LeAnna's Weekly Workouts

Okay y'all--here's what my ideal weekly workouts are:

Monday: Strength training (arms, legs, core)/walk 3 miles

Tuesday: Yoga/walk 4 miles

Wednesday: Wii Fit games with my kids

Thursday: Interval training/walk 4 miles

Friday: Off (I'm usually beat by Friday from work)

Saturday: Walk 5-10 miles

I don't always get every workout in, but I give it my best.  If I can get at least 3 workouts in and 10 miles of walking, I'd consider that a good week.

One workout I've always wanted to try is dancing.  I love to watch "Dancing with the Stars" and "So you think you can dance" and I think what they do is amazing!  If I could find a good, fun, inexpensive dance class that fit my schedule, I would definitely try it.

I use SparkPeople.com to monitor my calories (in and out).  I can put in my workouts and it tells me how many calories I burned.  They also have a place to map my walks and it tells me my mph and calories burned.  As far as my heart rate, if I'm breathing hard and can't respond to my kids MANY questions during my workouts, I know I'm working hard enough.  I don't have any fancy gadgets to keep track of all that stuff.

I try to walk at 4 mph, so my walking workouts depend how long my walks are.  My other workouts I try to do for 30-40 minutes plus 5 minutes warm-up before, and 5-10 minutes stretching after.

Hope all of you can have fun and be healthy and strong.  Even if the scale doesn't show the numbers you want, exercising strengthens your muscles, bones, heart, and brain.  Good luck and here's to a healthier life for all of us!