Welcome to Heart Tips Tuesday - more about exercise

Evening Sweet Friends

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Welcome to Heart Tips Tuesday!

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Sorry I am posting so late,  but I had a busy day full of

 making menus, grocery lists and then shopping and dragging my

 haul in!!  lol  I don't have to tell you..... I am sure you know all

 about that, after all,  we all have to eat!! 

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I left off last week with showing you the first video we 

started with,  and today I will tell you about the other

3,  they are all by Leslie Sansone,  and give us a  great

workout,  and one thing I like is that all but in one video

and one lady they are all pretty covered up,  not like

so many others videos where they let it all hang out,

if you get my drift!!

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Our 2nd video was called "Walk way the pounds"

 The Walk & Jog video. It has about 4, 2 minute 

jog sessions, so it is easy to do,  or you can just do

 the low impact, cause she has a person that you follow

 for that as well.  I could not find the dvd cover for it

 for some reason,  Sorry!

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Our 3rd one is this one below:  This has a 30

and 45 minute routine where you use weights.

In fact, it comes with 2 ball type 1pd. weights,

and we have worked our way up,  I am doing

3 pds,  (I can't really go over that weight, because

 of a problem with my neck but Jim is up to 5

pds)  Our Dr. wanted us to add some strength

training to our workout.  It probably isn't as

good as going to the gym and using their machines

but it does a fairly decent job as you up the

weight more,  but the workouts are excellent.

But again you want to work up to this,

not start with it.

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Our 4th one is this one below.  This has a belt

that goes around your waist,  but you don't 

have to use it unless you want to.

  It is 45 min. workout and a good one too!

  Our daughter bought this one for  us.

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We also rotate the videos,  so we are not doing

the same one all the time either.

We have been walking outside some lately,

cause we are ready to do something different.

That is a nice change of pace.  We may fix

our bikes and start riding them some too.

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You just need to find something you like to

do,  I have a friend that plays tennis all the time,

and she is in great shape and loves doing that.

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I have another friend that goes to jazzercise and

she loves that,  so you just need to find whatever

it is that you enjoy doing,  maybe it is playing

badmitton in the back yard or swimming or 

raquetball,  my husband used to do that.

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It is also good if you can get a partner,

to exercise with.  I have one friend who talked

all the ladies in her office into going to Curves,

(it is an exercise place just for ladies,  and it is

a combo of machines and floor exercises,  if

I understand correctly) so they go their to exercise

 every Mon., Wed, and Friday after work.

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I have gone to jazzercise in my earlier years

and loved it,  but it took a huge chunk out of my

day because it was 25 mins. away,  so by the

time I got dressed, drove there exercised for

over an hour and came home,  I would eat up

so much of my day,  so I also chose to do 

something close to home like walking outside

with my headphones and listening to good

praise and worship music,  or riding my bike.

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Now fortunately,  Jim and I exercsie together

all the time,  so we can spur one another on.
Plus since we do it at home it only take us
30-35 mins. cause we don't have to drive
somewhere, and since we do it everyday
it only has to be 30 mins. for 5 days a week.
If we are having a busy week sometimes
we do 2 -  45 min. routines to get it all in.

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Oh yea,  our kids used to have a trampoline

and that is good exercise too.  I used to jog

on the trampoline.  When I was in my 20's

I used to jog all the time,  and that gets you

into shape very quickly,  but as you get older

it isn't great for your enternal organs or your

knees,  so I haven't done that for a long time.

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I love swimming and sometimes use my

sister-in-laws pool during the summer months,

cause it is the best over all exercise you can

get cause it is easy on your joints and you

use all your muscles and it will flatten your

stomach and tone your arms better than 

anything I have ever done.

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Well,  hope you will be thinking about

some things that you can do that will be fun

for you to do,  cause that is half the battle.

Once I borrowed a rowing machine from

a friend and tried that,  suppose to be good

for flattening your stomach.  I liked it but

it became annoying cause the kids were

always playing on it and readjusting it

so I finally gave it back!!  lol

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I have another friend who has an 

elliptical,  it is sorta like the gazelle 

that we have,  but a little different.

We like the gazelle and use it at

least once a week.

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Jim and I had decided quite awhile

before he ever had the heart problems

that we needed to be exercising.

The big reason..........we had seen

both of our Mom's lose their legs do to

 lack of activity,  and we knew instinctively,

 that we had to do something different

 than what they did if we didn't want to

end up that way.  We don't know how

long the Lord will let us live, but we do

know we want to be as healthy as we

possibly can be, as far as it depends on us.

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Thanks for coming by and listening

to the ramblings of this determined

wife who is trying to help her husband

reverse his coronary artery disease.

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I have to say I believe the Lord is in

it, and I believe it will happen one day,

We have seen a lot of progress,  and

we just ordered a book about a man

who had i,t when he was 32 yrs. old

and had bypass surgery and they didn't

think he would live past 40,  now he

just filed for medicare,  and he reversed

his,  so we can't wait to read the book,

cause we will probably pick up some

new tips.  Hope so anyway!

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Have a great day tomorrow,

 cause

it is too late for a good evening, it

has passed already,  and you are

probably heading to beddie bye land!

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I know I am going there soon!! lol

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What do you do to get exercise???
Or what are you thinking about doing???
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Love and blessings to you all,

Nellie