Day 131 – Week 19 – 19 mins
It was a beautiful morning to go for a run this morning. And I felt a bit stronger and less puffed as I did it today – are we seeing another little gradual lift in my fitness?
I have realised that so much of all this is about being a little bit creative in figuring out how you are going to get the exercise done, instead of turning away at the first difficulty. For example, this afternoon and evening we have a funeral and wake to go to. We will then stay in a hotel at the location, and I will go straight from there early in the morning to go to work – and I will not be home until around 9.00pm.
So when and how will I be able to do my strength exercises tomorrow? Do I use the unusual and difficult circumstances as an excuse not to do them? In the past – I’d have decided it was impossible. But is that really the case? I will pack my resistance strap and medicine ball – and will try and find myself 19 minutes and a couple of square meters of space at the hotel before I go to work. I won’t have my weights with me, so it will be a compromise – but at least I am not giving up completely on the idea.
For me – this commitment and planning is what is making the difference, so that I can gradually build up my strength and fitness, rather than find myself back at square one every few weeks or months. Long may it last,
Suzi
Day 121 – Week 18 – 18 mins
Back on the bosu again….
I missed the old bosu during the weeks of holidays and visitors, and while it was hard work, it was good to be back on it again this morning. I tell you – it doesn’t take too much to get your heart rate up on that thing.
One thing I have decided though, is that I need to bite the bullet and invest in some exercise shorts of some description. I truly DETEST spending money on sports clothing. If I’m going shopping, I want to buy something with beads or sequins, I really DO NOT want to spend it on some overpriced piece of fabric which is just going to get drenched in sweat after five minutes. But given that all I have is some ancient stretched cotton numbers that are some kind of cross between trackie dacks and leggings – jigging about in the summer heat is doing me in. Something that finishes around about the knee and allows a little airflow, is what is required I think.
But you know – I just can’t get excited about a trip to Sweaty Betty on my day off….
Suzi
Day 120 – Week 18 – 18 mins
120 days – that’s pretty much four months. Am I svelte, full of energy and 60kgs or below yet? Mmmm….seems not quite yet. Nothing for it but to keep going and hope I hit that tipping point sometime soon.
Did a good solid 18 minutes strength workout today, to make up for yesterday’s sad performance. It’s getting increasingly challenging to come up with something to add as my extra minute each week, so I got out a couple of exercise books I had for inspiration. And now – I have lots of idea to keep me going. Of course, remembering them all is a little more of a challenge….
Suzi
Day 117 – Week 17 – 17 mins
As there was no chance of an early morning jog after my over indulgent day/evening yesterday – I went for the old ‘I’ll go for a run at work’ trick today.
Trouble was – when it came to lunch time, when I should have gone for a jog, I was starving – and given the choice of run or food – the food won. This was no doubt also due to my over indulgence yesterday. I am always ravenous if I have had too much to drink the day before!.
Of course – then I had to let the food digest – so all in all – it was 4.30pm before I could get out there. Tragically – that meant missing half an hour or so of a very exciting cricket match on the telly – but, the deed was done.
Though – given there were so many people around, and that I had no desire to risk any colleagues seeing me trying to touch my toes – I did resort to doing my stretching in the shower cubicle after the run. This ‘by hook or by crook’ exercise routine certainly encourages a creative approach, I have to say.
Suzi
Day 115 – Week 17 – 17 mins
Despite having visitors in the house, sleeping on the sofa bed, I managed to slip into the living room to do my strength workout this morning. Don’t worry – they were up and about, I didn’t try and do it while they were in there…
It’s weird – but I almost feel like I have to sneak around doing the exercise thing – why is that? Shouldn’t I be proud that I’m doing it? I think the reason for my reticence is two-fold.
1) If people aren’t regular exercisers themselves, they seem to be slightly uncomfortable that you are. Does it make them feel guilty that they are not doing it? You getting up and doing your thing is a very clear reminder to them that they are not – and I think they feel a little uncomfortable.
2) They don’t think it will last. I’m pretty sure that when I explain to most people what I’m doing, they think it is just a passing fancy – that I will get tired of it and go back to being Ms Sedentary in a week or two. I don’t blame them. There’s been many a time I’ve started a project/new habit, only to have it dwindle out a few weeks or later. But isn’t that the whole point of one goal one minute? To break that pattern….To have decided on the ONE THING I promise to do every day, in some form or another…So I don’t really worry about what people are thinking about this…I am in fact, slightly smug. Because I know – by hook or by crook – I will complete this experiment – no matter how tired or bored of it I become. It is now a matter of honour!!
Suzi
