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55 mins pilates class
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Senior Flex, 45 minutes. Had to move down to two 2.5kg weights, but managed all the exercises.

Active for Life - very little. The equipment we're used to has mainly gone. 10 minutes on bike, 5 minutes on....? Ski-erg? Farmer's carry with two 16kg dumbbells.

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the 16kg each hand farmer's carry is no joke! That's a full week's shop in one hand a new microwave combi oven in the other.

I accidentally did farmer's carry yesterday. I wanted to do romanian deadlift with dumbells but next to the window. So ended up carrying the things halfway round the gym before I'd even done 1 rep. Before that, I got on the bench and was pretty pleased to go up through the weights and lift the max again. I stuck +5 more on it and it wasn't for budging!

Later on it was my Boxercise class. Had one of the participants from the cooncil gym join in for a freebie, and ended up with 7 paying customers plus him. Happy with that for a Wednesday.

Today I'm going to once again take advantage of DW being off work so I have plenty time to get my work done and visit the gym. I've been trying different times to see when it's quiet. 6.30 is pretty good, which I did yesterday. Today I think I'll go after my 8am meeting, so getting in about 9.

I think this is a good spot too, the 'train before work' crowd are gone and we have the 'between jobs' 'done the school run' and 'respected elders'. It's also half term so might have a few teenagers but I expect 9am is too early to expect them to assemble a posse.

I just want to add here that - to my amazement - I was able to manage some star jumps yesterday. Not a lot and not very fast, but I did them. When I started out, I couldn't do them at all - combination of fat and knackered knees.

The fact that I could do them after a one month lay-off pleases me greatly.

I didn't get in the gym at 9am - I dithered and then time got short as I have a call at 10:30 (which I'm anyway late for due to laptop updating itself at the perfect time)

20 min dance workout last night.

7.4 mile walk - glorious day for it
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Sedentary day, so just forced myself out for a brisk 2.7 mile walk before bed. Not much but every little helps.
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No gym today.

Took a bushman saw to the errant apple tree - it's supposed to be a Golden Hornet crabapple, but it looks like the a rather more robust apple is trying to take over. Cut down the trunk that was encroaching on the roof.

Had a walk this evening.

i have been trying to use my phone less. I may have gone too far 😁
I am on my way to Pilates. I have things to say about reformer and want opinions on my weekly classes, but I need to get moving because they lock us out of this class if we’re late (the gym doesn’t open til 9)
I will be back.

Well the 10:30 meeting I was organising my day around got cancelled at 10:27 which really annoyed me. I was in a massive strop and just went to bed for a nap. I can laugh about it now but I was proper fewmin.

Friday wasn't much better, one of those days where work is just annoying, my boss is being pissy with me and basically the game's a bogey as we'd say in Fife. I was for binning it off at 2pm, but at just after 3pm I had a colleague who I'd been waiting for urgent help from since 9am finally get back to me. He was great, spent an hour sorting me out and we had a nice wee chat by the by. Anyway long story short, no gym either!

I have to tell myself it was actually a pretty decent week even if Thursday and Friday were bin-offs. I trained Friday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Today I'm off to the local gym with a friend so I'm pleased about that too.

23 mins of yoga last night.

Feeling quite smug today.
40 x 25m swim, followed by 45 mins Hyrox Aqua class. Go me 🤣
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Only a teeny bit of gardening, nothing else.

I had turned up early to the gym as I expected my mate probably wouldn't be bothered about deadlifts so I get that done and we do bench + accessories together. Anyway he phoned me, after I've paid to get in, crying off. He did seem to have a good reason but ffs. Honestly the week I was having.

I tried not to be too annoyed but I've juggled things to be there and paid guest money to go to a gym while I already pay monthly for my own gym! So I just decided to cut my losses there and drive to my gym. The woman at the desk was so kind to give me a refund so I even got my fiver back!

At my gym I decided to go back to week 1 and build from the base of the pyramid. So much less (60%) weight but double the reps. Then each week a bit more weight and lower the reps.

Romanian deadlift, deadlift, then bench press with dumbells (a gang of burly youngers seemed like they'd be ages on the bench with barbell).

I was pleased enough with my efforts and managed to get the last of the warm sausage rolls at the best bakery on the way home. All's well that ends well!

A refund and sausage rolls? Sounds good.

50 mins workout at home this am - mixture of body bar /dumbell, and pilates.
60 mins stomp fit class this pm. Didn't know it was Halloween attire - however I had an orange t shirt on and I am feeling quite round 🎃
So pleased I've beat the procrastination re getting back to home workouts.
I'm likely only going to swim tomorrow as I've got a massive assignment to do. I've had 5 weeks to do it and left it 'til the last week. Busy week as well 😳
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273 while I think about it!

they are offering unlimited reformer classes at my gym for £16 extra a month. It’s a pretty good deal. But I do 3 Pilates classes a week and so this would really only be that helpful if I had to miss one (which I sometimes do). Plus I am not massively convinced by reformer. It’s different but no better than the mat.
I have started doing a bit of clinical somatics which I hope is helping my nervous system. I think I need to do more of that stuff than racing round to more classes. Still tempted tho!

@stilldumdedumming The £16 that you've been quoted makes the £40 offer in Fife seem rather mean by comparison!

It’s Everyone Active. They have a lovely reformer studio but bookings are very low and I’m not sure why. My normal membership is £37 and this is £16 on top. It’s not bad at all. I do around 4 swims a week and a Pilates class.

I also have a membership to my local village gym. It’s £30 and although it adds up, it’s such good value. We have a great laugh and there are loads of classes. I can’t do some of them physically but it’s family owned and they take requests. No pool tho- hence 2 memberships!

I’ve never tried reformer Pilates, quite curious, it’s a massive trend at the moment. One if my friends quit her job to start a Pilates studio.

The council reformer Pilates studio here is in former coalmining village - where my grandmother was born - but it's had an influx of Edinburgh commuters. I guess that might explain why Fife Leisure chose to put the studio there.

Apparently it only holds 10 at a time.

That's so random! I'm from a similar town which has good trains to Edinburgh (it's not that bad by car either to be fair). I remember even 30-40 years ago people starting to move there and commute into Edinburgh. Dundee and Perth are also easy but not quite so many fancy jobs and also have many other towns and villages nearby where people could commute in from.

Today I got in and had no clue what I would do. I've loaded up my app with three different workouts. The first is the basic bare bones one I've been doing if I can only get in once - deadlift and bench. Then I got given quite a random collection of stuff from one of the gym PTs. It has like barbell squat and bear crawl in it! Also that barbell hip thrust thing that's all the rage with the young women.

The third one, and this is the one I decided to do, is a Big Ten full body sequence from some jacked aussie lad. It was pretty good, didn't go mad at all, but I have definitely came away feeling it in all sorts of corners of my body!

The plan for the rest of the week is Combat class on Tuesday day and Thursday evening, then I'll go big gym on Friday if I can get out of work early, otherwise Saturday.

It seems to me that most of Fife is now a dormitory area for Edinburgh and (to a lesser extent) Dundee.