Category Archives: fitness

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!

fitness: SLX classes

duration: 02:00 effort 3/5 feleing: good

dance classes
Less technique. Actually _no_ technique made these classes quite frustrating. I felt my previous day’s achievements being buried by pretty ordinary classes. But still, every class teaches you something, and I found I could apply the previous day’s technique to the millions of moves from these classes and figure them out. But disappointing after the previous day’s work.
Physically enough work to keep my heart rate up, and the nice group and lovely follows made the work productive and I think I managed to learn some useful stuff.

fitness: SLX – social dancing

duration: 01:00 effort 4/5, feeling good

Super fun until I hurt my knee doing jazz step variations (yeah, dropping down into a locked knee is _such_ a good idea).
I’m finding my new core stability/ITB/glute exercises really helpful for dancing – stability down the sides of my front torso (as well as across my pelvis, etc) is really awesomely helpful.