Another 10 months and you'll be down to zero.

well, most of my exercise books are geared toward women's workouts, so I'm not sure they would be what you're looking for. Here's a rundown of some of mine, though:

Fitness for Dummies All the "dummies" books are good

Selene Yaeger's Perfectly Fit - I really like this one, because it has whole-body, combination exercises, and uses a medicine ball.

Oh! I forgot to mention the medicine ball in my gym equipment.

Joyce Vedral - All Joyce Vedral's books are excellent. They are the first ones I started with.

The Portable Personal Trainer - a fun little book for tips and inspiration

8 Minutes in the Morning - a pretty good split system if you only have a few minutes. Wish there were summary pages, though.

Get on the Ball by Lisa Westlake-- I use this one a lot for ball workouts (for some reason the url thingy isn't showing up right, sorry)

The Core Program - a pretty unusual and gentle core program

The Pilates Powerhouse - the Pilates book by Mari Winsor.

I have more, but these are probably among the most used. I like learning from books, but you may prefer videos.

Just start with walking. It really doesn't matter what you do, especially in the beginning. Just do something.

Disclaimer: I'm fat, so you might not take workout advice from me, anyway. :blush:

i had a trainer at the gym show me 3 different ways to do my obliques today. I hate the machine that does them. the first two were ok, but then he had me lying on my back on that huge ball, with another ball held out and twisting myself over onto my shoulder. Of the three, it probably felt like it was working right away......but i'll be damned if i'll be one of those 'ball people' ....I just upped the weight on the 1st one.

Like this? http://www.myfit.ca/exercisedatabase...que_twists.gif

that takes balls

yeah....kinda....but it was just side to side.

Do you have any of the silly walk thing? I always assume the trainer makes people do that if they don't like them.

The silly walk? Is that the lunging thing? The swim coaches make the bigger kids do that round the pool. I think they do it so the parents and little gets can have a laugh.

balls are awesome, baby! truly!

In September of last year I started taking Hapkido, a Korean martial art, and have been going three times a week - only missing when I've been traveling.

Recently I found another martial arts school near my home that teaches about 10 different styles. For the last two weeks I've been going to Aikido on Monday nights, Hapkido on Tuesday and Thursday nights and Saturday morning, Jujitsu Wednesday night, and KunTao Silat Saturday afternoons. Of all those, Jujitsu is the most physically demanding, though Hapkido and KunTao Silat techniques are often quite painful.

I don't know how long I'll be able to maintain this schedule (or afford it).

I'm quite partial to a little Libido workout followed by an hour or two of IgetSum.

FYI. Another great reason to get a little huffin and puffin in, any way you can ;)

Be smart, exercise your heart: exercise effects on brain and cognition.

Lat 3/10 55lb
Shoulder 4/10 30lbs 2/10 20lbs
Triceps 3/10 40lbs
Ab 3/10 45lbs 3/10 40lbs
Abductor 2/10 80lbs 2/10 70lbs
Adductor 3/10 50lbs
Squat 2/10 80lbs

Stairbastard 20 mins 68 spm
Swimming ab/arm exercises




yesterday
Treadmill 90min - 15elev, 3.2mph

I've been doing more and more of my upper body with this thing:
http://www.customizedfitness.com/ft360a1.jpg

started using it cuz i hated the oblique machine.....now, im doing my back, triceps, lats, and lower chest on this.

i still do curls with the dumbells, and chest press for my main pecs.....

gym workout
 

yea, for workout music, you basically need hard-hitting euro-dance music.... nothing else does the job

really. Search around on iTunes for "euro club hits" or check this link:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...+Club+Hits+Vol

I fenced two tourneys concurrently on Sunday. I did reasonably bad in foil and pretty good in epee beating some talented guys and finishing in the top half. I was getting some minor cramping in my legs by my final epee bout but considering that I'd fenced 3 (approx. 9 minute) de's to 15 touches and a total of 12 ( app. 3 minute) pool bouts to 5, I was happy to have hung in that well.