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Archive for the ‘Ten Minute Workout check-in’ Category

These posts are post that I have in place for people to check in sharing what they are doing and discovering AND for me to check in when I have done my ten minutes.

Give Me Ten

Posted by terrepruitt on June 10, 2011

I have a Nia Class today.  So I am not sure if I will do myTen Minute Workout before or after.  This “place holder” post.  I have it post a few minutes after midnight so that my readers can comment.  (hint, hint).  I am going to do my Ten Ten in Ten.  Whether you do it or not, share . . . .

This is where we can encourage others and find some encouragement ourselves.

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June 10, 2011 at 5:27 pm

Ok, if you read my reply to my friend’s comment you will know that I said I was going to do my workout then take a shower, then add to my post that I did my workout.  But my plans just changed because just as I was finishing my workout my hubby called.  So I didn’t answer (shhhh don’t tell) because I only had 26 second left.  So I called him back and now we are on the phone so I am typing and talking at the same time.

It is starting to get hot in California and I am sweating.  I was sweating before I started because I was cleaning, but now . . . ewwww.

Anyway . . . . TMI, huh?  I did my workout.  I think it might be getting easier because I am able to do more.

What about you, did you do your workout?

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Early Morning Exercisers

Posted by terrepruitt on June 9, 2011

HELLO!  So here is my Ten Minute Workout placeholder post so that YOU can comment.

I have one reader/friend who is doing the Ten Ten in Ten daily and she might even get her great hubby involved in it.  He works a lot but it might be that he can squeeze in ten minutes.  Yay!

Another reader/friend was kind enough just to check in.  She said she is not doing the 10 minute workout but she is doing her Nia.  She just commented to let me know.

Well?  Check in.  Say hi.  Tell me what you have on your schedule today.

In addition to my ten minute workout, I am going to post about the third exercise in the ten — Squats.   And I will be back to let you know when I have actually done the quick workout.

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June 9, 2011 at 11:31 am

I am posting this both as a comment and in the main post.

I did my ten minutes.  I am getting through it twice and I think there are two reasons for that (one I have stated already, but I am going to keep sharing it).  One is that because of my injured foot I am not going out very far on the lunges.  You might notice that doing a shorter step is faster and easier so you can do ten quicker.  I am working on being completely aware of my right foot and distributing the weight through all my toes — right now that is a huge challenge.  Two is — I think — because I am better at getting on the BOSU.  I can get on it faster and I know exactly where to put my feet now.

So . . . . what can you tell me?

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Nia First

Posted by terrepruitt on June 8, 2011

This is a Wednesday “place holder” post.  I am going to teach my San Jose Nia class first then do my Ten Minute Workout.  Yes, I know it is only ten minutes, that is the beauty of it.  But I like to make sure I have all my “toe strength” (sounds silly, I know) for my class.

But I am posting so that YOU, Dear-Wonderful-Loyal-Reader/Exerciser, have a place to comment that you have done or not your ten minute workout.

When I have done mine I will post/edit/comment (not sure what yet).

Thank you and have a GREAT day!

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I posted this as a comment, but then I decided to put it in the body of the post.  I just copied the comment with the date and time:

June 8, 2011 at 5:07 pm

Very late in the day, but I did it.  I finally resorted to taking an allergy pill.  I took something I had not taken before — Allegra (don’t worry I didn’t take it with fruit juice).  Like most medicines for allergies it makes me feel very, very, very lethargic.  But, I did it.  I was REALLY mellow on the lunges, I didn’t do them as I wanted to when I put them in this workout.  I am respecting my toes.

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Ten Minutes then Passion

Posted by terrepruitt on June 7, 2011

Ten minutes THEN passion is better than ten minutes OF passion.

WHAT?  What is she talking about?  🙂

Often times I write what is going on then when I think about it silly things pop into my head.  I am going to go do my Ten Ten in Ten (which has primarily been twenty in ten, but today I am thinking of doing the ten really slow) then I am going to practice Passion which is a Nia routine.  When I thought of my plan I thought “ten minutes then Passion” and as I was typing the other thought occurred to me.  Yeah, it’s a crazy train.

Did you do your Ten Minute Workout?  I know that one of my friends did because she posted on yesterday’s comment.  (Thank you!)

