Carry on exercising - the August 2022 edition

[roonetta]

Hope this works!

@Rebel2023 that sounds like a real experience!

I should do Barre today but I feel a bit overtrained and run down it was quite a taxing weekend overall. Rest day authorised.

Looking at my home office, I'm going to do some tidying up and make myself a space to stretch and do 100s of pressups

I did some as part of my class yesterday, and I'm really feeling it. this 2800 thing is a really terrible idea lol. But I've even got the charity tee and some donations already so I'm all in for it.

Well done @BezMills

Hard Body L1 (45 min)

(19/20)

I really don't want to exercise, so I'm posting before to I make myself do it...

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about 20 minutes after my post, I discovered that the landlord has shuttered the gym and sent the bailiffs in. The manager hasn't been keeping up with bills apparently and so all staff, instructors, members, small businesses using the premises, are all shit out of luck. For me it's gutting but I've got a full time job in IT, this doesn't really affect my bottom line at all. It's the staff and instructors that are getting the worst of it.
What a shitshow.

Wow, thats dramatic Bez! I hope everyone involved will be OK.

I spent most of today driving to and from a very sad funeral so I'm going for an easy jog/walk while the kids are at training later.

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Wow @BezMills. What a shock. I’m a bit worried our favourite coffee shop might go the same way. I hope not.

I’ve just done 30DS L2D3 and DDMix: Greek (32 min). Which takes me to 20 days of exercise in January.

I think my target for February is going to be another 20 days of exercise. I want to average 35 minutes each day, so 700 minutes in total. Let’s see how that goes!

(20/20)

Sorry to hear about the funeral Motherforkin . Hope the walk improved your mood a little.

Wow that's not good Bez. I take it that means no more teaching at the moment. Hopefully there are other gyms close to you? It really is sad seeing all of these lovely businesses closing down.

Well done on meeting your target Oubliette

The swarm ride sounds awesome rebel. What a lovely thing to do

40 minute strength workout with Trinny/Nat

16/200

@roonetta yeah it really pissed in my chips tbh, because I was planning to film my class this week for certification. I've booked the local community centre hall for some sunday mornings, and I'll put on a basic punchy-kicky class for my fellow gym-bereft. I can't do the Les Mills music or content, that's not allowed, but I can put together a few rounds of technique work and a bit of circuits for my people.

100 pressups today, day 1 of the challenge. Wasn't too bad in the end. Started with a 1 set max (which it turns out is 13), then I filled in the rest mainly in sets of 5, over a couple of hours. My arms aren't that strong, but I have core for days thanks to the Combat and Barre classes (I used to do LM Core too but my trainer is on paternity). I have some day 1 footage and a couple of pictures. I will use them for motivation. I'm not only going to do the challenge, I'm going to have a good month and drop a couple pounds while I do it.

The plan was to do dry feb, but day 1 got to me already. My friend's dad died today, and I will take a drink with my pal tonight, raise a glass to his pops.

I tried a new DVD. (Now that’s what I call fitness - the ultimate dance workout). I did the warmup and the first 3 routines (ease it in, take it higher, and rock it out). It was quite fun. And a change from doing weight bearing exercise.

(21/40)
(34 min)

@OublietteBravo nice! I like to change things up, keeps things fresh.

"yeah it really pissed in my chips"

Haha what a great expression Bez. I will definitely be using this in the future Well done on the push ups

Like the sound of the DVD Oubliette.

2 mile boosted WWL today - felt like doing a cardio based workout today.

17/200

Thanks Roonetta. I ended up running a lot of my planned walk on Tuesday and it felt good to push myself.

Day off yesterday. I am just about to go into a long meeting so I got out early for a long walk and I did half an hour of core and back strengthening exercises lunchtime.

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30 min r&b ride done, 30 points now off my PR so fitness is coming back

Well done Rebel.

Short swim at lunch and I'm planning to do a core/legs thing later.

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Planned rest day yesterday (because we went out for DS’s birthday).

Just done Now that’s what I call fitness - the ultimate dance workout: warm up, ease it in, take it higher, rock it out, cool down (38 min)

Days exercised: 22/40
Time: 72/700 minutes

Time got away from me today so have just done 30DS L1 as it's fairly short, but man it never fails to kick my ass

18/200

30 min country pop spin class and a 10 min cool-down to flush my legs out
It's the same class I did start of dec pre covid so compared
Output up 9 points
HR down by 8
Strive score (measures HR/effort) down by 10

Well done Rebel!

45 minute Pilates/cardio workout with Trinny and Nat done

19/200

30 min hip hop spin

I really didn’t manage to motivate myself over the weekend. Although I did manage 15,000 steps each day.

Back to proper exercise today. 30DS L3D3 and NTWICF: ease it in (37 min)

Days exercised: 23/40
Time: 109/700 minutes

We have a bank holiday weekend (a new one, to celebrate St Bridget) so i was very lazy. Short run this morning and a core and legs thing.

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Hard Body level 1 (45 min). Tired now!

Days exercised: 24/40
Time: 154/700 min

Not feeling great today so I did a fairly gentle core/stretching video. I'm feeling very unmotivated the last week so if I give myself any opportunity to slack off you won't see me for 6 months...

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@MotherForkinShirtBalls anything is a win, and infinitely better than nowt! You are doing grand, keep getting after it

2 mile WWL

20/200