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Tag: exercise

  • 30 Day Challenge

    30 Day Plank Challenge? The guys at my work are doing a 100 push up challenge (more…)

  • How fast can you walk

    I would venture that when walking for the purpose of exercising, that I can walk around 3 miles per hour. Mainly because my walks that I take (from where I live down the road to a local park and around the trail there and back to my house is just over 3.1 miles) normally take just over an hour. I really enjoy my walks. I haven’t been in walking in a while. When I get home in a few hours, I am going to go for a walk, I have missed it. I have been thinking about starting to throw a little running in the mix. We will see though, I am not much of a runner.

    I pose a question to you readers: have any of you ran or participated in a 5K run? I would like to participate in one, but am not sure about prepping for a run. Since I know I can walk that distance I figure with a little training (endurance please) I should be able to do it.

    Any ideas, thoughts, suggestions . . . would be greatly appreciated.

    I have a couple of apps, meant to help with training. I will turn to those for help for now.

     

  • Working out

    Weightlifting, body building, exercising, running the list goes on…

    What ever you call it does not sound like fun. What if there was something that made working out seem like a game? We all know that exercising can be as blah as the next thing, it can seem like more work than your job.

    I bought this little device called a Fitbit Ultra,

    it is a tech persons pedometer, it counts your steps through the day, estimates how far you have traveled (by a formula that involves your stride lengths). It makes a game of being active through out the day. So far I am on Day 2 and I have to say I have been encouraged to do more than I normally do when it comes to being active. I have a profile on the Fitbit website, that you can find here. You should see posts daily from Fitbit show up here. Feel free to comment and join in the fun. The fitbit itself does cost around  $100, but the account is free and the site is fun.

    Another thing I am using is Nike+ GPS app on my iPhone. The app cost some money, but I have had fun on it, I use it to tell me how far I have run and how many calories I burned while running.

    I’ll be posting more later boys and girls.

    **A random thing to be happy about:

    the hard pop of a racquetball against the court wall