Day 258 – Week 38 – 38 mins
Yep. That’s a full 38 minutes of strengthening and stretching today, new headphones on, listening to webinars. I LOVE being able to combine my exercise with other pursuits.
I realised it’s been a good while since I’ve done the full quota of this, and so I was pretty surprised that I felt quite a bit stronger than last time I did some of these exercises – like the dreaded Plank. I certainly wouldn’t say it was easy, but it wasn’t quite the struggle it normally is.
Maybe the little rest did me some good.
Suzi
Day 251 – Week 37 – 37 mins (20)
OK guys – you gotta remember – this is a tough time of year. If you are not running around trying to finish your Christmas shopping, you are working overtime to finish off stuff before Christmas, or you are tripling the number of social events on your calendar.
It’s tough to be exercising right now.
So – I’m pretty pleased to be managing anything, even if it is only 20 mins of stretching and strengthening. It’s keeping my muscles alive – that’s something.
Suzi
Day 248 – Week 36 – 36 mins (20)
I am really struggling with the ‘getting up and exercising before doing anything else’ part of this experiment at the moment. I don’t know if it’s the cold, or the fact it’s the end of the year, or if I’ve just lost my motivation.
But this morning I made myself do it. I didn’t do my full 36 minutes, but I did 20, which wasn’t too bad. But the good thing was, I did it first thing on waking up. And when I got back in bed with my cup of tea after a shower, I remembered how good it felt to get some exercise out of the way early.
The fact that I’m finding it so difficult though, gives me new respect for those people who do this every day for years, in the pursuit of some sporting goal or another. When you think of swimmers who are in the pool at 5.00 every morning for an hour or two every day during their teenage years, or athletics hopefuls who train every day. It is a huge thing to motivate yourself to do it, and I would so love to have their fierce determination.
All I have to do it get up and get moving, it can’t be so hard….
Suzi
Day 240 – Week 35 – 35 mins (20)
I was a bit pressed for time today (who isn’t once you get to December?) so just managed to fit in 20 mins of stretching and strengthening.
But I will make up for it with many minutes on the dance floor at the corporate Christmas party!
Suzi
Day 236 – Week 34 – 34 mins
Note to self:
It is not a good idea to wait until the fire is lit and the boyfriend is opening a bottle of wine to remember that you haven’t done your stretching and strengthening for the day.
Bugger.
You have to refuse the wine and then do your exercise in front of a roaring fire – because the only place big enough to do any exercise in a small London flat is in the living room – where the fire is. And it’s not like you can put the fire out for the half hour that the room is needed for a makeshift gym.
It wasn’t that bad really – but imagine if it had been a cardio day!
Suzi
