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!

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.