Fitness Goals: Helping Each Other Reach Our Goals

[Owengeorge13]

Boot camp/treadmill/golf bands

[WaffleHouseTour]

I don't know what the "best" exercise or workout is - but I do know that doing something every day is better than doing nothing.  To that end, keeping track of what you are doing I find to be a good motivator.   I really like my Apple Watch - big improvement over my FItBit which never thought I was doing anything in a hot yoga class no matter who wiped out I was.   

With the AppleWatch more than the time spent exercising I'm motivated by how many "active" calories I've burned and did I close my "move" ring (red).  My daily goal is 700.   Eight days into the new year, eight daily goals met.  

Doesn't have to be Apple, but I strongly encourage anyone serious about improving their health adopting some way to track your activity in real time.  Not just at the end of the day.  But how am I doing at noon, or at 6pm, or at 9pm toward reaching my goal.... On more than one occasion I've been known to walk up and down the stairs at bed time until I hit my daily goal in active calories burned, just to close the ring, just to keep the streak alive.

Accountability!  (or may be obsessiveness...)

[Owengeorge13]

I can’t speak highly enough about the whoop band.  I’ve had it for over three years now.  As a math teacher I love data, the whoop band just pumps out data to look at.  As a big fan of apple products, I’ve surprisingly never owned an Apple Watch, but it sounds like it does a lot of similar things.  

[ejgaudette]

Personally been getting back into the swing of things. I have done my mobility work everyday since setting my 2024 goals, and most days have done the push-up, ab, and pull-up training l like to do. Once I get back into it might add in some Fit for Golf work. Going for a run this morning as I have a goal of 600 miles for the year (about 12 a week), at 13 so far so will do 4 or 5 toady. Body is feeling much better and less sore when I wake up. Also for all those thinking about diet I will make just a single plug for eating as many plants a possible. Wife and I went whole food plant based  almost 2 years ago and have never looked back. I really think it has massive benefits, but I know not everyone is ready to dive in, but if you add more plants and fiber it will still help.

[hckymeyer]

15 hours ago, Shrek74 said:

I started following you on the Peloton App as I'm doing their 60-day trial. I don't have any of their gear and just have my under-desk treadmill at the moment. I'm trying their stretching and meditation stuff at the moment. I'm Shrek74 on the app.

My favorite stretches are the 10 minute full body stretches with Ben Aldis as the instructor, I do one of those before leaving the house for the golf and as part of my warm up every time I do speed training.

Without equipment they also have some really good Yoga programs and quite a few bodyweight strength classes.  

[jbern]

@WaffleHouseTour & @Owengeorge13 - I've been wanting a "watch" for a while now because I do pretty well with data and game based fitness and dieting systems. My only problem with whoop is that it doesn't have a screen. Do you need to pay monthly for whoop data subscription?

Yesterday, I got my strength training session in on the Tonal. The focus was on pre-fatigue, which I had never heard of. The overview is that you tire out specific muscles with a high rep/low weight set and then do a low rep/high weight set right after. It made for a really interesting workout.

Today I'm planning to get a Yoga workout in after work.

[Owengeorge13]

28 minutes ago, jbern said:

@WaffleHouseTour & @Owengeorge13 - I've been wanting a "watch" for a while now because I do pretty well with data and game based fitness and dieting systems. My only problem with whoop is that it doesn't have a screen. Do you need to pay monthly for whoop data subscription?

Yesterday, I got my strength training session in on the Tonal. The focus was on pre-fatigue, which I had never heard of. The overview is that you tire out specific muscles with a high rep/low weight set and then do a low rep/high weight set right after. It made for a really interesting workout.

Today I'm planning to get a Yoga workout in after work.

https://www.whoop.com/us/en/membership/
 

I personally like it a lot.  Above is a link to look at different membership plans.  The whoop does not have a screen, all the data downloads directly to my phone.  I’m sure you could use a computer/ipad, I just haven’t.  

[Josh Parker]

33 minutes ago, jbern said:

@WaffleHouseTour & @Owengeorge13 - I've been wanting a "watch" for a while now because I do pretty well with data and game based fitness and dieting systems. My only problem with whoop is that it doesn't have a screen. Do you need to pay monthly for whoop data subscription?

Yesterday, I got my strength training session in on the Tonal. The focus was on pre-fatigue, which I had never heard of. The overview is that you tire out specific muscles with a high rep/low weight set and then do a low rep/high weight set right after. It made for a really interesting workout.

Today I'm planning to get a Yoga workout in after work.

I have a Garmin watch and like it a lot. Has an app for the phone to review everything but you can do most from the watch itself. 

 

[WaffleHouseTour]

33 minutes ago, jbern said:

I've been wanting a "watch" for a while now because I do pretty well with data and game based fitness and dieting systems.

When the Apple Watch first came out I scoffed at the notion of a phone on my wrist when I had one in my pocket.  I’ve come to rely on it .

Good for sleep tracking. Great for fitness.  Never use it as a phone but I leave the phone in silent mode and get all my alerts on my wrist - good for the kind of work I do.  And my wake up alarm just bumps my wrist, doesn’t wake up SheWhoMustBeObeyed at 5:30 am. 

