It's been a while!

Hello blog readers.

Its me again!

So Two weeks worth of exercising and running shoved into one!  Lets see if I can do it!

Well, I have been prancing around in my sitting room doing my exercises in my sitting room! Mainly it's been Team Body Project!  I just love those guys!  I have joined the facebook group and actually joined on the members portal on the web too!  I've not done too much with the web page as yet, but I will get around to it soon.  I'm just having fun(?) doing the workouts from youtube and going live with it!  Janice is still with me and now Tracy is working out with me too!  My sisters both seem to be working now! Darn it!  

I have also been working out on the green with the neighbours and friends too!  That's been a lot of fun, dodging the rain, I think I have only canceled twice because of the the rain. So I am really pleased about that.  Fiona from the close is loving it, and Dawn opposite me is enjoying it too! There has been a couple of friends that are not neighbours that have come along too! I am loving it!  We are all just working out together trying to keep as fit and as active as we can. I think if we just keep on working and moving then we can get through this COVID and come out the other side not as thick around the middle as we thought we would!

I did Adele Murrell class as well!  I am sure I am doing better at her classes, it seems like I am getting up and down from the mat a bit quicker than the first time I did her class!  I shall have to go and have a look at my videos (a great suggestion from Janice)  which is a blimmin great idea actually!  After all, the proof is actually seeing the difference.  My weight hasn't blimmin shifted at all! Not one flaming ounce!  But my clothes still fit!  Well, my black trousers don't or my black dress that I needed!  By my stretchy jeans all fit!   Also someone said that I have a waist again!  Which is good!  I knew it was in there some where,  so I took these pictures from my workout videos, what do you think, is there a slightly less thickening around the middle? Let me know in a postcard! Oh my goodness, I am showing my age now!

Jordan Burns workout was another one I did.  I have sent him my email address and I am going to try and do one of his HIIT classes via zoom!  I am not sure how I will do with that!  It'll be interesting!  But I think I am looking forward to it!  We shall see!

My running clubs fitness in the Rec is still going strong.  Although we have had a couple of wet offerings, we still kept going!  Groups of 6 doing running exercises and core exercises.  There four groups in Willet Rec and there are a few more groups in Eynsford Park.  It looks like it's all working well.  I have been taking my.....ooops my hubbys speaker along, we do our core exercises to music.  It seems to hurt less and feels like we are on a night out!

Oh, yes, of course.  I went running too!  I went running just this Saturday gone.  I am doing 'Jeffing' to get me around, staying focused on the whole timed running bits.  I am running 1 minute, walking 1 minute, Jeff Galloways style of running.  Anything to look for that darn mojo of mine that seems to have gone into total isolation!  The discipline of counting the seconds on each minute, making sure that I run every second of the minute, and making sure that I don't blend my walking seconds into my running seconds is doing me good I think.  I am going to up my running to 90 seconds running 60 seconds walking. probably after I come back from my holiday!  I am totally aching after my running, which means that I must be working all sorts of other muscles while running than I am when I am doing the workouts!  Strange.  

Not too bad a blog, a short one considering I have been working out 6 days a week, for the last 2 weeks, sometimes two or three times a day!  I'm impressed with me! Just for the sheer staying power, sticking with the whole of the workouts every day!  That's only because I'm working out with my mates on line!  Thanks ladies!  You don't know how much you help me to stay focused! 

I just got to get myself back on that bike and I shall be all hunky dory again!

Some comparison photos.  Hmm, is there a difference?

April 2020

July 2020

Hmmm Maybe!

Games, Workouts and Running!

Hello blog readers.

I've not been idle, I've been up to all sorts! It's been over a week since the last blog.  So, what have I been doing!  Well, I've been prancing in front of the telly, doing my Team Body Project workouts with Janice.  I had last wednesday off, family friends funeral, but since then hard work!  You would think that I would show, somewhere in my body! Somewhere, there is a very hard worked, lean, strong muscle that is hidden by blubber and what ever!  Because I really do work hard, but then, of course, the eating.....the eating does get a bit in the way of progress!  All I keep thinking is that 'If I didn't exercise, prance in front of the telly then I could be a blob by now, trying to rock myself of my chair each night......or to go to the loo, which is about as much exercise I would do!

