Calling All Hamsters Week #120 Ending 4-16-05

[slynny]

Please do all posting here and let the other thread go!

Mission: The VeggieBoards Hamster Club is a group of fitness/health minded vegans and vegetarians who support each other in their endeavors in fitness, diet, and health. Anyone who chooses can post to this thread. There are no dues or fees, just a desire to share our efforts and support one another.



Go Hamsters!!!

:sunny: :vebo: :hamster: :sunny:

[CaptainSwab]

8 mile run this morning. :sunny:


:hi:

[annabanana]

21 mile bike ride today.

[markc7]

I ran 53 km this morning. I was practicing running at night with only a headlamp for light, which was fun. It was also my first trail run of the year, though the paths were still pretty muddy. I held back and tried to run very slowly the whole time, and so felt like I could have gone another 10 or 20 km at the end if I had to.

Monday is a rest day! :D

[brownieB26]

Saturday: 6+ hours of walking. no idea how many miles :-/
Today: 1 hour of elliptical

[Virtue23]

Saturday:
60 min. dance practice
150 crunches (various forms and reps for greater impact)
60 pushups
45 min walk on trail
more stretching and leg work later on

Sunday I worked video cameras for about 2-3 hours in the morning.

Today is a rest day. Maybe more crunches tonight tho.

[pseudo_vegan]

11 April 2005

::le sigh::

25-min. lap around a 2.6-mile path... and then I tried to go some more but I couldn't.

My first race-thing is two weeks out and I'm freaking because I don't think I can get my mile-time down by then...granted, there was snow and muck and that probably slowed me down in spots but...I only went half the distance! I don't know how I'll go 5 at that pace...bleh.

Oh, and the weight-room was closed so no lower work today :cry:

:nigel: Cheers, hammies!

[brownieB26]

20 min elliptical.

owie!! I'm pretty sure one of my toes-ies is ingrown. :cry:

[cyk]

1.5 Hours of Brazilian Jiujitsu... Warm ups, drills, then rolling. Feels good to be back, so far my shoulder is feeling okay for now. Tournament May 7th, so I should train hard, but not that hard and hurt my shoulder again.

A few rotator cuff excercises.

[slynny]

Hi Funk! :hi:

Hi Hamsters! 16 mile run last night. I'll rest today then do exercise class the rest of the week + a few short runs.

pseudo_vegan, maybe you shouldn't worry about your time for this race, you might do better if you just relax and have fun. There will be other races.


Go Hamsters!! :vebo: :hamster: :vebo:

[Virtue23]

Today:

60-90 min. dance practice tonight (this particular routine is of a mild aerobic persuasion, lol)

Some situps this morning

[annabanana]

5 mile run and 15 minutes elliptical.

[bethanie]

I road my bike this morning and spent the better part of the day walking 24 children around a very large botanical garden. I think the botanical garden counts.

B

[CountessKerouac]

Today:

Major walking
40 minutes of upper body, arms and ab weight training

[cyk]

sigh. I'm going for a run outside in a few minutes. I'm not feeling it today, but the sooner I start the sooner it will be done... And probably feel happy I did it too. Go Hamsters! :D

[pseudo_vegan]

12 April 2005

(Slightly OT, but I'm worried about my time b/c I'm like right on the border between two different starting "waves" and I don't know if I should sign up for the "shorter" time or just figure I won't shave down enough and go for the last wave...piff...)

Eeneeway...

25 minutes of ab-work: 400 cable-crunches @ 40-lbs. / 120 leg-lifts >_<

46 minutes of running...2 laps around this park...first lap @ 22 minutes; second @ 24... *shrug* :p

:nigel: Cheers, hammies!

[buddhadragon]

Learning my first Shaolin animal form! "Meng Hu Xia Shan", powerful tiger comes down the hill. Ive pulled a groin and a hammy already!! This is so much more intense then the Korean stuff I got my blackbelt in..LOVIN IT!

[brownieB26]

Learning my first Shaolin animal form! "Meng Hu Xia Shan", powerful tiger comes down the hill. Ive pulled a groin and a hammy already!! This is so much more intense then the Korean stuff I got my blackbelt in..LOVIN IT!
:dunce: You do the most interesting exercises, buddha...is Shaolin a martial art? Which country is it from??

[cyk]

2 hours of bjj... drilling for warm-ups, passing the guard techniques, then rolling. After class worked on take dows and judo throws... :hamster:

[buddhadragon]

:dunce: You do the most interesting exercises, buddha...is Shaolin a martial art? Which country is it from??
Shaolin Wu Hsing Chuan...Chinese Gung Fu

[annabanana]

4 mile run, 4 mile walk, weights

[markc7]

I ran 9 x 350m hills last night. I didn't wear a watch, but I'm pretty sure they were a bit slow. Oh well. I'll do an easy eight or ten km tonight.

[LadyFaile]

hey i've never posted in here before but my trainer called me an athlete (me! athletic! hahaha) the other day so i think i qualify now ;)

been going to the gym regularly, about every other day. i don't see a huge difference yet appearance-wise but my weight is back up finally, not quite to my goal yet but halfway there in 3 weeks whereas i'd struggled with no success for 2 years just by focusing on diet alone.
so i'm feeling rather encouraged. plus he upped the weights on everything yesterday and i didn't find it much harder than before, so that must mean i'm getting stronger :)

so yesterday was a session with my trainer, i did lots...
warmed up on the crosstrainer
did lower back (this contraption that locks your feet in and a hip rest and you bend over and straighten etc) with a weighted ball, 10lb i think
abs, leg extensions and curls, chest press, all at 15kg, and the lateral raise machine that i hate i'm still at 5kg on but it's getting easier.
then he showed me a new machine, the glute press, it's awkward, and did some free weights.

:hamster:

[annabanana]

23 mile bike ride, 10 minutes hula-hooping :D

[pseudo_vegan]

14 April 2005

400 cable-crunches @ 40 lbs. / 100 cable-crunches @ 42.5 lbs.

120 leg-lifts

No cardio today--something rotten in the state of my right ankle :sick:

Tomorrow is lower-work and another time-trial :yes:

:nigel: Cheers!