Success! Weight Loss Update 8/2 - 8/8

I am happy report that I lost all the weight I gained two weeks ago! That's almost 6 pounds in one week. I can attribute it to the fact that I exercised nearly every day. But I wasn't crazy about it. I just did a little something each day.

I strength trained three days, like I normally would be doing. That takes about 30 minutes each of those days. My goals for cardio workouts each week is 90 minutes (about 30 minutes each day). I actually performed 210 minutes of cardio over the whole week. My cardio workouts consisted of several days of walking, usually lasting between 40-45 minutes each time and two days of Taebo which lasted 30 minutes a session.

If the calculations on Sparkpeople.com are correct, then the calories I burned on cardio alone amounted to 1630 calories, nearly double my goal for the week. And that doesn't even take into account the calories burned during the strength training exercises.

I am a firm believer that you can combine strength training and traditional cardio workouts into one. Taebo is actually a good example. If you really pay attention to leg placement and work hard at holding in your stomach and really holding each muscle group that you are working out, you will strength train at the same time. In my traditional strength training workouts, I do a lot of floor exercises as well as working with hand weights and resistance bands. Since I go from one exercise to another, with no lag time in between, I work up quite a sweat and know that my heart is getting a workout as well.

Now, can I keep up with this pace on a regular basis? Not sure. But I will certainly be more diligent in working out each week since I know what it can do for me.