Week 2: Fitness Magazine You Can Do It Challenge

by Heather Long | More from this Blogger

Fitness magazine said you can do it, and I've been doing it. I signed up and dived into the challenge 10 days ago when I posted the information about the challenge here at the Fitness blog. Now at the end of my second week, I'm more than just a cheerleader for this particular goal-oriented fitness challenge. I need to go in and update my data, but my totals for the last two weeks work out to the following:

• Cardio - 240 minutes
• Strength Training - 75 minutes
• Time To Myself - 600 minutes
• Pounds Lost - 2 pounds
• How do I feel today? - Good!

The strength training portion of the workout is very good and I have most of the materials here at home to do the workout from the balance ball to the hand weights. I do need to get a new heart rate monitor because my handy dandy watch broke down.

The cardio I have reserved to my treadmill, though on four of the last seven school days, I have added a few minutes of basic walking just taking the kids to and from to school. I don't really count the time walking them there because I have to really shorten my stride for my daughter, but on the way home - I'm good to go. It's about .6 miles from here to the school - so I get 1.2 miles total right now.

It's too hot in the afternoons to do the walking, but the kids and I are all counting down until cooler air prevails here in North Texas. I'm about sick and tired of 100+ degree heat throughout the day and no rain. It's like walking out into a blasting furnace.

Have you been participating in the You Can Do It Fitness Challenge? I'd love to hear from you!

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Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago.

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