Day 7: Walk with me a minute

I think I'm enjoying the pokewalker a little bit too much given that I'm already 22 years old. I activated it last night and I've done about 6800 steps, though quite a few of them are actually shakes because I cheated. My mareep is called Ginny. It is adorable. I didn't do much cardio today because it was miserable and wet, which shouldn't really be an excuse but meh.

I got to walk the dog and a pokemon so that was pretty cool.

I am such a nerd.

Not happy, Jan!

- SR

Day 2: Attempt two!

Puppies!Dogs are not helpful when you're trying to work out at home, especially when they thing that catching your skipping rope mid air and tripping you over with it is the best game. Fecking dog.

Owww.

My basic routine now includes pressups, situps and cardio. I do 20 pressups, then 20 situps and then repeat until my arms are telling me that we will not be on speaking terms if this continues. I aim to do the pressups and situps as slowly as possible as I have read somewhere that 20 slow pressups has much more effect than 20 fast pressups. That could be wrong though, I'll let you know if I survive. After I've finished torturing my muscles, I torture my lungs with either skipping or some light jogging. I am still weak from the infections last year, so I can't go very far with either at the moment, but I am in a much better place now than I was at the start of March. Eventually I want to work weights and much longer cardio sessions into my workout on a weekly basis.

Though running with a puppy on a lead is not at all fun, I got my pet degus a running wheel at the weekend and I am entirely jelous. I want a treadmill so bad, but I don't have the money or the space, though a full sized version of this probably wouldn't be much cheaper or take up less space.
I'm starting to get all full up with cold, so I am hoping that by exercising I can minimise the impact, but knowing my luck it will probably make me feel a lot worse. Ahh well.

Also, how did I miss this song? V V Brown is awesome, but its been out for two years? I stopped listening to the radio before christmas, but I didn't realise that I was this behind on music. Rubbish. - SR

PS! If you have any comments or suggestions for working out, then please feel free to leave them here.

Day 1: Attempt Two!

Many various different things have happened, and I stopped exercising properly for a while. First of all my parents decided to get a dog, which somehow lead to me having no free time to speak of, and then I became single and lost the goal I wanted, so I had to re-evaluate why I was doing this.
So now, I have a new goal, and I am working towards getting a good routine set up now that I've awakened my body and started to rebuild my core strength. My goal, is to regain all of the energy and muscle strength which I lost whilst I was sick with Salmonella last year, and to build a physique that I am happy with. I really badly want pecs, so I am going to work on those first, I don't really care about abs so much, but I would like to work on my legs and butt, as well as my arms.

I don't have a picture of the way I want things to be yet, but I do have a before picture, and here it is!
'Scuse the facial expression... I have no idea what happened there. Its also really dark which it wasn't on my phone. Wierd. Anyway...

I am hoping to be able to improve both my stamina and respiration whilst working out, so that I can do more outsidey stuff and be able to actually sing again, which I can't do currently as my lung capacity is pathetic. For serious. I didn't give up exercise completely during the time I have not been updating this blog, so I guess that leaves me at an advantage?

Currently I am all about this song, and this anime. Also I've been drawing a lot more recently, so I am hoping to start updating at My Thingie soon <3

- Luff and Stuff xoxo SR

Day 5: Ka'mum'd

So mothering sunday was yesterday and somehow my entire weekend vanished into familyville. So even though I did do some skips on saturday, I didn't actually manage to do anything else until this morning, and my body is definately punishing me.

So the goal for the end of this week is to work up to 200 skips, which may have to be broken into two sessions to start off with. Today I got to 110, which felt a lot like being smacked in the lungs with a burning doormat. Though that was probably also something to do with the fact that I had to move off of the patio on account of one too many potted plants. Skipping on grass is harder. Because the rope likes to do this.

A lot.

If I can get to 200 skips and not die, I will make a video or something. =shrug=

Now I am going to grab a bath and watch the rest of this video.

- Essar

Day 4: Mdolphins

So today was much easier, I actually felt Mdolphins from exuhcise. I was still totally out of breath and unable to go past 100 skips without feeling like my chest was on fire.

But I feel pretty good.

Who knew? All that stuff about healthy living might not have just been crap after all. And on that topic, I had a healthy living tortilla thing endorsed by David Beckham. Good, god that tasted like dust and chipboard. Why is healthy food so terrible? I took a few pictures so you can see exactly how good it looks, but I can't upload them yet. So I'll make a horror movie style slideshow for the sidebar over here at the weekend >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

In other news, this. I don't know why I am reading it but so far I don't hate it which has to be a good thing. Possibly. =shrug=

Its not terrible, anyway.

- Essar

Wait, wasn't this meant to be funny? Uhm. Link, link, link and link. There you go!

Day 3: OXYGENNNN!

Woah. So the muscles that were hurting now are not, and a whole new different set has decided to say hello. Though they were probably hurting earlier too but my brain can only deal with so many limbs whining that they ache a lot.

So today the skips, pushups and stretches left me feeling like I was about to die from lack of air, which is really pathetic. I mean, I've had asthma since I was an infant but its never been so bad after such light exercise. That said, I am also still really weak after several things that happened last year. So I suppose its to be expected?

Anyway.

I have found that by breaking down my workout so that its in a near constant state from morning to night is actually much easier than doing it in one big go. Despite any mental images you might have just conjured, that doesn't mean that I am actually working out constantly. I do about 20 - 30 pushups at a time, spread out through the day, so I do some after I get up, some around eleven o clock, some after lunch, some in the evening and then some before bed if I am not totally wiped.

Today I did start pretty late though, I lost track of time whilst reading some stuff and ended up doing my first sets at eleven. Maybe that's why I felt so crappy. Ah well. Imma do more later, I think that I might actually be starting to like these little endorphin dohickeys.

Oh and also, for your entertainment and mine.

- Essar