So Monday, TBP, with Jan, Tuesday, TPB with Jan, Thursday TPB with Jan,  those three days we were doing a TBP programme that I found on YouTube, it's called Two Week Transformation, Day 1 called Sweat Slinger, Day 2 was called Warrior.  Wednesday of course I didn't exercise at all, not even in the evening with the neighbours, Thursday it was TWT day 3.  I also did my clubs Speed and core work on at the rec.  With a bubble of 6 of us on one park of the rec, three other bubbles taking up other parts of the rec and yet more bubbles of 6 at a difference location all together!  You can tell that we have all missed our club meets, because we have to book these sessions and they fill up pretty darn quick!  I was leading again, so of course I brought along the things I've been learning on YouTube, a nice 15 minute session of core and leg work done to music! I think my group quite liked the disco effect! Then was Friday, I looked for TWT day 4, but I couldn't find it on YouTube, so I checked the website that I am free member on and it was there!  Unfortunately to do that one I needed to upgrade my membership!  Well, that is not going to happen, maybe at some point, but not just yet.  So I looked at what sort of thing it looked to be, and by the description it was mainly cardio. I looked for a TBP class that was all cardio, of course that is all Alex style!  She loves the cardio.  I found the free one called Blaze!  Oh my goodness!  It was tough!  But we smashed it! We did it, I moaned all the way through!

On the Saturday it was back to working out with the neighbours in front of my house!  We used the weights!  It also started raining! Grrr.  At that lovely summer weather seems to have finished now that we have started summer!  I managed to get through most of the exercises that I had planned, cutting some down to 30 seconds instead of 40 seconds.  The rain remained at just a drizzle until we had finished!  Brilliant.

I also went for a run, by myself, all alone, solo run!  I haven't ran for ages!  I been kidding myself that as long as I am exercising my fitness level will stat!  Wrong!  I just the nice route that Naggy does with the dog, up the path that goes to turn around lamppost, but turn left half way along, through the park turn right up to the bus depo and then run along the A21 heading towards Bromley.  Left at the roundabout and then head on home via Greenway, Magpie Hall lane and through the park.  Oh My fecking goodness!  I felt like I was going to die!  I had to do a 'Jeffing' all the way around!  But I did it!  It really is totally different sort of fitness, the running, the workouts, swimming, cycling!    I tell you what I admire those that do triathlons!  Oh my goodness, to be able to do all three with a smile on your face is amazing!

So on that Saturday I have decided that I really do need to pick up my running again.  I had a rest day on Sunday, well...I say rest, as I had a completely empty house I did the whole house top to bottom, clearned, polished, hoovered, washed, you name it I did it.  Most of the day it took me!  I was totally sweating, it felt like I was doing a whole day long workout!

Which brings us to this week.  Yesterday it was back to TBP with resistance and cardio, a good workout with the weights!  Today, well I thought I would do something different and looked through YouTube and came up with 'PopSugar'.  What the feck did I do that!

When you see tiny skinny fit looking girls, full make up, that cutesy tutesy little giggle they do, you know it's gonna be hard!  So, I forewarned Jan what we were going to be doing, didn't even look through the video myself, I just needed it to be another surprise bag of fun!  Fun!  Now there's a word you just wouldn't put with hard work, sweat inducing exercises, is it!  It was tough, and then to watch the instructor do burpees, well!  There is no way in this world will I ever be able to do that!  Way to acrobatic!  I must have looked like I was dying because Dexter, my daughters dog, came over while I was lying on the floor ready to do some exercises and attempted to give me the kiss of life!  Not a pleasant thing really! Bless him! He seemed to have me at a disadvantage as I had my hands full with the weights!

