for flora & fauna (plants & wildlife).  Love seeing the earth wake up. ♥

Yeah, Cassiecat to feeling happy!

Patoo what's next for you home-wise. Are you downsizing and staying in the same area? My advice is don't pack everything. I moved unopened boxes from two houses ago that never got opened at either stop! Threw out a bunch of stuff last summer when we got water in the basement.

Oh, Wonderland my dogwood tree that I left behind in SC would be beautiful today. It blooms the first week of April. Here I have only green daffodils and tulips coming up but no blooms yet.

I walked/ran today perhaps 50 minutes but not sure. What I do know is I walked 26 minutes with 3 periods of jogging and one sprint in there before I realized I had lost my phone. I turned around to retrace my steps. A lady I had passed earlier came my way and asked if I had lost an iphone. Phew! She restored my faith in humanity and made my day!

Got a bit of excercise today while doing a bit of Spring cleaning in my craft room. Still got more to do, but that's for another day.

Well I fell off my Superwoman perch this morning. One of my old instructors who moved to Colorado is in town and we had arranged to go to Cardio Dance Party this morning, then we ran to another gym neaby as they were having 'launch day' where if you're not a member you can get in for free to do Body Combat. For the past week I have had a reall strange stomach bug, I feel perfectly fine then I get a cramp in my abdomen and boom I need to hit the bathroom quick smart, well about 40 minutes into the class I got the cramp and left the room, came back but wasn't feeling myself so I packed up and went outside where I proceeded to get faint, had to lay on the floor then had to hit the bathroom again, people were concerned and management brought me Gatorade, 15minutes later I was fine just embarresed Oh and after a week of this I haven't lost a pound

yikes, Cheryl, hope that is the end of it! We have had a nasty stomach bug with lots of cramping going through my school. Seems to have a relapse about 2 days after feeling better.

4/1-ran 3 miles outside. It almost hit 50 degrees.

4/2-walked 4 miles

4/3-walked 3 miles

Today- ran 3 miles in 25mph winds. It was sunny and I wanted to be outside. Felt like resistance training.

I use very upbeat fun music to run to, including uptown funk, shake it off, blank space, happy, best day of my life, roar, brave and on top of the world.

Cheryl - when I say I feel for you, you know it's true girlfriend! Hope you don't have 6 weeks of that 'crap' (lol) like I did last year. Feel better soon k?

I got in a lot of steps yesterday shopping withy bestie and feels like I walked 5 miles today with housework and running errands.

G'night my friend

Cheryl - when I say I feel for you, you know it's true girlfriend! Hope you don't have 6 weeks of that 'crap' (lol) like I did last year. Feel better soon k?

I got in a lot of steps yesterday shopping withy bestie and feels like I walked 5 miles today with housework and running errands.

G'night my friend

Just ran my first 8K since before DX last October.  Felt so amazing!!  I finally feel more like myself again .  Now, where's the ham and cheesy potatoes?!?  Happy Easter all!

Cassie, C25K?? Awesome!! So impressed with the strength and character of the women I'm meeting out here. Girl power! 😁 🏃🏃🏃🏃

Hey, congratulations, meljo!!!

I did a pilates DVD when I got up this morning and have been eating ever since. Everyone is gone now & I am thinking of joining Claire in that nap!

took my grand puppy for a 30 minute walk today

Feeling your gratitude Ginger and you too meljo. Claire, hope the chest crud shifts soon and inspiring plan Cassie.

Yesterday, early Easter yoga class followed by an afternoon of lovely dinner with friends who live in a storybook house that overlooks the center green in a charming Kent village. Ate a Lindt gold foiled chocolate bunny too and experienced complete satisfaction. Beautiful sunny Easter Monday morning and we are to push off soon to Margate harbour, to visit the Turner Contemporary. Relaxed darling husband boasts it's a two Saturday and two Sunday weekend and today's excursion is his desire.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.  Ahhh Sweet boy do I get it, when you said "I need to stop NOW" that you really did  Ginger anniversaries bring up such emotions, we know we have support of friends and family but support from others who have been down the same path and really gets the depth of our feelings is so important, big (((HUG))).  LB Turner is one of my favourites I love his space at the Tate, I always went there  and just sat in awe at the magnificence of his work. Maljo congrats on your run.

Well I just wanted to pop in and say 9 weeks till "California Dreamin' 2" I know the sequel will be as much fun as the original, we'll be on this pier at some point of the adventure......

Oceanside Pier 4/5/15

Oh yes, here is something interesting from the American Psychological Association:

Exercise Fuels the Brain's Stress Buffers

Exercise may improve mental health by helping the brain cope better with stress, according to research into the effect of exercise on neurochemicals involved in the body's stress response. 

Preliminary evidence suggests that physically active people have lower rates of anxiety and depression than sedentary people. But little work has focused on why that should be. So to determine how exercise might bring about its mental health benefits, some researchers are looking at possible links between exercise and brain chemicals associated with stress, anxiety and depression.

So far there's little evidence for the popular theory that exercise causes a rush of endorphins. Rather, one line of research points to the less familiar neuromodulator norepinephrine, which may help the brain deal with stress more efficiently.

Work in animals since the late 1980s has found that exercise increases brain concentrations of norepinephrine in brain regions involved in the body's stress response.

Norepinephrine is particularly interesting to researchers because 50 percent of the brain's supply is produced in the locus coeruleus, a brain area that connects most of the brain regions involved in emotional and stress responses. The chemical is thought to play a major role in modulating the action of other, more prevalent neurotransmitters that play a direct role in the stress response. And although researchers are unsure of exactly how most antidepressants work, they know that some increase brain concentrations of norepinephrine.

But some psychologists don't think it's a simple matter of more norepinephrine equals less stress and anxiety and therefore less depression. Instead, they think exercise thwarts depression and anxiety by enhancing the body's ability to respond to stress.

Biologically, exercise seems to give the body a chance to practice dealing with stress. It forces the body's physiological systems — all of which are involved in the stress response — to communicate much more closely than usual: The cardiovascular system communicates with the renal system, which communicates with the muscular system. And all of these are controlled by the central and sympathetic nervous systems, which also must communicate with each other. This workout of the body's communication system may be the true value of exercise; the more sedentary we get, the less efficient our bodies in responding to stress.

Yoga & Zumba.

 On Wisconsin!!!