The Gym at Rhosgobel

Who: Radagast
Exercise type: Mowing and edging the lawn, watering
Duration: Bit more than one hour

Radagast's totals: 209/225; 53/75; $990.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 205/225; 55/75; -$160.00

Labels: house

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Walking (including lugging back groceries, for Radagast)
Duration: ~40 minutes for Radagast's SO, ~60 minutes for Radagast

Radagast's totals: 208/225; 53/75; $985.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 205/225; 55/75; -$160.00

Labels: walking

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Pure and Simple Stretch
Portions of tape: standing, floor
Duration: ~40 minutes

Radagast's totals: 207/225; 53/75; $980.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 204/225; 55/75; -$162.50

Labels: stretch, video

Who: Radagast
Exercise type: Walking
Duration: ~40 minutes

Radagast's totals: 206/225; 53/75; $977.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 203/225; 55/75; -$165.00

Labels: walking

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Walking
Duration: ~60 minutes

Radagast's totals: 205/225; 53/75; $975.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 203/225; 55/75; -$165.00

Labels: walking

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: A.M. Yoga with Rodney Yee
Portions of tape: relaxation, workout, guided meditation (full tape)
Duration: ~20 minutes
Intensity: Low

Radagast's totals: 204/225; 53/75; $970.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 202/225; 55/75; -$170.00

Labels: video, yoga

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: iStretch 8 - Athletic stretch (a downloaded, mp3-based stretching workout)
Portions of mp3: Entire 20-minute workout
Duration: ~20 minutes

Notes: Radagast was exhausted by the weightlifting he completed just before this workout, and thus gave up during a few of the strenuous standing stretches. Radagast would rather do a more comprehensive, less strenuous stretch after strength workouts in the future.

Radagast's totals: 203/225; 53/75; $967.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 201/225; 55/75; -$172.50

Labels: audio, stretch

Who: Radagast
Exercise type: Weightlifting at home
Duration: ~1 1/2 hours
Notes: This was our dumbbell/bodyweight workout at home, which is based on this routine (dumbbell squats, dumbbell stiff-legged deadlifts, single-legged calf raises, ab crunches, one-arm rows, pushups, standing overhead dumbbell presses, and planks/hyperextensions).

Radagast's totals: 202/225; 53/75; $965.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 200/225; 55/75; -$175.00

Labels: strength

Who: Radagast's SO
Exercise type: WalkFit with Kathy Smith (an audio CD)
Portions of CD: warmup, interval walking, cooldown
Duration: ~30 minutes

Notes: Radagast's SO was given this disc a while ago and decided to try it out today in the hope that it wouldn't require much arm work. What Radagast's SO didn't realize was that this was 1) an audio-only workout that was 2) designed to be done while walking outdoors, or possibly on a treadmill. Lacking an iPod, Radagast's SO resorted to walking/jogging around the living room.

The workout began with a slower warmup, then moved to moderately paced walking alternated with three 3-minute bouts of faster walking, and ended with a slower cooldown.

Radagast's SO quickly grew tired of doing laps around the living room couches and began to intersperse aerobics moves for variety; this workout would almost certainly have been better outdoors. However, Radagast's SO did get a decent cardio workout out of it.

Radagast's totals: 201/225; 52/75; $960.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 200/225; 55/75; -$175.00

Labels: audio, review, walking

Who: Radagast's SO
Exercise type: Kathy Smith's Secrets of a Great Body: Upper Body Workout video
Portions of tape: warmup, upper body workout, cooldown (entire tape)
Duration: ~45 minutes

Radagast's totals: 201/225; 52/75; $960.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 199/225; 54/75; -$180.00

Labels: strength, video

Who: Radagast's SO
Exercise type: Walking
Duration: ~30 minutes

Radagast's totals: 201/225; 52/75; $960.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 198/225; 53/75; -$185.00

Labels: walking

Who: Radagast
Exercise type: Working in the field
Duration: ~3 hours
Notes: Hiking to (and back from) an intertidal area, working in a rock-filled area.

Radagast's totals: 201/225; 52/75; $960.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 197/225; 53/75; -$187.50

Labels: walking

Who: Radagast
Exercise type: Working in the field
Duration: ~3 hours
Notes: Hiking to (and back from) an intertidal area, working in a rock-filled area.

Radagast's totals: 200/225; 52/75; $955.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 197/225; 53/75; -$187.50

Labels: walking

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Pure and Simple Stretch
Portions of tape: standing, floor
Duration: ~40 minutes

Radagast's totals: 199/225; 52/75; $950.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 197/225; 53/75; -$187.50

Labels: stretch, video

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Walking
Duration: ~40 minutes

Radagast's totals: 198/225; 52/75; $947.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 196/225; 53/75; -$190.00

Labels: walking

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Walking
Duration: ~40 minutes

Radagast's totals: 197/225; 52/75; $945.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 195/225; 53/75; -$192.50

Labels: walking

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Walking
Duration: ~40 minutes

Radagast's totals: 196/225; 52/75; $942.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 194/225; 53/75; -$195.00

Labels: walking

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Firm Basics Fat Burning Workout
Portions of tape: warmup, low-impact aerobics and toning, cooldown (entire tape)
Duration: ~45 minutes
Notes: This is a circuit workout that alternates between short aerobic segments and short toning segments. The toning uses a panoply of equipment (chair/stool, dowel, multiple sizes of dumbbells, 2x4, kitchen sink), which was frustrating since each toning segment was only a few minutes long and thus there was a lot of equipment-getting-out followed by equipment-putting-away. However, it seemed like only the chair and weights were essential; the rest of the equipment could probably be left out without affecting the exercise quality.

While the aerobics moves were all fairly basic and slow, the combination of frequent move changes and terse cuing meant that we were regularly a few steps behind. There wasn't a lot of stretching (and some of the included stretches were bouncy, which we modified to static stretches).

The aerobics in this were all fairly low intensity, but the duration of the aerobics and weight work combined to make this a moderately tiring workout by the end. This was a similar style of workout to Kathy Smith's Body Basics and Your Personal Best Workout with Elle Macpherson and Karen Voight, but was less intense than those two.

The music was interesting, if overly grand at times (especially at the end).

This seems like it'd be a good workout for when we're not up for something really strenuous.

Radagast's totals: 195/225; 52/75; $940.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 193/225; 53/75; -$197.50

Labels: mixed, review, video

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: A.M. Yoga with Rodney Yee
Portions of tape: relaxation, workout, guided meditation (full tape)
Duration: ~20 minutes
Intensity: Low

Radagast's totals: 194/225; 51/75; $935.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 192/225; 52/75; -$202.50

Labels: video, yoga

Who: Radagast
Exercise type: Walking
Duration: ~40 minutes

Radagast's totals: 193/225; 51/75; $932.50
Radagast's SO's totals: 191/225; 52/75; -$205.00

Labels: walking

Who: Radagast and SO
Exercise type: Walking
Duration: ~40 minutes

Radagast's totals: 192/225; 51/75; $930.00
Radagast's SO's totals: 191/225; 52/75; -$205.00

Labels: walking