Teresa Tapp Does it Again!

Teresa Tapp is promoting T-tapp on PBS.

Check out Teresa Tapp’s new promotional video for plugging her PBS fund raising program.

I’ve done T-Tapp on and off over a decade and let me tell you, it really does work.  When I’ve done it consistently, I really had the inches melt off.

Not to long ago, I got a phone call from a friend, she was distressed about aging. My advice was, “If I were you, I’d do T-Tapp for my body and Facercise for my face.”

Do I follow my own advice, you bet I do, but not on a daily basis. I do the Facercise when I remember. Which is easy enough to do while you are  sitting down watching TV and the T-Tapp workout is only 15 minutes a day. Unfortunately, my laptop refuses to play any of my DVD’s so, I have to improvise.

Right now though, I’m focusing on running. I have resolved to do T-Tapp and ballet conditioning on my cross training days.

Today I ran to the Indie Christian C25K, Week 3 (scroll down to week 3.) I thought about staying at week 2, but decided to press on and advance to week 3. I’m glad I did. I can really feel it in my saddle bags!

The workout for Week Three is:
a 1-minute stretch a 5-minute warm up walk
Followed by 20 minutes of the following Run/Walk pairs
90-second Run
90-second Walk
3 minute Run
3 minute Walk
Followed by a 5-minute cool down walk

I estimate my walk there was about a quarter mile and then the walk back was about the same, including a hill with a 45 degree incline and 3 fights of steps.

Now, that’s 5 times around the track, a quarter mile there and back, so that’s about 1.75 miles in 40 minutes. Not bad (for me that is!)

I still need to focus on my form though. It feels like my left foot gets it, landing on the balls of the foot, but the right leg just sort of plops down on the middle of the foot. I tried to focus on it, but frankly at 6:30 in the morning it was all I could do to get out there instead of rolling over and going back to sleep.

Week 4 Interval

I skipped 2 days and ran this morning. I also skipped week three of Interval 5 K training and went from week 2 right to week 4 because I had an objection to the lyrics in week 3. The great news is that I completed week 4 with no problems. The last two days my knees were acting all wonky too, yet another reason to take a short brake.

I think I have figured out how to tackle the neck pain in running. Just pull down the shoulders. They have a tendency to creep up on me. If I pull them down the neck tension goes away.

Lisa colored my hair today, dark auburn. I think I’ll keep the color. I don’t know though. I’m kind of wishy-washy on that subject. Thinking about a dark honey/caramel color though. I’m going to talk to Anne-Marie and see what she has to say on the subject first. When in doubt, talk to a professional.

Edit: I finally did make up my mind and went blond. It was a really brassy blond and I’ll probably never do it again. I look better in darker colors.