Day 231 – Week 34 – 34 mins (20)
Ah how I wish I had started this experiment in the winter, and not the spring – then I would have been stuck inside for the small number of minutes, rather than the big number of minutes.
I struggle with having to do 34 full minutes on the bosu, but something like 15 minutes is fine.
Today I managed 20.
It is still raining….no getting outside possible. Or do people run in the rain? I don’t know if that’s one of those silly things to do, or if it is perfectly healthy and sensible.
Having said all this – I think there’s a slim possibility it won’t be raining tomorrow morning, in which case, I’ll be out there with bells on. (It’s nearly Christmas after all!)
Going to join me?
Suzi
Day 227 – Week 33 – 33 mins
It was a clear day this morning, so I thought I’d best take advantage of it, even though it means I will have been for a jog two days in a row.
I’m not sure I’ve actually used “have been for a jog two days in a row” in a sentence before, let alone actually done it!
I know it’s probably not what you are supposed to do – but I knew it could be a week before I get outside again, so I wasn’t going to waste it. It was a beautiful crisp winter morning and it was terrific to be out in it.
33 minutes done and dusted for today – yay!
Suzi
Day 208 – Week 30 – 30 mins (22)
Oh I started out with the best of intentions to do my full 30 minutes of stretching and strengthening today. But at 22 mins I just suddenly decided I was too hot and sweaty and I had a brain and body shutdown.
That was it. I just decided I had had enough. Lucky I got through the 22 minutes really.
I’ve noticed this tends to happen when I have had a short workout the day before. And given that I only did one minute the day before – well – you can’t get much shorter than that.
It’s as if having had a short workout the day before, I have to kind of ‘build up’ again back to the level I should be at. My brain just won’t accept leaping up to 30 minutes straight away, it has to do it in a couple of stages. It is saying to me, “Don’t worry, I know what you are playing at, you’re trying to get me to do that exercise business again. Oh well, I’ll do it, but I’m doing it on MY terms. I’m just going to take my time and mosey on in there.”
I guess that’s not really a problem, as long as I get there!
So – perhaps that’s a pattern. I go along merrily as I should. Then I have to have a short day for some reason (usually because of a very early start at work), and then it takes a couple of big steps to get back to where I should be.
I’m not too worries by any of that, given the whole idea of this is just to keep going, and not stop completely for any length of time….if that’s how it has to be, then so be it! Don’t you worry brain…I’ve got you sussed…
Suzi
Day 186 – Week 27 – 27 mins (10)
Yep – just managed the ten minutes today, doing my speedy strength and stretching routine, where I fly through it all at three times the speed.
I’m sure I don’t see any progress on the days I do this, but as long as I’m not going backwards, that’s fine with me.
There are always going to be days when you really cannot logistically fit in a full exercise routine. The most important thing is not to let that be an excuse to give up.
For me, the answer is to get myself into my exercise gear and do even just one minute of the routine I usually do. That is sending a message to my body that I still care, I’m still making the effort, I’m not going to abandon it completely to the ravages of red wine and chocolate. For this 24-hour period I care about you, my body, enough to spend a few minutes invested in moving you about.
That is why I do my mini-routines on the days where I just can’t manage a full one. In a couple of days time I will be able to return to the programme, and I won’t have slipped back.
Suzi
Day 184 – Week 27 – 27 mins
There is one exercise I live in fear of.
Whenever it would come up in a yoga class, or an aerobics class somewhere, I would start shaking with dread. Well – if I wasn’t shaking before the exercise, I certainly was afterwards.
Even the name of the exercise fills me with trepidation – conjuring up images of wild seas and pirates.
That’s right. You guessed it.
It’s ‘The Plank’.
Don’t tell me you haven’t felt the same, when someone tells you it’s time to do The Plank. My muscles are beginning to tremble just thinking of it.
But today – as I looked through my book of exercises you can do at home, trying to decide what I would do with my extra minute this week – the page fell open to the dreaded Plank.
I took a deep breath. Maybe now I was ready to tackle it.
I was delighted to discover there is a modified version you can do, where you keep your knees on the floor. Yippee! That’s the one for me I decided. As we all know – I’m all for gaining strength and fitness as slowly and painlessly as possible, and if I can do a half plank instead of a full one to get myself used to the idea, then I’m all for it.
There’s plenty of time to move on to a full and proper Plank at some other stage….
Suzi
