Carry on exercising - the August 2022 edition

Glad to hear you are on the mend @Pelo22. Totally understandable that you’re not back to exercising yet!

30DS L2 - which I consider to be my nemesis workout. I hate the squats with a v raise so bloody much! Plus Arabian and Charleston from Diverse Dance Mix.

(4/20)

I'm alive but not back to exercise yet! Covid took me out for 2 weeks
They've been amazed how I've recovered (underlying conditions, immunocompromised and first time) and the antivirals definitely helped as well as the fitness
Still breathless so I'm under a sats monitoring service thing

I did my Thursday evening and Friday lunchtime BodyCombat classes. 2 days exercised!

@roonetta Yeah that's a big jump. I started with 5kg free weights and am now up to 7kg (for some exercise) but that took 4 months.

I’m in awe, Bez. As I’m totally uncoordinated I can’t even do Body Combat classes. Good luck with the assessment.

10 minutes of core work from JM this morning, and yoga tonight. So far so good.

I like the sound of the Darcey Bussell DVD, Oubliette. I have a deadly dull Pilates one of hers, yours sounds better.

Days exercised 5.

I am lounging about killing time before teaching my first BodyCombat in 3 weeks. I am in a bit of a mh fug at the moment, but I am sure my class will do me the world of good.

I am slightly stressed as I am due to be assessed on BC (I have to film a whole class and send it up to HQ), but I am treating tonight like a first pancake if that makes sense? Just have fun and get my head back in the game. I will film tomorrow and Friday week, and submit the better of the two.

I had a rest day yesterday. Because everything ached. Today I’ve done 30DS L1. I’m also trying out a new DVD: Darcey Bussell’s Diverse Dance Mix. This seems to be short (2.5 min) workouts in different dance styles. I’ve only tried the warmup plus 1960s so far. But it was fun, and did push my workout time over 30 mins.

(3/20)

Swim today. Shorter than planned as my shoulder started to niggle at me and I didn't want to risk it.

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That's an incredible challenge Bez. Good luck with it.

Short run this morning.

Days exercised 3 (I managed to confuse myself yesterday, bodes well for the year 🙄)

Wow, Bez, good luck! I can do 10 properly on a good day - can’t imagine doing 100 a day.

10-minute JM HIIT/plyo workout done (plus warm-up and stretches). Ouch. Yoga tonight.

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I have just signed up for 2800 pressups in feb. That is quite an ask, as I guess I can do like 10 at the moment. Oh well it is for a good cause and the struggle will make good stories on fb for fundraising.

I was foiled in my attempt to swim at lunchtime (session cancelled because of a changing room problem) but they had a session this evening to make up for it. It was lovely, much less busy than the usual lunch hour sessions and I swam for longer than usual as a result. I did realise it's suddenly time to get a new swim suit though, will be ordering that for express delivery 😳

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I’m aching from yesterday’s press-ups. So I did an abs circuit today. KAbs L1 (31 min)

(2/20)

30DS L1 done. That makes five times in the last week, plus a couple of Pilates classes and daily yoga. School starts again tomorrow- the plan is to get up 15 minutes early and do one of JM’s 10-minute workouts, and stick to the yoga in the evenings if I can, but I won’t beat myself up if it doesn’t go to plan.

cat, I don’t do Caroline Girvan but I’ve done an awful lot of Jillian Michaels and over the years I’ve built up a collection of dumbbells between 0.5 and 8kg. I have a very weak upper body in spite of the workouts so I don’t suppose I shall ever need anything heavier than 8.

Bez, I feel your pain- that story confirms that I was right to run away.

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Flipping heck that hike was 3hrs! My friends are too fit 😆. Keeping up with a daily short core isolation plus a lot of walking and deep cleaning this week. I booked it off work. Next week will be back to the gym.

So, do those of you that do a lot of Caroline Girvan etc at home own your own dumbells? What happens when you get strong enough that the dumbells aren't challenging anymore? Do you have to keep buying heavier ones?

I didn’t even attempt exercise yesterday, although I did manage 15,000 steps.

I did my first exercise DVD of the year this evening: Hard Body (level 1) - 45 min.

(1/20)

That sounds like a brutal class, Professor! We had unexpected visitors yesterday so no exercise (i did 15k steps though). I got out early this morning to make sure I didn't miss it again. Dog and I did our run/walk/sniff/squirrel route. It was 0 degrees and gorgeous sunshine so a lovely start to the day and my exercise year.

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I had a similar experience to that @ProfessorRadcliffeEmerson

I was returning to exercise after about a year off due to serious illness. I went to a kettlebell class full of super-fit gym mums. I had a KB a bit too heavy for the number of reps we were doing and had a horrible time. I ended up taking a knee for the last 10 minutes, was just absolutely drained. I got incredible DOMS in my biceps and couldn't straighten my arms for about 3 days. My main mistake was trying to keep up with people a lot fitter than I was. I should have just taken the lightest possible weight and sandbagged it for the entire class or even stopped half way. Pride can be quite stupid sometimes.

Happy New Year!

I had an exercise fail yesterday- I booked into a class called ‘rocket yoga’ at the studio where I normally go to yoga and Pilates classes. It was rubbish for someone like me, though I can see it might work for someone young, fit and flexible. The name ought to have given me a clue, really! Fifteen minutes in, my wrists were killing me from high speed plank-to-chaturanga-to downward-dog sequences and I had a lightbulb moment- this wasn’t school PE, I could just leave rather than do the whole class and injure myself. So I did, and used the time to take myself out for a bowl of noodles and a glass of wine . I did an online yoga practice at bedtime, though.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Pelo.

Pilates class today - they’re normally pretty good so there shouldn’t be a repeat of yesterday. Have a great hike, cat. (I think I’m immune to COVID too, unless I had it with no symptoms after regular testing stopped.)

Today two of my outdoorsy friends are visiting and we will do a long hike - I live in semi rural Wales so we do have some very nice places to go. They're both extremely fit in a 'have sumitted mountains over a few days' rather than gym way, whereas I'm more of an 'exercise hard, then sit down for sedentary job' type.

Happy New Year!

I’m determined to get back to regular exercise. December somehow got lost amongst actual parties and the DC being at home.

Happy new year everyone. I won't be doing the gym this week because I'm using some holiday time to deep clean my whole flat and some of my mother's house, but I will keep up core work, including some Caroline Girvan, for the sake of my back. Boring but unavoidable at least a couple of times a year when you have pets (I have, as you might guess, 2 cats). I'm not sure if I have a set fitness goal for the year other than get stronger and improve HIIT tolerance. I hear that sometimes if you take a week off weights you can lift heavier when you get back to it - let's see if it works. Oof @Pelo22 sorry about the Covid. I might be jinxing myself by saying this but I seem to be one of the weird people that's immune. I've never had it, despite consistent testing and being close to a lot of people who had it. I even had to spend a few days in a hospital where it was rampant during the summer of 2020 - nothing.