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Ten Minutes to Get that Monday Going

Posted by terrepruitt on June 6, 2011

Well, my Monday mornings start out with Nia.  I have a regular Monday morning Nia Class . . . .really helps me start of my week right.  This morning after class I came home to do a few things, one of them being my Ten Minute Workout.  Done.

How about you?

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Skipping

Posted by terrepruitt on June 5, 2011

Sometimes it is necessary to skip even a Ten Minute Workout not because of time, but because of what is going on in your body.  I know that the tens won’t really hurt me, but my sinuses are a little stuffed or sore so I am going to do a few other things today.  I am posting to give YOU a chance to check in and let me know how you are doing.  Did you take ten minutes to do the ten?

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All out in Nia Class

Posted by terrepruitt on June 4, 2011

I subbed a Nia Class this morning.  Nia is a lot “about” the music.  We dance to the music.  Today while I was teaching I really just let the music take me and I danced.  I didn’t hold back much because of my foot.  I don’t put my weight on my right foot when I am in ball of foot position or bow stance, but I was DOING ball of foot (a GREAT step forward in my healing process).  During the class once or twice I wobbled or missed a beat because my foot kind didn’t want to support me.  At another point I realized I was on the EDGE of my right foot (another HUGE step forward in my healing process).  I had enough time in which to think about that and while it seemed ok, I was glad when the music told me it was time to move again because it didn’t seem like I should be doing that for much longer.  I really worked my foot this morning.  I went all out in Nia class.  That led me to not wanting to do my Ten Minute Workout.  I was really dreading the lunges because I am not ready to put weight on my right foot in ball of foot position—-and that is what a lunge is!!!

I came upstairs to do it.  Then I sat down at my computer, did an e-mail or two and I decided my foot really was too tired to do it.  I logged onto my blog to post that I was skipping Terre’s Ten Ten in Ten today, but when I saw the picture of my “gym” I thought, “It is really only 10 minutes.  And it is really just the first exercise that you are dreading.  So . . . do it LESS.  Even more “less” than you have been.”  So . . . . I did it.  It is obvious to me that I spend a lot of time in my long lunges — when I do them fully on a stable foot — because I thought that I was not going to make it two times through and when I looked at my timer I had plenty of time left and I was on the stability ball pass for the second time.  When I do lunges little it takes me less time.

I did my little workout, how about you?  What are you finding while you do these exercises?

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Before Nia – 10-10-10

Posted by terrepruitt on June 3, 2011

I have a Nia Class to teach today.  I decided to do my Ten Minute Workout before I teach.  I was mellow on my left step forward in my long lunges because my right foot is still learning to be strong again and so I didn’t want to push it before I teach.  I am saving my bow stance for Nia class.  But I got my Ten Ten in Ten in (I made it through twice).  I left the equipment out in case I want to do it again when I get back.

How about you?

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Bent Over Lateral Raises – only 6

Posted by terrepruitt on June 2, 2011

I did my ten exercises 10 reps each in ten minutes.  I made it through 6 bent over lateral raises before the timer went off on my second pass.  You know how it is, I finished that and then just did the last exercise with the stability ball.  What the heck, right?  I was already there.

How about you?  Did you do it?  You don’t have to give us a break down, just comment, “YES!”

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Sit-Ups – messed me up

Posted by terrepruitt on June 1, 2011

Ok, so I did my ten minute workout.  I did it in the afternoon instead of the morning because I had Nia class to teach today and afternoon is the time my schedule allowed me to do it.

I ALMOST did all ten exercises twice in 10 minutes.  I was going very fast.  I am not able to do the length of lunges I want because of my right toe/foot, so that makes it faster–I think.  But I had my list propped up (the list pictured in the Ten Minute Workout post) and I jumped from my triceps kick backs to sit-ups.  When I looked up to see what was next I realized that I skipped hamstring curls so I did those.  Then I did my sit-ups again.  So I got messed up . . . it wasn’t really the sit-ups that messed me up.  🙂  Then as I was doing the last set of stability ball passes, I realized I was counting only on the top touch down.

So, I think that because I was going so fast I was basically able to do the list twice going over by 33 seconds.  But YOU do it your way.  Slow, fast, heavy, light, whatever you need to do to get moving for 10 minutes.

Ok, so?  Did YOU do it today?

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