Cindy

I found out yesterday my hip arthritis has worsened.  That explains the hip aches and pains I have so much.  Here’s what I must now eliminate from my exercise program: running, walking, walking/running stairs, and any kind of jumping activities.  I can keep riding my stationary bike, figure skating, using the eliptical and definitely can keep up the strength training.  Cross-training and variety is good so that the repetitive activity of one exercise mode doesn’t exacerbate hip symtoms.  Losing weight is a good idea, even though I have healthy body fat levels, it will still be helpful to have less bearing down on my pelvis.  Wish me luck!

Do you know the recommendation for losing weight and keeping it off is 90 minutes of activity daily?  Not sure I did that, but right now I am maintaining my weight with at least 60 minutes of activity daily.  Here’s what I did:

Monday - 30 minutes of yoga in morning and one hour of a push resistance workout in evening.  Tuesday: One hour of figure skating.  Wednesday:  One hour of functional resistance work in afternoon, and 1.5 hours yoga in evening.   Thursday:  One hour stationary bike.  Friday:  One hour of a pull resistance workout.  Saturday: One hour of figure skating and 30 minutes of yoga.  Sunday I rest with the Lord.

Along with taking the nutrition up a notch, it’s also time to put some ‘ZING” in my workouts!  This week will be a push/pull combination of exercises, along with figure skating, and olympic lifts.  I’ve not done those lifts since I learned them in school, so it should be interesting.  Today was dumbbell chest presses, band flyes, leg press, leg extensions, dumbbell shoulder overhead press, dumbbell shoulder shrugs and ball crunches supersetted with cable overhead tricep extensions.  A great workout using all my pushing muscles.  Tomorrow I will do the Olympic lifts.  I’ll let you know how that goes.  Larer in the week will be pulling exercises.  I’ll tell you about that too.  For now, get your workout in!