Great fitness day. Wife and and did a 5.5 mile walk at place I hadn’t been before.
For DMV folks-- if you’ve taken I66 west from the city, after Haymarket there is a set of ruins. That is the Chapman Mill. The land behind the ruins is owned by the Bull Run Mountain Conservancy. We strung together parts of 3 of their trails to get our distance. It is super cool place to hike.
Toss in 1 mile to/from dinner and I’m north of 20K steps for the day
That may have been me. I do admire abs, calves, quads and glutes. And I’ll run and workout without a shirt. 
Thanks @jmnva06 ! We live in NoVA, are familiar with Haymarket and are always looking for new places to walk/hike.
Am I the only one whose fitness today included a lot of snow shoveling? 45 mins this morning snd 45 minutes later in the afternoon! Yuck - what I really don’t like more than having to shovel is having to have snow on the ground!!’
Our winter has been unusually mild. We saw a bit of snow on our walk by a creek, but most of it is gone. In big snows, my husband uses our snow thrower. Some years we don’t use it all, and other years he has it out it a few times (for us and various neighbors in need of assistance).
For the accountability, the big storm has not yet reached my location, so I am going out for my walk now.
With recent colder weather, I have taken a few days off my regular routine, only one was a total rest day but others included shorter walks and also I revisited a workout video which was one of my mainstays which I haven’t done in a while. It is a full body workout instead of the upperbody/core work I have been doing. BOY are my legs sore! Which shows I need to keep this in the rotation and additional lower body work outside of my walking/step ups which I know are not sufficient.
The one other big thing I know is lacking is cardio, we’ll see if I add anything in that area before the weather gets nice enough to bike/kayak even though neither of those is really high intensity (the way I do them)
We got mostly ice mush, as usual. I decided to just take 2 days off. I really wanted to go to the gym early Sunday morning - now my favorite time since it’s deserted, but that was the worst time of the storm. Then I was going to try this morning, since the temps were supposed to only dip below freezing for a couple of hours. But then they hit 32* at 8pm, and I REALLY try to avoid Mondays at the gym. My body could use 2 days off and snuggling in a cocoon of fleece is one of my favorites things in the world, so that’s what I did for 2 mornings. I did very little other than clean the house, read, watch TV, some rolling/stretching, etc. We did walk a couple of miles Sunday, but that’s about it. I’ll start a new workout schedule tomorrow.
I am a big believer in rest days!
I just finished a January challenge. This particular one required activity every single day to keep your status. I met both of my goals but really, really missed having a rest day. Today is that day.
After some rain storms last week, it’s been quite nice here in the SF Bay Area. Mid-60’s as our highs, low 40’s as our lows. We’re WAY behind on our rainfall, which isn’t a good thing.
I took Saturday off for some errands and taking the dog to the dog park, Friday was a massive amount of deadlifts and I hadn’t had a break since the last Friday.
I’ve been back in the local gym now since last Monday, but I’ve been avoiding the rope climb all week. When things were shut down here in November, I haven’t had access to it. And I was thinking that I’m getting old and maybe the time away from the gym, I’d maybe lost the strength to climb it.
So, each day last week, I kept eyeing that darn rope and thinking, I’ll just wait until the program calls for it. Otherwise know as being “chicken.” 
Anyway, Sunday, which was Saturday’s program, had gymnastics and at the end of my long workout, which included muscleups, DB clean & jerks, and 30-minute HIIT of running (treadmill), rowing, box jumps and wall balls, I went ahead and climbed the rope like it was the “old days.” Interspersed with a 3x10 of glute ham raises.
Phew! Must tackle my fears.
We only got a couple of inches of snow and added some icy stuff on top of it. It started snowing/sleeting this afternoon but since we had a package to mail we still walked to the post office. It was 3.3 miles round trip and not a super pleasant walk.
That’s dedication!!
