Postby Twins' Mom » Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:50 am
On the push up subject - my trainer has me do push ups regularly as part of the upper body workout. I still do the "knee" push ups but can do 12 - 15 if I haven't already done another set of exercises that work those muscles. After doing a push ups, he has us switch to something else - usually an upright "row" that works the opposite muscles, then back to push ups, doing three rounds of the two exercises before moving on. Each three repetitions of the two exercises take about 10 minutes. I can sometimes do my 12 - 15 three times (again, these are knee push ups and it depends on what else I've done first.) Harriet, I had a period with some shoulder aches but I seem to have gotten past it.
trish, thanks for asking about my weight. I went down slightly last week - this has been a very rough week for eating habits so we'll see tomorrow where I come out. Yesterday - probably because of excess salt the day before) I was up by 4 pounds over last Friday.
Good news to report: New jeans, size 14 purchased yesterday are too big! (I was a tight size 16 starting out last summer.) The jeans I have on right now are size 14 but are cut in at the waist and are tight there but comfortable in the hips and bottom.
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