So up to date, we're there!  Still fat and frumpy, but underneath it all are muscles that are turning into steel!  Oh, yes, just one other thing!  Instead of sitting on my arse, sweating, waiting for my heart to get back from panic mode, I changed my shoes and went out for a run!  I didn't push it, I just wanted to get out and run, a very short route along the main road and back through the park, about 1.75 miles!  Again, I did 'Jeffing'  1 minute running, 1 minute walking!

So, until next time bloggers! Stay safe.

A Whole Week of Exercising

Hello blog readers.

So I left my blogging for a while! Well, you don't want me sprouting off everytime I lift a blimmin weight up do you.  It was pretty tough getting back to it again....you know....after the accident!  Two weeks off and I was feeling fecking sluggish, lazy, a little thicker around the middle....and top....and bottom, in fact, everywhere!  I was so looking forward to getting back to doing some sort of exercises, if a little apprehensive. 

Getting back to exercising was a bit like washing my hair for the first time in a week, when the stitch came out.  I was expecting stinging and pain and just general yuckyness, but, thankfully when I did wash my hair it didn't sting at all.  It was like that when I did the first Team Body Project two weeks post accident.  It wasn't that bad!  Ok, it hurt, but it hurt anyway.  My shoulder complained, but I just didn't use the weights.  Through out that first week all I did was the beginners TBP video, I put in as much as I could. On one day I had my own 'backing crew' but they didn't to much, they just layed on the sofa and chair and snoozed, it was my daughters two dogs, Dexter and Chico!

Then on the Thursday it was my running clubs second Fitness In Th Park!  I had missed the previous one, obviously, but I was leading last Thursday!  My running club had come up with measures that we could keep in 6 people bubbles, as recommended by the government, keeping out two meter distances and all do some fitness and running exercises in the park!  You can't imagine how I felt being back meeting up with some of my buddies in the park.  It was good to see everyone.  What wasn't good was the fact the park was almost full to busting!  There was a kids football thing going on, and no doubt that was the parents that were standing around on the grass watching.  There were loads of dog walkers and people just enjoying the park!  I was thinking that maybe we were going to have to abandon at least one of our groups, maybe just go for a 3 mile run through the woods instead!

As it was our club was spread over two parks, there were four groups in Willet rec with a further 4 in Eynsford park, which is actually a bigger park! Thankfully though, the football crew had just finished their time in the park and it soon emptied enough for the four groups to have a piece of the park to do some running and some exercises in.

I began with a warm up jog and some skipping to warm up the legs, and then we had a pyramid style running.  the only bit of running I could think of that has not contact at all.  Then it came to the core training, this is where all those weeks or doing core training in my home came in handy!  I apologised in advance to the 5 ladies that were in my group to what I was about to put them through!  I have been learning a lot!  It's been hard work during all those weeks locked down.  It's a blimmin pity my body don't look like I've been working out, but then, as I keep telling myself, eating chocs and crips and delicious shit like that is not going to help slim me down!

I think I got a few daggers from the ladies as I put them through their paces!  After that we had a relay running section. It was shorter than our usual circuit that we had done in previous years but sharing the green with three other groups you just have to make do.  It was brilliant though, it felt good to be back doing stuff with my running club.

I also have been working out with the neighbours, last Wednesday and Saturday.  Fiona from the close is really keen and just loves coming along.  So all the while I am furloughed I will keep it going!

Today I decided to just go a little harder with the workout!  I did the TBP with Daniel and his wife Alex, fecking nora!  She is one tough lady!  Even Daniel says his wife is trying to kill him!  But I just wanted to see if I could do it.  I found this route just before my accident, I did it the first time and found it hard then!  Why on earth I decided to do it today after only a week 'recuperating exercises' I don't know!  Anyway, I did it, it was flipping tough, even to the stage of 'almost feeling' nauseous, you know that feeling, when you think if you carry on doing something you are likely to start to feel sick, but not quite!  Well, I reached that point today!  I did feel good that I did it, my body just wanted to crawl back upstairs and go to sleep!  I wish I had some of those endorphins or adrenaline or what ever it is that make people feel on fire after a good work out!

