Love to walk & lift weights but can't find the time
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  • 08-15-2009 9:09 AM
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    • RebekahM
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    Love to walk & lift weights but can't find the time

     I absolutely love to walk and have found that is the only exercise that helps me lose weight but I love lifting weights because I can feel the results immediately.  I don['t know but if it doesn't burn afterwards I do not feel like I got anything out of the workout.  My problem is time.  I work 20 hours a week, I'm going to school which takes up huge chunks of time with classes and homework, I have a garden and right now if I'm not picking I'm canning and I'm a mom to a teenager and a foster mom to a 5 month old.  All that does not include everything that goes into running a house hold.  so finding just 10 minutes for myself lately is immpossible.

    I have a plan to get more exercise starting this week.  While my foster child is at his visits I am going to the YMCA to walk on the tread mill and lift weights.  That should give me two days at least to exercise.  Then in the fall I plan to add two more days between classes and going to work because of the logistics of were I live it doesn't make sense to go home before work but then I'll have two hours to kill so what better to do than exercise.

     Becki

     

     

  • 08-15-2009 10:54 AM In reply to
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    • reptilemom
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    Re: Love to walk & lift weights but can't find the time

    Sounds like a good plan. :)

    I know as a busy working mom it is definitely difficult to find the time some days. Just remember that even getting 10 minutes 3 times a day adds up to a 30 minute workout. Lifting weights is a great way to build those wonderful calorie-burning muscles. :)

    Good luck!

    Trecia

    sw: 200 cw 118 gw 130

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