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fitness: dance work, walking, stretching

This is a week when I record all my incidental exercise. This is today’s

stretches
duration: 1.00, effort 2/5 feeling great
3xstretches 01:00
My usual lot of stretches take 20mins all up, and I do them three times a day without fail. They include: four foot exercises (1×12 of each); 1 hamstring stretch (2×12); 2 knee exercises (2×12 and 1min hold); 2 ITB exercises (1×12 of each); 1x core thing (1×12).
I’m thinking of adding another core strengthener and a psoas stretch

dance work
effort 4/5, duration: 2.00, feeling: good
Lots of good work. Humidity like you wouldn’t believe – hot weather, pouring rain. Lots of sweat.

to the shops!
calories: 13 effort 1/5 2km, feeling great
Ordinary walk to the shops and back. Nothing to report.

fitness: walking, stretching, swimming, cycling

This is a week when I record all my incidental exercise. This is today’s

morning swim
distance: 1000 m duration: 00:30, calories: 271, feeling: great
Next time I’m having breakfast before I swim. Riding home then grocery shopping; first time I’ve ever felt faint from hunger. Think I might need to push it a bit harder, as I’m kind of dawdling up and down the lanes. Which is nice.

to the pool
effort 1/5, distance: calories: 56, feeling: great
quick ride to the pool and then to the shops. not sure how long it took, but probably about 5mins, if that.

stretches
duration: 1.00, effort 2/5 feeling great
3xstretches 01:00
My usual lot of stretches take 20mins all up, and I do them three times a day without fail. They include: four foot exercises (1×12 of each); 1 hamstring stretch (2×12); 2 knee exercises (2×12 and 1min hold); 2 ITB exercises (1×12 of each); 1x core thing (1×12).
I’m thinking of adding another core strengthener and a psoas stretch

to the bus stop and back!
Currently 1/5 Effort.effort 1/5, distance: 1km, calories: 6, feeling: good
My usual trip to the bus stop. Takes about 10 mins I think.

effort 1/5, feeling great, duration 1.00
3xstretches

This is aweek where I record all my incidental exercise.

My usual lot of stretches take 20mins all up, and I do them three times a day without fail. They include: four foot exercises (1×12 of each); 1 hamstring stretch (2×12); 2 knee exercises (2×12 and 1min hold); 2 ITB exercises (1×12 of each); 1x core thing (1×12).
I’m thinking of adding another core strengthener and a psoas stretcher.

fitness: c25k w8r3

calories: 493, effort 4/5 feeling: good distance: 5 km, duration: 00:38 pace: 07:35 calories: 493

This is a week where I’m recording all the incidental exercise I do.

5km! That’s including the walking bit of course, so…
But it’s nice to be improving. I find I run further when I push myself harder, and I push myself harder when I’m distracted by something interesting. So I need some interesting podcasts, I think.

fitness: c25k w8r3

calories: 454, effort 4/5, feeling: good, distance: 4.8 km, druation: 00:35, pace: 07:17
Finally managed a slightly longer distance! I think my fitness is up after the weekend, I had a couple of rest days, and I wasn’t stewing over the pain of the run, so I felt better.
….and it looks like I messed up the run order _again_. I’ll do r2 on Monday. Yeah.

fitness: SLX social dancing

effort 3/5, feeling: good, duration: 3.00
social dancing!
Not a whole lot of dancing, considering it was a long event from 8-3am, but my knees were killing. My following was shit house, but my leading felt AMAZING: the Saturday classes were SO useful. I felt more in control of my body, I could dance faster with more efficiency, and I had a better awareness of my partner.
I am now obsessed with hand holds and how they communicate my and my partner’s weight transfers, posture and muscle movement in the rest of the body.
Tomorrow, however, will be a rest day. And no dance or running work til the weekend, I think, to rest my knees. But bring on the swimming and stretching!