Day 167 – Week 24 – 24 mins
It was surprisingly easy to get up this morning and go for my run, despite it being a Sunday. It was a beautiful day – one to be treasured with winter on its way – and it was great being out in it. It won’t be long before the dark mornings will be making the bosu the primary option for cardio right throughout the winter.
The last few days I have felt a little bit stronger, but still not seeing any change on the scales. If anything I have put on a kilo or two, which is less than encouraging.
BUT – we’re not even halfway through this experiment yet, so there’s still hope ahead.
Suzi
Day 152 – Week 22 – 22 mins
Saturday today – and a joy to have a sleep in and then get on with my strength and stretching – all 22 minutes of it, without worrying about having to get out of the flat quickly.
And then I walked, and walked, and walked around Berlin. Definitely did my fair share of exercise today!
Suzi
Day 143 – Week 21 – 21 mins
A better day today – did my full quota of strength exercises. There’s no doubt I have much less resistance to the strength work than the cardio work. There’s just something about huffing and puffing that puts me off. And for strength work I get to lie on the floor for some of the time, and that’s always a bonus.
Tomorrow – I must bosu…and with a bit of luck I’ll be all fired up to do my full 21 minutes. It’ll be touch and go though tomorrow. My fella is away – and when that happens, it’s very easy to reach over and pick up the laptop as soon as I wake up. But if I do that….all will be lost….I’ll be lost in cyberspace…
Suzi
Day 142 – Week 21- 21 mins (5)
I didn’t have it in me this morning. I had no energy and no motivation. But I eventually dragged out the bosu and did a fairly half-hearted five minutes – not the 21 minutes I should have been doing.
But this is the way I see it. Nobody can be motivated every single day. No one can wake up bursting with energy, desperate to get out there and moving each and every morning. Some days, you just don’t want to do it.
But in the old days, I would of course have done nothing on those days – or weeks – or months. I would have let all the good work slide away, until I was back at square one, or beyond. This way, even though I only managed a fairly rubbish five minutes, it kept me on track, for one more day. I might have several days like this, who knows, but at least I’ll be staying on the same spot instead of going backwards. And I will just keep doing whatever I can until the motivation comes back. Which it will, because it always does. It just might not be tomorrow….
Suzi
Day 141 – Week 21 – 21 mins
Added one more minute to my strength routine today – deciding to go for some calf raises. Calf raises are something I have always been a little frightened of, due to the fact that for many years I haven’t really liked my calves. I’ve always thought they were too big, and I blamed it on years and years of ballet, where I worked them really hard, and then stopped!
But since doing this exercise challenge, I have found I have come to like my calves a little bit. Somehow they seem to have tightened up slightly, and gained a little definition. So, I’m hoping that adding some calf raises to the routine WON’T cause them to get even bigger (that’s what I’ve always been afraid of) but will just make them a little more beautiful….
Here’s to beautiful calves for all of us…
Suzi
