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Exerciseathon keeps exercising

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MotherForkinShirtBalls · 05/07/2023 17:09

New thread for us to keep on keeping on.

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BezMills · 26/07/2023 13:39

I swam yesterday, just sidestroke as I was keeping my head out of the water! This morning the water seemed safe, so I went in and got my head down for 900m. I think I was trying too hard, seemed really difficult today.

88 days.

Bonfire23 · 26/07/2023 13:54

No more water which is a good thing, but lots of painting to do

BogRollBOGOF · 26/07/2023 19:22

Did my strength work yesterday, but felt a sore throat coming on, a kind gift from DS who went croaky 48hrs after finishing school. Today should have been a long run, but I'm resting. My body feels disproportionately tired and I'd rather use the energy to get back on form. I've done some housework and light gardening, so have been moving around, but it wasn't a running day for me.

SophieLion · 27/07/2023 11:48

He sounds like a lovely doggy motherforkin . My dog is 10 months now ( and 44kg!!). And as for your impressive weights and the woman next you: Caroline girvan always says "it's you against you"

Hi Roonetta!

MotherForkinShirtBalls · 27/07/2023 18:38

He is lovely, Sophie, but an absolute money pit who's on a one track mission to a darwin award. I've already warned the family that whenever he departs, I'm done, we won't be getting another! Yours being 44kg at not yet a year is huge though, no wonder you get so many steps in.

I was supposed to have a rest day yesterday but I took the kids and friends to an aqua park (inflatable obstacle course on a lake) and because of their ages had to get in with them. The horror of a cold, wet, rented wetsuit was eclipsed by having to haul myself, life vest and wetsuit out of the water and onto a pontoon. I'm aching after it all!

I'm booked into a class in an hour and I'm posting now to make myself go.

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MotherForkinShirtBalls · 28/07/2023 13:32

I'm in a lot of pain after last night's class (actually, it's going back to last Saturday's class and just building on itself). I never used to get doms but it's bad at the moment. I did a 3k run to ease myself out this morning.

Happy weekend everyone!

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MotherForkinShirtBalls · 29/07/2023 20:17

Class again today. Lots of shoulders so I had to modify a few things.

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Bonfire23 · 30/07/2023 12:25

10 min barre
20 min r&b spin

BezMills · 30/07/2023 14:47

Class on Thursday and Sunday, swimming Thursday, Friday and Sunday.

91 days.

Great work everyone, especially @MotherForkinShirtBalls Hench!

roonetta · 30/07/2023 16:23

Another rubbish week exercise wise Blush. Off on holiday tomorrow for 2 weeks so hopefully will be more motivated when I come back 😁

Keep up the good work everyone! ❤️

OublietteBravo · 31/07/2023 08:40

I finally managed to do an exercise DVD yesterday (6W6P L1). Definitely the first time since we moved into the flat (we’ve been here since May, the house is a building site - currently with only about 2/3 of a roof). Feeling a bit stiff and achy this morning. Unsurprisingly.

BezMills · 31/07/2023 09:18

yes @OublietteBravo! it's so difficult to get that first thing done after a break, well done. I just posted a screenshot of my local swimming spot this morning at 7am. Absolutely boggin conditions, no thanks! It does help me sell 'the journey' as part of my fundraising (I always like to ham up the difficulty to help the donations along). Basically I've done about 1/3 of the training I wanted to do by now, that's no lie. Luckily my base fitness was already good by the time I got back in the water at the end of May, and also luckily I remember how to swim. (I was a little concerned my technique would be all to pot since I only really got the hang of crawl in June last year, then had 6 months of no swimming since October)

MotherForkinShirtBalls · 31/07/2023 18:22

Happy holidays, Roonetta. I hope you get good weather!

I had to Google hench, Bez. I am not 😂

Good to see you back Oubliette. Sounds like an epic job on the house, hope it's going well.

3km run this morning.

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MotherForkinShirtBalls · 01/08/2023 22:36

Gym class today.

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BogRollBOGOF · 02/08/2023 20:41

I'm back in action after a nasty cold. Taking it gently this week though as the dregs haven't fully cleared off yet, so easy 30 min runs, and I've been swimming with the DCs.

