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 173 – Week 25 – 25 mins
Today, I had to drag myself out of my dressing gown and get out for a run – oh, I don’t know – at about 3.00 o’clock in the afternoon. This, as you might have guessed, is meant to be a relaxing holiday, and getting dressed is to be avoided as much as possible.
But I did it – and went for a run in the howling wind, along the nearby country roads. It was fine, but I was grateful to get back inside to our little hideaway cottage, have a shower, and back into the dressing gown and ugg boots. That for me, is what holidays are all about.
Suzi
Day 172 – Week 25 – 25 mins
Today was a complete contrast to yesterday. After a sleep in this morning, all I had to think about what was what I needed to pack before my fella whisked me away for a surprise weekend away. So, it was actually relatively easy to get up and do my full 25 minutes of Stretching and Strengthening, listening to Cowboy Junkies.
Today was one of those days where I felt a sudden leap forward – but just in relation to my abs. Today, it wasn’t hard to do my one minute of crunches. Every other day it has been. I don’t know if it is a once off – but it is something to be celebrated. Abs have never been my forte.
I write this, sitting in a little old cottage in Suffolk, in front of an open fire, with a glass of wine by my side. A perfect weekend away. Tomorrow’s cardio will mean some kind of jog along country lanes….
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
Day 170 – Week 25 – 25 mins (10)
Now today was one of those days when I really should have stuck to my rules and done exercise FIRST THING in the morning. Instead, I decided to enjoy lounging about in bed, doing some interneting, catching up with a few people on facebook – always with the intention of doing it later.
But then – I suddenly had a conference call that went on longer than it should of, I had a writing job that had to be done immediately, so it was lunch time before I finally got into my exercise gear.
Then ten minutes into it, I got a phone call I had to take. And then I had to make another phone call, and then I had to race out and meet some friends from Australia I hadn’t seen for years.
So – all in all – I was actually lucky to get that ten minutes in at all. But you see, how easy it is to lose the plot if you don’t do it first thing in the morning, even when you think you have all day to do it? You’d think I’d have figured that out by now…but sometimes, the lure of that nice warm bed is just impossible to resist. Fight it girl, fight it!
Suzi
