Lifted 5 lbs weights for my shoulders and 10lbs for my biceps.

Thanks, good luck to you, too. I need the tone for shoveling snow. I hope you reach your goal, too. So what are you doing for exercise, if I may be so bold?

I do thirty minutes of cardio on Mon, Tues, Thur, and Friday. 40 on Saturday. Then I just use the lite weights and do a lot of sets. I'm toning not trying to build so the lighter weights with a lot of reps help out with that.

I was hoping to go for a long walk today for cardio. Weather is terrible, if it stays like this, I may dance around tomorrow. I was so hoping to work in my garden. That's a lot of days of cardio. Wow! You're one motivated individual!Take care and thanks.

Sounds like a lot of good work. I want to alternate activities and body parts. I'm 50 years old and it takes some time for things to repair themselves at my age. Cardio is good. My lower legs and butt are fine, it's my upper thighs that need work. I have some workout videos, too. I will get into those eventually. Right now I want to take advantage of the good weather. Thanks and take care.

You're funny, the hiking makes up for the dancing, this time around. Watering the hedges certainly can build muscles that way. Thanks and take care.

If and when I get the money to go to a gym, I get a day pass. I have never gone so many times that it would be more cost effective to join the gym. But during sub-zero weather, we have few options. We can walk at the mall after getting on a bus or drive to get there or we can go to a gym which is much closer. On a really nasty day, I can dance to videos in my home. My Mom had a great deal of indurance. I believe it was from all the walking she did when she was young. She used to walk and throw bails of hay onto a tractor. So she had plenty of energy and strength. I'm not in the greatest of shape. I think I will have to fight my way back to that. But today was a start! Thanks and take care

I think walking and swimming are excellent cardio vascular activities. When my Aunt went to Florida, she was able to get off diabetic insulin shots and only go on pills because she swam every day there. She loved it there. Too bad her children didn't think to invite her down there sooner before she got depressed, she might have lived longer and been able to even get off the pills, too. I think Florida is a wonderful place to exercise.

We walk in our mall, too, to vary our walks. I like walking on my treadmill while watching TV. As our weather cools, we'll be able to walk outdoors in the mornings and even afternoons in December. It sounds like your mom was quite strong! What a great role model she must have been. Many people move to FL to get more exercise and be outdoors more. It sounds like that worked for your aunt. To be able to swim every day for 9 or 10 months out of the year (we have a pool right outside our back door) is just fantastic. I wasn't even a swimmer before we moved here 5 years ago! I will say that, for me, the heat is just overwhelming at times and I am probably outdoors less here than I was when we lived up north! But this is our best time of year, as it's finally cooling a little in the early a.m. Our daytime temps are still 89 and 90 every day right now, but soon they'll drop to 85.