Wanna Go For a Walk, Challenge 2, Week 2!! (June 11 - June 18)

[SherryJ]

**post your weekly goal, and then edit as you get it done...**

Monday: 3 miles in 51 minutes!!! LOWEST time yet! It was a real struggle to walk this evening, but knew Carol would be doing SOMETHING, so I did it... :D

Tuesday: 3 miles in... **drumroll**... 50 and a HALF minutes, another NEW LOW! And, I thought I was going soooo slow... as it was HOT, HOT, HOT!!!

Thursday: 2 miles in 35 minutes... had to cut it short 'cause there were three burials in the cemetary...

Sherry

[gitfiddle]

Happy Monday!

Sunday: Walk 20 minutes at the history fair if I can do it in moccasins
.....Actually walked at least 30 minutes in street shoes

Monday: Walk 20 minutes if I miss Sunday
....Actually didn't walk

Tuesday: Gallileo machine

Wednesday: Walk 20 minutes
...Life got in the way again

Thursday: Gallileo machine

Friday: Walked 20 minutes. Uphill more than usual--sure makes a difference!

Saturday: Walked 20 minutes
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[Mitra]

Carol, what is a Galileo machine? I keep reading your references to it and wondering ...

[SherryJ]

Yes, Carol, me too! ;)

Sherry

[cmcole]

Perhaps the machine is this? http://www.galileo2000.nl/web/pdf/vertimax.pdf

Of course, I could be entirely wrong.

Monday - walk with dogs after work - approx 2 km
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&addtohistory=&address=Parmiters%20Lane&city=Conception%20Bay%20South&state=NL&zipcode=A1W&country=CA&geodiff=1

Tuesday - 0700 - run around Quidi Vidi Lake with hubby
http://www.grandconcourse.ca/flash2004/walk_7.asp

[gitfiddle]

That's exactly it, CMCole. I'm told that four or five minutes on the machine is the equivelent of a forty-five minute workout. I use it for five minutes, twice a week, with graduating intensity to treat the blood vessels in my feet as I have some numbness dut to being diabetic.

Since I feel like I've ridden my bike 50 miles (done that many times) when I get off, I know it's doing something! My leg muscles are stronger and harder and my feet are improving as well. It's even making a difference in my pelvic muscles and an incontinence issue I've been having is going away. You stand in a flexed knee position, sort of the karate horse stance, and hang on for dear life as it takes off. I'm trying to determine if I would be burning more fat as my muscles develop. I don't know if I'm burning calories.

Everyone in my doctor's office thinks it's wonderful. The technician I had last week told me she gives herself a treatment two or three times a day. Difference stances reach different muscle groups, and she's standing with her arms up, leaning backwards, to work her abs. It's crazy, but it's doing me some good. I don't see how she can keep her feet, but then, she's young.

The website lists the benefits that they claim. If it's even half that good, it's good.

[cmcole]

Wow! I didn't read it thoroughly, but it looks like something quite interesting.

So, it's motorized, or something (you mention taking off)?

And, where do you get it (and approx how much)?

[cmcole]

Wednesday afternoon - 6 km with dogs - 44 min.

And, yippie!! My hubby rearranged his commitments for next Friday morning so we can participate in the "run up the hill". That would be Signal Hill, in St. John's. It's 2.5 km to get there and 1.5 quite vertical climb up the hill
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&addtohistory=&address=Signal%20Hill%20Road&city=Saint%20John%27s&state=NL&zipcode=A1A&country=CA&geodiff=1

http://www.eastwaters.com/signalhill.htm

http://www.tourcanada.com/sgtrail1.gifhttp://www.tourcanada.com/sighill.htm

[gitfiddle]

So, it's motorized, or something (you mention taking off)?

And, where do you get it (and approx how much)?
It's motorized. You just hang on for dear life. I looked around the site for a cost, but I didn't see one. I'm sure it's thousands of dollars. I would dearly love one at home. Quicker than, but not as much fun as a walk in the sunshine.

Woah! Sorry for the confusion! I just assumed the link you included was the right one because of the wording. This is the machine I'm talking about:

http://www.stricker-associates.com/Gallileo.html

http://www.stricker-associates.com/Galileo_2000___VibraFlex_Information_Handout_revis ed.pdf

[cmcole]

Funky!! Have fun with it. I've never seen anything quite like that.

Have been going 6 km with the dogs every afternoon, even in the heat. I can't believe it - we must walk nearly as fast as we run, because today it only took us 4-1/2 minutes more than yesterday, and we didn't run nearly as much.

[SherryJ]

Whoa! That's GREAT, cm!

Carol, WHY do you "Galileo"? :) Is it doctor prescribed, or should I be looking in the gym for it?

Sherry

[Lisa V]

I think my previous post didn't get through, so if I posted this already please excuse me...

OK, last Fri & Sat & Sun I hosted a large estate sale. I did some really heavy work outside for about 8 hours plus running around & moving heavy boxes constantly.

I think I got about 4 hours sleep a night between the sale & all the cleaning up, etc. & I was soaked with sweat most of the day. It definitely wasn't the kind of garage sale where you sit around. I probably saw about 300 people. I'm considering those 3 days workout days! :D

I rested Monday, and was back to 25 mn cardio last night. Tonight I really need some stretching & meditation. It's good to have that sale over & get back to normal! :)

[SherryJ]

Actually, it DID get through, Lisa... it's just on the "June 19 - June 25th", instead of THIS one, which was last week's. You're good! :)

Sherry