Hello all
I did two lots of exercises on Wednesday, but only got one on Garmin! So I had to go and add the first one manually! As it was my first 'class' that I went live with on facebook, I think it's acceptable.
Jan said that it looked as if I was finding it a bit easier! Oh if only! Maybe I was just working harder at it, I knew the moves he was going to be doing next and so I was ready for it! I did the Body Project one again, I do like that one, repetition, I guess that's the best thing, work harder as you know what's coming! I think now, all the classes I have found on youtube so far, I will stick with the few favourite ones during the week, maybe try out a new one once a week, and then have fun on the Friday with the dancing ones! I like ending the week on a high!
Anyway back to Wednesdays. The first was the Body Project (I know I just said mentioned that) deffo on my top three fav vids so far. Even for the fact that the two people he has with him, doing the class with the instructor (I must try and get the instructors name!) well, they are just ordinary, not so skinny people! It just makes you feel that you are not wasting your time doing classes. Because if these guys are there, on youtube for all to see then it's gotta be worth it, right!? Facebook was playing up again today, with the whole 'invite someone to your live show' button thing! It was there yesterday afternoon, but this morning, when I wanted it, it was gone! Not only that my my sister Hayley was late! Tut tut, so in the end, Bims was on facetime and watching me on live too! We worked hard, there were a few people who popped in and said hi, which was nice. I love to see the comments, it feels like I am with my pals when I am working out!
I think I worked really hard, I felt the burn in my thighs, I was sweating, I think I only stopped short a couple of times! Tut, but mainly I worked it! Bims had her weights with her. I think that is what I am going to get now, along with a mat, because I know when I do the floor exercises, (not that there were any in todays reps) I always slip on the floor. A little treat for myself I think. Anyway, we did it, we smashed it, we got the sweat for doing it! Loved it!
The next one I did on the same day was with my work colleagues. It was suggested that we come along and have fun doing a zumba class! I have checked out the Zumba classes on youtube, to be honest, it's not entirely my thing, mainly because I need verbal instruction, just before each exercise, as well as just seeing how it's done. My brain seems to go to mush when I try and decided which way to go, with which hand or knee going up, down or sideways! I have noticed that on all the Zumba classes on youtube they are all the same, the instructor in front, just pointing out which way or which leg she/he is going to use and then does it! So by the time I have worked out what to do they are on the next move. I can't get those the hand signals, the count down with the fingers letting me know when the next 'move' is going to happen. I was only too glad that my camera decided to pack up before we started the class as I was just so uncoordinated, I was all arms and legs going in different directions. Still I just kind of wiggled my hips in the right places, I still managed to get a sweat on, and it was fun (ish)! But Zumba, hmm, maybe it's not quite the right classes for me! Stick to my discuiplined exercises and core training!
Thursday, well that was done with
Adele Murrell a friend of mine. I think I have told you all before. I am a creature of habit, I like to do things that I have done before and get it right! This would be the third time I had done this same class with Adele, I still enjoyed it just as much! My muscles, I am sure, enjoyed it too! Bims was with me on facebook live! We finally managed to get it together! That was fun, seeing her with me on the same screen! I have yet to get organised where I can 'see' both of my sisters while exercising! It will come, I know!
I kept having to pause Adele, just while I picked myself up off the floor, and then to start the next exercises! There is no rest for the wicked! Maybe when she goes 'live' next time on facebook she can 'invite' one or her clients on screen, someone who is not quite as subtle as her, and takes just a little bit longer to get up off the floor! No rest for the wicked (chocolate, cheescake, chicken flavour crisp munchers to you!)
There were spotty dogs, planks and all other sorts of exercises thrown in there, down on the floor, up on our feet, back down on the floor. It deffo worked us all.. I say 'us' because sometimes it is not just me, or me and my sister, my other pals join in too! Jan and Lou often come and join me! It's so much fun when there are more of you. The banter, even if I can only see after I have finished, I can see the chat as it happens on my live feed.
Of course after that, both me and Bims went for a bike ride! I forgot to take my Garmin with me,
anyway, I have written about that in my cycling blog! Feck knows how you find it from here, but I think if you click buttons you will be able to find it! Either that or just check out my facebook page, I usually post it on there, showing off how marvelous I am doing all this exercise!
