Hello readers.
So my time prancing about in front of my tv watching Team Body Project and all the other fitness kings and queens out there is coming to an end! I am going back to work this time next week! Nervous.....yes, pleased to be going back.......yes! It has been fun doing my workouts with Janice, my workout buddy!
I started doing the workouts because of the restrictions, stay home, protect the NHS and all that. I tried to do the one bit of exercise that the government said we could do but, looking back, I don't think my head was in it. Finding every excuse to stay home, no need to go out! Then of course it was the anxiety of going out! A few times of running by myself, it just felt so weird! People moving away from you, giving you looks as if you shouldn't be out. Mums hugging children to their legs as you get closer to them for you to pass with the obligatory 2 meters! Eerily empty roads and just an overwhelming sense of WTF! That about explains how it felt to run in the beginning of lockdown. But the longer I stayed away from running the harder it seemed to get back out their. Which is why doing my exercising using YouTube, watching Team Body Project, Jordan burns, Adele Murrell and PopSugar really help to keep me active. it was just as well, because apart from those 30-60 minutues I was mainly sedentary! Apart from when I was hanging out of the fridge!
So for the last few weeks I have been doing my exercises, running with PWR a couple of times on Thursday mornings and of course there was the Fitness in the park with PWR too. There has been a couple of solo runs too, but I struggled with them, blaming heat, technology, anything really. But what prompted me to write this evening was about my run today.
Today I exercises in front of my t.v. going live on Facebook, ready to workout with my workout buddy. I had to few things to do, phone calls to make before hand, including one to SMF to find a part for my car, they had it! So I decided to run their after my workout! The workout I chose was TBP with Alex leading, usually she is a machine! But I wanted to do a hard one, to just get hot, sweaty, get those endorphins running through my body, push as hard as I could! Well I did that! It was a great workout and I tried as hard as I could! I was satisfied. In fact I was so satisfied I really didn't fancy walking or running to the car parts shop, so I called my daughter to give me a lift! Fortunately she was heading out somewhere so I had to go by myself.
So I went! I got ready, my money for the car part (which was very small by the way) and went out! The route I took is one that I usually go with Naggy, through the park, and up the road! So I did it, I only put on my Garmin to track me, no Jabra, no Peloton, well, I knew I was going to have to pause everything when I go into the shop, pausing my Garmin was the easiest. I do like to listen to something though, so I put on spotify and started running. The sounds of the 70's filled my ears, that's what I had chosen, just to take me back to a time when I didn't have too many cares and woes! It was brilliant! I was loving the tunes, I was smiling and singing along. I found I was enjoying my run, I mean really enjoying it! I ignored the buzzing going on from my Garmin to tell me to walk for a minute and just carried on running! I had no agenda, no one to keep up with, no app telling me my pace or to speed up! Not that I don't like that, I like geeky stats, I like to listen to peloton to tell me to try just that little bit harder, but right at that minute I didn't want it nor need it! I was enjoying my run!
Sometimes I ran pretty fast, sometimes I just plodded along other times I walked and the ran again when I felt like it, not because my Garmin told me too. I got to the shop and pause my Garmin, bought my park and then continued my running! Originally I thought I was just going to go back the same way that I got here, instead I opted to just continue on my run, do the 5k, the 3 miles, just do it as I have done it so far.
As I ran along I joined in with the songs that filled my ears. Lord knows what I must have sounded like as I am sure I was singing out loud! But it was too good not to sing along! As I got to Trinity Estates, the new estate on the corner of Crown Lane Spur 'Grease' came on! I as actually doing the arm movements! Still smiling, still singing! Loving it!
So yes, the love of running is still there, I just need to remember that, I need to ease the pressures of of keeping up! When we get back to club running again there is going to be so many people that will have their post COVID fears, bodys and thoughts with them, we are all going to be in the same boat, only some of us will have had the cheap tickets, down in the bow of the boat no desire to run in, others will have had the dearer tickets, up top with the running track around the deck! But still, we have all been avoiding the COVID sea, we still all have had to deal with isolation and the anxieties that can come with it!
