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Lisa Eirene

About Lisa Eirene Lisa lost 110 pounds through calorie counting and exercise. She swims, bikes, runs, hikes and is enjoying life in Portland, Oregon. Her weight loss story has been featured in First Magazine, Yahoo Health, Woman's Day and Glamour.com.

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  1. Lori Lynn

    I have a fitness room at my apt complex, but it doesn’t have as much as a regular gym, so sometimes I feel a little bit limited (and b/c I don’t quite have the knowledge to come up with workouts to compensate, other than the basic ones). Usually do upper body weights, squats, lunges, leg lifts, 2 leg weight machines, than do cardio- treadmill, elliptical, and stationary bike. Will sometimes add some crunches. I have a small medicine ball that I’ve found some ab exercises for that I’ve used as well.

  2. Carbzilla

    So I was thinking about your workouts this morning (what? Is that weird?), and, besides being totally impressed with your dedication
    as always, I was wondering how you come up with your routine. When you decided to do weights did you make up a series? Do you go in knowing already what you’re going to work on?

    1. Lisa Eirene

      That’s too funny!

      To answer your question when I started doing weights it was solely to keep me busy while I couldn’t run. I was injured, depressed and I knew I needed something other than swimming to incorporate into my workouts. I focused solely on the upper body because of my injury–and even now that I’m healing I still don’t do much lower body weights. Maybe in the future.

      When I go to the gym I know I want to try to run on the treadmill. Depending on availability I do that first (or last). With the weights I focus on my “trouble” areas. For me it’s my stomach and my triceps. I found the machines that worked those parts and focused solely on that — building up the amount of weight slowly. It wasn’t until recently that I started trying new machines and different work outs (and scouring Youtube videos for ideas)!

  3. @irun2befit

    Yay, congrats on the great great run you had!! Glad you were able to get a worry free run in!
    When I used to have a gym membership I would do 30-45 minutes of cardio & then visit the weight machines.
    I haven’t tried the squatting cable rows, I’m sure I could rig up my resistance bands to do something similiar though!

    1. Lisa Eirene

      I bet you could. I never thought of using resistance bands!

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