Glad to be getting to know you and your sense of humor. I have to be careful that in giving my opinion or insight, if it comes across as rude or insensitive, I used to be in the habit of couching it in, "Well, it's true!" Anyway, I am working to be sensitive as to HOW I come across to others and am probably sometimes too sensitive to MY need to change that about me.
The bikini reason is NOT vain, IMO. You will appreciate your slimmer physique, and so will those around you while you show yourself. Motivation comes from inside, hence, it's root word is motive. Wearing your bikini(s) is your reason, your WHY, your motivation. Good for you for finding it. How long is the bikini season where you live? Just curious.
You WILL be able to tell the 'soreness' of a good workout and an injury, with time. Again, the soreness of a good workout is an overall sense of really feeling your affected muscles. THIS soreness will still allow you to move about and work out the next time, and with movement, the warming of your muscles will ease the soreness...until 2 days after your most recent workout. Hahaha!
Injury pain, is MUCH more pronounced and sharp. You will know most of the time if you've injured yourself because your body will tell you. THEN, rest and ibuprofen works wonders.
NOTE: You mentioned back pain. Be especially careful of your back. Only YOU feel your back pain.
Proper form is the key to NOT injuring yourself (or at least minimizing your exposure to potential injury). Also, weightlifting exercises can be VERY different for women and men, due to differences in body proportions (torso length vs leg length, etc). If you are not extremely comfortable with HOW to do a particular exercise, it is very easy to strain stabilizer that are not familiar with the weight you are lifting and the range of motion over which you are attempting to move the weight.
Increasing your flexibility is extremely helpful in reducing your exposure to injuries. Unfortunately, increasing flexibility is a slooooow process, but progress is made with consistent (daily) effort over time. Gains in flexibility I liken to my hair growing. If I map my hair growth out every day, to me, it's NOT growing...but I have to get my hair cut every 6 weeks, so it must be! Same thing with flexibility, and strength, for that matter. Look online for ideas regarding stretching regimens, if you are not very familirr with some.
I don't know if you have any books about weight training for WOMEN that describe exercises. You can also look online for the same type of information with short video to show you the exercise in motion. I have used Men's Health and I know that Women's Health, the magazine, exists. You might want to google (or dogpile or Yahoo!) it and see what comes up that is useful for you.
Lastly, if you are going to a gym or health club, it might be useful to talk with a trainer there, at least in order to have him/her check your form during your exercises.
Wow Ginger, with all of that exercise you are gonna look HOT! Look out friends and neighbors!!
Hmmmm...a Fabio look-alike trainer. Doesn't sound like you'd get a lot of weight work done that way as you slim down to you teeny-bikini self! He'd have trouble NOT staring at you and properly instructing you on your weight lifting.
Based on your description of how your muscles after your work outs, you seem to be doing fine, but I would certainly encourage you to find a magazine that focuses on WOMEN'S fitness and exercise and see if you can find video of someone performing the movements. Video is better than a static picture, for me anyway.
How is that Crunchless Abs DVD? I say that on TV and it looks like a great program, however, ONLY women are shown doing the exercises. Do you think a man would benefit from that DVD program? You said this also helps with flexibility? NICE BONUS!
I am training in Taekwondo. This helps with burning calories and SLOOOWLY helps me to improve my flexibility. I am still about 1 year away from earning my black belt. Additionally, I work out with weights every other day (full body).
Oooh, before I forget, if I haven't mentioned this in a previous post, we burn primarily sugars in our muscles for the first 20 minutes of a cardio workout and then it slowly transitions over the next 20 minutes until at minute 40 we are burning primarily fat for muscle energy. Between minute 20 and minute 40, the percentage of sugar burning to fat burning will slowly switch inversely to fat burning as you work toward minute 40, soooo, if your body can handle it (and you don't get too bored), another 30 minutes of cardio would benefit you greatly in burning unwanted fat and in achieving your body goals.
Best wishes to you again country girl. I still don't know if the bikini season is a long one or a short on where country girls live. Let me know.
I practice Taekwondo 2-4 times per week. I have progressed to the red/white belt, which leaves me 3 belts away from testing for my black belt. I find some of the workouts, and some of them intense.
I work out with weights (whole body) 3-4 times per week. Have been doing this since HS.
Additionally, I do sets of FULL push ups (various hand widths and hand positions to hit my muscles differently and to keep myself from getting bored (PLUS I need to be able to do 80 push ups without stopping for my black belt test). So far I've gotten to 50. I do these every other day. Taekwondo sit ups are done daily. The further back I lean and the further out I stretch my legs, the more challenging it is.
Yes, I am a 41 year old man, turning 42 on the 22nd. Oh, and my last bit of exercise is chasing my beautiful 7 year old princess and my handsome 2 year old prince around and doing FOR them, as they need. =)
I cannot recall how exactly I landed on this board, I just did, specifically on Ginger's board and her thread really caught my eye, sooooo, here I am.
Perhaps I wasn't clear on one point. Your cardio workouts of 30 minutes will definitely benefit you cardiovascularly, for sure. I was specifically addressing the exercise from a body fat burning stand point. Lastly, your cardio workouts won't necessarily burn the sugar from your morning coffee. It will,however, burn the sugars already stored in your body first.
Anyway, I am sad to hear that your husband has had back surgeries. VERY sad. Let me know how he finds the Crunchless Abs DVD, if he ever tries it out. I wish him well in any exercises he does for himself.
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Ginger,
Glad to be getting to know you and your sense of humor. I have to be careful that in giving my opinion or insight, if it comes across as rude or insensitive, I used to be in the habit of couching it in, "Well, it's true!" Anyway, I am working to be sensitive as to HOW I come across to others and am probably sometimes too sensitive to MY need to change that about me.
