Today was a fun day! Our initial plans were to go walking and have a picnic but the weather here in Chicago was way too chilly for that. Decided to pick up some plants and flowers at Home Depot instead and plant those. Aren’t they pretty? Probably shouldn’t have carried that big plant pot up to the deck because I pulled something in my shoulder/neck. It was not light.
My plans for vegetable gardening this year when out the door. Way too much going on for me to plan and focus on that. Plus with travel how in the world would I keep all the veggies alive?
We just got our last phase of Best Body Bootcamp workouts. Once again it’s been great but I had to take a break this week and get outside, away from the home gym. Needed to change things up a bit because I felt myself losing interest. This happens a lot when I do the same things over and over. I love the bootcamp because Tina changes it up so this has nothing to do with her/bootcamp.
The next few months will be full of travel so I’m most likely going to skip the next round of bootcamp. But it’s sure to be a great one so you should definitely think about joining up.
Monday-
*Strength (moving bricks outside)
Time: 1:10
Calories burned: 956
Amazing calorie burn but I moved just about 50 bricks, each about 25 lbs and walking up and down the street with them in a wheelbarrow was not easy in addition to lifting them in and out out of it either. Phew!
Tuesday-
*Mowing lawn
Time: 1:18
Calories burned: 1305
Wednesday-Thursday- Day off
Friday-
*Strength Total Body (The Traveler’s Workout by Fitness Glo)
Time: 30 min.
Calories burned: 317
This workout was awesome. I’m part of a sponsorship with the company and they have given me free access to review their site/workouts AND we’ll have a giveaway this month too so be on the lookout!
Saturday-
*Gardening
Time: 60 min.
Didn’t bother to wear the heart rate monitor but I’m sure I burned a nice amount of calories. I really needed to get out of the home gym this week so that is why you saw a lot of out door work.
Sunday-
*Housework
Time: 60 min.
Lots of vacuuming! Again not a normal workout but I kept myself moving.
So I was kind of all over last week with my activity but it felt good! How did your week go? Did you have a fun Mother’s Day?
Thanks for getting the picture up for me to pin 🙂
Last Sunday I ran/walked my first half marathon. I still haven’t blogged about it, I better get on that. I ran two other days, taught my low impact seniors fitness class 3 mornings like normal and we hiked a local hill. It’s steep and I hate it, but it burns calories and is good for my knees and hips.
I need to get a better plan in place. I’m on a steroid inhaler for my asthma right now and oh boy, the weight gain isn’t fun. I haven’t had this issue in the past so I never knew what people were complaining about. YIKES
You’re welcome! Thanks for pinning. Way to go on your first half. I am still shocked we walked a half, it was crazy hard but we did it. Oh that inhaler is no fun, hope it all gets under control.
The flower pot looks lovely and is quite unique, I’ve never seen that style before. Quite pretty. And your workout routine is just as unique – lol. I too love that type of natural workout, mowing the lawn use to be one of my biggest (most exhausting) workouts when I lived in MS. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you Missy! We had cool flowers last season in it and since they didn’t have those this time and Kev saw the tropical plants I went with it. Then bought sand to go on top of the dirt and had pretty beach rocks from California to add to it.
The outdoor workouts have been fun, I needed the break. I’m doing some fun online videos this week just to change it up a bit and I’m doing a review of the site too. About ready to mow again, I love the calorie & muscle burn there.