Today I did CDorner All Standing no Equipment Upper Body, 18:35 minutes, 55 calories, heart rate 92/127. This is endurance and your arms are up a good part of the time. I then did CDorner Step workout with weights, heart rate 104/123, 37 minutes ( I realized I had it on strength and switched to cardio so 4 minutes longer than original as I started over) she uses 8# dumbbells and I used 8 and 5#. 129 calories.
Total time 55 minutes, 184 calories. This was not really a step workout, but more a strength workout. You hold the dumbbells the entire workout. She had you using the step while doing arm work or lunging on and off the step or doing curtsy lunges. It was different.
Valerie, I am not one to love travelling myself. My husband likes to get away occasionally though, so we go. No separate anything here we share in activities. Some may be me sitting watching as I am not going to do parasailing or cliff diving like he would. I am not much of a swimmer. We don't travel like we used to though. I loathe airports and that sort of thing. We have talked about a cruise, but I know I have had motion sickness when we took a yacht cruise in the gulf once. Not a fan of spending a vacation sick. We have been talking about something for our fiftieth anniversary. Not sure yet. So much going on now that could go wrong. My daughter's experience with flights was not so good for their trip to Hawaii. They got to the airport to leave and they waited hours and their flight was cancelled due to something needing fixed on the plane according to the airlines. They did manage to get a flight a day later though. They ended up staying a day later. I think health and aging change things sometimes, so there is that aspect of things. You and your husband are lucky that you have your health and ability to still be really active.
Carolyn, you were probably wise to take a rest day for your leg. When we have company staying I am like you and get up early to do a quick workout, or I just skip the workout. I enjoy my workouts by myself. The same thing happened to me with Reebok Crossfit Nano shoes. I had two pair I liked and the last pair felt like less toe room and not the same cushioning. So, I did New Balance and they are too narrow and I go back to wearing a cheaper pair of Reebok shoes that are older. I need to get new shoes myself. I have issues with my feet and knees swelling, so the shoes need room and my jeans cannot be tight around my knees. Aging joints are not fun. After having those two incidences where my caught and I could not get up off of the floor, till I figured out to snap the the joint back in place, I keep my high step with a couple of risers on it to back up onto to help me get up without turning my knees to the side to get up. I read that that can happen if there is a piece of bone or arthritis loose that floats into the joint. Hoping that was not it. It hurt.
Cathy, I wish Cathe did not do so many overhead presses when she does metabolic workouts. I would like them better if she didn't. It is so easy to mess up a joint. I have hurt the neck and shoulders other times before surgery with those huge packs of water, just dumping them in the cart and trunk of the car.
My parents did not always have money for our vacation trips and often took sleeping bags and the camp stove and we slept in parks on the way across the country to visit relatives. Sometimes just for fun as we would head for the desert and do some rock climbing when we lived in AZ. Ha, I remember dumping a scorpion out of the sleeping bag. I did not get stung that time. They would pick up fruit at fruit and vegetable stands along the way for snacking. Great memories for me. Not sure I would want to do it now. I like a restroom and a shower.
Judy, I am sorry that the weather did not cooperate for you to run today. You have done some great workouts. My husband said there was rain a couple of nights ago here. I would not have known it as it has been pretty hot and dry.
