….of Michael Wood's 10,000 step challenge….how did that go? With the exception of two hours for a manicure and dinner, for many unexpected reasons, I spent the day – literally from the beginning to the end – at the Mashpee Koko FitClub. Both food and step wise this made day 1 pretty easy. Sugar . . . → Read More: Soooo….Day 1
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Over the weekend several people have joined the 10,000 step/beat sugar challenge. I'm in the gearing up phase – yesterday that meant finishing all the chocolate hidden in the freezer. Today I am going to read the packaging of everything I eat and tally up the grams (including my New Lifestyle Diet food I . . . → Read More: Beat It! Yesterday I announced my intention to participate in Michael Wood's 10,000 step challenge. Today I don't think I could do the sugar part – abstain from added sugar for the whole month – without doing some sort of gearing up during these last few weeks of October. I need some mental preparation and lots . . . → Read More: Gearing Up Linkedin informed me and a lot of my friends that it is my one year anniversary of working at Koko FitClub. I can’t believe it’s been a year. When I think back to last August when I first started at Koko, and I look at myself one year later, I’m astounded. One year ago . . . → Read More: Happy Anniversary This Huff Post article graced my newsfeed this morning and piqued my interest because of my belief in the seriousness of exercise and muscle building at any age. Tosca Reno answers the question Why do I need to exercise? better than anyone I’ve read. And not only for women. Men take heed, too. It’s not . . . → Read More: The Pornographication of Fitness Eleven years ago I began strength training when I got my diagnosis of severe osteoporosis. The doctor told me the medicine would stop the bone loss, but the only way to reverse it was to put weight on my bones. So, one who never exercised in her entire life, made her way to the gym . . . → Read More: I Never Knew That This morning in my Koko workout the chest press exercise said put on 50 pounds. That went well. I’ve been doing 50 for awhile now. Then it came around again in the second rotation. This time it said 60 pounds. I felt my face make a what! expression. A little fear surged through me. A . . . → Read More: Potential Another New Year’s resolution accomplished. I’m in my Koko Fit Zone. My e-BMI is 28.2, putting me right smack in the middle of my zone meter. Starting out at 31.8 over a year ago, I never thought this day would come. I’m back to the fit body I retired with and then let slip . . . → Read More: In The Zone This morning I took a strength test at the Mashpee Koko. When I got the results I also most fell over. I had a strength increase of 89%! Who does that? That’s insane! I brought my Q score (a measure of overall progress) from what thought was an amazing 61 – to – get this: . . . → Read More: Amazing Day! Some days seem like an avalanche. You know the kind – where one thing happens right after another and it doesn’t let up until you climb into bed. Most of my days are avalanche days, now. Just look at today. I left the house at 7am to be at work in the Harwich Koko at . . . → Read More: Avalanche |
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