Keep on exercisathon

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Another thread to keep going!

Welcome back @tryingtobesogood - I also have a love/hate relationship with exercise (mostly hate if I’m honest) but love how it makes me feel. I try and aim for workouts I enjoy now rather than those I think I should be doing but hate.

welcome @afaloren- good to see you are back at it after what sounds like an awful time.

I haven’t seen the thread this full for a while. It’s great to see everyone killing it, it really does spur me on.

Nat Hayward dynamic Pilates done - another killer 🥵

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Hope you are well @ProfessorRadcliffeEmerson @Alittlefrustrated and @spikeandbuffy- it’s been a while since you have all posted 🧡

This morning I decided I wanted to try Bodycombat so went in for my first morning workout. It was great but now I am utterly exhausted. I can't do morning workouts if they make me comatose for rest of day!!!!!
Bodycombat will be great for me I think longterm, I just try not to move my feet too much for now which makes it very easy. I do find that the music for both pump and combat is a bit too loud.
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3 mile walk in the BH sunshine

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@Happleandhorange I'm not gonna lie, I was hoping you'd try BodyCombat! One thing we always suggest (and hardly anybody does) is to just do 4 or 5 tracks and then go off for a wee stretch. Then you can add another track as you feel like it, until you're doing the whole class. It's not good to train so hard you're completely wiped, but it's easy to get caught up in the class and we all do it!

Another thing I suggest is to take all the lower impact options offered, and don't feel like you need to keep up with the instructor or the front row champs. So you don't need to do full range lunges and squats - or all of them (cheating and resting is completely fine), all your kicks can be to knee height, and when the dreaded running knees come, you can march in place instead of going Full Spaniel.

I really hope you just enjoy the class, and don't worry about the moves either, you can work on one thing at a time.

BodyCombat is one of those classes that people love and go to for years, so there will be people in there that are just amazingly fit and can do all the moves.

Sorry I do go on, this has been my Ted Talk about BodyCombat, thanks for reading!

Nice day for it @tryingtobesogood !

Well a quiet BH for me. I did crossfit on Friday, which I think I mentioned already. Then Saturday tried for max pullups with rests on my new pullup bar, did absolutely nothing on Sunday and pullups again yesterday.

I have no idea what's on the menu at Crossfits today, I actually don't mind. Everything is so new to me, that no matter what it is I'll be learning a lot in the skills bit and then the workout will be yanno, a crossfit workout. Some of them are fun, some are ok, some of them are annoying, they're all hard work and longer than you'd ideally want them to be!

Not sure how/when I'll get to train the rest of the week, as we have house guests and I might not have the car a lot of the time. I mean I could obviously cycle to the crossfit but it's like 12 miles and IANBU to think that's a bit steep when you've got to do crossfit afterwards and then ride the same home. I'll probably do it at least once just for the stupids lols but it's not a thing and will never be a thing!

It’s great to have someone so knowledgeable on the thread, thanks @BezMills

I’ve only just noticed your user name is a play on Les Mills, because I usually just call you Bez. How did I miss that?! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Nat Hayward 20 minute strength workout - short but definitely not sweet 🥵

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Thank you, that is so helpful @BezMills . I agree, it's great to have an expert on the thread. I am relieved, because that is pretty much exactly what I am doing - I do some, then stop and stretch, then join in again, and adapt the movements to what my body can manage. I'm glad it's recommended!
What I loved with Bodycombat is that my shoulders and arms felt really good afterwards. It's very hard to find something I can do for them, given the reduced mobility in shoulder (two plates and five screws). So I think it will work for me really well longterm.

We don't have a crossfit class. We have something called ceremony. I don't know if that is the same.

@Happleandhorange
I honestly have no idea about ceremony, I think it's just in NZ so far.

Crossfit is its own thing, sort of a mix of aerobics, bodyweight skills and weightlifting, usually at a dedicated Crossfit gym. My BodyCombat instructor, lovely Anna Sensei twisted my arm to try it out and so far so good. I like that there's a real mix of people in the class, and there's always something that a person can work on at their own level.

Today was deadlift as the skill part then the workout was run or ski erg, then dumbell overhead thing, then pullups. I managed a few pullups then did an easier version when I was too tired to do proper ones anymore. I have a private gosl to do one of the pullup workouts all proper pullups (none of this Crossfit swinging around cheatups). So far not even close, but one day...

Nat Hayward mini band workout done ☑️

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Treadmill walk 30 minutes

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10K on the static bike at the gym. My app thinks I went for a leisurely ride. Didn’t feel bloody leisurely!

S&c this morning. I did 15.5k steps yesterday so I'm counting it!

I hate when my watch acts that. It needs to get better at recognising my near death experiences.

Oh yes, my smartwatch tells me my heartrate is in the low intensity zone or something, meanwhile I am sweating buckets and my eyeballs are popping out with the strain! I have to keep an eye on it because if my heartrate goes too high too fast I get panic attacks (PTSD) but sometimes it is very dispiriting.

No class today. I went to pick up a food parcel for a friend, then when I got to gym they seem to have a pause in the schedule between 1 and 4pm which I didn't realise. So I did my own thing. Trying not to do too much standing because of foot, but the attempt at using the rowing machine was a hilarious disaster. I got flustered and lasted four minutes. Other than that, good. I noticed in the car on the way home that my legs are changing shape, which is good (vain).

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not just you @Happleandhorange

I think my legs have already changed from all the leg stuff in crossfit, quads looking a bit more defined.

BodyCombat has a lot of legs to be fair, but I've been doing it 4 years and already long ago got the gains I was going to get from that. Apart from BC, I've done no legs training for about a year, so they've definitely felt it recently/

I definitely want to do Bodycombat again. I think next week I will try to sort out some kind of regular schedule, rather than just turn up when I am free and see what's on.

@Happleandhorange yes I find a schedule really helps me, or at least a bit of a schedule. In the last 18 months or so I had two non-negotiable BodyCombat classes which I never ever missed. Then those became the foundation from which I could build. I've added bits and bobs to the routine, like weight training or bendy stretchy class or bodyweight skills. On weeks when it was tough to find time, I just did the 2 BodyCombats and that's still good!

Went to Bodybalance today. I was a bit shocked at how different it was to the last one I went to (different instructor). I guess they all have their different styles and routines but it was really like a different class !

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@Happleandhorange also the classes can be quite different just because they are teaching different material. All the LM formats have an underlying structure that is fairly consistent, but the intensity or emphasis and length in each part of the class can be quite different. And instructors obviously have their own styles and preferences (and moods!)

I've heard a lot of good stuff about Balance, it never really stuck with me but I can see why people really like it.

Unplanned rest day yesterday and neither ds nor I wanted to run this evening so we did some short hill sprints instead. I think they were worse than our usual run.

How old is your DS @MotherForkinShirtBalls ?

That makes sense, @BezMills . The other instructor had us all using equipment and this was mainly mat work.

He's 13, @happleandhorange. He does kung fu which he really enjoys and is good for his dyspraxia but we both need to be fitter so we are doing the couch to 5k. I used to run a lot but I'm finding even this much hard!

What a great idea. I have a friend who is promising to join gym. I am hoping it will similarly help.