NewYearathon - getting fitter in 2017.

Fencing is great. Very asymmetric but great fun. Used to be quite good at sabre in my 20s! Main thing to remember is hit the other person not their sword!

Couch to 5k with my god daughter tonight. Week 5...running down the shore in an arctic wind which whipped my breath away. Yuk.

Kanye, come try Kettlebell sport 😬

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My eternal quest for an interesting exercise class continues...I'm waiting for a beginner's fencing class to start!

Body Rev workout 10 done. Bleaurgh. To be fair the second half isn't so terrible, but the first is the pits. DD didn't help: she decided to come and join in and cheerily announced that rock star jumps with weights are dead easy and look, she can do them faster than the people on the DVD...

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Kettlebell fitness tonight, bit of a killer class but I felt good if that makes sense.

Still mourning yesterday's lovely dinner, tonight's is stirfry

Made it out for a run last night with no ankle ill effects. Just under 5k with running club. Was slower than I hoped though - probably not surprising to be fair. Need to geab another 5k tomorrow then I'm sort of on track for my half marathon. Rest of exercising is pants though - not enough hours in the day!

Oh, I don't know if I'd be more upset about the dinner or the microwave, RJ!

We have gale force wind and snow warnings this evening so I did a 30min barre ballet thing from YouTube.

Oh no RJ ! Is the microwave completely broken? Your dinner sounded lovely. Congratulations on getting into the team!

Thanks for all the JM tips. Will look at 10 minute transformations I think.

Did 25 mins of some kind of mish mash made up routine of my own today this morning at home with DD1 (who doesn't usually see me jumping about) asking what on earth I was doing .

Congratulations, RJ! Great news on the team. Sorry about your dinner though.

Body Rev workout 9 done. It was a real effort tonight - feeling really tired at the moment. And I'm dreading workout 10 tomorrow. Delicious, I'm not finding it's doing much for me either, but I haven't really stuck to it properly for any length of time since Christmas - at best I have two good weeks and then everything goes to pot again. I'm hoping if I really keep at month 3 and then move straight on to Bodyshred I'll see some improvements.

Kanye well done getting your running going again. I had quite a lazy week last week and as a result I feel better this week - all the little things that were hurting have gone away.

So I really really enjoyed my kb coaching tonight. Came home starving and buzzing, put my Spanish chicken and little potatoes abd paprika cauliflower in the microwave to heat up and the bastard microwave blew up with my dinner in it.

Starving and cross.

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That's great RJ, congratulations!

I just managed 6.5k and it actually felt OK. Very relieved.

Congrats RJ!

Stressy There are loads of JM workouts, most are about 30 mins long though, so a bit longer than 30DS. I quite like 6-week 6 Pack and the Killer Body series. There's also her '10 minute transformations', which I think has 5 10-minute workouts so you can mix and match to your heart's content.

Oubliette Majorca sounds ace, have a lovely time.

I'm plodding on, had an unscheduled rest day yesterday (does Segwaying count as exercise??) but I will be joining you with week 9 by Tuesday LordPeter!

I don't know if I've just had too many 'off' days, but I don't feel like Body Revolution has done much for my body, whereas I definitely felt a difference doing a mishmash of other JM workouts before Christmas. However, I'm sure it's about to get a lot harder in phase 3, and then I will be straight onto Bodyshred. I probably just need to drink less wine at the weekend!

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And I'm in the team! Possibly going to Greece in October to compete.

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Hi TooStressy, Ripped in 30 is a very similar format to 30DS (though I think rather harder). Can't think of any others that are in exactly the same format, but the 'Killer' ones are good - I have Killer Abs and Killer Body.

I always thought 'fun run' was an oxymoron!

Hello all, 30DS yesterday. Think I need a change, any similar JM DVDs? Did a fun run with kids today while DH did half marathon. Stuck in car park for an hour and 40 mins. Ridiculous and has put DC off any more runs. Can't say I blame them .

Welllll someone stayed up too late drinking wine last night and as a result I've not moved off the couch.

Might do a run later will see. Waster.

Turns out stopping taking beta blockers cold turkey isn't a good idea, so I felt a bit unwell the last few days back to pill popping (weaning now) so I had a 4.5km walk this morning. Holding to do some weights tonight.

Off somewhere nice on holidays, Oubliette? We finally booked for Spain in August. I can't wait!

Back on it finally - squats, abs and a couple of 30 day work out challenges started - restarted 30 day fat burn and started a riding specific workout by Eventfit, which was challenging.

Going to try a short run today - DH on call so will have to loop around the block rather than go further afield. Basically have to warm up, put deep heat on my calf and stretch after a short while then stretch cooling down and post shower. Fingers crossed I (a) get an opportunity to run and (b) can remember what my running gait should be like!

I'm planning to get DD to play something "easy" to get into ensembles on rather than easy on the ears - so strings, percussion or brass rather than flute given the price of the more obscure woodwind instruments...

I was directed towards flute as parental torture on really starts around G5 when the top register kicks in...

My youngest is learning the cornet 😩

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Vicious sets of farmers walks to end with.