It was a very special weekend, our bank Holiday Monday was moved to the Friday, it was VE day, 75 years! Amazing! Amazing to think that there are still some old soldiers left that was in WW2. Captain...Colonel Tom Moore, for instance! At a 100 year old, he walked around his nursing home 100 times raising an astonishing 32 million pounds for the NHS! He was in the war. Such an inspirational man! Other elder people also do amazing things for people their age. Walking up and down stairs, to equal the height of Mount Everest, or it may have been another huge mountain! Anyway, it's going up, it's stairs! It kills me going up my one flight of stairs! let along going up them to equal a mountain!
Saturday of course I lazed again! Doing nothing by laying in my garden topping up my freckles. But then Sunday, well Sunday me and Naggyneighbour went for a nice social distancing run through Jubilee park and beyond. Naggy wanted to do slightly more than the usual 3.5 miles, at least, the very least get to 4 miles distance. I had a route planned to run to Jubilee, in through the gate, an head left.
When we left our road Naggy was well and truly so socially distanced from me that I couldn't see her! I struggled just on that first road, my breathing was all over the place. I know my diet has a lot to do with the way my body is working right now, totally the wrong things. But giving up booze (just for the year, July 22nd, here I come!) and giving up the fags only this year, there is no way I am giving up my chocolate and sweet stuff just yet! I am enjoying my crips and sherbers, my shortbread biscuits with my tea! No, I need to keep those going, just for a while longer. But I am sure, in fact I know it's what makes me sluggish, a bloated, full up feeling while trying to run!
I sort of ran walked all the way to the park where Naggy was waiting for me! We went into the park, dodging people, trying to keep 2m away and then headed for The Manor at Bickley! From there it was that blimmin hill! Oh how I hate that hill! I had a bit of time to think about it as we ran past the hotel, then turning right to run down towards the two bridges!
There were many people about, there was going to be many a stopping to let people go, or running/walking slowly past them, trying not to breath on them a I pass. That Hill soon was before me! I could almost feel it taunting me "Hello Old Girl, where have you been" It almost speaks loudly to me "Let's see how you do this time, dodging all those sensible people walking up the hill" You just know, if hills could talk, that's exactly what it would say! Especially as I did have to dodge a few people going up there! Naggy seemed to fly up there!
When I got to the top she seem well rested while I was ready to puke up my shortbread biscuits! This next bit of path is just enough to go along single file. There will be no 2m distance if there is anyone coming from the other side!.....And yet there was! A family, with a little girl. I thanked them as I passed them, the mother holding in her child, almost shielding her daughters face from this monster jogger who is breathing heavily all over the place! Just then, just as I passed them I cried. I mean a big huge sob welled up in side and came out! I had just about composed my self by the time I got to the end where yet more people were waiting. This virus has got everyone feeling just about like paranoid nutcase or a mutated germ breathing monster. At that point, I felt like the monster! I felt horrible!
We ran down Botany Bay Lane, again so filled with families, enjoying the last of the sunshine for the day, well, it was forecasted to rain all day on Sunday. Naggy stood up on a kerb, by the sheep field, waiting for the families to walk slowly past her. She said not one of them said thank you, it seemed as if they had forgotten all about social distancing because they were not moving to the other side either! If we could have, Naggy wanted to leave the park there and then, but we were kind of in the middle. We decided to not go back through Jubilee park, but once we were over the three bridges we would come out via Tent Peg Lane and then go back home from there.
Just over 4 miles we covered on Sunday. The longest run I have done in a while! I enjoyed it, it was slow, but it was good to be out!
And so there's today! Today was exercise in front of the tv again. I found another Body Project video to follow. The instructor said it was no.4! His first one was done 6 years prior to this one, and this one was filmed in 2019! I would love to know if the that was the one I did first, you know, with Wayne the big guy and Angie. I would love to see if the programme worked for him. He looked to be well into to, I hope so!
This one had the instructors wife/partner there too, well I think it was as they were talking about their child! I was just hoping it was going to be just as good as the first one, really give us a good work out! And do you know what! We were not disappointed! I had both my sisters working out with me, although I could only watch one of them, but Hayley said she was doing it. I will watch her one day! make sure she's doing it right! Old Bims there had the weights again! I must treat myself to some! And a mat! Instead of watching telly I should go on amazon or whatever it is and buy some things for me!
I had remembered to start my watch, thanks Jan! And remember to turn it off with in a couple of minutes of finishing too! Not ba for an Old Girl!
So enough of my ramblings, heres to the next fun packed week of exercises with a blog at the end!
