MORNING WALK!

It's time for my walk. I need to get it in before the heat comes. It's now 6:00 AM.
For the past month and a half I have been walking daily, and now I am up to 3 miles. It has helped me with toning up my legs. I find after my morning workout, I have lots of energy for the day - it keeps me positive.

I have a lot of toning to do. One of my biggest fears is losing so much weight and having my skin stretch out so badly that I will have all that hanging skin that is common with this weight loss.

With the lap band, working out is a big key, and I know a lot of us are not used to it. I was not always this size - I was a size 12 for many years, and a fitness junkie. But as I gained weight, I lost the energy and the will to want to work out.

So with the loss of 80 pounds, I got back the motivation to get back into fitness and health. In the past, I have joined gyms, but like most, I stopped going. Now, what I've done is come up with, and incorporate many exercises I can do from home and get the same results as if I were in the gym. In this economy, where things are so hard for so many of us, we try to save money where we can - but it does not mean I have to skimp on my health - hence I started my home exercise routine.

THE SCALE IS MY FRIEND NOW!

I went on my scale this morning and I lost another pound, so that made me smile. I use to hate the scale but now the scale is my friend.LOL. Its 6:30 Am and am going for my 3 mile walk as I do every day alone the pier over looking the Manhattan skyline so beautiful to look at as am walking alone the NJ side of the hudson.

EXERCISES YOU CAN DO AT HOME

Here are a few exercises I do at home. Here are a few videos that will show you how to some of them or what they should look like.

YOU CAN GREATLY REDUCE YOUR RISK OF EXERCISE INJURY BY WARMING UP BEFORE YOU BEGIN YOUR WORKOUT. Click on the links.



Click on this link for another warm up video




1.SEXY HIPS, THIGHS AND BUTT. Click on this link great video




2.If you have room to jump rope, that's a great exercise. Sit-ups, push-ups and jumping jacks, are also good. Take it slow in the beginning!
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3. Pick up a set of inexpensive dumbbells (or use a couple of 2-quart bottles of liquid laundry detergent to use as dumbbells), or use resistance bands, so you can get a bit of weight training in there as well. Building some muscle will help increase your metabolism and can help you lose weight faster.
click on the links. Great videos







4. Walk up and down 30 steps of stairs, do this 4-times a day. Great for developing muscles in your legs, and it is a great cardio work out as well.


5. Buy an exercise ball - you can do so many different types of exercises with this.
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6.Dance workout.This is a fun exercise for you and your kids to do together.Great for the a cardio workout.

EXERCISES AND MOTIVATION

Nearly every gal or guy has tried a fitness program at least once. And look back on all that money, that was spent. Gyms are "GREAT", but so many of us just do not have the time, money, or just do not want others looking at us while we work out. We have to save and cut corners every where we can, but this does not mean that we still can not get an effective work out.

Exercises of all kinds promise to make you fit and gear you up for meeting the energy requirements for all kinds of work demands. Weight loss is not so much about what exercises you do, it's about sticking to the exercise you do choose and being sensible about what you put into your mouth.

There's no better way to lose motivation, than doing the same exercises in the same order over and over again. Learn to juggle around with the exercises that form your routine and replace them with new ones every now and then.

EXERCISES

This is a video i use alot works great for my AB's