21 Day Exercise TreaTEA

Arm day. Workout completed!
20 min elliptical
40 pushups (the girl kind, I’m not bad ass enough for the real kind!)
80 tricep dips
120 bicep curls with 8 lbs each hand
4 × 40sec planks
50 x plank + oblique crunch things (what are these even called?)

Hey teaheads! What a wonderful thread to stumble upon! Keep up the good work with the exercise. The body is a wonderful thing and the better we take care of it, the easier all of life is.

I am an avid mover and shaker of the body – yoga, run, strength train, qigong and more. I’ve gotten older, but at the age of 47 feel better than I have at any other point in my life and it shows no signs of stopping.

With all the exercise I get, tea is a huge part of my fitness regimen. I drink tea before workouts, during workouts and after workouts. Performance increases because of the tea I consume beforehand and the tea I drink during and after helps me to get (and stay) hydrated.

Drink up. And keep up all the hard work, my friends! Don’t go too easy on yourself and don’t go too hard on yourself. Enjoy that body.

I might not exercise today. Mother nature is kicking my butt and I feel like crap! I might exercise later if I feel better, but I’ll be darned if I don’t have some comfort tea NOW!

In lieu of working out, I walked about the neighborhood for thirty minutes this late morning. The temp was already up to 80 at that point xP

Not drinking tea as a reward. I need to drink a lot of liquid in the summer and I don’t want to increase my caffeine intake. So, a “fruity tisane”: lemon water.

Count me in on this. I like Mandy’s idea about “no tea for the next day,” due to scheduling and typically working out late at night.

I should probably join this! Though failure to exercise would not stop me from drinking tea. I would like to return to a better state of fitness. I started this weekend! I swam a lot (though in one place the water was just above 14°C (58F)), climbed a lot of stairs and went on a few brisk walks. Now to unpack some of my Oxygen magazines and rediscover some variety to my free weight routines. Good luck everyone.

My friend that I usually walk with wasn’t able to go walking so I didn’t get done as much as usual. Only did 2 miles. BUT… I did the exercises cited the other day with an old episode of Doctor Who. (He says “I’m the Doctor” or someone else says “Doctor”- 20 Russian Twists.,etc. It is a lot of fun.

I only made 81% of my goal but I expect to do better tomorrow. I’m going out to eat lunch with a friend. The restaurant is 1.5 miles each way. They have wonderful tea! Incentive!!

Butt day. Working my ass-ets. Heh

20 min elliptical
40 pushups
80 crab kicks
120 mountain climbers
160 hip bridges
70 plank knee tucks with glute kicks

Day 4. I was finally able to do the routine I made, AND exercise before my first cup! Nina’s Japon.

Round 1 2x
High knees 30 sec
Crunches 25
Jumping Jacks 25

Round 2 2x
Lunges 15
Bicycle Crunches 30 sec
Mountain Climbers 30 sec

Round 3 1x
Burpees 15
Superman 15 sec
Plank 60 sec
Superman 15 sec
Burpees 15

Round 4
20 push-ups
Dynamic and static stretching
20 push-ups

Today I did 40 minutes of just sweat/dance. 160 calories!