Odille's Exercise Page
Exercise Page
I began my exercise right from Day 1 of my diet. It was impossible for me to walk and a friend gave me an old and rusty air walker machine, that she had used when she had a badly broken ankle and could not put weight on it. At first I could only stay on for 3 minutes! However, after 8 weeks, when I could do 20 mins continuously, I joined the gym and began working out there.
I do 50-60 minutes of aerobic exercise on Mon/Wed/Fri and 20-35 minutes aerobic and 20-25 weight training on Tues/Thurs/Sat. Sunday is a rest day.
November 2006.
I have been doing more walking from home and weights workouts with hand and ankle weights from the site Strong Women (see Links page) than the gym.
My new walk is 5 kms with some fairly steep uphill sections (see map link below). I have been eying off this track behind the houses since I began exercising, but I knew it was going to be steep and was not sure if I was fit enough to do it. But on Sunday 29 October I but the bullet, and as I had not exercised Saturday due to other commitments, set off and tried it out. It is tough but6 doable.
I have a worked out a 1 hour route and a 35-40 min one. The section marked "the big hill" is a straight up 450 metre hill, which gets steeper at the top. I have to stop 4 times on the way up. When I can climb this without having to stop and gasp I will know I am getting fit!
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Walk route. Here is a Google earth map of my walk. I lifted this off and drew in the lines. The purple is the long walk - I think about 5 kms because that is my walking rate. The short route (follow the purple line to the green link line and then follow that) takes me 35 minutes and is hard walk with very little in the way of rests. |
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