dreams/night TERRORS!

SO as i promised, I'll let you all know how my weightlifting classes were. I arrived at 5:15 and there were about 4 college kids there and a few old heads. We started the abs class by doing some excruciating exercises on the ball, after those, it was a pretty standard series of ab work. After the ab class was the circuit training. it was a combination of lifting weights, cardio, resistance training, and everything else that will make me SUPER jacked! Now that it's been almost a week since the class, my muscles are still a bit sore, but my abs got the best work out of all. I've been thinking about this class so much that i had a dream that i had abs of steel, and i was showing them off to everyone! It was a pretty funny dream, and I'm well on my way to metal abs! :)



Speaking of dreams i had a recent nightmare that McCain won the presidential election, but if my childhood superstitions serve me correctly, if i tell everyone my dream, it won't come true? so please Tell everyone you know about my horrible night TERROR!

These Keen's were tailor made for walking.

For documentation purposes: I walked 12,276 steps yesterday. In my quest to live a really healthy youthful life, I've began to monitor yet another seemingly unimportant part of my daily routine; I've been monitoring my walking. To lose weight or to remain fit, a healthy person should walk about 10,000 steps a day. 2,000 steps = 1 mile, so yes, one should walk 5 miles a day. My interest was sparked when i read that the average motionless American walks about 3,000 steps a day. SO 1.5 miles. I've discussed why, and ways to change this in a previous blog. And in a mile, a person weighing about 150 or less can burn 100 calories, a 200 lbs person a little more. So people are eating 3,000 calories and only burning 150. For fear of succumbing to my body's predisposition to be overweight, I'm obsessed! I purchased a pedometer about a month ago and I wear it as often as I can remember I own it--which is about 2 or 3 times a week. What I've noticed is, it inspires me to be more active. If I've only walked about 1,500 steps during my work day, I make it a point to spend at least 30 minutes of my lunch break just WALKING around downtown. I think I'm going to walk to Point State Park during lunch today. I'm also inclined to take my dogs on longer walks just to make sure I get those steps in. I go to the gym more often as well! YES! I do feel really alive and happy. In addition to my walking, and cardiovascular routine, I'm going to reintroduce weight lifting into my fitness regimen. My gym offers MANY MANY free classes of which I'm going to be taking advantage. Tonight at 5:15 I'm going to a class called express abs it's a 15 minute class that focuses on abdominal muscle definition and strength. I'm really excited, i think this will give me the extra help i need to define my abs! And then I'll be going to a class at 5:30 called Circuit Training, which is 45 minutes of weight lifting training probably high reps of low weight. I need this! I'll blog about it tomorrow.