2-inch gain after about a month of slacking

That is on just my waist, GULP!

Well there you go. Now the question is, how fast can I get back to a 35.5-inch waist, and then smaller?

Sadly, my slacking off from exercise came about at the same time I decided:

• I would do, abs, then abs and core exercises every other day
• Leg, then add, chest and shoulder, exercises on those other days

Well I still believe it is a sound plan
Let us see if I can just get around to it!

Greetings from the If it Can go Wrong, It Will Life

Well I have not managed to fit in any kind of exercise lately, except walking our Teddy pup.

He just had his winter coat cut off, (Picture the dog in the picture to your right, with 4 times as much fur). It takes a few days for him to recover. He gets timid. So we have not been walking much either.

Exactly as the title suggests, that is how it has been around here lately.

Fortunately for me, a friend of ours tuned me on to Gabriel Iglesias!

You can check out a bit of his comedy here!

If you are down, and even if you are not and just appreciate a good laugh, like exercise, his comedy is worth fitting into your week, or if you can do it, day!

Well hopefully things will get better soon, and I can resume exercise and writing about it.
If not, my back is going to kill me!

Fitness Simplified, Thank you Kasper V. Chistensen

Thank you Kasper for your kind comment to my Ab Crunch Exercises I Refer to in Inches Off Friday post. Though I seriously doubt you need much of the info provided here!

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If you have ever been remotely interested in diet and exercise, Kasper’s Fortius Fitness site is worth at least a good browse. You will no doubt learn something!

Thank you for the nice comment Kasper. I am glad it led me to your informative site!

Roadblocks to Exercise, great and small

Helps to remember I have still lost 3 inches off my waist and 1 inch off my gut since October of last year doing these few exercises in a fits-and-starts fashion.

Well sometimes things come up.
Sometimes we let things overwhelm us.

Some weeks it is both, which is what I had last week.

In an ordinary week, I would have tried to adhere to these guidelines I came up with in the last few months:
Try to Exercise

• When you are cold
• Before Breakfast
• When the browser, or program, of your choice is not responding
• Before opening an email, or otherwise hearing from one in your life who tends to be upsetting

As last week went, few of those guidelines would have gotten in a 10 reps of ab, oblique exercises, or plank presses. Well, OK, I did manage a few, but too few to mention.

No. There was driving other people to the doctor, to work and their car’s garage, and other things of that ilk all week.

Some weeks are going to be like that.
Will just have to get back to it ASAP!

Still not quitting!

Lost ½ off Waist and ¼ inch off Gut

Which may seem meager except
Especially if you compare them to my original, back in Oct 2011, actual Inches Off in one week

Except:
This time I am concentrating on consistently working this into my life.

I have managed consistency! For 10 days at least!

Reasons I think I can maintain this and why just a ¾ inch loss is just fine

Total Gym is weight lifting, I am:

1st making a point of not doing the same exercises two days in a row.

• Granted I am not quite able to Fit In different ones on the in-between days, 
• but am aiming to.

 2nd Doing my best to not overwhelm myself, so as to keep this up for the long run

IF I consider my eating habits:

• I lost over 3 inches off my waist, 1 off my gut, since starting this in October.
• I am not killing myself trying
• I sure do not diet!
• That I am just beginning to get consistent

Actually, considering:

• The way I eat, or rather what I eat
• It is miraculous that I have not ballooned up to 200 pounds
• With all the ill heath issues that can come with that at my age!

Also, if I loose just a ½ inch off my waist
And a ¼ inch off my gut
Every 10 days

I should be in pretty good shape by summer!

SO this is what I have been doing, with great consistency, these last 10 days.

1st, I got a separate agenda, desk calendar just for exercise. These notes did not really fit into my normal one. It also made it impossible to add more exercise, and its notes.

2nd In addition to my Total Gym workouts, such as they are so far, I have started using a resistance rubber band thing for arm exercises at my desk.
Mine looks like this, but is relatively small for arms, chest and back I guess…with grips instead of ankle cuffs, but the same basic round of rubber band.

I picked it up somewhere, maybe the Sports Authority, years ago.

This is perfect for when you have a few moments of waiting for something to load when you are at the computer!

So the upshot of this is

I did:
All at level 6 on my Total Gym, because I will not take time to change the level
Every Other Day

• 30, in sets of 10, plain Ab Crunches, using the attachment
• First just 5 each, but worked up to: 30, each side, sets of 10, Oblique Ab Crunches, using the attachment. This is especially grueling, at first, at level 6
• 30, in sets of 10, actual Plank Presses

I also did 30, in sets of 10 each, arm exercises I either made up or are recalling, (likely a combo of these two things), with my above-mentioned resistance band.

If I can find a picture for this, I will post it here.

So I did these things and lost 3/4 inch from my waist and gut!

More importantly, I think I hit on something I can do no matter what.
Those were a rough set of 10 days

• My favorite Aunt died
• My current hopes for my love life did a roller coaster maneuver
• Plus Technical difficulties throughout….

Though it all it helped to feel physically stronger and more energetic!
Worth the effort!

Why I let myself Stop Exercising and Why I Will Not Stop This Time

I did mention I would explain why I stopped exercising, and the Inches Off Friday report.

Mostly Upset:

• 1st, Problems with my child
• Then, a member of our household in and out of the hospital with new needs…
• It was all very time consuming. 
• However the real Stop, and the real reason to continue and not quit is:

If you are in good shape, and currently exercising, you will have more energy to deal with whatever life throws you.

Yeah, I stopped again, but resumed in earnest just yesterday. The above is what I am going to tell myself to keep going.

The Total Gym does make resuming easier than if I had to go to some gym outside the house too!

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Additionally, I noticed it pays to take care of yourself. You just cannot count on anyone else to do that.
You will feel better for it!

With even the sketchiest use of your Total Gym, you will certainly feel a whole lot better a whole lot sooner than anything else I have tried!

Oh Yeah, I have tried a few other at home, and out side of home, exercise equipment types and gyms.

The Urban Rebounder was fun, but scary to do with our kitties coming a bit too close, too often.

Most were not fun.

Only the Total Gym:

• made my body in general feel stronger and springier the very next day! 
• The Total Gym also got rid of my late in the day lower back pain! 
• Within days of using it.

It is nice to feel more energetic
Very nice to not be in pain at the end of the day too!
It is well worth its price!

Ab Crunch Exercises I refer to in Inches Off Friday

As Promised, I am trying to find a better way to show the exercises I refer to in my Inches Off Friday report.

This video shows the Ab Crunch, with the Ab Crunch Attachment, exercises I refer to:

 See. This is nice and easy at lower levels, a bit gruling, if you are, like me, out of shape, at higher levels.
I do mine at level 6 now in 3 sets of 10, or 2 sets of 15. That is only the easy ones though.

If I have more time, (If you know where we can get more time please comment to this post and let me know!)
I will play around, and possible use of of these, even at lower levels!
The nice and easy lower levels look FUN!
Gliding Right Along!