The new normal is coming and I am glad I have had the desire to still want to go running (even though for quite some time I have struggled with it) and I am grateful that my running club is still there ready to welcome back all members, with social distancing of course.
Thursday, 27 August 2020
Monday, 10 August 2020
What Have I Been Up To?
Hello Blog readers.
Well, quite a bit since the last blog! The for a start, I have finished my One Year No Beer challenge! A challenge I decided to set by myself, for no particular reason other than I thought I could do it, and I wrote a blog about it, which I started just about a week after I started the challenge and added to over the year!
What else, well, I have done some running! Woo Hoo, some actual running rather than just me working out in my sitting room. I have also been meeting up with my PWR buddies to do Fitness In The Park, our usual summer sessions that we do with out club! Of course it's all been totally different! For a start, we have had to split everybody over two parks and then have 1 leader per 5 members. We have had to have a booking system because of numbers, leaders, and spaces in the two parks. It works, ok, it's not our usual speed and core sessions but it still feels great to be doing club stuff.
What else, hmm! The only problem about not writing everything down on the day I do things is that I forget what I have done! Oh yes, I have done maybe one or two solo runs but also a couple of Thursday morning runs with my run buddies at PWR! Oh my goodness, totally mixed feelings about the running! For a start, working out in my sitting room and running are two completely different animals! Before Covid I was fairly active, I had a regular routine of running, moving, walking. After Covid I have had a regular route of doing half hour workout and sitting on my arse for the rest of the day! Well, maybe some housework thrown in, but yeah, mainly not moving much from my front door! My first run on a Thursday was not last Thursday but the Thursday before that, Illustrious Leader was leading group 1, there were 6 of us in a group! I am sure that most of them have been running solo throughout Covid! Anyway, I thought I should be ok, I was so looking forward to going through the woods. Starting off, of course is always hard, when I was at my fittest it took me at least the first 10 to 15 minutes to get into my stride, and the breathing right! But if you had seen me trying to keep up with Illustrious leader and everyone you would have thought I had never ran before!
When I have been doing my solo running and have been 'Jeffing' all the way, 1 minute run, 1 minute walk, even then I have been struggling! But Illustrious Leader and all the rest in the group I was running in completely understand my situation because they are all the same......they are just a tad run fitter than me! "Don't worry, Old Girl" says Illustrious Leader "We can wait or we can turn around and run back to you, just go at your own pace" That's the best thing about our club, we don't leave people to struggle by themselves (even though I had said to her to just carry on and I will take my time as see them back at the rec!) But there were quite a few times they had to run back to me that I began to feel sorry for them, I kept imagining them thinking "Oh blimey back again" Of course they wasn't, but I still felt like 'Private Pile' from 'Full metal Jacket'
I kept checking they all had their socks on was they were heading back to me! It's amazing how much I 'beat myself up' something I had learned to stop doing and just enjoy running, but getting back to club running I felt I have to be just as I was, able to keep up, not dragging my ass or getting others to my ass around, but really, everyone is in the same boat as me, we've all struggled through this Covid time and we all need encouragement, we certainly don't need to beat ourselves up that's. But its funny the things that come into you mind when your struggling!
The second time I went with them, we had run a little further, taking a little bit longer, but I felt I was a little bit quicker than the week before, I was still way behind but definitely not as bad as the week before.
Of course, every weekday I have been working out in my sitting room, going live on Facebook for all to see and working out with Janice! Every day she is working out with me too, even after she has done a 3 miler first thing in the morning! Having Janice there has really kept my motivation to keep pressing play on Team Body Project you tube videos!
Also I have been working out with the neighbours still, Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings! That has been fun, but until park run or PWR activities begin again I shall be doing that! September though, I will have to rethink the Wednesday evening sessions because I shall be back at work!
Today I did a very short run, I had a club meeting to find out what and how things will look for club members when we meet up again soon, I walked there, (only because I didn't want to look completely all hot and sweaty and breathing heavy) and then I ran/walked home!
