http://www.liveexercise.com/blog/category/random-thoughts/ Blog categories... http://www.liveexercise.com/profile-41443/blog/triceps-7/ http://www.liveexercise.com/profile-41443/blog/triceps-7/ Mon, 14 May 2012 16:08:47 +0000 ryban http://www.liveexercise.com/profile-41443/blog/whew/ Man, its good to be back on the bands! 4th workout with them, had done a couple hit workouts for as long as I could stand before those, but man, stami... http://www.liveexercise.com/profile-41443/blog/whew/ Sun, 13 May 2012 23:46:14 +0000 ryban http://www.liveexercise.com/profile-41612/blog/ready-to-do-this/ t my new bands. I certainly hope they live up to theype. I'm ready f...]]> t my new bands. I certainly hope they live up to theype. I'm ready for the challenge.]]> http://www.liveexercise.com/profile-41612/blog/ready-to-do-this/ Sun, 13 May 2012 11:30:54 +0000 Dogg4life http://www.liveexercise.com/profile-41443/blog/i-m-back-3/ So I had started with the bands about a year ago, just before I got married. Things were going good and then life caught up! I work in a one person bu...
Well, a year later and here I am, 277lbs or so, achy back from sitting on the couch and working (well, trying to figure out how to bring in more work it more like it, this is the slowest spring I've ever experienced in my 6.5 years living where I am). My parents are coming to visit at the end June, my wife and I will be moving at the end of the summer, after which we are planning a long vacation to Mexico, and here I am, the same lazy mess I was before I bought the bands last year.

Well, considering all of that, and also considering the desire to have a better appearance when job hunting come Fall, I picked up the bands again. My endurance is crap right now, not that it was great before, but I definitely have a harder time getting up off the couch and small walks leave me out of breath! We do live up at 8,000ft, but still, I've been here for a while now. I need a change and I need to stick with it, so I picked up the bands again and am using the series 3 DVD's that came with the bands. Man is it hard! When i started a year ago i was able to stick it out through a whole DVD but now I make it about 25 minutes to 30 minutes and I'm toast! BUT I feel better after only 3 days in a row, I'm sore but more alert and awake, I've put on 5lbs of retaining weight from waking up my muscles (but I know my metabolism will go up, causing the fat to melt off quickly), and I feel better about it. i should try to do the workouts earlier, but I get them in, heart racing for the entire time, drinking water, getting moving again. Its hard to find motivation when work is extremely slow, there is nothing to do, you're trying to find new streams of revenue, but keep hitting walls and you're tired all the time. After sitting on the couch or a chair all day, when the end of the day comes its hard to get up and do Chiseled, but after the past 3 days, I've found my motivation for it once again. I'm not going to quit this time ... I read the before and afters of people and see the changes they have had in just a month's time and i think back and say, wow, if I had started this a month ago, stuck with it and was motivated, I wouldn't look like this - I would be so different and on my way to a healthier body ... and then I would sit there and zone out. Zoning out to the tube or a movie at the end of the day feels much better when your muscles are tired and achy, your back doesn't hurt, and you got up and did something to make a change in your life - after working out. I'm not a runner, I tried the HIIT cardio thinking I would start light and get my body moving, but after 5minutes I was done. The Chiseled workout is great. I'm about 5'10", like I said, 277. I've always been a big guy, even when working in the restaurant business, on my feet all day. I think the lightest I've ever been was 183, but back then I was drinking and ssmoking, popping ephedrine pills and dancing every night. Funny how 3 hours of cardio, a little uppers and a bunch of drinks can still keep you more fit than not drinking, not smoking but not moving.

my goal with this is the lose the belly, build up the muscles someone of my build should have (I'm a stocky guy, even if I was in shape, not someone who should just be toned out), and lose weight. I know it will take dedication, hard work and eating right (working on that!), but i'tll happen this time. If I give it just a month and see where I am then, even without eating 100% right, with my current size I'm bound to see lots of changes. I need to pre-plan and have the right food around, the wrong food out, and make time, even if it is half a chiseled workout, to do something to build muscles and whip this body back into shape. With the way Blake and Ashanti go in Chiseled, it definitely is incorporating cardio, the amount that someone with my endurance can keep up with and even have to rest a bit longer with.

I'm looking forward to this journey, I smile when I walk and my legs are sore, I can't wait to see the changes I'm going to see.]]> http://www.liveexercise.com/profile-41443/blog/i-m-back-3/ Thu, 10 May 2012 18:28:14 +0000 ryban http://www.liveexercise.com/sesfit/blog/tough-times-toughen-us-what-s-holding-you-back/ What is REALLY holding you back from getting to where you want to be. Not just in health and fitness, but whatever else it may be. Is it your lack of ... Current Directions in Psychological Science on a study performed on a group of people who'd experienced a few big challanges - like divorce or death - and they were found to be more resilient in later stressful situations than those who hadn't. Tough times toughen us! Welcome the challenge and know there is nothing you cannot conquer!]]> http://www.liveexercise.com/sesfit/blog/tough-times-toughen-us-what-s-holding-you-back/ Tue, 08 May 2012 00:45:11 +0000 Sara http://www.liveexercise.com/HellCat/blog/bodybugg/ I have wanted FOREVER a bodybugg or something along that lines. Anyone use one? I would love a more exact number to target my burned calories each day...
Thanks for the input! Wish they were so freakin expensive maybe I can ebay one

