Yesterday we had our family Christmas. My grandson came over and we visited for awhile then went out to my daughter's house for the gathering. We played games for a couple of hours which was a lot of fun. Only thing is I should have known better than to lean forward over the coffee table for so long. My neck and shoulder really hurt last night and this morning. I was so stiff when I got up. Moving around helps.
Yesterday I did Step Boss Step Sync, 302 calories, heart rate 126 average, 150 max, met 6.7, 6,024 steps
. My new Versa 2 seemed better on the heart rate. The blaze seemed to be too high for the amount of effort I was putting in. It also seems to count my steps better. Sometimes I would have to get really exaggerated moves to get steps to show up, or they would stall out and a bunch would show up at once. I then did Step Boss Ab Stacker 10 minutes, 40 calories, met 4.5, 102 steps(must be the leg to arm movements??) heart rate average 112, max 137. I then did Step Boss Chair Stretch, 16 minutes, 10 steps, heart rate average 94, max 116, 27 calories, met 2.0. Total time was 83 minutes, 369 calories, 6,136 steps.
Today I just did Step Boss PHA 3 upping some of the weights on the lower body and a couple of upper like the plank rows. Still light on the Arnold press at 10's. Just too fast for me to take a chance with heavier weights, 59 minutes, 248 calories, met 5.5, 1,785 steps, heart rate average 124, max 154. Cathe had this way high in the workout manager and the met value was 7.5. No way for me and my calculations.
My dvds finally showed up. I do not know what the hold up was because they had been in Oklahoma City since Saturday. I printed up the user guide awhile ago and downloaded to my tablet, which I use to check out premixes and stuff without digging in my folder that holds the user guide. I only dig out the worksheets.
Beautiful weather here the next couple of days then cold coming in. I think my husband and grandson are going to go out on the motorcycles when he is off on Friday.
Belinda, your knee sounds pretty inflamed. I would almost be afraid of doing much stretching on it till that goes down a bit to keep from aggravating it. It is good you are being careful with it. That is great that your daughter signed you up for a class Wednesday. Something to look forward to. I don't think I Max 4 would be ideal with your knee hurting. Even if you did do a lot of modifying.
Doreen, I love Step Sync for the fun and all of those steps I get
That is great that they were able to reroute the gift for your husband so you can pick it up. My younger daughter had ordered most of their Christmas from Amazon and it is running late. She said if things do not show up she may be changing Christmas. The 5 year old will have to think Christmas is a different day. Although he was trying to count the days when I picked him up from school Friday !! I hope there things arrive. It might make a difference if you did not stop to write things. I have done that both times with PHA 4. I have not looked over the user guide yet. I usually do not print the cover page picture, but the pages were numbered as 1-30 which really started after the cover. So I was not sure if I was eliminating the cover or not. I just managed to eliminate the back page.
Debbie, sorry you started to get tight. You still got in a really good workout. I just have to keep reminding myself of the pain I just went through so I don't get carried away with the weights and thinking the instructor is going heavy and I should too.
I hope all of you have a really wonderful
Christmas !!
