How little has changed, with just 3 days of up to 7 exercises a week

So last week, again I only managed to exercise 3 days, two ab and leg days and one leg, back and chest days and if you look at the Friday Inches Off report, (link to your right), for 6/22 there is little change. What change there was may be water weight for all I know…

It appears that somehow, I will have to squeeze in a fourth day of exercise a week to enjoy much more improvement.

On the bright side: Perhaps this means once I get to the shape I want to be in, 3 days a week of 6 and 7 exercises a week might be enough to maintain it! Or not. Remains to be seen.

Speaking of Seen; I notice my upper arms are flabby, and I do not like it. Will have to work in some arm exercises too…

So here it is Tuesday, time to resume exercise, with the usual Way too much to do other wise and a lack of motivation…

Nothing to do but get on with it!

I guess that is going to happen to all of us from time to time…

How little it took to loose 3.75 inches between this and last Friday AM

If you check out the 6/15 Inches Off Friday report, whose link is to your right, you can see that I lost 3 inches off my bust, .25 inches off my underbust and .75 inches off my gut. However, I gained .25 back on the hips.

Considering I only exercised three time this week, this if great!

I did my, now standard, 3 Abs,3 Leg Exercises, Tue. and Thur. However, I did up to reps from 30 to 40 on the Kneeling Plank Presses, Twist Squats and Toe out Squats.

So far, not counting today or tomorrow, and I doubt both at this point, I only got around to doing the newer Legs, Core, Chest and Back exercises on Wed.

My diet changed a bit:

From

• peanut butter and honey sandwiches
• and pizza
• Plenty of Bacon this Sunday morning

to

• Bologna and cheese sandwiches, on whole wheat
• with skim milk

Like most weeks for me include

• a Wendy’s Double Baconator, at least one a week
• chicken nuggets, Weaver frozen, with duck sauce, at least two times a week. 

See, I really do not adjust my diet to loose weight!

It’s working! I now have more pants that fit nicely, and tops. Looks like I will have to buy smaller bras though, which is fine with me. Maybe not my budget at just this moment, but I am ok with it anyway.

A Video showing some of the Exercises I just posted about

Here is a video I found that shows some of the exercises I just posted about having started earlier in the day!

Here is, approximately where these exercises, I mostly posted about earlier today, are in this video:

• Seated Chest Press :34 to :51
• Seated Chest Fly:52 to 1:07
• Surfer, Compound exercise, 1:48 to 2:10

And one I do on my Abs day:

Kneeling Plank Press starts at 1:33 of this video

Just for continuity sake, the Ab Crunch Exercise Video again:

OK!

Maybe I can get them all in this same post, so I can just Show you what I am talking about!
Anne Hunter

Finally adding Back, Compound, Chest and more Legs Exercises

Having learned that doing the same exercises, while weight lifting, which is what you are doing with Total Gym IS, is hard on your body, exhausting and Stupid. After all, you can do many different exercises on a Total Gym. No, I have not counted.

Besides, I meant to get around to toning up my back and chest! I believe Compound means overall toning, but I am not sure…

I hope to be able to provide some videos of some of these so they are not just words:

These are the exercises I aim to do on those days when I am not doing my, now normal, 3 each Abs and Leg exercises:

Legs: More Squats

Two more leg exercises, this time using Total Gym’s “toe bar” rather than their “squat stand” at the end of the glide-board.

Like the squat or bend exercises I do on the ab days, these too are bends, or squats, except the sprinter squats.

The  Feet in “V” squat seems to really work the inner thighs, if you have your heels where they are suppose to be during the exercise.

The Toe Bar Squat might work the same muscles as the other squats I do on ab days, but so far, no complaints from my legs about being over worked.

I did 30, all at once, with the Total Gym set at Level 6. I guess they are not too hard. This is also how I do the Toe Out and Twist squats on my Ab exercise days; 30 at a time, at level 6.

Back, Chest more Legs and a Compound Exercise

For the Surfer, a Compound exercise, the two Chest and One of the Two Back exercises, I had to bring the glide-board down to level 2. The last back exercise, I had to bring it all the way down to level 1!

I did 3 sets of 10:

Surfer exercisesSeated Chest PressesSeated Chest Flys and Kneeling Row, back exercises at level 2

Then did 3 sets of 10 Swimmer back exercises at level 1

That was yesterday, woke up feeling fine today.

Actually did these, while having a bout of my painful shoulder problem. It felt the same before, during and after these exercises! My shoulder surprised me by (finally!), feeling fine this morning!

There are shoulder exercises for Total Gym. It is likey I will avoid them for now.

I believe I can confront these on a regular basis!

So now my plan is to do;

• Ab + Leg workout 3 days a week
• Back, Chest, Legs and a Compound exercises 3 days a week

We will see:

• How long I can be consistent with this
• How Consistent
• What the results are

Anne Hunter