Per request from Saef, new thread for a new month! What are you all moving this month? It doesn't have to be official exercise, anything active you do counts!
August 1: triathlon!
swam 500 meters
biked 12.5 miles
ran 3.1 miles
Thank you, Jessica aka Paperclippy. Now my mind is easier because I've got a place to write this down. I don't know why it has become important to me, but somehow it is.
Aug. 1: 15 minutes on my gym's new rowing machine
45 minutes weights
45 minutes spin class
Aug 2: 60 minutes, stationary bike at my office's gym
45 minutes Pilates routine on my own
Aug 3: 10 minutes rowing
45 minutes weights
45 minutes spin class
What are you all moving this month? It doesn't have to be official exercise, anything active you do counts!
Thanks for making this comment, Jessica. I know that the gymn is best for me in terms of focussed activity and so I sometimes forget the value of all the other moving about stuff.
Today was Aerobic Laundry Marathon. In and out, through the showers to the washing line, hauling the airer up and down, and Herculean amounts of ironing. It just has to count. I must stop getting behind with things. I must do a little and often. (Most of all this was mine and I don't have many clothes.)
I've also just finished a team building exercise: woman, boy, male friend have to get an old double mattress through a garden and down a narrow path overhung with vegetation, down a track and into the back of a vehicle without giggling, swearing or doing their backs in. Complete failure - I sit here with an ice pack glued to my lower back. More fun than many other things, though.
Dog walk didn't happen last night, I was feeling pretty crappy and just laid down on the couch instead. Feeling much better today though, I think I finally caught up on sleep.
Aug 4:
10 min summit trainer (cross between elliptical and stair climber)
ran 1 mile between 5.3 and 5.5 mph, plus cooldown
5 min stretching
about 5 min of core work:
- 10 swiss ball jackknifes
- 10 swiss ball crunches
- 10 back extension x 2
- 5 roman chair leg lift x 2
Aug 4: 60 minutes stationary bike at my office's gym
45 minutes Pilates routine -- and maybe five more minutes, waiting for the male janitor to finish cleaning the women's locker room so I could go back in & change
Aug. 5: 60 minutes arc trainer at hill intervals, resistance at eight
60 minutes Pilates class, and it's amazing how an instructor's admonitions to focus on certain things & her slight nudges & repositionings of one's body make all the difference between working out on one's own & working out under a trained eye.
A little bit of money just came my way, in the form of a settlement from the insurance company that covers the owner of the van that hit me back on April Fool's Day. I'm thinking I should spend some of this money on my body. It's only fair. Which means maybe buy myself some personal training sessions at my gym. (Yet it's hard for me to spend $$ on this. I have to talk myself into it. I'm not a miser but may be a bit of a puritan skinflint.)
Aug. 6: 60 minutes arc trainer, with me being selfish & bad, ignoring a woman who kept glancing at me & the woman next to me on the gym's only two arc trainers, obviously wanting to use the equipment. Finally, I decided I'd give mine to her, after just seven minutes more, & finish off with a rowing session, but the woman next to me got off her machine, so I was safe. And relieved to keep doing what I'd been doing. And then the woman who'd wanted an arc trainer decided she didn't want one after all, now that one was available.
Aug 5: none.
Aug 6: none planned, maybe a dog walk.
I feel like the biggest slacker ever this week. Funny how I used to work out 2-3x/week and that seemed like a lot, but after doing 6x/week for the past few months it seems like nothing. I did my race last Sunday, a workout on Wednesday, and I have a 5k race tomorrow, but it feels like I'm barely doing any work this week. Next week back to the drawing board (or the weight bench, as the case may be).
6 August: 15 - 20 mins sculling (swimming). Saw the osteopath on 5th and he recommended this.
7 August: 45 mins yoga & stretching; 60 mins (maybe more) brisk walking; 15 mins sculling. Good, this is more like it. I'm at my mother's. It takes me a few days to travel and arrive but now there's time to move about.
Maintainers moving in August!
