Day 188 – Week 27 – 27 mins (2)
Again, nothing more than a minimalist contribution to my general fitness and health today, with two minutes of stretching/strengthening.
I’ll be back on track properly tomorrow, and least for a couple of days.
Suzi
Day 187 – Week 27 – 27 mins (2)
Just a quick two minutes today on the bosu. It’s far too early in the morning to be doing anything more than that….
Suzi
Day 186 – Week 27 – 27 mins (10)
Yep – just managed the ten minutes today, doing my speedy strength and stretching routine, where I fly through it all at three times the speed.
I’m sure I don’t see any progress on the days I do this, but as long as I’m not going backwards, that’s fine with me.
There are always going to be days when you really cannot logistically fit in a full exercise routine. The most important thing is not to let that be an excuse to give up.
For me, the answer is to get myself into my exercise gear and do even just one minute of the routine I usually do. That is sending a message to my body that I still care, I’m still making the effort, I’m not going to abandon it completely to the ravages of red wine and chocolate. For this 24-hour period I care about you, my body, enough to spend a few minutes invested in moving you about.
That is why I do my mini-routines on the days where I just can’t manage a full one. In a couple of days time I will be able to return to the programme, and I won’t have slipped back.
Suzi
Day 185 – Week 27 – 27 mins
Oh, I did not feel like going for a run this morning. No particular reason – I was just very comfortably working away on my laptop in bed, and could quite happily have stayed there all day. My defence for this attitude is that Winston Churchill used to work a lot from bed, and he did all right for himself!
But eventually, I couldn’t fight the guilt any longer, and I got myself up and dressed. Of course, the run itself wasn’t that bad once I was out there, in fact it was quite pleasant.
And it is a good thing I went. The next three days are going to be hellish, with very long days at work and no opportunity to go out for a run at lunch time. I will be leaving the house at 6.30 every morning, so I suspect I will only manage around ten minutes of jigging about each day before I go.
So be warned – there’ll be no activity records broken here over the next few days!!
Suzi
Day 184 – Week 27 – 27 mins
There is one exercise I live in fear of.
Whenever it would come up in a yoga class, or an aerobics class somewhere, I would start shaking with dread. Well – if I wasn’t shaking before the exercise, I certainly was afterwards.
Even the name of the exercise fills me with trepidation – conjuring up images of wild seas and pirates.
That’s right. You guessed it.
It’s ‘The Plank’.
Don’t tell me you haven’t felt the same, when someone tells you it’s time to do The Plank. My muscles are beginning to tremble just thinking of it.
But today – as I looked through my book of exercises you can do at home, trying to decide what I would do with my extra minute this week – the page fell open to the dreaded Plank.
I took a deep breath. Maybe now I was ready to tackle it.
I was delighted to discover there is a modified version you can do, where you keep your knees on the floor. Yippee! That’s the one for me I decided. As we all know – I’m all for gaining strength and fitness as slowly and painlessly as possible, and if I can do a half plank instead of a full one to get myself used to the idea, then I’m all for it.
There’s plenty of time to move on to a full and proper Plank at some other stage….
Suzi
