According to the schedule, today's task was to run or run/walk for 25 minutes. However, I'm feeling lousy and I have vacation days coming up, so I decided to take the night off to down lots of ginger tea and cold medicine and get to sleep early.
Tomorrow is an assigned "rest and relax" day, but I'll report in on how I think this project is going so far.
Until then...
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Day Ten - Clamming up
Off-topic, but I'm watching the CMA Music Festival on TV, and what in the name of Punky Brewster are some people wearing on that??
Just wondering.
Well, that gave me another five seconds to delay reporting that today's efforts were basically abysmal. To elaborate:
The Goal:
Strength training (yoga, pilates, any toning exercise)
The Reality:
Eschew the idea of going to a yoga class in favor of coming home and "relaxing for a while, then I'll do something in an hour or so."
My intended "something" probably included various arm exercises using my 5lb weights (and those are plenty for me, smirkypants), some stretches and various other lifts, crunches, lunges... whatever I could remember...
But you know what they say about the road to Hell.
Instead, I proceeded to fall asleep for 3.5 hours and not wake up until 10 p.m.
Then, only so I wouldn't have to report a total fail, I completed about 10 minutes of lame exercise (some stretches, leg lifts, squats, girly push ups, etc.) I didn't touch the weights. There's no indication of how long one is meant to "strength train" for, but I'm pretty sure it's more than ten minutes.
Today's Suck:
Besides completely throwing off my circadian rhythm yet again and doing a half-hearted half-workout? I could only do ten girly push ups tonight before I got too tired. Ten. I met a 69-year-old woman who can do 50. Seriously. And she can do the splits.
Today's Success:
I tried a new exercise called a clam. It's pilates-related. It looks like this (without the band) http://www.ehow.co.uk/video_4953442_pilates-stretch-band-exercises-clam.html. (By the way, her tone of voice is another reason I can't stand exercise classes. That and the people who take the classes who are in better shape than I am.) This clam thing works the hell of your backside, which means I better get a really cute ass if I keep doing it.
Hmmm.... what to have for dinner at 11 p.m.??
Just wondering.
Well, that gave me another five seconds to delay reporting that today's efforts were basically abysmal. To elaborate:
The Goal:
Strength training (yoga, pilates, any toning exercise)
The Reality:
Eschew the idea of going to a yoga class in favor of coming home and "relaxing for a while, then I'll do something in an hour or so."
My intended "something" probably included various arm exercises using my 5lb weights (and those are plenty for me, smirkypants), some stretches and various other lifts, crunches, lunges... whatever I could remember...
But you know what they say about the road to Hell.
Instead, I proceeded to fall asleep for 3.5 hours and not wake up until 10 p.m.
Then, only so I wouldn't have to report a total fail, I completed about 10 minutes of lame exercise (some stretches, leg lifts, squats, girly push ups, etc.) I didn't touch the weights. There's no indication of how long one is meant to "strength train" for, but I'm pretty sure it's more than ten minutes.
Today's Suck:
Besides completely throwing off my circadian rhythm yet again and doing a half-hearted half-workout? I could only do ten girly push ups tonight before I got too tired. Ten. I met a 69-year-old woman who can do 50. Seriously. And she can do the splits.
Today's Success:
I tried a new exercise called a clam. It's pilates-related. It looks like this (without the band) http://www.ehow.co.uk/video_4953442_pilates-stretch-band-exercises-clam.html. (By the way, her tone of voice is another reason I can't stand exercise classes. That and the people who take the classes who are in better shape than I am.) This clam thing works the hell of your backside, which means I better get a really cute ass if I keep doing it.
Hmmm.... what to have for dinner at 11 p.m.??
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