Tried out the Wii Fit for the first time in 2569 days 
It was fun but I’ve got some big improvements to make in my balance and stuff - based on the testing, I’m 5 Wii Fit years older than my actual age. Not really surprised as it was tough for me to stand with my weight evenly on both legs (due to my hip/back issue.)
I’ll definitely do it again - even if just for the balance games.
We got about 20" of snow so it will be awhile before we leave the house…
Wow on the 20 inches of snow!
I ran on Saturday and then opted to take a Sunday walk with my husband (get us both moving). I did my normal Monday zoom zumba gold class with the rec center and aso Fitness Blender arms video.
Story to (hopefully) inspire the new “light” folks:
I keep the dumbbell hand weights of various light weighs in a basket in my bedroom where I do video workouts (on chromebook, while listening to NPR news on the clockradio). For some reason today I decided to calculate total weight … 2x(1+2+3+6) = 24lb… HEAVY to lift. Then I realized that it is only a little more than the 22lb that I lost a few years ago, from combination (over about 1.5 years) of walk/run, then run, then better eating habits and continued running. Thinking more, I was quite impressed at my initial, slower 5k times because it would be pretty hard for me to run now carrying that heavy basket. My main message is that slow progress is ok - just keep moving and improving. 
The snow looks crazy on TV. Oy, I wouldn’t want to try to exercise in that.
Back at it today. I’m doing a new hybrid calendar of Amoila Ceasar/ShaunT. Today was supposed to be the easier version (The Prep) of Amoila’s Total Body Tempo. I was going to up it to the harder (The Work) version - then I got my covid shot yesterday afternoon. So I figured it’d be best to scale it back - or not at all if I felt bad. I felt generally fine - a sore shoulder for sure. My run was a bit icky, but it was windy so that’s never fun. And in some ways it felt OK. Better than several lately. Did some core and then the Total Body Tempo. I did it, but didn’t push it. It felt OK.
@HMom16 first necessary step is you turned the Wii on and did a workout - you can make some progress if you keep at that!
20 inches of snow is my nightmare!!! Wow!
We have about 25% of that amount here so running outside will be a challenge for a bit. We have a trail a block from the house that I should be able to get on perhaps tomorrow (I’d walk on it now no problem but there might still be some ice for running) so other things it is for now.
This morning I did a video my D2 shared with me on YouTube - a cardio 10K step workout. I didn’t have time to do the whole video this morning before work and I really doubt you’ll actually end up with 10K steps at the end of it BUT it was a good morning warm up or end of day movement or can’t get outside video. I actually made it a bit more sweat worthy by doing it with light hand weights.
This is a good one for a not too strenuous easy to follow workout.
I think that I would like that workout, abasket. I think you could get 10k steps from it. I’m always surprised how many steps I can get quickly just walking in place when it’s the end of the day and I’m trying to hit my target.
Thanks! - the cardio/10k looks interesting! I don’t really care if it gets me to 10k steps since I rarely check much on step count anymore. It just looks like a good way to get a half hour of indoor movement when weather prevents outdoor exercise. After one time through it I could probably do it on mute, while listening to the news on the radio.
Yes, agree that after once or twice you will easily know the moves and can add in your own music. Like I said, hand weights are also an option - for all or some of the exercises.
Re: the 10K steps, 10k steps for me is about 5 miles of walking. 5 miles of walking even at a good hearty pace is going to take me 1 hour 15+ minutes. Which is why I ? 10K in 30+ minutes. So I guess you might get more “steps” at this because of walking in place or jumping vs. actually steps - but I personally feel I want my steps to be part of the total experience of stride, arm movement, breathing, etc.
I also am not looking at my step count often anymore since I’ve purchased an Apple Watch - the rings rule now and I have managed to keep my move ring is my daily goal motivator.
no snow for us 
but rain which made things muddy etc I did walk yesterday and the day before. Still skipping the step ups until the dock is clear and dry. I will try to fit in a workout video this afternoon as I have a morning appointment.