Hoping to resume my Total Gym workouts soon

Workout Pre-empted: On 6/1 my daughter turned out to have an all consuming problem that kept me from, among other things, enjoying my Total Gym.

• A few days into that I started to have arm, later followed by shoulder pains. 
• I could have done so many workouts with my Total Gym that did not involve my arms or shoulders.
• I still did not manage it, owing to a general fatigue and distraction. 
• These must be some of reasons this blog is about Fitting In Fitness!

Having said all that there is no reason for you to miss out on Total Gym at discount prices!
I clicked on this banner today and found:

• 50% Off their top model, the one I indulged in 
• Plus an extra 10% Off with the code in this banner below!

They also have their mid pried one at 23% off and

In Total Gym’s Outlet store today, which you can find by:

• Clicking on the discount banner above 
• Mouse over Our Product from the left side of their blue horizontal menu bar 
• Select Outlet from the drop down menu

• 60% off the top model = $800

• 45% off a mid price range model = $600

• 20% off their core model = $300

• These are all Rounded up Prices, Before using the above Discount code!

One can always use the Free 1 month trial for $1

Having seen my doctor this past Friday about the now persistent arm and shoulder problem, I feel he may be correct in his guessing it could be RA. Tests will tell, but the anti-inflammatory he prescribed seems to be working!

So I am

1. Feeling better Getting caught up with things I let go undone to a large extent in June 
2. Looking forward to using my Total Gym for, if not all the workouts I want to do, at least the ones that use leg and core muscles while leaving my arms out of it, and there are plenty!

I am assuming I will have good progress to report here next week, as I had originally intended!

Total Gym Just once a week is better than Not Working Out at all

It has not been No Exercise these last few weeks.
I still walk / carry our Teddy dog about 2 hours most days.
Yet I can honesty say that after not getting around to doing just the abs and some of my favorite other Total Gym exercises:

• I can tell by the way my clothing fit
• the little aches and pains are returning
• and the general depletion of energy

that even once a week, (that was all I managed on the week of 5/23 to 27), is so much better than nothing.

That once a week does give, me at least, a substantial Feel So Much Better in general effect!

Just for the heck of it, I clicked on their banner to the right here this early am and found, at the top of  Total Gym's page, They current offer is:

• 45% Off their best selling model
• with Free Shipping
• and Free DVDs!

For all my wanting to fit this into my day, it appears it might take a bit more time and effort than parenthood will allow, at present anyway…

While I am working on fitting Total Gym in to at least once a week every week, you might enjoy reading other peoples reviews. The banner near to top right column goes directly to the reviews at Total Gym!

I will say this, for all the not fitting in my workouts at all these last few weeks:

• I still stand up straighter
• Even though it is really hot and humid, I do not tire anymore when carrying our poor overheated dog back home on the second half of our walks!

Both are much appreciated longer lasting effects!

Last weeks review of Total Gym Workout usage and RESULTS!

Previously I just played with my Total Gym. Then I was faced with fitting it into my life, the tricky part.

Only managed it 2 times last week: Including using 2 of the 3 Ab Crunch exercises each time.
Results:
Before; Bust 44 – Waist 37 – Gut 42 - Hips 40 to 41 inches
After Bust 43.75 – Waist 34.75 – Gut 42 – Hips 40.75 inches
NOTE the 2.5 inches off my waist after just 2 workouts!

Actually, my gut area, even though its measurement did not change, felt so much firmer, I starting wearing a panty style that, in recent years, the waist band rolls down upon sitting, normally. This time it did not, until this am.

I only worked out Saturday 5/7 and Wednesday 5/11 last week!

In playing with it I found immediate lace of back pain and other general achiness. I concentrated mostly on back, chest, core and combination exercises. I figured I would get around to tackling my unhealthy 37 inch waist and 42 inch gut later.

