Day 211 – Week 31 – 31 mins (5)
Ohhhh! Was really rubbish this morning.
I should have gone for a 31 minute run nice and early, but just couldn’t get myself out of bed. This of course meant I only had five minute to jump on the bosu before heading off to work.
Not good at all!!!
Have given myself a good talking to (and a bit of a whipping!) and promise to do better tomorrow.
Suzi
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Day 156 – Week 23 – 23 mins (5)
Not a good effort this morning. I only managed five minutes of strength and stretching before I just didn´t have the energy for it. I´m not really sure why…
I tried to make up for it with a good round of sight-seeing this morning before a late start at work.
Suzi
Day 144 – Week 21 – 21 mins (10)
Well, I did better than my last cardio day – but still not up to the full quota. 10 minutes this morning, instead of five.
I am realising that when I feel overwhelmed with things to do, that is when I feel like I don’t have time to exercise. It’s not true of course, but in my head, that is what I’m feeling.
For the last few days I have felt that I am not on top of things, and that is immediately reflected in an increased resistance to doing the exercise. It feels like a waste of time to exercising, instead of getting on with all these millions of things I feel like I need to do. That’s not the reality of course. The reality is that I then lie in bed for an hour arguing with myself that I can’t get up and do the exercise, because I have too many things to do, and then of course, I have wasted that hour. Ridiculous.
There’s only two possible solutions to this. I either get on top of my life (which only ever happens for two or three consecutive days at the most!) or I get over thinking I have to be on top of everything to make it a ‘good day’ for exercise. And that’s not as easy as you might think…..
Suzi
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 130 – Week 19 – 19 mins
This morning, as I looked at my usual supplies for my five minute warm up before going into my strength training – I just felt bored. Laid out were my little medicine ball and resistance strap, and I had no inclination to pick them up at all – I’ve been doing the same warm up for over four months now!
I had just put on Goldfrapp’s Seventh Tree album – and before I knew it, I had got carried away and started doing a little dance around the living room. And then I thought – why not? I can make this my warm up instead. I was overwhelmed by the spirit of my youthful ballet training and proceeded to plie, pirouette and prance myself into a very warmed up state. And the music was just perfect for it.
After five minutes of “free interpretation” as I think it was called in my childhood dance classes, I was well and truly ready to get on with my lunges and the rest of my strength training.
Remember – we have to make this as fun as possible – and you know what? Prancing about counts if it gets your heart rate up and the blood flowing around your body. Why not give it a try?
