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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

First Jump Roping Since 7th grade

Thoughts for Today
When I was in 7th grade, I ended up taking first prize for jump roping at Field Day, but that's about the last time I had jumped rope. But now that my wife has started jump roping as part of her exercise routine, I have too. It's supposed to be good for all three things required to lose weight: burns fat, gives you cardio, and tightens abs. I'm still a decent at it, but I don't think I'd win first prize anymore! Boy does a few minutes of that wear me out, but I'm going to try to start doing a little each day.

Grading myself a B today. Since I had a salty, fairly heavy lunch, I shouldn't have had Mexican for dinner. Ah well, at least nothing was deep fried and I didn't snack much. Also started a new type of exercise with the jump roping, and drank a good bit of water.
Good night y'all.

Exercise
Jump roping and we also took about a 20 minute walk after dinner. 10,000+ pedometer steps on the day.

Breakfast
Fiber One Oats and Chocolate bar. 2 cups of black coffee.

Lunch
Jersey Mike's #7, a Turkey Sub on wheat with all the vegetables, spices, and spicy mustard. Small bag of Baked Lays and a diet coke. Next time I'll get without the cheese. Although I love provolone, I think I would have enjoyed just as much without it. Very good sub!

Dinner
Taco Express, a great little neighborhood place. Wife and I split the chicken fajitas. Had without any tortillas, which I am getting used to now.  Did have just a few chips and salsa. Diet Coke.

Snacks
Fiber One Oats and Chocolate bar.

7 comments:

  1. Jumping rope is a great exercise. I wish I had a room with a high enough ceiling to do it.
    Fogdog Weight Loss

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  2. It is a great exercise but sometimes I just feel like a dork doing it.

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  3. My trainer makes me jump rope. I hate it, but boy does it burn calories!!

    Congrats on winning the jump rope contest in 7th grade. I won the most flexible and the most sit ups. The most sit ups cracks me up...yep...wouldn't be winning that now...

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  4. How long do you jump? I wish I had a rope long enough for me to jump with. On busy days it can be hard to find healthy things to eat. 10,000 steps is good though!

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  5. Great job on getting back to the 10,000 steps. I haven't done jump rope in years, in the 30 Day Shred there is a "fake" jumprope session that I hate, hate, hate!

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  6. Fog - Yeah we don't have the ceilings for it either. Have to do it out on back patio or in the driveway.

    Seth - Definitely there is a dork factor for dudes jumping rope, I try to do it behind my truck or when it's dark out!

    Lisa - A Big YEAH for the situps and flexibility prize, you rock, LOL. I forgot to mention I won the egg toss too, but i don't think that burns too many calories.

    Journey - Yesterday I did a total of 4-5 jump sessions that at best added up to 10 minutes total.

    Enz - LOL, I bet you hate it! The fake is probably worse than the real because at least with the real I slip up with the rope sometimes and have to start over, which gets me a break.

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  7. No...I don't live in Houston. It was in some movie..."Houston...we have a problem..."

    I live in good ol' sunny Florida :)

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