Not So! I got my Total Gym with a bunch of attachments, and I am glad I did. One is the Ab Crunch attachment, which came with at DVD. UGH. I never have time to watch a DVD…

Feeling that, no matter how Feel Good the back, chest, core and combo exercises are for me, I must fit in a remedy for the unhealthy waistline and gut!


Imagine my relief / surprise to find, upon opening the Ab Crunch Workout DVD
A Booklet
Featuring only 3 beginner, and more advanced, Ab Crunching exercises!
And I could only manage 2 of them. One is called the pike, which, perhaps, I can manage later.

Even so, After only 2 workouts, including:

• Only 30 repetitions of the 2 ab exercises, (ok, one of them has a left and right side, so its more like 30 reps of 3 separate exercises)
• Some core, and / or combination exercises
• Some back, chest, arm and shoulder exercises

These are very encouraging results!

Fitting it in this week will be harder, owing to events, but I do feel very motivated to do so!

Help! What Women’s size Sneaker will last more than a month on a Tom Boy?

A wear issue: Easy Tone Sneakers, which have a fairly well built up sole, last about 4 to 6 weeks on my 11 year old, tom boy / Fashionista daughter, who wears a women’s size 8.5 or 9.

She put on 4/6/11 and has worn them for everything, except rollerblading, are totally worn at all but the under the arch. Her sneakers already have extremely worn at the toes.

She swears she does not use them as brakes for her bike, but how else does one wear out the very toes? Her bike breaks are fine, and I have watched her ride, using the handle brakes, while she did not know I was watching.

It is nice that they started out, and remain, comfy, but what in the world do I replace them with??

Easy Tone wear on an adult woman

Looking at my records, I, who walk in them, have had my Easy Tone, Hi top, Reebok sneakers about a month. Mine have a an ever so slight wear at the outer edge of one heel.

The Easy Tone flip flops, I have had much longer, but only wear in doors, and have no wear to speak of.

How do you wear out the very ends of your sneakers’ toes?

If anyone knows of a long wear women’s sneaker, PLEASE COMMENT HERE AND TELL ME WHICH ONE IT IS!

Thank you!

2 Women’s Easy Tone Sneaker reviews Plus Reebok deals

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Two Women’s Easy Tone Reebok sneakers

I ordered these Easy Tone Reenew sneakers while back,

They came in swiftly, within a week of ordering. Upon my opening their box, my 11-year-old daughter, (part Tom boy, part Fashionista), got them on before I did.

She certainly needed sneakers. Hers, which were new in September of 2010, were holey and worn out by March.

For fashion’s sake, she wanted Converse. Like me, she has a high arch. I was relieved she wanted the Reeboks, I felt she would get the arch support she really needs with these, rather than Converse, or other simple, pretty flat canvas sneakers.

The Converse she wanted had pretty low stats for arch support in reviews at Zappos.

She did let me try them on and, (she has worn women’s size 9 boots), they fit me loosely. I did order them in a women’s 8.5. They fit her fine. They felt fine to me otherwise, except I could step right out of them. Well I have no heel to speak of, but then neither does she…

She has been wearing them for weeks, as her main daily shoe. She shows no sign of letting me have them back.

I can only assume they are being fine sneakers for running, climbing, playing of all kinds, and are not dead yet. Durability is a real issue for my child. She is hard on footwear and clothes.

Also, these days, she never hesitates to complain. Her Reeboks are one thing she has yet to complain about! Yippee!

Knowing that I could not wear them anyway, without wearing 2 pairs of socks, I was thinking of getting a size smaller, looking at the other Easy Tone sneakers...when

I saw these Easy Tone Freestyle Hi sneakers. Having worn traditional Reebok Freestyle Hi sneakers, (and they still have them, in classic black and white!), for years, (in the 80s and 90s), and loved them, I went for it.


These also came within a week of ordering, with a nice extra pair of near pink magenta shoe laces too! A pleasant surprise!

I ordered them in a size 8.5. They still felt pretty loose, but in a boot style, it does not matter. In fact, it does mean I can wear two pairs of, or very thick socks in the cold weather with these!

