Grab Your Tuna!

If it wasn't for this thread I wouldn't do any of it. To come on and report what I do each day is enough encouragement for me. Like the Weightwatchers effect I suppose where you feel you need to keep up with others without anyone actually judging you or charging you money. :)

The encouraging words mean a lot to me as it's not really DH's way to encourage.

DD has just taught me some yoga moves she has learned off yoga for kids :) She is so bendy!

Buzzard, I know what you mean, if I try doing stretches with DD then I feel like an overweight, unfit, inflexible oldie in comparison which I am but I mustn't talk to ger about it as she has ishoos. Here, and alone on my mat with the videos, it is just about how I am fitter and stronger than the week before.

One of the reasons I love this thread so much is I have somewhere to talk about exercising now.

*know it all

Wasn't going to do any today as as well as my injuries from fall yesterday I drank my own bodyweight in Prosecco at party last night and have a minging hangover (again)
DD, however had other ideas and made me do warm up (where I discovered that although I can't actually kick my bum yet dd can in fact kick her opposite bum cheek). Total stretch (fine, love that but dd can get her head on the floor when stretching forward and I most definitely can't), tone and burn (oh god) and box fit (loved most of that). DD then pronounces it's all too easy and we should do more. (No way)

The moral of this story is "Don't do Davina with an 8yr old flexible, thin, long limbed no it all"

Well done stevie. I can report that the upstairs is spotless.

I has a heart stopping moment when after dragging the hoover from under the bed (I was hoovering under the bed) it dragged out a burst red balloon and rubber balloon and heat from the hoover meant that it kind of melted a bit and left a pink stain on my cream bedroom carpet. After much screaming at DD (6) and vigorous scrubbing with a sponge the pink marks are no longer. I think DD is very clear now that I do not want her to leave rubbish about and she must tidy up after herself.

I'm a bit precious over my 'nice' house, it was a dump when we bought it because it was a rented house by an unscrupulous landlord that must of rented it to families of 10 or something, going by all the post we got for different people over the first few years, and its only a 3 bed semi, and it has taken 12 years of saving to get it finished. I lived for 12 years with the most hideous nylon friction burning carpet in my bedroom in a horrible aubergine and indistiguishable stains colour.

No Davina for me today, but I can report I have lost 3lb in the last week. I haven't done Davina because I slept late to try and get this cold to go. The First defence is good, but not a miracle worker. I got a bit snotty again last night. I've woken this morning much the same as I was yesterday not totally dreadful, but not 100%. I might go swimming later on or I might not.

My house is in need of a good clean and tidy, so that might be my exercise today.

Peace, financially I can afford it but time wise probably not!

With sitting, if you pull in your tummy, raise yourself off the ground, tilt your pelvis forward slightly (as if pushing bum out) then sit back doedown, still holding in tummy I think that should be the right position. (More experienced yogis, please correct me if I'm wrong, am no expert!) Nothing should be hurting.

Can you afford a massage, Kat? I went to one where someone prodded around the back of my armpit and my nose became unblocked and kept running! (Had to keep asking for tissues!) I could feel the pressure in my face ebb away. Something to do with the lymph node, and it was definitely the pressure there that made my nose run. Massage along the spine also helped.

I've done nothing today, well I ate some chocolate Brazil nuts.

I tried one of the yoga videos on You Tube the other day. I can't even get the initial seating position right. Is it meant to be uncomfortable?

Kat hope you feel better soon, sinus pain is shit. I can't imagine exercise would help, lots of rest for you.

I've been utterly crap. Cold has (as per normal) resulted in a lovely sinus thing.

I'm craving exercise but it's just not going well at the moment! Roll on wellness!

I am the same way with yoga! My joints will never be strong enough to do the really advanced balances, but I think it would be much easier if I could get my BMI down into the healthy range.

Fitness blender is now my go to company for workouts but they don't say 'engage your core muscles' or 'pull in your abs' enough, and I find myself having to pause and think about it to protect my back. Especially where the back is arched (tummy out/down) or bending over.

5 minutes of cool down stretches.
13 minute 'yoga infused stretches'. Male voiceover.
[http://www.fitnessblender.com/videos/restorative-yoga-pilates-workout-to-improve-mood-and-circulation-relaxing-stretching-workout yoga/pilates 14 mins stretch. Female instructor, own voice.]]
stretch those ham strings! 15 mins

Thank you for the welcome, Peace. I'll see if I can find some yoga workouts on YouTube. I did go to a class a few years ago but everyone else was so supple and coodinated even though it was a beginners class that I felt out of place and embarrassed. I much prefer the idea of doing it in my own front room where no one can see me. If you could recommend some stretch videos that would be great :)

Welcome Miltonmaid! If you don't want to lose weight, avoid doing more than a couple of workouts. Always end in a stretch (I can recommend some Youtube videos if you want to add some extra variety. I can touch my toes again after 3 weeks. If I sit on the floor and try to reach my heels I'm about 3 inches away now (without a warm up). I was 5/6 inches away 3 weeks ago.

It takes time to build up strength and flexibility, but a little daily practice will get you there. I'd recommend yoga (or pilates) for flexibility. My DD has a low BMI sticks to yoga stretches. She can balance on her hands and is working on doing the splits! :)

Hello, can I join? I think I'm going to download this and start tomorrow. I don't want to lose weight, my BMI is at the low end but I'm very unfit and need to tone up and get firmer. I have no strength at all and I'm not flexible in the slightest. I haven't ever been able to touch my toes. Do you think this DVD will be ok for me? Which is the best workout to try on day one?

Thank you stevie, I will swap the chocolate for wine though if that's ok?

I still have to throw together 2 x 60's desserts for a 50th party tonight and bribe DD to take her annual bath (whether she needs it or not) so I will need the wine later.

Think I will have to have the day off, just fell over spectaculary in the garden (unfortunately not on the grass). Bloody orthotics make me unsteady, back and knee hurt now.

Permission to have day off?

Anyone exercising with a baby?
I'm having a day off, and taking a look at videos to use. I would add though, only do it if you have a strong back and abs and engage those core muscles!