So there were are, all up to date.  Back to exercises, flying the flag for wearing helmets on bikes!  I still haven't gotten back on my bike yet, but I will! Honest!  Just got to find the time!

Did I Tell You I Had An Accident

Hello readers.

It's my first day back to regaining my fitness level to pre accident state.  Oh, did I not say, well I had a bit of a fall from my bike!  A big old husky dog ran in front of my bike and I came off!  No helmet, I landed probably head first! I am not sure as I can't remember much! Oh, oh ok I have told you, well that's good.  If you want to read about it all it will be on my cycling blog, complete with graphic pictures.  And if it just makes one other person to put on a helmet before riding, then my job is done!

So today, first day back, 14 days after the fall.  bruises still healing, cuts still healing and my should is definitely on the mend although it is still sore.  I was in a bit of a dilemma, do I go back to the TPB that has no weights or do I stick with where I left off from two weeks ago.  Well, being me, being bloody minded, I thought I would stick with where I left off!  Fool!  How many times have I moaned that people should come back and just take it easy!  Ok, so I thought I was going to take it easy anyway, if any pain happens other than then muscles groaning, then I would stop.  But I was a bit of a stubborn bugger and I didn't want to 'go back'.  It's not going back, honest, it's just warming up!  Anyway, I had bought my weights, my dumbbells and I was going to use them!  I was thinking of doing the harder version, where I would have needed my mate, but decided to just do the first one I did.  All standing, working out, with the weights and with out.  It's going to be tough anyway, so lets just see how it goes.

I announced to all the world......ok to my Facebook friends that I would be back prancing in front of my t.v. again, trying to get fitter.  At 11 in the morning I was there, poised, ready.  Weights ready, drink ready, youtube ready!  It really did feel good to say hi to everyone!  Jan was there, she was going to be joining in! Not sure who else joined in or just watched, but there was a few people that I said hi to!  So, beginners Team Body Project with resistance, all standing and it's something that I was able to do......and almost look like it was easy.....almost!  Two weeks off and a sore shoulder might make this look the michelin man trying to run a marathon without any training! 

The first few minutes, the warm up, was going really well, I couldn't even feel any niggling pain in my shoulder, I know I have been moving it about a lot more in the last 3 or 4 days, so I knew it would be ok.  Even after the workout began, still I wouldn't have known I fell of my bike, just felt good.  But then as the workout progressed, the weights, the squats, more weights, arms up, arms down, squats!  Boy did I feel it then.  Not pain, just aches and moans and groans in my muscles.  My shoulder did crumble a bit more and on the odd occasion I had to stop before the official break!  It was hard work, I got a bit of a sweat on, not like I usually do, but then I didn't work as hard as I usually do!  My muscles were just not letting me! 

So, tomorrow, I will push pass the pain!  I will not stop, once I press play then it's full on!  I have two weeks to catch up on!  This furlough business is not going to last much longer surely!  Mind you, I think once I am back at work, my working out are going to continue!  I am loving it!

Oh, I must introduce Jan's workout buddy, her granddaughter, she even used some weights!  How cool is that!

It's good to be back but don't worry, I won't be blogging everyday, but I just wanted to blog today to say 'Hi I am back, thank you all for your kind messages, flowers, chocolates and that lovely lillie plant, thank you all, I've missed you all"

A Whole Week of No Blogging?

Hello Readers

A whole week of nothing from me!  Well, it doesn't mean that I have been doing nothing!  I have been busy doing all sorts.  Not much running though! I am so finding that a hard thing to get going again, not sure why.  But keeping myself busy with the work outs with my pals has been a life saver!

