Hard Core Fitness Maniacs for Mon Aug 1

Oh come on, is it really August? Summer flies,even though my kids are 16 (son) and my daughter will be 20 in sept, I love the no schedule days, even though they can get themselves to school, the rushing around is so nice not to have!!

Ok, today I started Insanity Asylum and let me tell you it was scary!! Today was Speed and Agility and it kicked my booty!! I need to get a new heart rate monitor to track my stats, any suggestion on a good one? Mine went kaput.
 
Today was Week 6, Day 1 of C25K. Todays adventure was 2 - 1/2 mile jogs and 1 - 3/4 mile job with 1/4 mile in between. Did well but felt I did better on Saturday with the 2 miler. Not sure why. My stupid HR monitor lost my HR about 10 minutes into the workout so I just took it off and said heck with it. Not worth the frustration.

Worked was 47 minutes total. I'm sure I burned around 380 calories, that seems to be the average with these workouts.

These are the new shoes I got:

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I can't get the link to work to take you right to the shoes I got. Mine are the in the 2nd row, 3rd shoe over except mine are purple. Dick's had them on sale for $59.99. And then I went to one of the drugs stores out here that carries my favorite Spenco arch inserts. So I was a happy camper. Shoes felt great this morning!

Roselyn - I cannot believe it is already August. It's unbelieveable. I love your new AVI. Look at those muscles in your arms!! Nice job!!! :)
 
Today I did Amy Bento Ross Kettlebell Squared 63 min, 407 calories, HR Avg 117, max 155. I followed this with 4 rounds of 15 squats to burpee with a kettlebell, 20 mountain climbers, 30 jump lunges arms overhead doing 15 right then 15 left, 40 russian twists with kettlebell 40 each side, 10:31 min, 94 calories burned. I wanted to do upper body today so I did Lauren Brooks Sculpting with kettlebells workout 3 Power burn and strength upper emphasis, 18 min, 136 calories. I then did Lauren's Sculpting with kettlebells workout 2 killer abs 13 min, 77 calories. I used 20# kettlebells and 25 kettlebells for these workouts. Most moves were double kettlebells. Finished with Turbo Fire Stretch 10, 13 min , 41 calories. Total time 1 hr 57 min and calories burned 755. Headed out to a museum with dd and her children:D

Debbie, nice work. I have a love hate relationship with those HR monitors. I wanted to see those shoes. Saucony's have a good fit for me and plenty of toe room. Purple is my fav color. Wearing a purple shirt today:D But, I could not see the shoes. I will check Zappos and see if I can find them.

Roselyn, August has came by so quickly and school starts here the 18th. So summer vacation is almost over for me. As far as HR monitors I do not know what to tell you. As you can see from Debbie and my posts. They are frustrating. After Nike and one I got from Walmart I am still liking my Polars. Wish I had better reads but they are probably more accurate than I wish they were:) Anyway the F6 that gives me the best read and I feel most accurate with calories in and calories out does require it to be sent in for batteries and it has a transmitter strap that you just have to replace because the battery cannot be changed. But it has lasted over two years for me. I think it has been replaced with an F7 now. My FT60 has lots of functions and it is user friendly as far as you are supposed to be able to replace the batteries. Mine did not last as long as the F6 that I have had much longer. Just replaced them. I like the soft wearlink strap but, readings are not as good and switching out the straps tells me it is my strap. Looking to replace just the strap which has wires in it. Not real expensive at Amazon. Hopefully I am not being confusing. Maybe if you try to find different reviews on them??
 

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