Jen is awesome.
I’ve met my exercise goal for another month!
2/27: 55 minutes on the exercise bike, 10 minutes weights, 5 minutes ab-wheel
2/29: 52 minutes on the gazelle, 10 minutes weights, 5 minutes ab-wheel
2006/2000
By the way, I know its an old info-mercial cheesy looking piece of equipment, but the ab-wheel is seriously fabulous for abdominal workouts – Pilates is the only thing that matches it. But the ab-wheel is easier because it doesn’t require as much constant focus on posture and positioning. My senior year of college I was doing about 60 crunches a day every day and when I bought one of these I did my usual workout on it, and the next morning I couldn’t sit up in bed because my abs were so sore! Now I generally do 5 minutes of abdominal workouts every other day (combination of tradition crunches, bicycles, reverse crunches, and oblique crunches) and I switched back to the ab-wheel earlier this week and WOW! I can feel a huge difference in how its working my abs, it focuses a lot more on the lower abdominal muscles, which is honestly where most women need more focus. Anyway, its a great workout tool and if you use it correctly you will feel like you’ve been kicked in the stomach the next day – but you’ll be happy about it!
A small update on my mood: I’ve spent the last several hours conciously coming down off my stressed-out-crazy-mode and I’m feeling so much better! I finished piecing my gorgeous quilt, which just brightened up my whole evening. I’ve even moved around the pictures hanging in our living room/playroom to make room to hang it up, as its not very big. Killy seems to be pretty in love with it, though, so I don’t know that I’ll be able to hang it up as soon as I’m done with it. Its a fairly small quilt, probably only about 3 by 4.5 feet total, so I think it’ll make a lovely piece of wall art. I promise I’ll post pictures as soon as I’ve finished it, I’m so attached to it already that I haven’t been sharing pics yet because I don’t want anyone to see it before its totally finished, so they can appreciate it fully!