I can't imagine what I would be like if I didn't do at least 30 minutes of exercises every day, just getting my heart rate above that of a sloth is a bonus!  I have been doing mainly Team Body Project workouts, an absolutely brill programme of  exercises and routines to get the heart going, get the fat burning, and now that I have my weights and mat, I should start to get stronger, my arms are just so weak!  I can just about hold a plank for 30 seconds.

My sister Bims has gone back to work, so she's not been joining me via facetime working out together, but Jan has been there most days and LouLou joining in.  My other sister, hmmm, well I need to kick her arse to get herself moving and sweating!  She does a lot of getting around, but just not enough time spent on herself!  Are you reading this Mrs, I am talking about you! Anyway, it seems that as long as I am out their with my mates I get on and do my exercises, it's gotta be doing me so good right!

Yesterday and today I used my new dumbbells, oh my goodness, I can't tell you how excited I was to use these, lets just hope that the excitement stays for quite a while!  But oh my goodness, I was thinking than maybe I should have got the slightly lighter weights!  There was a choice between .75kg, 1kg, 1.5kg, 3kg and even heavier, but I went with the 1.5kg, its not to light, slightly challenging than the 1kg, plus not showing off by going for the 3kg (and possibly never using them again) I think I chose the right ones. There was a point when I first got them and tried them out that maybe I should have got the lighter ones, but now, I think I made the right choice!  By the way, when I got my stuff from Sports Direct, they sent me a free gift......its the most humongous mug with their logo imblazed on it!  It's almost swimming pool size.  Not only that but because of my....um.....lack of attention to detail, (I ordered a yoga mat bag rather than the yoga mat itself, I now have two of these delightful mugs! 

So yes, I have been busy, honest, Ive been walking with the Old Boy, I've even done a bike ride, I shall write that up on my other blog. I just don't want to  blog every day, especially as I am boring the pants of people by going live on my FaceBook page doing my workouts! 

So until next time blog readers

Bike Rides, Walks and Workouts!

Hello blog readers.

I look tired here, I think
I didn't sleep too well the night
before

I am afraid I have left it way too long between blogging and exercising!  I can't remember what I done on what day.  But I have been busy that's for sure!  I decided that I wouldn't write up every single day about my exercising because that would just become bloody boring, I don't want to bore the pants of you guys!  I expect I am doing that with my viewer on my live feeds on FaceBook!  But all the while I have at least one person that pops in then, in my mind, they are there with me, for the whole 30 minutes or so, which means that I have to keep on going. I must be fair, usually Jan is working out with me, reminding me each time to put my watch on!  Oh yes, I put my Garmin on to record my exercises!  If it's not recorded then it didn't happen! (except on facebook..... but you know!)

I have done a lot of Team Body Project workouts, I have now subscribed to his channel on youtube.  There are a lot of videos on there!  I thought I would 'step it up' again this week, on Monday, I chose one of theirs on the channel with Alex taking the lead, the wife/partner of......blimey I really need to find out his name, but anyway, she is evil!  Oh my goodness, I really thought I was ready for it, after all, I have been doing exercises now for five weeks, six weeks?  It's a bimmin long time.  But I am not!  I am thinking to myself, we live in an world that wants things done quicker faster, done yesterday!  We want things to be smaller, lighter, that includes ourselves!  But things like fitness does not come in an instance.  It's also not all about exercises too!  Unfortunately!  It's about healthy eating as well!  That is what I need to work on as well, but, well, I just don't want too!  It's too much like hard work!  Yes I know working out, running, cycling and all forms of exercises is hard work, but doing that and then denying yourself the sweet tasty, fattening things in life just seem to be too much!  I think I must be grateful for the fact that at least I am working out, burning off some of those calories that I seemed to insist I stick down my neck!  I can't imagine what I would look like after lockdown has been lifted if I didn't workout, run and cycle!

Shalinis handiwork, she even
had her own personal
postal workers, her
husband and Daughter!

