Carry on exercising - the August 2022 edition

Yes crimson it wasn't easy. But I figured 3 mins of that equates with my usual 10 mins of abs or core (I was running short of time today).

Well done on your 10km row!!

A 3 minute plank challenge sounds pretty hard core@SophieLion ...no pun intended!

Great news that you’re seeing an improvement with your shoulder @MotherForkinShirtBalls and thanks for the rowing admiration. It’s definitely a tough sport, but does get a little easier over time 😊

Today’s exercise: 12 x 300m “power stroke”. I had to dig deep towards the end, but all in all it felt a little bit easier than last week’s power stroke session. With warm up, cool down and technique practice, today’s session came to just over 10k. Think I’ll be feeling it later today...

Unilateral week day 5 (HIIT) plus a 3 min plank challenge. That's unilateral week finished. Not my favourite girvan program - the HIIT was the least boring day.

Great news about your shoulder MotherForkin 👏🏻👏🏻

You are so right about yoga and flexibility professor. I really Must try to do some
More yoga workouts.

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I see I’m not the only one with suffering shoulders (MotherForkin, I’m so pleased yours is on the way to recovery.) I do need to do more stretches at work. Also I suspect reading on the Kindle is very bad, and I do a lot of that! I find yoga does help: I’m very inflexible and I see very tiny and gradual improvements if I do yoga regularly.

Yoga session done last night, but I was too tired to post. Days exercised 134.

Lovely longer swim today (850m) and my shoulder wasn't sore at all! I actually feel like I'm getting closer to where I was 2 years ago. Once I'm back to 1km I'm allowed up my front crawl a bit so that'll be the next challenge.

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I have some zopiclone now so hoping that helps!
Am managing 4 days a week exercise consistently but want to try and up it to 5

Hello Wolfmother 👋 Hope you're OK after your bee sting. I got nettle stings for the first time since I was a kid last week and I was a total wuss about it

I'm in awe of the rowing, CrimsonAlligator. I got on a rowing machine at the gym when I was on holidays and thought I'd do a gentle 10 minutes. I had to give up after about 3!!

Hope you get some rest Pelo, not sleeping is the pits.

The children are finally back to school so I have time to go to classes again! To celebrate I went to a pump class. I probably won't be able to walk tomorrow.

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Posted too soon!

Hello wolfmother and welcome to the thread! Yes good that you are getting some time for yourself. Good luck with the running! 🍀 and hope you didn't get a reaction to the new sting. I always get really huge swellings/reactions which take days to go....

And like Roonetta says, we all just post what we want on the thread. And count days if we want. It's all quite relaxed but really motivating at the same time.

Sounds like your gym was the place to be yesterday hotwaterbottles - unless you actually wanted to get some exercise done! Hopefully quieter next time.

Great that you are finding the exercise fun crimson! Have to say that the unilateral week (Caroline girvan) which I'm doing at the moment is totally boring. Far too repetitive. Only one day to go though....

Hope you manage to get some sleep pelo ❤️

Unilateral week day 4 (full body dumbbell).

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I didn't! I'm actually taking 2 days off as I'm not sleeping at all. But I'm ahead of myself in the challenge
Got next weeks schedule too so I can plan

Thanks @CrimsonAlligator 😊

How does the thread work? Just do a little exercise every day?
Went on a morning run, 2.5 miles pretty slow. Got stung by a bee while minding my own business but still had a nice time.

Welcome to the thread@WolfMother326 . I agree, it’s always good to take some time out of the day to focus on yourself, especially when you have young children. I’ve only just started C25K, so 2-4 miles sounds very impressive to me!

Today’s exercise: a 4km, 3km, 2km, 1km and 500 metre row, done at increasing speeds and stroke rates. It was easier than I expected, and kind of fun

Hi, can I join?
I was doing couch to 5k earlier this year after having a baby, then lost momentum as we moved house.
Baby is 1, has started nursery and I am getting to do lunch runs.
In the past week ran 3x, 2-4 miles each time. Going to try to run most days through September to get back into it, just short distances.
Already feels so good to be back doing some exercise, something just for me!

I need to do a 45 min ride for the challenge tonight

Been to the gym the past two days, didn't manage to complete my full workout yesterday though. Half because my left leg started feeling a bit sore, and half because so many people were in last night and mostly standing around in the way. Drove me mad. 😂

Didn't get my early morning walk today so going for it at lunch time. Little delayed but I will bloody do it.

Neck and shoulder yoga sounds interesting @roonetta . Think I need a bit of that too!

Today’s exercise: 8 x 1.5 minutes “power stroke”. With a long warm up, cool down and technique practice that came to 7.5 km in total.

Unilateral week day 3 (full body callisthenics).

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Thanks for the warm welcome everyone ☺️

@ProfessorRadcliffeEmerson I don’t know if it’s an age thing, but I’ve definitely found that my shoulders are becoming more of a weak spot. A few years ago, I actually managed to give myself a shoulder injury by carrying around an almost empty carrier bag for a few hours...Safe to say, I don’t have a naturally strong upper body!

Today’s workout: 4 x 2 km row at 90% MHR. Not an experience I’m keen to repeat, but I’m sure it will pop again sometime in my training program. Hopefully not too soon 😄

Hello CrimsonAlligator 👋

Hope your mum is feeling better, hotwaterbottles. After all my shoulder drama, Professor, I highly recommend making sure your posture at your desk is right and you take regular stretch breaks. I find knitting is my posture nemesis now, I need to work on it.

I had an <ahem> gastric upset over the weekend days so didn't risk moving far from the loo couch. I took the kids for a last hurrah to the pool this afternoon and I managed 200m which felt harder than it should.

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I ended up not having my vaccine! The updated one is coming in 2-3 weeks so they said I was best waiting

Yoga day 29 done. Tougher than yesterday, and I did some stretches with the foam roller afterwards. Does anyone else find their shoulders are seizing up as they get older? I think it's to do with the amount of typing I do.

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