Getting back to exercise and everything else on the other side of a cold takes time, but feels great when all is back to normal. Over the last week I spent time recuperating. The only stress I put on my body was two days of dance classes and that was plenty. You need to figure out what you can comfortably do without over-doing it. The last thing you want to do is make a cold worse or last longer than it should. Tonight I got back to the 30-day shred for day two. It felt good. One thing I changed to see what would happen was use less weight for the strength portion of each circuit in level one. I kept the 12 lb dumbbells for only the incline flye and the row, but the rest of the movements I used 2.5 lb. This wasn't enough however, so I think 5 lb would be a good place to start. Guess I'll have to get a pair of those. I still find it amazing what 20 min of non-stop exercise feels like. I will workout on level one for eight more days and hopefully progress to level two. The Olympics are now over, but they have certainly motivated me and I'm looking forward to the weather getting warmer and the prospect of taking the workouts outside. Cycling and hiking here I come.Before finishing with this post tonight here is an article from the NYT on sitting. Yep, sitting, you may want to do more standing, really.
Finally one thing that helped get me back on my feet was tea. Drink plenty of it to stay hydrated and take in its medicinal properties, they even say it can help with weight loss. Hmmm something to think about. Stay healthy!
I use 5 pound weights for my dancy workout and that is a good weight for me. I think for you that'd be a good weight to start then you could move up when that got easy, or change the reps, too. I don't know how many reps the shred is set up for.
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I used 5 lb weights tonight for a couple of the movements that are from the shred. I did a gym workout however. That was a good weight to start to get back into working out having been off for a week. The shred sets are 2 and reps tend to be around 20-25 reps. The podcast circuit training is about the the same 3 sets instead of two however.
ReplyDeleteok thanks for explaining. In my dancy thing I do I do 2 sets of each and the reps are counts of 20. I use 5 lb weights for all but one exercise, curls, that I use 10 lbs. I also do some leg stuff without weights ( I have to get some leg ones) and I'm working on ten pushups. I can't do any pull ups!
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