-Nic]]> http://www.liveexercise.com/HellCat/blog/bodybugg/ Fri, 04 May 2012 19:25:57 +0000 Nicole Gosselin http://www.liveexercise.com/viipe12/blog/3-weeks-in/ http://www.liveexercise.com/viipe12/blog/3-weeks-in/ Tue, 01 May 2012 14:58:01 +0000 Jonathan Sanchez http://www.liveexercise.com/MikeNice/blog/staying-open-minded/ I was talking to a gentleman in the waiting room at the physical therapist office today. He had lost 50 pounds in the last year. I asked him how he ha...
I told him that for $35 he could get a Bodylastics Max Tension resistance band set. Then he could head over to Liveexercise.com and have access to over 1,400 workouts. The economics make much more sense. He then told me that "Tony Horton is a genius. Those other guys probably don't know what they're doing. You'll get hurt."

He ripped a muscle in his shoulder while doing push ups. He had his feet in a chair and his hands on a balance ball. His hand slipped off the ball and he fell on his arm at an awkward angle. He was injured during a P90x one on one workout. Yet, he defends Tony Horton by saying the other guys might be dangerous.

I guess some people have to defend things after they invest so much in to them. The episode reminded me to remain open minded regardless of how much I have invested in a particular thing, system, or cause.

It also reminded me why I love Live Exercise. For the cost of admission it can't be beat.]]> http://www.liveexercise.com/MikeNice/blog/staying-open-minded/ Tue, 01 May 2012 05:49:43 +0000 MikeNice http://www.liveexercise.com/profile-38084/blog/day-45-a-little-late/ A couple of days ago I hit 45 days following chiseled and I am starting to see results. I have lost 1.5 inches off my waist. I can see changes in my ...
Thanks,

Will]]> http://www.liveexercise.com/profile-38084/blog/day-45-a-little-late/ Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:54:41 +0000 http://www.liveexercise.com/viipe12/blog/3rd-week-update/ So today i started on my 3rd week of working out with my bodylastics set and the liveexercise workouts and i am absolutely loving it. so far i have lo... tomorrow sucks because i'll have to work a 16 hour shift at work and i normally do cardio on sundays but i think i'll work on shoulders and arms tomorrow and switch my cardio to monday when i'm off of work and i have the spacing to do so.]]> http://www.liveexercise.com/viipe12/blog/3rd-week-update/ Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:09:17 +0000 Jonathan Sanchez http://www.liveexercise.com/profile-35210/blog/last-set-best-set/
Greg]]> http://www.liveexercise.com/profile-35210/blog/last-set-best-set/ Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:17:35 +0000 Greg Murnin http://www.liveexercise.com/viipe12/blog/wow-3/ ]]> http://www.liveexercise.com/viipe12/blog/wow-3/ Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:00:35 +0000 Jonathan Sanchez http://www.liveexercise.com/MyAmericanDreamBody/blog/about-me-myamericandreambody/
My Challenge: burn fat & build muscle naturally with no gym, no weights only with resis...]]>
My Challenge: burn fat & build muscle naturally with no gym, no weights only with resistance bands !

Will I meet this challenge? Will I can fulfil my lifelong dream? To be continued...

And yes, i have a dream...]]> http://www.liveexercise.com/MyAmericanDreamBody/blog/about-me-myamericandreambody/ Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:33:20 +0000 yehouda benchimol http://www.liveexercise.com/viipe12/blog/ultra-anchor/ So yesterday afternoon i recieved my narrow ultra anchor.as soon as i got it i had set it up on my door with ease. today was my first official day of ... ]]> http://www.liveexercise.com/viipe12/blog/ultra-anchor/ Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:49:47 +0000 Jonathan Sanchez http://www.liveexercise.com/fergodayol/blog/news-4-months-later/ Ok, so it has been a while... Here I will try to tell my experience as an infrequent user, which I suspect, even if everybody denies it, a recurrent t... We start exercising, in my case normally during vacation (I'm a surgeon, normally awfully booked days) I take the time and invest an amount of it to start or restart exercisin (again), wich I will try to prove is no sin.
Starting and stoping doing exercise is normal, everybody does it and everybody from time to time take a vacation from it, I would suggest that in these times we should probably avoid putting on and enormous amount of weight, but eventually we come back to our senses and start exercising again, or start a new intensity in our exercise.
What happened to me is that I for back a few weeks in my routine, I had a congress that was in a hotel that charged 20 dollars for the gym, I wasn't going to pay that, then the days were exhausting and didn't
Exercise at all, then came back to town on a Sunday and worked like crazy for a few more weeks, then I got a few ours again and got back to exercising, I normally do 30 min of cardio (bycicle static) and then do my bands, it's always strange to receive the good morning from Blake every evening, but you get used to it after a while.
The end point of this is that my body has still changed, not as fast probably, and haven't lost much weight, but my body feels better, a lot of people say I look thinner, but over everything I feel a lot better, coming back to exercise again is not as painfull with bands and the results are a lot better than I expected, I have better arms now that when I was a youngster, my shoulders feel great and my lower back only kills me when I stop doing the bands, not when I do them, crazy I think, but that's the way it is.
You are not supposed to do the whole routine as they simply put it, you can jump a day or two, a week or a month, but when you go back to the exercises the results are there, so I am very happy with these routines even when I cant do them as I'm supposed to.]]> http://www.liveexercise.com/fergodayol/blog/news-4-months-later/ Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:05:37 +0000 fergodayol