[jbern]

11 minutes ago, Owengeorge13 said:

https://www.whoop.com/us/en/membership/
 

I personally like it a lot.  Above is a link to look at different membership plans.  The whoop does not have a screen, all the data downloads directly to my phone.  I’m sure you could use a computer/ipad, I just haven’t.  

 

17 minutes ago, Josh Parker said:

I have a Garmin watch and like it a lot. Has an app for the phone to review everything but you can do most from the watch itself. 

 

 

14 minutes ago, WaffleHouseTour said:

When the Apple Watch first came out I scoffed at the notion of a phone on my wrist when I had one in my pocket.  I’ve come to rely on it .

Good for sleep tracking. Great for fitness.  Never use it as a phone but I leave the phone in silent mode and get all my alerts on my wrist - good for the kind of work I do.  And my wake up alarm just bumps my wrist, doesn’t wake up SheWhoMustBeObeyed at 5:30 am. 

Sounds like it's time for me to make a pros and cons list for all the options! It's pretty neat that there are so many wearable fitness options available.

[Owengeorge13]

Eccentric legs, golf , treadmill

[Owengeorge13]

Light workout, then treadmill jog

[Owengeorge13]

Full body boot camp, treadmill

[jbern]

This week I was planning on three strength workouts and three yoga/stretching workouts. Monday I did a full body strength workout on the tonal.

Tuesday was stretching focused on the back. Wednesday was a squat focused strength day on the tonal. 

Yesterday, I did a "Calm Connections" yoga workout and my kids were jumping all over and crawling between my legs. Let's just say that it was NOT calming! haha

Today, I'm hoping to get in the third strength workout and then do a yoga workout over the weekend (unless I have to work).

I hope everyone else is staying on track. I believe they say that most people only last for two weeks with their new year's resolutions and that's about where we are right now.

[Owengeorge13]

Day off…

[GolfSpy AFG]

Finished my 200th Fit for Golf workout this morning.  VERY happy I finally decided to go this route; great programs and a great app (with an update coming)…

[GolfSpy_KFT]

I will have some stuff to share here on the forum in very short order, just doing some proofing with the article and have videos recorded for exercises covered....to throw a bone, the focus of the article is mobility, specifically through the spine 

[Preeway]

Today’s workout was 100% snow removal related, lol. Plan to do some stretching/mobility exercises later tonight. Looking forward to your article, @Jnoble89

[TSauer]

Trying my darnedest to close my rings every day this month. It ain't much, but it's honest work.

[ParFore74x]

2 hours ago, TSauer said:

Trying my darnedest to close my rings every day this month. It ain't much, but it's honest work.

Not an easy task during the winter months! Keep it up!

[Owengeorge13]

Golf specific workout , last day of p90x3, one mile fast 7min.  2 mile slow, walk.  Saturday is done

[cksurfdude]

18 hours ago, Jnoble89 said:

... throw a bone, the focus of the article is mobility, specifically through the spine

Exactly what I need ... TIA for this!!

[cksurfdude]

Took a long .. about an hour, forty minutes .. brisk-paced walk earlier with my honey. Def starting to feel in much better aerobic condition! 

[Owengeorge13]

If I’m posting too much of my whoop workouts each day, someone say something.  I’ll start doing a post once a week.  I’ll like this thread

[Preeway]

Please post away. I’ve been bad about maintaining daily check ins like I wanted. Will get back on the horse starting tomorrow. 

[Owengeorge13]

Golf specific, new 90 day workout (I tried 645 today, looking around for one). Two mile run, uphill walk.

[WaffleHouseTour]

Another week, another 7 days of closed Movement rings hitting my 700 active calories goal. Found more golf specific kettle bells to do as well.  

  

Two blizzards in the last week has thrown a wrench into my Stack routine and I'm losing "Grit" - though I think I'm due a little for snow shoveling 18 inches in -11* weather... but the app doesn't know that.  On the plus side the Wordle streak remains alive as well - gotta exercise the brain as well as the body. 

[cksurfdude]

4 hours ago, WaffleHouseTour said:

On the plus side the Wordle streak remains alive as well - gotta exercise the brain as well as the body. 

Love it .. my wife and I have ongoing word game challenges, including... NY Times Mini crossword, Spelling Bee, Connections and Wordle; plus Quordle, Sequence and Square Word. Every once in a while OG Scrabble, too.

And yes I did some physical exercise today

[Preeway]

In an effort to get better about establishing a routine, I downloaded an app and paid for a few months to get me started. 

Lots of easy to follow exercises. Kind of reminds me of Apple fitness in a way but they aren’t led by a live person. More like an exercise for dummies approach. 

Being as I can be quite the dummy, this just might be a good place to start. Will see how I feel about the app after my first three month window expires. 

[GolfSpy_KFT]

Got a mobility prehab routine in before a 20 minute HIIT workout today. Followed along with Apple Fitness for the HIIT, mobility was my own. Also got a short 10 minute strength and 10 minute core workout in last night with my wife at home. We are trying to help hold each other accountable this year, which means me adding some workouts at home with her to support her. We have some goals we want to reach before we head to Mexico mid March!