It's great now they're building up their stamina in deep water as I can let them do their own thing and get some lengths in while they play.

DS1's been practicing diving, so I've been playing along too. I love a bit of diving in and doing things like collecting sinkers! With summer numbers being low, this week stages 6 & 7 were amalgamated which put both DCs together... there was a bit of banter, and then when it came to diving in, DS2 was much better at it. DS1 lowered himself into a squat, well poised... then kept jumping in in dive position and entering feet first 😂

MotherForkinShirtBalls · 02/08/2023 22:45

Sounds like they had fun, Bog 😊hope you're feeling better soon.

I was really tired today but dragged myself out for a short run between torrential rain showers.

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MotherForkinShirtBalls · 03/08/2023 13:02

Gym class this morning. It's annoying, the instructor for the early class isn't great, but the time is good (especially as I've a work thing late today), but I don't sleep brilliantly when I do the evening classes, where the instructors are much better.

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BezMills · 03/08/2023 14:28

I did get in on Monday and Tuesday, nothing yesterday. Water is polluted today, thanks to SW and some very heavy rain.

This weather can do one. July was a complete ripoff, and August is on probation so far!

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MotherForkinShirtBalls · 04/08/2023 21:07

Hill walk with the dog this morning and having watched the water reports improving over the last few days, dd and I went for a dip this evening. We only did 15 mins bobbing about but it was bliss.

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MotherForkinShirtBalls · 05/08/2023 13:53

Gym this morning. Different instructor who gave me some really useful nudges on my form and suggested wrist straps because my forearms are letting me down on my rdl and deadlift weight increases. Followed by a 3km windy dog walk. Very happy with my morning (despite being woken by the storm at 5!)

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OublietteBravo · 06/08/2023 10:18

Still struggling a bit with motivation. It’s so difficult to do an exercise DVD when you live somewhere small and open plan. Because there are constantly people around. DH was out playing touch rugby this morning, so I got up and (rather reluctantly) did 30DS L1.

BezMills · 07/08/2023 06:34

@OublietteBravo it's so hard to exercise in conditions like that, well done for taking the opportunity when it came up.

I taught my class on Thursday, just two people (Local Festival Week andSummer holidays I guess). I completely blanked on the Capoeira track, after managing to teach it one time the previous Sunday. I just gave up and played a different track lol. After the class I could do the moves, I just got brainfry at the moment and well that's the way she goes sometimes. Fuckin way she goes.

Friday I had one woman in her late 60s with heart damage, can't exercise too hard or she'll go white and keel over. The only other was similar age, recently had back surgery! So I turned down the music a bit and we had a nice calm class. Woman #1 lasted 5 track, and I did one more track - the Capoeira. This time it went well enough and I got through it (it's not even that hard, there's just a knack to it).

Sunday we had one of my favourite participants turn up, she's an absolute cardio machine. She's always the fittest in the class by a clear mile, including me! Also had a visiting participant, on a week long pass so his son can hit the weights. He's 38ish, drives heavy machinery and hasn't really done much cardio in teh last 20 years. It went as well as you could expect - he was breathing out his ears by track 2 and somehow soldiered on to the end. I almost had him puking in the Thai track - those are usually the last track, where it just starts mental and stays mental for about 5 minutes. But somehow he made it to the end, by sheer grit and determination. Absolute champ lad.

97 days. Pretty optimistic to get to 150

MotherForkinShirtBalls · 09/08/2023 14:20

Ugh, rest days are bad for me. I took one planned and 2 more slipped in unintended. Pool swim today.

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BogRollBOGOF · 09/08/2023 16:34

Running today. Still not back on top form from being ill a couple of weeks ago, it's just that 10% harder and feeling it in my chest slightly before muscles or heart rate.

I'm concentrating on just keeping the habit up over the summer. It's all relatively short, but with structured runs involved, it should be fairly easy to add in longer distances at a gentle pace when the time is more avaliable.

Bonfire23 · 09/08/2023 17:07

20 min frustrated spin ride, amazing playlist