Exercises...

[fajrdrako]

Yesterday I did my second round of morning exercises, basically forty minutes to an hour of weights and crunches and so on. Miraculaously, I am not stiff today. How did that happen? After my first session, on Saturday, I was saying "ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch" every time I went up or down stairs, thanks to those lunges.

I couldn't remember how many crunches I was supposed to do so I e-mailed my trainer. (I love calling Lynne that.) Her reply: "as many as you can". This made me revise the number downward. (No, no, not really. Ulp.)

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[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

6 weeks of being good, 6 weeks of being bad, or no, of being nothing just work. Nooo, I don't think that is the right ppattern, if you have to slack of with the excersizes, you can at least say, but I am flossing regularly and study languages. Alternating them might be better.

I think keeping up the excersize stuff is perhaps easier to keep up if you have classes to go to, at a specific time of the week doing a specific class with the same group of people so there is social pressure. I think I might start pilates next year. (at my gym) depends a bit on the price and the timing.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Classes are good but ... I sometimes get discouraged in classes. I started Pilates - well, just experimentally - with a DVD I borrowed from Lynne. It seemed painfully difficult. I'm thinking of trying it again.

I'm trying to think of things I can do that don't cost money, or which don't involve actually going somewhere.

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

I like it better when I need to go somewhere, even though that makes the treshhold higher. But I get more done when I get there. At home I start excercizing and I keep checking my emails, or I start doing the dishes etc.

For at home, did you ever try a workout with an excercize ball (also named Swiss ball)? You can do a wide range of excercizes with it, from easy streching and loosening up, grounding excercizes, to very very hard ballancing ones (wich I most definitely can't) Maybe your personal trainer can help you, but there are also excercizes on line. I bought a ball vor about 10 euro.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Going somewhere isn't so bad in the summer but in the winter I never seem to have time to go anywhere - it's hard enough to just find time to do the exercises in the first place.

Of couse e-mail, washing dishes, etc., is always a danger - but once I get started I usually manage to handle that all right. It's getting started in the first place that is the problem.

I have used an exercise ball a little bit, but I don't actually own one. Lynne recommends highly that I should get one so I might check out the price. If I do get it, I'm not sure where I'll be able to put it - there isn't a lot of space in my apartment. But I'm sure it would be good for me.

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

My ball lives under my bed, but I have a 'hoogslaper' (highsleeper) a sort of bunkbed, but with only the top bed. I also live in a small appartment, 32 m2 (344.4 ft2). Maybe there is a possibllity to hang it on the wall somewhere, in a big bag?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, I might be able to hang it on my wall - over my bed, maybe! My bed is low and large (queen-size), so there's lots of air-space over it. That might work. I could hang a net.