Did I mention that I have been working out on the green in front of my house?  Shalini was very keen to get this underway after I said "We should get our neighbours to do a workout on our green"  Why did I say that, I hear you say.  Because J.J.'s street have all been coming out on a Saturday morning to all workout together!  Well it is a brilliant idea, isn't it!?  Neighbourly, kindness, helpful, encouraging!  All the things that we should be, this week especially! Anyway, Shalini got the ball rolling and straight away got on with letting the neighbours know!This was the first week

My second cycle out was a lot better by the way......I pumped up the tyres!  I can't believe I didn't really check them, Anyway, more about cycling in my other blog!  So I have worked out with Joanna Soh and with the Peloton guys, Cody and Hannah! I have worked out with Adele Murrell and I have done numerous Body Project.  Some have been pretty tough going!  But I am not going stop, that's for sure!  I have to keep going! Even if it's for my own piece of mind, just doing something is better than not doing something!  It's mental Health Awareness week, and I tell you, exercise does help with your whole 'feeling ok' with things!  I am sure when people are really feeling totally shitty the last thing they want to do is to go out for a run, or pick up some dumbbells and throw those skywards!  I know there has been many a time I haven't been arsed to go for a run, knowing that it would probably do me good! I know that because there have been a few times when I've gone running when I didn't feel like it and had a bloody good run! Something to do with endorphins or some such thing.  I was certain I have never had such things, I was never issued any when I was in the queue to be born!  Well that's what I thought!  That's only because when I expecting this huge high, this euphoria, unmistakingly like nothing else!  When generally it's all just about your head space, me time, that feeling of.....'Yes I fecking done it'! Sometimes that is all you need.

What else did I do! Oh yes, I went for a bike ride yesterday, with my sons girlfriend.  She borrowed my white Giant and I took my Specialized!  It was the first time this year!, but more about that in my cycling blog!

Today, well today I went back to Adeles facebook page to do another one of her classes.  One that I have not done before!  It was filmed in 2017, so sometime ago, it looked like it was a lovely day, she had a vest top on all set for summer, at least that is what I thought!  Adele herself had asked if I had done this one before, and I said I hadn't.

So doing it today, all by myself, in the beginning, not even Jan was on line.  Bims is of course working, so no banter!  The video started, the nice gentle warm up, slowing just awakening those muscles! Nope!  It was start jumps and jogging on the spot.  It was like a cold flannel wake up call for your body!  We started the exercises, So far so good, and then.....well......then she said it!  "Burpees are next"  I fecking hate burpees! I just can't do them, my legs don't seem to want to jump forward or backwards once I have touched down with my hands.......or so I thought!"  My first burpee was, almost, a perfect burpee!  I am only sorry that I didn't bring the camera down lower so that all.....one of my.....viewers could see it!  Ok, I still hate burpees, but I did it!  I only did about 3 or 4 to Adele's 6 or 7 or however many she managed to do in 30 seconds!  But yeah, impressed my self!  I think the workouts are..working out! I am still not ready to got continually to the intermediate classes!  During my live workout today Bims came on line!  I she was working from home, or had the day off, whatever, but she came as my 'guest' on my live recording and we had BANTER!  Oh how I have missed that.  At the end of my record I went and had a look at it, I could see me as I popped up and down doing those blimmin burpees!  I can't believe I screamed out 'Burpees' everytime I jumped up!  What a crazy lady!

Was that all I did today? Hmmm, no!  No it wasn't because at 5:30 this evening the neighbours came on to the green for some more socially distance work out!  I did another workout with the neighbours.  I chose to do the very first class we did last week as it was not so much of jumping about as the weather was ridiculously warm!  I seriously didn't think anybody would show up this evening, but Shalini came, my neighbour opposite who lives next door to NaggyNeighbour and one of the ladies from the close!  They all had water with them, thankfully!  I think they all do workout pretty hard, they are all fed up of not moving, or getting around.

So up today date.  A lot to read, a lot missing too, I expect you are pleased about that! 

There's Exercise Galore!

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!