Day 177 – Week 26 – 26 mins
You do feel a bit silly, dragging out the bosu at half past five in the morning.
It’s almost as if you are doing something naughty – I have no idea why. I guess it’s the sneaking around, trying not to wake the other half up. But I did stand there, all dressed up in my exercise gear, thinking that people would think I was mad.
But it’s not that crazy is it? Surely – thousands of people across the world are joining me in such healthy and uplifting activity, in the deep dark of the early morning….
And 26 minutes later…I felt damn good about it. If not a little sweaty….
Suzi
Day 176 – Week 26 – 26 mins
Things are feeling good right now – I seem to be in a bit of a groove for the moment.
This morning I was up at half past five getting myself stretched and strengthened, and I actually felt good about it. I’m not silly enough to assume that will last, but hey, why not enjoy it while I can. It is now very dark at half past five, and is still dark half an hour later – but it’s time to buckle down and get used to it. It’s going to be some time before the light comes streaming through the window at five in the morning again.
Suzi
Day 175 – Week 26 – 26 mins
I was at home today – and it was a grey old day. I kept putting off my workout in the hope that it would stop raining and I could actually go for a run outside. I know that I am going to jigging about indoors for most of the next six months, so I am trying to get outside whenever I can. But no such luck – that rain was here to stay. So out came the old bosu – I suspect I’ll be seeing a lot more of that in the weeks ahead.
And while I know I said the whole idea of this experiment was to make it about the exercise and not the diet – I feel as if I have been overindulging a little too much in the alcohol department in recent months, and it really is time to give my liver a little bit of a rest. So – and I hate to actually have to say it, because then I am committed – but I am going on a 30 day alcohol free spree. Starting yesterday.
Now this isn’t easy – we have just ordered in two cases of lovely red wine, and I am going to have to politely decline when the open bottle is put on the table in front of me – but (she says through gritted teeth) – it is good for me. And a bit of self-discipline never hurt anyway….
Now where’s that Ribena? Can you put it in a wine glass for me…
Suzi
Day 174 – Week 25 – 25 mins
Ok – that’s twice now I have been able to do my abs without feeling like screaming in pain about thirty seconds into it. I managed a whole minute of crunches today without that moment where it feels like someone is prodding a spade into your stomach. This is real, tangible progress.
I DO however, think that I have very slow learning muscles. It has taken me nearly six months to manage a minute of abs without pain, I would have hoped it wouldn’t have taken quite that long. Who knows – another six months in and I might manage to lift my tiny weights above my head for more than 15 seconds!! It seems to take continuous coaxing and encouragement to get my muscles to do what muscles should do, but in the end, I think I may just manage to convince them….
Suzi
Day 171 – Week 25 – 25 mins (5)
Have to say – today was the kind of day that in the days pre-onegoaloneminute, I would never have done any exercise. I had to be out of the house at 6.30 in the morning, I go home at 8.30pm, and I hardly had a minute to breath during the working day. I got home completely knackered with a raging headache, and after some Nurofen, dinner and a glass of wine – I collapsed in a a heap and fell asleep.
So – it was fortunate I managed to do my five minutes of jigging about at all, before going to work, and I’m immensely proud of it. What good does it do? Well – it keeps me on track. It doesn’t burn a lot of calories, it doesn’t lose me any weight, it doesn’t make me any stronger – but it stops me falling off the wagon. And that’s good enough.
Suzi
