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Alpha-Beta is a Brooklyn-based actress, singer, and crazyperson with a great deal of liking (because love is such a strong word) for yoga, weights, an More...
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Final Thoughts on April BOWC
Well, it's May 4 now. I'm done with the April Challenge!!!
Last Day Blues
I did NOT want to work out today. Day 26. Oh yeah. I am one of those people who puts a book down with 20 pages to go. I love Fitzgerald, but the last 20 pages of This Side of Paradise never did happen. I was tempted to say screw it, not do it, and just start the May Challenge with an I for April.
Quckie
OK, have 2 minutes to write this. GO!!!
Yesterday's workout somewhat derailed due to getting a hot audition for today. Ended up running around looking for copy shop, going from East Village to Chelsea and back in pursuit of copies, voice lessons, and vegan ice cream. Then laundry.
doing what really counts!
Took Monday off.
Did my favorite thing today:
25 min abs (6 in various planks!)
15 on treadmill
15 on elliptical (with arms)
Sunday
Once again couldn't stand the idea of spending a beautiful day sitting around Manhattan. Went back to Brooklyn and took about an hour stroll through Prospect Park, so lovely and full of debris, and convinced my sister to do MTV Yoga with me. I got this DVD in 2004 at the end of college, but I haven't done it more than once in the last couple of years since I have a membership to Crunch.
One funny little thing.
So Friday I finally attempted to work out in my least-favorite newish yoga top from J.Crew. I bought two of the racer-backs, which are amazing in many ways, perfect, comfortable, attractive, and one of these double-layer cami things which is so not-great in many ways.
Saturday!
Last Saturday being so hardcore,
I decided to go back for more.
Another thirty on th' elliptical,
Absolution, of course was brutal,
Stretching with a few remaining,
But I love Craig S.'s training!
Tomorrow I will try to yoga,
Even as my butt screams "yowzah"!
Days? and ??...I have so lost count. But I know I only get one more day off!!!
Thursday: went to 42nd st crunch with new bikini only to find pool out of commission. Bummer. Realize I hate exercise swimming anyways and is total vanitykini. Do weights for about 45 minutes and then stretch.
3x 10 man-style push-ups with feet on ball +2 extra in last set to tire out.
3 x 20 exerball squats (with ball on wall)
another day down!
Today: 30 minutes elliptical, 25 abs, 5 stretch. Then some running to and from trains in the rain. Nothing too inspired, but enough to get the job done. Only time to work out was before noon, and miraculously I did! Not first thing, but I am not ever going to be someone who wants to do that. One must work within the confines of oneself. I think that was Yoda...right...
Day What Number Is This?
Um, yeah I don't know what day today is supposed to be. I think 18 for me? Hmmm. Anywhoo, Went to 75 minutes of vinyasa at Park Slope Crunch. Was ok. Not easy-peasy, but no Ursula or Jon C. either. Oh, well. Almost missed it because I couldn't find my keys to get out of the house, and thank god the 7th Ave.
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Lafayette! Ohhhhh, I love her the best now that 13th St and Soho (which was really north of Houston!) closed. Union Square (also Park Slope for that matter) is frequently out of lockers in post-work hours. I recommend never going there on Monday between 6 and 8 pm. Madness, I tell you!
Posted in response to: Letter to Crunch Gym on Union
Feel better!!! And seriously, even if you did have to give up by force, which it sounds like you are determined not to do until last resort, you would still be a winner for getting this far. (And making me snort out loud with "I ran at the gym in front of other people." Yes, it takes courage!)
Posted in response to: Day 16: Frustration
Yes to Richard Gere: we are all hotties.
Posted in response to: B.O.W.C. By the Numbers
Love it! I am struggling with this but making headway: I've had food issues for the better part of my adult life, and just now I am finally getting to where I am ok mentally with eating what I want to physically. Hunger is healthy. Eating when you're hungry is also healthy. I am not going to punish my body with low-calorie days and tough workouts to attain some crazy-skinny look, especially working out six days a week!
Posted in response to: Crime and punishment
Seriously: trashy reading makes cardio fly by! I don't know how I went so long with only ipod as entertainment.
Posted in response to: Reading Smut while doing Cardio
I am frightened. Do you think her abs REALLY look like that? I am alternately jealous and grossed out. Can't decide which really. Also: does anyone NEED that much makeup for anywhere that isn't a night club, especially the gym?
Posted in response to: Tracy Takes Manhattan
Yeah, I am really hungry all the time, even more than usual! I'm starting to worry though that I'm eating more than I can possibly burn, but I think that might just be because last weekend was a celebration-fest...
Posted in response to: bad-assery aside...
I'm going to have to try this moma podcast thing--sounds good! I have such a hard time doing more than maybe 45 minutes of yoga at home because it's hard to make myself keep dong sun salutations as long as they make us do in class.
Posted in response to: Day 13: Nursing my wounds with yoga
Dude!!!! That's a workout.
Also, those hats. I am never fully certain I will understand them, but damn if they don't look cozy. Where IS spring already?
Posted in response to: Cold Day For A Run In Brooklyn
Mmmm. At this point my workouts are mostly to justify a chocolate addiction, though I wonder if they don't make me want it more. Jogging in the park is a good idea though, or at least in theory: I want to jog in Prospect Park, or think I do.
And so far 27 is the same as before, only with a new number.
Posted in response to: Rule No. 76- No excuses. Play like a champion.
Mmmm, I think I'm going to get more chilled out about what I eat, or I hope so. I'm hoping to lose like 2 pounds and really only from my waist (I gain weight there first and foremost; if I get smaller in other places all of my clothes won't fit). I tend to eat pretty healthfully for meals and even my junk food tends to be babycakes cupcakes or larabar type stuff (ie girly junk food).
But I do know the difference between being neurotic about it and actually pigging out, so I try to focus on reality, not this fantastic / Spartan diet that I somehow "think" (ie, the voices in my head think) I should have.
Also, unless you're talking a LOT of pasta or something, that doesn't sound at all unreasonable to eat before dinner. I count calories like some people breathe (out of habit unwillingly), and that's really not a lot unless your metabolism is really slow (assuming you're somewhere in your 20s or 30s). Sorry, play again!
Posted in response to: I eat a lot...
Good work! I find that joblessness is actually a really big motivator for me to work out because at least that way I can say I did *something* all day....but sometimes having nothing to do makes it harder to anything.
And good luck with the job hunt (if you're actively hunting--if you're not, enjoy it as much as you can).
Posted in response to: Day 1 (but really 2)
Mmmm, unemployment. I have never been in better shape...especially white simultaneously addicted to chocolate...I won't be sad actually to have a job again because it will afford me more opportunity to see PEOPLE (and poverty sucks), but the thought of having to cut back on my babycakes addiction or gain weight is kind of saddening.
Posted in response to: Yay for Day 1 and a Body that Works!
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