Health and Fitness Thread

sally · #**751** (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 06:58 AM

i saw the cuuuuuuuutest fitness journal at barnes and nobles. im gonna get it and keep track of my running mileage for a year inshaAllahhhhhhhhh <3

rahma · #**752** (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 07:04 AM

RunningAHEAD

Awesome awesome online running log. You can punch in a whole bunch of numbers and get all these stats and graphs back.

bluey · #**753** (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 09:59 AM

So I'd been going pretty healthy for the past few weeks, alhamdulilah. Cooking my own non-fat food, working out consistenly and doing weights. But then I got sick and everything went down the drain after i recovered. I had lasagne yesterday and pizza day before. Also, I haven't been working out for more then a week. Sigh. I need to get back on trackkkkk.

shadha · #**754** (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 11:48 AM

DR: I wish I could wake up that early and workout

I don't know what was wrong with me that morning to make me want to get up so early to go work out.

So I just came back from the gym and totally kicked ass. I'm one below being the highest resistance on a lot of the machines. Yess. So I went around doing double or triple time on each. Then I was on the treadmill for 15 mins and the elliptical for 15mins.

Now I can barely feel my legs.

shadha-

iTz_NoT_Me_iTzZu · #**755** (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 11:52 AM

I ate brownies for breakfast :fatty:

shadha · #**756** (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 11:52 AM

Oh so cute story. My dad has always been muscular and while growing up I use to like to swing from his arms or poke them. It's a running joke between us since I was young for me to kiss his arm muscles. If I think he's been slacking I won't kiss them and he gets offended lol which motivates him to work out harder. So the other day I came back from the gym, totally impressed that my arms are finally going from grandma flab to muscle again, and I was like, "Dad! LOOK! My muscles are even showing through my shirt

" He was like, "Yeah. Sure.

Let me feel." He felt them and he was shocked. He was like, "Awww! That's my girl! Yeah I can feel it! Here let me kiss it". And daddy kissed my muscle.

...yeah my dad and I are weird.

shadha-

rahma · #**757** (**permalink**) 04-01-2008, 12:20 PM

Why are yoga mats so freakin expensive?

DramaRani · #**758** (**permalink**) 04-02-2008, 07:16 PM

Although my mind was protesting, I worked out today. I feel so darn good, Alhumdulillah

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Originally Posted by rahma

Why are yoga mats so freakin expensive?

$10 from Walmart. My friend got one from Target for $2.50. She found her's in that little sale/clearance area that they have in the front of each store - right when you walk in.

Nailah · #**759** (**permalink**) 04-02-2008, 09:33 PM

I`m not 94 anymore, i`m now officialy 107 lbs !

Anyway, i`m doing my best to get "back on the track", i`m on a diet till then, and intend to go to the gym AT LEAST 4 times a week ( i never get to do that, i`m sooo lazy and make lame excuses for myself all the time...).

shadha · #**760** (**permalink**) 04-02-2008, 09:38 PM

I totally forgot to eat today.

I was sick all freakin day.

...I do hope I lost some weight because of it.

shadha-

shadha · #**761** (**permalink**) 04-08-2008, 11:05 AM

I did awesome today. 40mins of hardcore workout. 20 on the treadmill and 5 cooldown time. I finally did over a mile. Yay.

All this was due to the TV being turned on. I get so much more accomplished when the TV is on.

shadha-

Salika · #**762** (**permalink**) 04-08-2008, 11:35 AM

So following Sally's suggestion I got that book Winning by Losing by Jillian Michals and so far it's all right. I don't know if I'm working out enough/hard enough and if the food is right. I'm a balanced oxidizer so I should be getting 40/30/30 (carbs/fat/protein respectively) but I can't seem to get in all the fat and I ended up eating under by 100 calories then my plan. It's really tough to make that ratio! ... but I'm trying my best.

I'm so sore

jaani · #**763** (**permalink**) 04-08-2008, 07:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Salika

So following Sally's suggestion I got that book Winning by Losing by Jillian Michals and so far it's all right. I don't know if I'm working out enough/hard enough and if the food is right. I'm a balanced oxidizer so I should be getting 40/30/30 (carbs/fat/protein respectively) but I can't seem to get in all the fat and I ended up eating under by 100 calories then my plan. It's really tough to make that ratio! ... but I'm trying my best.

I'm so sore

I wonder if it has a online version to look at? Maybe I'll check it out at a bookstore to see what the fuss is all about

~j

Aida · #**764** (**permalink**) 04-08-2008, 07:50 PM

I started exercising once again, Alhamdulilah. I need to make it an everyday thing and not just whenever I feel like it. Consistency is one of my weaknesses, can't keep up with it for long. So, I'm starting small, at least half an hour a day, everyday. For now I'm using the treadmill and the programs that came with it.

And sally recommended a book to me too, which I bought of course. Going to incorporate that into my daily routine, insh'Allah.