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Sunday, January 20, 2013

I did it! When I didn't wanna...



I wasn't planning on posting today but I'm feeling called. It was a very busy day with an early morning market visit to get all of our organic veggies, greens and fruits, followed by a follow up shop to get the other stuff that we can't get organic and also some back to school shopping. By accident I managed to get myself a belt and a lovely new shirt so I'm quite happy.

This afternoon I didn't want to workout. Honestly, at this stage, I hardly ever do. What I want to do is curl up with a good book, or even a mediocre one, and disappear into fantasy land. But, I must be disciplined. I decided that today I would do a rebound workout with weights.

Usually this is a 10 minute workout for me, so I decided to redesign it, spent 15 minutes updating my interval app and hit save, and... it didn't save. So I did the 10 minute workout which included:
  • A 1 minute warm up
  • 1 minute of twist jumps (knees go one way, shoulders the other like doing The Twist)
  • 2 minutes of jumping with bicep curls, 1.5kg weights
  • 2 minutes of squat jumps with 1.5kg weights, raising weights to shoulders and then lowering them to straight again (Update: bent over rows)
  • 2 minutes of high knees jogging doing runners arms with 1kg weights
  • 1 minute of jumping
  • 1 minute of cool down bounce
 After that I started doing tricep dips but my heart wasn't in it and I only did about 20 of them but you know what? It's better than doing none hey!

I worked out in as little as possible today. That is GString and bra. I'm sorry if your in-brain-eyes want to burn themselves out with the mental image, but I have found that watching all the bits jiggle often keeps me going. But not today. By the time I was starting my Tricep Dips I was very annoyed with my mirror self. Next time I will cover up a little more. When I finished my workout I was pissed off because of the combination of the phone not working, a fast paced day with no down time, for being unfit, not having the strength to do as much as I wanted to do and... that's about it.

But then... my daughter worked out not long after I did!

I like to think that I had a part in motivating her by exercising when I'd rather have be getting flayed with a rusty spoon. Not long after she started doing her thing my son joined in so it had a run on effect which made me feel happy!

Realisation of the day... I need to learn the names of some exercises so I can explain them better for you.

Action of the day, apart from working out, I bought a book to use as an exercise journal. I'm going to google what other people put in theirs so I can get some excellent ideas for my own.

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