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Category: Podcasts

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.

The Extra Mile Podcast

I need motivation. Yes, I’m not ashamed to admit it. If I am left to my own devices, I will become a couch potato. There I said it. So, my mission as of late has been to find same good quality motivational podcasts to give me the kick in the pants I need to get my rear in gear. One of my new favorites is the Extra Mile podcast.

Here is the link to the The Extra Mile Podcast Alley page. The most recent podcast (to date) features an interview with Jeff Galloway.  Awesome huh? The ‘ol walk/run guru himself.  The interview is broken up into two separate podcasts. Give it a listen and hear what he has to say.

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