Fitness Fellowship 2024: Week 10 Check-in
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sylvanwitchIt's been a rollercoaster week, weather-wise, and now with daylight savings time, my circadian rhythms are all confused, but I'm muddling along. It also happens to be end of a marking period, which means I am buried under a ton of grading. *sighs*
Still, spring starts officially in not too long, and the temps are supposed to moderate a little later this week, and it *is* nice to get home in daylight, if I were getting home right after work any day this week. *sighs harder*
But enough of my wittering. How are you, friends? Has your week been a good one? Have you had struggles and/or temptations? Please do share the ups and downs with us here. No judgement! :-)
*sighs* I did not lose any weight this week, or rather, I did, and then the weekend scotched it. That's more and more a habit of mine, and I really do need to break away from it. That said, I really wasn't particularly "bad" on Sunday, so maybe this is all time-change related? Let's blame it on Daylight Savings, yeah? ;-)
Exercise was good this week. I climbed the escarpment and then various hills on Saturday, and yesterday, I used the elliptical, maximum 8/10 elevation, so I did my "climbing" two days. I exercised every day. I hydrated regularly. My sleep was pretty good, although I think there was one evening I just didn't want to put my book down, so that threw me off a bit. I did meditate/breathe/pray at our faculty retreat on Friday, which was, in total, a lovely experience.
In the non-scale-number-related column, I continue to have greater stamina when doing my daily stairs at work.
I heard a report on NPR on the way home about a recently released study that shows that women who do strength training two to three times a week can reduce their risk of cardiac events by up to 30% and, for a change, this health benefit works better for women than for men.
I have light hand weights in my TV room, where I sometimes walk in front of the TV, and once in a while, I'll pick those up and do some reps. Since my hands and wrist have healed, I've been meaning to get back to my more regular lifting habits, and hearing the report has inspired me, so tonight I did some reps with light weights (3 pounds to start--it's been a while) while marching in place to get the last of my day's quota of steps in. I plan to do this at least twice a week from here on out, but also, a couple of years ago, T. got me a dip stand that I'd asked for for Xmas, but my wrist injury wouldn't allow me to use it then. It's still in the box it came in. I'm going to put that together and try to add dips to my regimen at least once a week to start. I'll tell you how it goes!
Have a wonderful week ahead, my friends!
Still, spring starts officially in not too long, and the temps are supposed to moderate a little later this week, and it *is* nice to get home in daylight, if I were getting home right after work any day this week. *sighs harder*
But enough of my wittering. How are you, friends? Has your week been a good one? Have you had struggles and/or temptations? Please do share the ups and downs with us here. No judgement! :-)
*sighs* I did not lose any weight this week, or rather, I did, and then the weekend scotched it. That's more and more a habit of mine, and I really do need to break away from it. That said, I really wasn't particularly "bad" on Sunday, so maybe this is all time-change related? Let's blame it on Daylight Savings, yeah? ;-)
Exercise was good this week. I climbed the escarpment and then various hills on Saturday, and yesterday, I used the elliptical, maximum 8/10 elevation, so I did my "climbing" two days. I exercised every day. I hydrated regularly. My sleep was pretty good, although I think there was one evening I just didn't want to put my book down, so that threw me off a bit. I did meditate/breathe/pray at our faculty retreat on Friday, which was, in total, a lovely experience.
In the non-scale-number-related column, I continue to have greater stamina when doing my daily stairs at work.
I heard a report on NPR on the way home about a recently released study that shows that women who do strength training two to three times a week can reduce their risk of cardiac events by up to 30% and, for a change, this health benefit works better for women than for men.
I have light hand weights in my TV room, where I sometimes walk in front of the TV, and once in a while, I'll pick those up and do some reps. Since my hands and wrist have healed, I've been meaning to get back to my more regular lifting habits, and hearing the report has inspired me, so tonight I did some reps with light weights (3 pounds to start--it's been a while) while marching in place to get the last of my day's quota of steps in. I plan to do this at least twice a week from here on out, but also, a couple of years ago, T. got me a dip stand that I'd asked for for Xmas, but my wrist injury wouldn't allow me to use it then. It's still in the box it came in. I'm going to put that together and try to add dips to my regimen at least once a week to start. I'll tell you how it goes!
Have a wonderful week ahead, my friends!
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Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024 12:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Thursday, 14 March 2024 06:36 pm (UTC)Good luck with overcoming your own barriers with developing new habits. You can do it!
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Date: Thursday, 14 March 2024 07:55 pm (UTC)And thank you so much for the encouragement, my friend! I am SO tired, and I definitely need the reminder. :-)