I believe I have had them for about, or almost, a month now, wear them daily and am very happy with them!

So the up shot of this is:
For me anyway,

• Easy Tone sneakers run a bit large
• Excellent arch support
• Super Comfortable

So far, they also seem durable. Perhaps I should use their current 40% Off deal to find out if their women’s apparel is as durable on my daughter. As luck would have it, she prefers knit pants, will not even try on jeans. I can get her a pair of slacks on Tuesday, only to see them with holes in them by Friday…

It may be worth checking out at 40% off!

Total Gym, a running usage log

This is, intended to be, a progress report of sorts regarding:

1. How I am fitting in Total Gym Usage
2. The results in terms of how I feel
3. The results in terms of measurements

I plan to update this once a week.
I figure the measurements once a month.
I generally do not weigh myself. Our house scale gets played with by my daughter, and I do not usually bother recalibrating it.

So today, after owing the Total Gym for a week, and an unusual week at that:
I still managed to use it:

• 4/9
• 4/10m the Saturday and Sunday after I got it, on Friday the 8th
• Wednesday 4/13, fits in nicely while watching / listening to the evening news

This weekend, so far, not at all.
That is Why this is called Fitting In Fitness, its is just plain not easy, sometimes. OK, oftern.

One of our household was having a Stay at home vacation this week. I could not bring my self to check out the various videos that come with Total Gym while he wanted to veg-out in front of the TV.

So I just concentrated on:

• Core exercises
• Combination exercises
• Back
• Chest 
• and Arms ones as I saw them on the massive deck of training cards that came with my Total Gym.
• Got acquainted with what heights I can do which exercises at effectively.

The results this week:

• I felt I was standing up taller
• I did not have my, now typical, evening 1st back, then all over ache!
• I have had an easier time carrying our Teddy dog back from his walks!
• Took slightly better care of myself, something I need to improve, a lot.

As next week are the holidays, I do not expect to actually do better exercise wise..

However, you never know. I do feel better after I use it than I have by the evening in recent months!

The week after next, I will finally have a normal week!

So for April, 8th, 2011, to start my measurements are:

• Chest 44 inches
• Waist 35 - 36 inches
• Gut 42 inches
• Hips 40 - 41 inches

I am thinking I will check out the Abs workout video, and work on that very unhealthy waist and gut, on a normal week!

Right now I am happy to just feel better and stronger!

I used the discount banner to the right, often, and read plenty of reviews for a few months before I brought mine. The bottom line is, I feel better this week than last.

I was expecting to ache after my first couple of weeks working out, and so far, I just feel better!

Our Experiences with Total Gym so far

It’s Fun! This is my 11 year old daughter’s input.
She also astonishes her friends with how it came, assembled, in that box. That box is not very big.

Unlike other exercise equipment I have tried over the years, Total Gym Really does Fold Up Small enough to fit under a bed!

I ordered it last Sunday, received it this past Friday mid afternoon and we were using it by late afternoon!

I used the banner to your right, and got 60% off and a free Ab Crunch attachment!

They do have an outlet section, and you can try it for $1, but after reading numerous reviews, and liking rowing machines, I would just go for it.

Glad it did. It really is easy to set up and break down.


We spent parts of yesterday trying out various exercises at various heights.

The movements are smooth, and quiet! The exercises are challenging and quite a workout, even taken at a slow, try it rate.

There are a vast amount of exercises. Mine came with:

• Several accessory attachments, we had fun trying
• A poster of them, which is largely what we used yesterday
• Several DVDs’ one of which, the Start It Up one, shows you how to remove it from its box, set it up and start right away
• A massive deck of exercise, and informative, cards and their holder, that mounts on the machine its self

So far the only problem, besides waiting for my turn, is getting my daughter to keep our Teddy Dog off me when I am using it!

I am going to note my, or perhaps our, progress here to give you an idea of fitting Total Gym into our busy lives!