Thursday, January 14, 2010

Perfect 10 Update

Update on the Perfect 10 Challenge

1) I am going to try at least one new fitness activity every week... even if it is just a new piece of equipment at the gym or some group exercise class.


My sister loves it so I decided to give yoga a try this week. The dreaded push-up shows up in the class too. I think practicing yoga would be very beneficial for strength and balance. Both of which I would like more of so I will try yoga again... the only thing bad about yoga is that it is so early in the morning and I hate waking up early.

2) I am going to workout a minimum of 4 hours each week... even when I work everyday.

Lets see... 1 hour on Friday (treadmill and weights), 2 hours on Saturday (yoga and Zumba), 1 1/2 hours on Tuesday (Zumba and weight training) and 2 hours today (running and Zumba). For a grand total of 5 1/2 hours this week. Not too bad. I need to run more when the weather is nice.

3) I will lose at least 10 pounds.

I barley took off a pound. I can't seem to break that 190 barrier and it's getting a little frustrating. Some people can weigh themselves everyday and be okay with the two or three pound fluctuations... I am not one of those people. If I don't see big numbers it does tend to get me down. My trainer said that I may see a gain in weight when starting weight training so I have decided to start weighing myself only once a month.

And lastly the thing you might not know about me...

I love movies and if I had a lot of money I would buy a movie theater, take out the concession area, put in a coffee shop and open a Cinema coffee shop that plays classic movies, old movies and artsy movies.

8 comments:

  1. I have never tried yoga. I thought it might be too slow paced for my personality, but I should give it a try.

    Good job on the exercise!!

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  2. i would come to your coffee shop almost every day. wendy

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  3. A movie theater and coffee shop would be cool.
    I haven't tried yoga before. Sounds cool though.

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  4. Great update RCA! I love the idea of a movie theater and coffee shop too. I think that would go over really well.

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  5. I love the idea of the movie theatre :-) I have never been to anything like that! I am also one of those people who cannot get on the scale everyday. It is tooo discouraging!

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  6. @ Lisa ... there are ALL sorts of yoga. Try ashtanga. It's very fluid and dynamic, you are in CONSTANT motion!

    @ Roadcurves I've been at a plateau or setpoint for a month now. I keep gaining and losing the same 3 pounds. I've REALLY bumped up exercise to try to get past it. Make sure to watch your salt intake and to drink plenty of water as well!

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  7. Ooh, we need your movie theatre in this town.

    Great work on the exercise.

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  8. There is a theatre here called "The NEW space theatre" There is a coffee shop/ trattoria/ gelataria down stairs and you can take anything from there into the theatre. They show movies and have a stage for live shows

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