Carry on exercising - the October 2021 edition

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New thread to record our workouts, track our goals, and keep us motivated. All welcome!

@SophieLion
@MotherForkinShirtBalls
@roonetta

Have a lovely weekend Professor.

How are you finding Fuel Sophie? Is it getting harder?

Just the thought of the kids being off for 12 weeks brings me out in a sweat Motherforkin. I feel for you!

Walk to/from work yesterday

Day off today as was supposed to be going away with my sister but she has got the dreaded covid, so day 6 Iron leg day done instead ✅

Days exercised 106

Rest day yesterday. Today Fuel day 20. Body weight HIIT. ** So that's week 4 finished.

To be honest I have found Fuel quite hard generally Roonetta! Today passed quite quickly as she played around with the timing but I was drilling with sweat and collapsed on the floor by the end.

Get well wishes to your sister too 💐

Enjoy the weekend away professor

Days exercised 130

Fuel day 21 (legs).

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Finally home from the conference so I went to an early spin class and walked the dog to make sure I did something today! Ive done far too much sitting, eating and boozing networking since Wednesday. We're heading to France tomorrow so it will be ferry and driving for a couple of days before I get to exercise again.

Hope you had a fun weekend, Professor, and that you are holding up MsO. Are you feelijg any bettet this week, waterbottles? You are absolutely powering through the Grivan programmes, Sophie, well done!

Days exercised 92

Fuel day 23 glutes and hamstrings. And half of a 10 mins girvan abs workout (lost interest and couldn't be bothered to finish...)

I'm away on Thursday for 10 days so trying to finish week 5 of fuel before I go MotherForkin! I hope you enjoy France and have a good journey.

Days exercised 132

Fuel day 24 full body (with emphasis on core).

Days exercised 133

Thanks Sophie, sister is much better

Have a lovely time in France Motherforkin.

Will need to give upper body dumbbells (and potentially lower body) a miss, as my arm is really playing up and even holding the dumbbell while doing lunges is painful. Having Googled the symptoms (😬) it looks like it could be tennis elbow which I can only presume is from the repeated lifting of dumbbells without proper form. It's very painful at the moment and even woke me up last night, so I am going to take a couple of weeks off Girvan and just do some Walks with Leslie. Gutted.

Walk to/from work Monday
WWL 2 mile done ✅

Days exercised 108

Weather has definitely put me off (I've NC)
Hoping to muster some enthusiasm to bike today
15 min lower body stretch yesterday, I need a sports massage as my quads are so tight

Fuel day 25 dumbbell HIIT and cardio. That was tough but finished week 5! I'm off now for 10 days but will probably check in to see how you all are.

Oh sorry to hear about your arm Roonetta. How frustrating. I hope it will be better soon 💐

Hope you managed your bike ride Peloaddict.

Days exercised 134

PeloAddict sound about right! Hope you managed your session yesterday.

Tennis elbow sounds sore, Roonetta. I wasnt doing one of my shoulder exercises correctly and was warned by the physio it could cause tennis elbow. I hope the rest helps it.

Sophie, how on earth do you exercise in the heat?? I managed a 20 min slow jog this morning before it got too hot and it was brutal (and not just because I'm any so bad at running these days ). I found the weights room in the complex so I'll be hitting that up tomorrow instead! Anyway, enjoy your holiday!

Days exercised 93

It's too hot
Didn't manage to bike as I was melting. Off for a dog walk today so will see how far we get

Have a great holiday Sophie.

Girvan bodyweight only leg workout done ✅

Days exercised 109

I found the gym yesterday and managed a half hour of cardio, including 5 mins on the rowing machine. I planned longer but those things are hard! Taking today as a rest day. I'm sleeping badly in the heat so going to chill today.

Hope your holiday is lovely Sophie, your arm is improving Roonetta and you're a little cooler Pelo

Days exercised 94

No bike but did a 2hr dog walk with a friend and lots of mooching about last night at a car show with my dad so I've done something at least!

I am better now thank you motherforkin.

I did a long workout on Wednesday of all of the exercises the PT gave me and a few others. And yesterday I did an hour's worth of cardio only, which I do like more than the strength exercises, but will do those on Sunday. 😊

Glad to hear you're feeling better waterbottles. I'm not sure I could do an hour of any cardio! How's your elbow Roonetta? I hope you enjoyed spending the time with your dad, Pelo. People often comment that the weeks after the funeral are very hard as things get back to "normal" so I hope you’ve lots of support around you.

I got up early this morning and managed to do 20 laps in the indoor pool before it got busy. I thought it was 25m long but based on how quickly I finished, it must have been 20m. Anyway, I'm still counting it!

Days exercised 95

I'm not sure I do cardio to the level you guys do though. 😂I can only walk, still can't run, and doubt I cycle very fast but it's difficult for me and I did benefit from it I think so still happy. 😊

Well done everyone! You are all smashing it.

My arm is still not right Motherforkin. I am not sure what it is, but seems to have moved to my wrist . I am currently wearing a wrist brace and will give it another week of rest and if it hasn't improved I think I'll make an appointment with my osteopath to see what she thinks. Find it almost impossible to get a face to face appointment with my GP so will try this route first.

Jealous of the swimming, I haven't been since way before the pandemic and our pools are always booked up now

Keep it up everyone! You are all amazing

I’m not smashing anything, roonetta! Another week of failure here - too hot to exercise after work and I couldn’t face getting up early enough to do it before.

Yoga Inferno workout 1 done, I’ve concluded this one is very good for me even though I hate it because I’m so inflexible. If I stick with it the flexibility might improve.

Love the new name, PeloAddict! I hope you’re doing OK.

Days exercised 104.

Well since my accident at the beginning of the year I've had to relearn to walk and last night I managed to do a walk I haven't done since last year. It's only a two mile loop and it took me nearly an hour, but I still did it! Couldn't be bothered going to the gym.

That's great, waterbottles, well done. Those kinds of achievement mean so much.

I had a lengths swim this morning. 550m so adding slowly as per physio instructions. And I did 6 lengths of front crawl scattered through it which felt OK although not good enough to do more. Also did a hilarious aqua gym class in the main pool. The instructor is a woman of indeterminate age (anywhere between 40 and 65) who is absolutely ripped, and so much fun. She picked out a random guy in the pool to do a dirty dancing lift with her 😂Have decided she's my exercise goals.

Days exercised 96

Thanks motherforkin. Pleased with myself for managing. 😊

30 min power zone endurance ride done. Not great stats as I had a cleat issue but it's done!

Well done Pelo. Done is done, no matter what the stats say.

Dull and almost cool day here today so we took the excuse to do a high wires/zip line course this morning. I was a bit wary of my complete lack of strength shoulder but it held magnificently. Also managed a 600m swim in the lengths pool although I was definitely on the edge of too much in the last 50m so I need to dial it back again for a few days.

Days exercised 97.

I am not smashing it either Professor. Hope you have managed to get some exercise in this week

Great news that your shoulder is holding out Motherforkin. It's been a long road for you.

Well done on your two miles waterbottles! A great achievement

I admire the fact you are still exercising in this heat Pelo!

Well I haven't done much exercise, it has been way too hot. Did manage a 2 mile WWL yesterday. Had an appointment with my osteopath who said my bicep tendon and also the tendons around my wrist are really inflamed. She said one more treatment should sort me out, but not to use dumbbells for the moment.

Walk to/from work on Monday (nearly died from the heat )
WWL yesterday

Days exercised 111