So that about sums it all up! The new norm is coming, until they find a vaccine for this damned virus, things will be different but I will be so glad to get back to the (new)routine of club running!
P.s.
I got back on my bike too! I shall write in my cycling blog about that! Very pleased about that!
Well, quite a bit since the last blog! The for a start, I have finished my One Year No Beer challenge! A challenge I decided to set by myself, for no particular reason other than I thought I could do it, and I wrote a blog about it, which I started just about a week after I started the challenge and added to over the year!
What else, well, I have done some running! Woo Hoo, some actual running rather than just me working out in my sitting room. I have also been meeting up with my PWR buddies to do Fitness In The Park, our usual summer sessions that we do with out club! Of course it's all been totally different! For a start, we have had to split everybody over two parks and then have 1 leader per 5 members. We have had to have a booking system because of numbers, leaders, and spaces in the two parks. It works, ok, it's not our usual speed and core sessions but it still feels great to be doing club stuff.
What else, hmm! The only problem about not writing everything down on the day I do things is that I forget what I have done! Oh yes, I have done maybe one or two solo runs but also a couple of Thursday morning runs with my run buddies at PWR! Oh my goodness, totally mixed feelings about the running! For a start, working out in my sitting room and running are two completely different animals! Before Covid I was fairly active, I had a regular routine of running, moving, walking. After Covid I have had a regular route of doing half hour workout and sitting on my arse for the rest of the day! Well, maybe some housework thrown in, but yeah, mainly not moving much from my front door! My first run on a Thursday was not last Thursday but the Thursday before that, Illustrious Leader was leading group 1, there were 6 of us in a group! I am sure that most of them have been running solo throughout Covid! Anyway, I thought I should be ok, I was so looking forward to going through the woods. Starting off, of course is always hard, when I was at my fittest it took me at least the first 10 to 15 minutes to get into my stride, and the breathing right! But if you had seen me trying to keep up with Illustrious leader and everyone you would have thought I had never ran before!
When I have been doing my solo running and have been 'Jeffing' all the way, 1 minute run, 1 minute walk, even then I have been struggling! But Illustrious Leader and all the rest in the group I was running in completely understand my situation because they are all the same......they are just a tad run fitter than me! "Don't worry, Old Girl" says Illustrious Leader "We can wait or we can turn around and run back to you, just go at your own pace" That's the best thing about our club, we don't leave people to struggle by themselves (even though I had said to her to just carry on and I will take my time as see them back at the rec!) But there were quite a few times they had to run back to me that I began to feel sorry for them, I kept imagining them thinking "Oh blimey back again" Of course they wasn't, but I still felt like 'Private Pile' from 'Full metal Jacket'
Of course, every weekday I have been working out in my sitting room, going live on Facebook for all to see and working out with Janice! Every day she is working out with me too, even after she has done a 3 miler first thing in the morning! Having Janice there has really kept my motivation to keep pressing play on Team Body Project you tube videos!
Also I have been working out with the neighbours still, Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings! That has been fun, but until park run or PWR activities begin again I shall be doing that! September though, I will have to rethink the Wednesday evening sessions because I shall be back at work!
Today I did a very short run, I had a club meeting to find out what and how things will look for club members when we meet up again soon, I walked there, (only because I didn't want to look completely all hot and sweaty and breathing heavy) and then I ran/walked home!
So that about sums it all up! The new norm is coming, until they find a vaccine for this damned virus, things will be different but I will be so glad to get back to the (new)routine of club running!
P.s.
I got back on my bike too! I shall write in my cycling blog about that! Very pleased about that!
Monday, 13 July 2020
It's been a while!
Hello blog readers.
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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?
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Hmmm Maybe!
Tuesday, 30 June 2020
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.
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!
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.
Monday, 22 June 2020
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!
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!
Monday, 15 June 2020
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"
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"
Thursday, 28 May 2020
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
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
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