The bikini reason is NOT vain, IMO. You will appreciate your slimmer physique, and so will those around you while you show yourself. Motivation comes from inside, hence, it's root word is motive. Wearing your bikini(s) is your reason, your WHY, your motivation. Good for you for finding it. How long is the bikini season where you live? Just curious.
You WILL be able to tell the 'soreness' of a good workout and an injury, with time. Again, the soreness of a good workout is an overall sense of really feeling your affected muscles. THIS soreness will still allow you to move about and work out the next time, and with movement, the warming of your muscles will ease the soreness...until 2 days after your most recent workout. Hahaha!
Injury pain, is MUCH more pronounced and sharp. You will know most of the time if you've injured yourself because your body will tell you. THEN, rest and ibuprofen works wonders.
NOTE: You mentioned back pain. Be especially careful of your back. Only YOU feel your back pain.
Proper form is the key to NOT injuring yourself (or at least minimizing your exposure to potential injury). Also, weightlifting exercises can be VERY different for women and men, due to differences in body proportions (torso length vs leg length, etc). If you are not extremely comfortable with HOW to do a particular exercise, it is very easy to strain stabilizer that are not familiar with the weight you are lifting and the range of motion over which you are attempting to move the weight.
Increasing your flexibility is extremely helpful in reducing your exposure to injuries. Unfortunately, increasing flexibility is a slooooow process, but progress is made with consistent (daily) effort over time. Gains in flexibility I liken to my hair growing. If I map my hair growth out every day, to me, it's NOT growing...but I have to get my hair cut every 6 weeks, so it must be! Same thing with flexibility, and strength, for that matter. Look online for ideas regarding stretching regimens, if you are not very familirr with some.
I don't know if you have any books about weight training for WOMEN that describe exercises. You can also look online for the same type of information with short video to show you the exercise in motion. I have used Men's Health and I know that Women's Health, the magazine, exists. You might want to google (or dogpile or Yahoo!) it and see what comes up that is useful for you.
Lastly, if you are going to a gym or health club, it might be useful to talk with a trainer there, at least in order to have him/her check your form during your exercises.
Best wishes to you.
I use the pictures for most of my weight lifting from both the manual that came with the weight chair and from the book "Body for Life".
I'm wayyyyyyy out in the country so gyms or classes or trainers arent possible for me.
Wow Ginger, with all of that exercise you are gonna look HOT! Look out friends and neighbors!!
Hmmmm...a Fabio look-alike trainer. Doesn't sound like you'd get a lot of weight work done that way as you slim down to you teeny-bikini self! He'd have trouble NOT staring at you and properly instructing you on your weight lifting.
Based on your description of how your muscles after your work outs, you seem to be doing fine, but I would certainly encourage you to find a magazine that focuses on WOMEN'S fitness and exercise and see if you can find video of someone performing the movements. Video is better than a static picture, for me anyway.
How is that Crunchless Abs DVD? I say that on TV and it looks like a great program, however, ONLY women are shown doing the exercises. Do you think a man would benefit from that DVD program? You said this also helps with flexibility? NICE BONUS!
I am training in Taekwondo. This helps with burning calories and SLOOOWLY helps me to improve my flexibility. I am still about 1 year away from earning my black belt. Additionally, I work out with weights every other day (full body).
Oooh, before I forget, if I haven't mentioned this in a previous post, we burn primarily sugars in our muscles for the first 20 minutes of a cardio workout and then it slowly transitions over the next 20 minutes until at minute 40 we are burning primarily fat for muscle energy. Between minute 20 and minute 40, the percentage of sugar burning to fat burning will slowly switch inversely to fat burning as you work toward minute 40, soooo, if your body can handle it (and you don't get too bored), another 30 minutes of cardio would benefit you greatly in burning unwanted fat and in achieving your body goals.
Best wishes to you again country girl. I still don't know if the bikini season is a long one or a short on where country girls live. Let me know.
Tom
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Hello,
Thank you for the welcome to the board.
I practice Taekwondo 2-4 times per week. I have progressed to the red/white belt, which leaves me 3 belts away from testing for my black belt. I find some of the workouts, and some of them intense.
I work out with weights (whole body) 3-4 times per week. Have been doing this since HS.
Additionally, I do sets of FULL push ups (various hand widths and hand positions to hit my muscles differently and to keep myself from getting bored (PLUS I need to be able to do 80 push ups without stopping for my black belt test). So far I've gotten to 50. I do these every other day. Taekwondo sit ups are done daily. The further back I lean and the further out I stretch my legs, the more challenging it is.
Yes, I am a 41 year old man, turning 42 on the 22nd. Oh, and my last bit of exercise is chasing my beautiful 7 year old princess and my handsome 2 year old prince around and doing FOR them, as they need. =)
I cannot recall how exactly I landed on this board, I just did, specifically on Ginger's board and her thread really caught my eye, sooooo, here I am.
Take care.
Ginger,
Perhaps I wasn't clear on one point. Your cardio workouts of 30 minutes will definitely benefit you cardiovascularly, for sure. I was specifically addressing the exercise from a body fat burning stand point. Lastly, your cardio workouts won't necessarily burn the sugar from your morning coffee. It will,however, burn the sugars already stored in your body first.
Anyway, I am sad to hear that your husband has had back surgeries. VERY sad. Let me know how he finds the Crunchless Abs DVD, if he ever tries it out. I wish him well in any exercises he does for himself.
Best to you both.
~~Rhonda~~
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