Grab Your Tuna!

The bloody clocks changing has really thrown me. I had my alarm on as normal, and I just couldn't get out of bed to motivate myself, so I slept until 7.30. DD got up at 8! This has resulted in me not getting any Davina done this morning.

I've had a few hours sorting some stuff out for my dissertation (I got my introduction written yesterday, so I'm quite pleased). I'm now eating lunch and then I'm going to see somebody who is going to help me organise my focus groups.

lala don't apologise, it wasn't you with the verbal diarrhoea of a gob! I don't know if you saw my message before it got deleted, but my dissertation is for my MSc (I've been studying it distance learning for 3 years and this is the last thing to do). The crux of my research is about change and the effect on employee engagement.

Seeing as I haven't done any Davina this morning I'm writing it out now as a sort of contract, but I will either Davina or swim before I go to bed tonight. I am really focused on the goal of me wearing my bikini in mid July!

Morning!

Bah to the bloody wind, kept me up most of the night, it's pretty rough out there!

So, I nearly cried off this morning but I've started the week with a warm up and legs without! Might to another sesh tonight as I'm possibly not going to have time in the morning!

Think today might be a bad hair day! Enjoy!

Evening everyone ... you're all brilliant! I haven't exercised since last Tuesday ... am feeling awful with a cold and cough that leaves me unable to speak and has exercised my abdominals without me having to bother! Also very busy IRL with lambing so my me time has gone out the window. Will get back to it, somehow, once I get over this cough. Meantime, I shall keep popping in so as to stay motivated.

Buzzard - I half took your advice! Did day 7 of the 30 days of yoga. Definitely not gentle! In fact, bloody hard! Loved it though and now feeling great! Thanks!

Oops, sorry, velma - my degree was in English Lit (decades ago) so I just wondered what sort of period/genre you were focussing on. Apologies if that led to you accidentally outing yourself.

Brought Davina to Barcelona for a token effort at fitness before tucking into the jamon and morcilla for the rest of the day .

paradise

Crunches
bicycle crunches
rowing machine at gym
Toe touches
planks (including side planks, T planks, reverse planks etc).
Some weight lifting movements help
V lifts
russion twists (with feet off floor)

When doing situps, try lying on a bench with your feet hanging off or someone sitting on your feet/hohooking yiur feet under something. It is ok to use your hands to support the weight of your head, so do that, look up/tilt head back and relax it into your hands. Work on using your abs to do the work. Have a go as if you were in the army and the rest of your platoon will be punished if you don't! (Helps me with a push up!)

In spite of very interrupted sleep last night (DS woke me at 2am with a temperature and sore throat and I had to go hunt for cough mixture, paracetamol and lozenges) I just about managed to lug my still-recovering-from-yesterday's-time-change-and-a-late-Saturday-night body through a warm up, fat buster and a (me thinks) a well earned stretch at the end. No idea how! However, if I leave everything lined up the night before, I can usually convince myself that I can do 7 mins. I'll try for more tomorrow, but every 7 mins is a bonus as far as I'm concerned. Stevie are you back on board yet? This is all your fault!!

Just puffed through tone and sculpt, box fit and stretch.

Stevie, have you managed to get started again yet?

Ive just realised that my title is quite specific and it could out me, therefore im going to ask for that post to be deleted.

Hope you feel better soon Moody. How about some gentle yoga?

Can you not just do crunches (not Crunchies) instead Paradise? They are effective as my stomach muscles were telling me Friday. Have had the weekend off as don't want to excercise in front of crytical DH. Need a kick up the bum to do them now he is at work.

I can't do abs, I'm just crap at it. I know I use my neck to lift me up when I try to do sit ups - can anyone give me a way to build myself up to do proper sit ups?

Morning! You are all doing very well, am impressed!

I've not Davina-ed this morning as been up all bloody night coughing. This cold has really knocked me for six!

Hopefully I can get back into the swing soon. Off on holiday on Friday though so think Davina will fall by the wayside then too! Mind you, there is a swimming pool so will try and do some proper swimming whilst away!

for all! Saa a nice update on fb that Davina is in Vegas with her DH, renewing their vows! Awwwww.:)

Am just getting up and hoping to fit in a quick workout before giving DCs lifts.

Yes, velma, individually .Both abs sessions felt bad at the time but only the two fat burners made me ache the next day - maybe because they were first on the programme. What are you concentrating on in your dissertation?

Morning everyone.

Fell off the wagon over the weekend unless climbing up and down stuff at soft play counts? Weather been vile here when I had time to walk. Then this morning dp didn't go in while later so have got dressed without doing anything. And its really windy so probably won't get for a nice walk later.

I love walking. Don't mind a bit of drizzle but ds doesn't like the rain cover on so that stops me when its really rainy. And we all hate the wind. Hoping it dies down for a bit later.

And I have dd off school who also hates wind but she is going to have a go at davina with me.

Well done to everyone else who is keeping at it. Am watching you all for motivation!

Well done lala hopefully you mean you have done them individually. How much harder is the advanced abs compared to normal abs?

All done for me this morning with warm up, fat burner, ultimate fat burner, abs and some stretch. I must admit I had the feeling as though I didn't want to do anything because I didn't want to get out of bed, so I told myself I could only do one session, so ended up dojng what I normally do.

DD is going to holiday club for 4 days and I'm going to make an attempt at writing my literature review for my dissertation.

Have completed all the sessions on the Davina DVD . I'm going to try each session again on its own over the next ten days then start combining them. Does anyone else struggle with the lunges? I'm not sure if I am going down far enough or whether my weight is over my front leg (although, they're bloody hard work so perhaps I am doing them right).

Sorry for the negative post!

Well done to all of you managing sessions this morning

Morning!

Not feeling it this morning, think the hour change has cocked me up! Didn't spring out of bed, might do some legs later, will see.

No Davina today - the hour that I lost when the clocks went forward was the hour I had set aside for exercise .... Plus, had friends over last night for dinner and have only just finished clearing up the debris. Back in the saddle tomorrow, I promise. Have a fab Sunday everyone

Buzzard, he is being really supportive which is great. He's having a health kick atm too, he has a little gym set up in his shed but I don't venture in there, might do once I become fitter. Hopefully will be back on it tomorrow!

No Davina for me today I think. I had a bit of a lie in and when I came downstairs I realised the clocks had changed. My Parents are coming down today to see us (we live 70 miles apart). I will have to have a tidy up, not because they'll judge me, just because crap on the floor and wheelchairs don't go together very well and my Mam is a wheelchair user.

I did my weigh in this morning and I've lost a miniscule 0.2lb, but I'm happy because its in the right direction. I've just eaten a bacon sandwich and a milky decaff coffee so I'm set until lunchtime, which I suspect will be about 3pm due to my parents coming.

Welcome cherry don't worry about the jiggling in your own home. Even though I'm not massively overwight I do have a lovely jiggly belly which I can see wobbling about in the chimney breast mirror when I'm exercising. Wear what you feel comfortable in.

I must say, my DH has knows not to say anything to piss me off about my exercising and what I might look like etc., although when I told him I did the 10 press ups he did say he was proud of me, because he knows I've always really struggled to do them.

Right, I'd better get off and do a bit of tidying up.

I rest one hand (lightly, promise!) on a dining chair when I'm doing the lunges Paradise. It makes all the difference to getting the exercise right and feeling it working rather than wobbling all over the place, I think.

I was doing the fat burner today (yesterday ) and DP starting trying to have a conversation with me while I was doing the kicking my leg up and across bit. All I could do was shout "Do Not Speak To Me Right Now". He was completely unfazed by the sight of me leaping about in my trackie bottoms and sports bra .