Exercising

Well yesterday I bought me some ankle/wrist weights.  I ended up getting the ones from Wal-Mart because that is where I went due to grocery shopping.  They had the Gold’s Gym brand set of 2 (1.5 pounds for each weight) for $12.97.  I went ahead and got two sets so that I could have them on my wrists and my ankles during my workout.

They also had a Gold’s Gym waist trimmer belt for $5.  I thought, hey for $5 I will try this!!  I came home and read reviews on it and was VERY pleased with the reviews I read.  This thing is getting good reviews and people are saying that it really does work!!  The idea is that it makes your waist area sweat to help you loose water weight in that area!  One girl wrote that she lost 1 inch in her waist in 4 days!!!

Today was the first day I tried out my new “toys”.  I can say that the wrist and ankle weights worked real well for exercising with the Wii.  With them strapped to your wrist and ankles they stayed out of the way…you didn’t have to worry about holding them or figuring out how to told them while holding your remote. You just strap tihem on and exercise as normal.  I really felt the difference after the work out.  I could tell that they provided another level of working out my leg and arm muscles.

And I wore my waist trimmer belt and YES my belly area sweated a bunch!!  The cool thing is that during the exercise I was unaware of it.  The belt felt very comfortable…did not constrict…in fact I think it helped me keep the right posture during my yoga exercises.  When I took it off my waist was drenched.  I thankfully followed advice that I read online and wore it under my clothes so that my worked out clothes didn’t get completely drenched in that area.   I am really excited about this thing and hope to see results that I read about others getting!!  And to think – it only cost $5!!!!  What a deal!!!

Kellie

Exercising Tips

Well I have decided to concentrate my work outs on my ab area…since this is the area that I still am not happy about at all…if I can get this area toned then I will be doing really good!!

I discovered on my Wii game – EA Sports Active – that they have a specific abs workout…it is only 15 minutes!  I am going to set a goal to do 15 minutes a day of ab workout (which they work in to make sure your heartrate does get up so that you have some good cardio work out as well) and see if I can see some results!  If I can’t spare 15 minutes a day for this then I must not really want to make a change – and I DO!! 

What are you doing to get active?  Do you have a fun work out?  Do you walk?  Do you have a bike?  Please share!  I would love for next weeks Exercising Tips post to be sharing what others are doing!  You never know when it may help someone else :-)

Kellie

Exercising Tips

I am so excited!!  I am finally getting into a work out routine!!  I am getting up now 2 hours before my kids so that I have time to do my personal bible study time, then my work out and then time to get showered and dressed and ready for the day!  This is working out WONDERFULLY!  And I can’t believe the energy I have the rest of the day!!

I encourage you, if you can, to start your day with your work out and see what energy it gives you!  I know not everyone’s schedule allows them to work out first thing in the morning…and that’s ok…find the time of day that is right for you!

The key is to just get moving!!  Burn those calories!

(If you have any thoughts or comments or suggestions on exercising please, please, please share!! )

Kellie

Exercising Tips

I know this is a dreaded subject for some, but if you really want to be successful in your weight loss exercising is a big plus!  Our body needs exercise.

I know that for a lot of us finding the time or means to exercising is difficult to do!  That is why I am hoping this post helps.  But I am by no means a fitness expert…and will probably be able to cover all I know about exercising in one post!  This is where I need your help.  If you have found a way to put in a few minutes a day of exercise will you please share what you are doing.  You can either comment on this post or email me.  I can then feature your suggestions in on of these exercising tips posts and together we can hopefully learn some new, fun ways to exercise.  What do you say?!?  Can you help me out?!?!

I thought for this first post I would share what I am doing as far as exercise.  Right before Christmas my hubby was so nice to me and bought me a Nintendo Wii!!!  He bought the Wii Fit game and EA Sports Active More Workouts game for me!!

We figured with my schedule as a stay at home mom with 3 little ones, and the fact that we live out in the country away from everything, that something like the Wii would be a good solution to help me work out.

  I really like the EA Sports Active game.  It has a 6 week challenge on it where you tell the game what days you want to work out (it has you working out 4 days a week) and what impact level you would like and it sets up your workout routines for you.  What I like about it is that you don’t choose what games you want to play…it lines them all out for you.  It starts you with a warm up and ends you with a cool down.  The exercises are not hard to do and some of them are actually quite fun to do!  I started the challenge before Christmas but with the holidays and being out of town and sick this week I have decided that come Monday I am just going to start the challenge over.

   Wii Fit is the other game that I got.  It is really cool too…it actually weighs you and determines your BMI (body mass index) and has you set a goal of how much weight you want to lose in what time period you choose to do it.  But it doesn’t set up any routines for you.  It  does have a huge variety of strength training, aerobic, balance and yoga exercises to choose from.  I have decided on the days that I am not doing the EA active routine I am going to try to do some of the yoga and strength training exercises on here, especially the ones that target the ab area since that is the area I really want to work on toning! 

A fun side note – since I am homeschooling the boys will be doing some of the Wii Fit exercises for their PE time of school!  How fun will that be!!!  And since I will be doing them along side of them that will just give me that much more exercise so we will all benefit!!

The downside of the Wii is the cost up front for it!  I know not everyone has the money to do that.  But it is certainly not the only option for exercising out there!

So please share your ideas for exercising so that we can all benefit of different ways to get our body in shape and burn some calories!!

Kellie